President, Mercy Devils Lake

Overview CommonSpirit Health (CSH) was formed by the alignment of Catholic Health Initiatives (CHI) and Dignity Health.

With more than 700 care sites across the U.S.

& from clinics and hospitals to home-based care and virtual care services CommonSpirit is accessible to nearly one out of every four U.S.

residents.

Our world needs compassion like never before.

Our communities need caring and our families need protection.

With our combined resources CommonSpirit is committed to building healthy communities advocating for those who are poor and vulnerable and innovating how and where healing can happen both inside our hospitals and out in the community.

CHI St.

Alexius Health Devils Lake Hospital is a 25-bed Critical Access Hospital accredited by The Joint Commission, licensed by the North Dakota State Department of Health, and certified by the Department of Health and Human Services for participation in the Medicare Program.

Our hospital has been committed to providing patients quality medical treatment in the Lake Region area and surrounding communities since 1902.

Our patients have access to a state-of-the-art health care facility, including 24-7 emergency care, a swing bed program, extensive therapy services, a critical care unit, obstetrical care, and advanced radiology.

Our professional and caring staff is dedicated to ensuring patients have compassionate and excellent care.

Responsibilities Optimizes Quality, Safety, and the Patient Experience in Partnership with Physicians Takes a lead role in collaboratively setting and achieving annual quality targets for the facility that support system-wide targets and metrics.

Champions patient experience initiatives ensuring the delivery system works as a team in delivering excellent care.

Leverages quality oversight mechanisms, such as use of data and rounding, to ensure patients receive the highest quality care.

Effectively integrates local health delivery system, facility and community wellness metrics.

Engages employed and partner physicians in continuously improving quality and achieving standardization.

Conducts quarterly reviews of the extent to which the facility is meeting system-wide quality and patient care standards and initiates continuous improvement in partnership with administrative and clinical staff.

Serves as a Community and Organizational Role Model for the Values and Standards of CHI and CSH Initiatives Serves as a role model and leader for positive moral and ethical behavior that is consistent with the mission, vision, and values of CommonSpirit/Catholic Health Initiatives.

Conducts an annual review of the extent to which the facility is fulfilling the CommonSpirit/Catholic Health Initiatives mission, vision, and values.

Builds working relations with community health organizations and providers to access and improve community health.

Provides leadership to the facilities’ community and social accountability activities.

Actively participates in community activities and boards that promote CSH/CHI mission, philosophy, and values.

Integrates religious symbols, which speak of the religious tradition of the facility into all building projects.

Talent Management Attracts and retains high quality clinical and non-clinical key staff who will contribute to the sustained success of the facility.

Engages the Executive team in maintaining a positive work environment for employees, including competitive wages and benefits and the consistent application of personnel policies and procedures.

Maintains open, honest, and timely communications to the facility’s many and varied public stakeholders including the community, employees, medical staff, Board of Directors, and CSH/CHI.

Encourages the professional growth and development of the management team, including physician leader Fiscal Responsibility Coordinates the development and implementation of an annual facility budget that supports the overall strategic plans and aligns to expectations of CommonSpirit/Catholic Health Initiatives.

Serves a lead role in fund-raising for the local health system.

Understands and leads effective facilities improvement and capital projects.

Educates and engages others in using a variety of data to enhance the financial performance of the system.

Monitors all financial operations to ensure the facility utilizes its resources in a fiscally responsible manner.

Qualifications B.A.

or B.S.

required M.H.A., M.B.A., or M.S.

in healthcare administration, business administration, public health administration or a related field is required.

A minimum of 5 years experience as a Senior Leadership Executive in a healthcare facility is required.

Physician practice management experience preferred.