Chief Executive Officer - Cibola General Hospital

Overview

Relocation to the Grants, NM area required

The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Cibola General Hospital, Inc ("Hospital") provides strategic leadership and financial oversight and direction. The CEO works with the Board of Directors ("Board") and the Leadership team to establish long-range goals, strategies, plans and policies. The CEO communicates with the Board in a timely manner and exercises high-level problem solving and decision making in matters that have a major impact on the ongoing success of the Hospital.

Core Values

Compassion: We show empathy, respect, and dignity in our interactions with patients and others.

Accountability: We take responsibility for our actions, decisions, and behaviors to deliver safe care to our patients, along with our professional interactions with others.

Respect: We recognize and value everyone’s dignity, preferences and unique needs while appreciating ideas, culture, beliefs and experiences.

Excellence: We provide evidence-based care, programs, services, and an environment that achieves the best outcomes.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Leadership and Culture - Sets an organizational tone that attracts, retains, motivates and develops a highly qualified workforce. Provides leadership and direction on matters of policy development, strategic direction and financial operations.
• Leadership Team Relations and Development - Maintains an open, honest, trusting and collaborative relationship with senior leaders and develops future leaders within the organization.
• Quality and Patient Safety - Ensures that quality and patient safety is a top priority at every level in the organization.
• Financial Leadership - Sets the tone for financial discipline and the importance of financial balance to achieve the mission and vision.
• Financial Leadership – Links strategic and operational planning with the budgeting process.
• Medical Staff Relations - Develops and maintains effective relationships with physicians employed by and associated with the organization.
• Community Health and Partnerships - Collaborates with community leaders to assess community health needs and design programs and services to maximize resources to address those needs.
• Strategic Development - Develops, communicates and leads the implementation of the strategic plan consistent with the organization’s mission, vision and values; translates the mission into realistic goals and objectives.
• Board Relations - Ensures a positive working relationship with the Board founded on honesty, trust and collaboration.
• Advocacy and Fundraising - Represents and promotes the interests and image of the organization to government, accrediting bodies, prospective donors, the media and the community at large.
• Serves as a Change Agent - Embraces transformation in health care delivery and financing and thinks innovatively.
• Risk-Taking and Problem-Solving - Monitors shifts and trends in health care, political, social and technological environments.
• Continuous Leadership Improvement - Committed to continually improving personal leadership performance.
• Systems Thinking - Establishes a unifying vision and culture across the organization.
• Partnership Focus - Seeks partnerships that help achieve the organization’s mission and improve community health.
• Communication - Maintains open lines of communication and a strong rapport with all levels.
• Ethics - Demonstrates strong ethical judgment with technical and management skills and values fairness, honesty and compassion.
• Policies and Procedures - Reviews and understands organizational, departmental policies and procedures, objectives, and quality assurance programs.
• Professional Development - Encourages professional growth through participation in educational programs, reading current literature, attending in-services, meetings, and workshops.
• Perform miscellaneous job-related duties as assigned.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Ability to coach and counsel employees effectively.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Skill in establishing and maintaining effective interpersonal relationships with all levels of management, physicians, employees, business, government and community officials and the general public.
• Skill in maintaining effective medical staff relations, governing board relations, interpersonal skills, communications, strategic and financial planning, and leadership.
• Team building skills and the ability to gain consensus among multiple constituencies.
• Knowledge of marketing, finance, quality, change management and risk assessment.
• Skill in problem solving, negotiations, and issue identification in employee situations.
• Ability to direct and manage within a large organization and to integrate/diversified managerial functions involved in operations, support and administration of a large health care organization.
• Ability to organize, plan, execute, control and evaluate programs and activities of a hospital with multiple constituencies.
• Demonstrated ability to implement physician recruitment efforts.
• Ability to prioritize and manage work effectively to accomplish tasks while managing multiple projects and delivering friendly service.

Work Experience, Education, and Certifications

• Bachelor’s degree in business administration or related field required; Master’s degree in Hospital Administration, Business Administration or a health care related field preferred.
• Ten years of senior management experience (Departmental Director or above), five years of which are at a top-level executive (Vice President or above) required.
• Five years with extensive professional and technical knowledge of healthcare delivery systems, hospital management and related areas required.
• Extensive professional and technical knowledge of critical access hospitals strongly preferred.

Seniority level

• Executive

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Business Development and General Business

Industries

• Hospitals and Health Care