Summary
Job Description:
Baptist Health Medical Group is looking for a Regional Vice President, Operations for their East Region encompassing the Lexington, Richmond, and Corbin areas.
The VP of Operations is responsible for the day-to-day operations of multiple markets and a span of control of approximately 750+ direct and indirect staff. This role will require residency in the defined area with regular regional travel.
Successful candidates will:
- Work in a collaborative, matrix reporting model with Regional Physician Leadership and market hospitals supporting market initiatives.
- Provide strategic and operational leadership supporting technical expertise to clinic operations, market growth to include practice acquisitions, practice safety, quality and experience and financial health of the practices.
- The VP is responsible for the development, implementation, and execution of a cohesive operational infrastructure that provide for an exceptional patient experience and service excellence for the referring providers.
- Establish, administer and achieve budget targets, physician engagement, service excellence, market growth and overall strong financial results.
- Create a strong team-oriented culture that is committed to patient-centered customer service, personal accountability, and regulatory compliance.
Qualifications:
- MBA/MHA required – Business related expertise may be substituted for advanced degree.
- A minimum of 8 - 12 years increasingly responsible management experience in large physician organizations.
- Experience with hospital-owned or sponsored physician networks is ideal.
- Healthcare experience must be in business line that delivers direct patient care and works directly with physicians.
- Experience in physician practice acquisition and integration; practice development preferred.
Skills Required
- MBA or MHA (business-related expertise may substitute)
- Minimum 8-12 years increasingly responsible management experience in large physician organizations
- Residency in the defined area (must reside in region)
- Regular regional travel
- Healthcare experience in business line delivering direct patient care and working directly with physicians
- Experience with hospital-owned or sponsored physician networks
- Experience in physician practice acquisition and integration and practice development
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Founded in 1924 in Louisville, Kentucky, Baptist Health is a full-spectrum health system dedicated to improving the health of the communities it serves. The Baptist Health family consists of nine hospitals, employed and independent physicians, and more than 400 points of care, including outpatient facilities, physician practices and services, urgent care clinics, outpatient diagnostic and surgery centers, home care, fitness centers, and occupational medicine and physical therapy clinics. Baptist Health’s eight owned hospitals include more than 2,300 licensed beds in Corbin, Elizabethtown, La Grange, Lexington, Louisville, Paducah, Richmond and New Albany, Indiana. Baptist Health also operates the 410-bed Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville in Madisonville, Kentucky in a joint venture with Deaconess Health System based in Evansville, Indiana. Baptist Health employs more than 23,000 people in Kentucky and surrounding states. Baptist Health is the first health system in the U.S. to have all of its hospitals recognized by the American Nursing Credentialing Center with either a Magnet® or Pathway to Excellence® designation for nursing excellence. Baptist Health’s employed provider network, Baptist Health Medical Group, has nearly 1,500 providers, including more than 750 physicians and more than 740 advanced practice clinicians. Baptist Health’s physician network also includes more than 2,000 independent physicians. Learn more at BaptistHealth.com.






