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COMPANY BACKGROUND

Tenet Healthcare Corporation (NYSE: THC) is a diversified healthcare services company headquartered in Dallas with more than 100,000 employees. Through an expansive care network that includes United Surgical Partners International, we operate 60 hospitals and approximately 460 other healthcare facilities, including surgical hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers and imaging centers and other care sites and clinics. We also operate Conifer Health Solutions, which provides revenue cycle management and value-based care services to hospitals, health systems, physician practices, employers and other clients. Across the Tenet enterprise, we are united by our mission to deliver quality, compassionate care in the communities we serve. For more information, please visit www.tenethealth.com.

MARKET SUMMARY:

Baptist Medical Center, San Antonio, TX

Baptist Medical Center is part of Baptist Health System, a trusted provider of hospital, health and wellness services in San Antonio and South/Central Texas. The system includes six acute-care hospitals (Baptist Medical Center, Mission Trail Baptist Hospital, North Central Baptist Hospital, Northeast Baptist Hospital and St. Luke's Baptist Hospital in San Antonio, and Resolute Health Hospital in New Braunfels), which offer more than 1,812 licensed beds. The system also includes the Baptist Orthopedic Hospital, Baptist Children's Hospital, 4 inpatient rehabilitation centers, ambulatory, multiple urgent care and imaging center locations, eight Baptist Emergency Hospital locations, the Baptist Physician Network and Baptist School of Health Professions.

Baptist Medical Center has been delivering exceptional quality patient care since 1903. The hospital is nationally ranked by U.S. News and World Report and Leapfrog in a number of specialties including Congestive Heart Failure, Colon Cancer Surgery, COPD, Hip Replacement and Knee Replacement. Baptist Medical Center operates over 600 licensed beds and employs more than 1,400 employees. The hospital is an Accredited Chest Pain Center and Certified Primary Stroke Center. Key services include a robotic surgery program, cardiovascular and cardiothoracic surgical care, neurology, orthopedics, digestive diseases, rehabilitation, cancer care, women's services, emergency care and a senior behavioral health unit, among others. For more information visit:

https://www.baptisthealthsystem.com/locations/detail/baptist-medical-center

POSITION SUMMARY

The Chief Nursing Officer provides strategic leadership as the senior executive position responsible for all nursing and other designated patient care functions and services within the hospital organization.  The role assumes responsibility for assessing, planning, coordinating, implementing and evaluating nursing practice on a facility level.  The role assumes 24/7 responsibility and has accountability to ensure high quality, safe and appropriate nursing care, competency of clinical staff, and appropriate resource management related to patient care. The Chief Nursing Officer represents nursing concerns on the governing board and at medical staff leadership meetings.

Education/Certifications

• An academic degree in nursing is required, and a master's degree in Nursing or related field (Health Administration, Business, Public Health, or Management) is required.
• Active and current registered nurse license in the state of residence/practice is required.
• Current CENP or NEA certification preferred.

Compensation

• A competitive compensation program will be tailored to the selected candidate. Base salary will be supplemented by a performance bonus and comprehensive, well-rounded benefits program, which includes relocation assistance.

Travel

• Approximately 25 percent. Ability to travel in market. Selected candidate will be required to pass a Motor Vehicle Records check.

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FUNCTIONAL EXPECTATIONS & REQUIREMENTS:

Retaining great people at the facility

• Collaborate with human resources and other team members to select, on-board, orient, and provide coaching for direct reports.
• Evaluate and monitor facility level people pillar statistics, participate on related calls as necessary.
• Consider and/or implement nurse residency programs to ensure pipeline for facility.
• Collaborate with team members to formulate programs to enhance work life balance.
• Partner with related team members to promote a safe work environment that is based on a zero tolerance for sexual harassment, workplace violence and verbal and physical abuse.
• Collaborate with related team members to promote an effective facility level competency program.
• Collaborate to promote a robust employee development and education program that responds to the unique needs of employees across the career continuum (novice to expert).
• Work cohesively with related team members to develop and implement recruitment and retention strategies that ensure a qualified and stable workforce.
• Participate in workforce planning to ensure an adequate and competent workforce.
• Support the design of effective and competitive compensation and benefits programs.

Communication and Relationship Building

• Effectively communicate with all internal and external constituents, including staff, colleagues, and physicians.
• Communicate and administer human resource programs and procedures in accordance with established policies.
• Manage organizational relationships in a manner which builds mutual trust and respect. Establish trusting and collaborative relationships.
• Address and manage conflict in a constructive and productive manner.
• Give timely feedback and reinforce positive behaviors.

Leadership Influence

• Create and communicate a compelling shared vision.
• Develop effective strategies for addressing organizational priorities.
• Develop, communicate and monitor performance expectations.
• Formulate objectives, goals, and specific strategies related to the organization's mission and vision.
• Understand effective organizational outcome measures in order to balance cost, quality and service.
• Measure and analyze performance from the learning and growth, business process, customer, and financial perspectives.
• Promote a results-oriented environment.
• Develop succession plan for nursing leadership.
• Demonstrate effective change management; able to serve as an organizational change agent.
• Coach and mentor aspiring nurse leaders.
• Create an environment in which professional and personal growth is an expectation.
• Articulate the application of ethical principles to operations.
• Manage organizational and individual performance with appropriate rewards.
• Represent nursing and patient care issues within the organization's governance and medical staff structures.
• Represent nursing and patient care in strategic planning and quality initiatives with the governing body.
• Educate the organization's board members and physicians regarding healthcare/value of nursing care.

Diversity

• Create an environment that recognizes and values diversity.
• Develop processes to incorporate cultural beliefs into care.
• Design strategies that address the unique needs of a diverse workforce, patient population, and community.
• Assess the current environment and establish indicators of progress toward cultural competency.

Shared decision-making/Shared Leadership

• Engage staff and others in decision-making.
• Promote decisions that are patient centered.
• Provide an environment conducive to opinion-sharing.
• Promote systems thinking as a value in the nursing organization.
• Consider the impact of nursing decisions on the health care organization as a whole.
• Provide leadership in building loyalty and commitment throughout the organization.
• Synthesize and integrate divergent viewpoints for the good of the organization.
• Involves employees in decision-making.
• Attend and participate in regional CNO calls and meetings.

Clinical Practice Leadership

• Understand and articulate patient care standards reflected in federal and state regulation, TJC, the state Nurse Practice Act, and organizational policies and procedures.
• Maintain knowledge of current nursing practice and roles and functions within nursing and other healthcare disciplines.
• Maintain current knowledge of patient care delivery systems and innovations.
• Ensure that nursing practice is consistent with current standards and current evidenced based practice.
• Ensure that the care delivery model, clinical environment of care and related technology is appropriate to needs of caregivers and patients.
• Serve as change agent when patient care work/workflow is redesigned.
• Advocate use of documented best practices.
• Teach and mentor others to routinely utilize evidenced based data and research.
• Assure that the clinical perspective is included in organizational decisions.
• Supports regional senior director and Tenet CNO.

Academic Relationships

• Provide a supportive and stimulating learning environment for nursing students.
• Participate in the academic community through advisory and collaborative efforts.
• Ensure that the educational system is aligned with organizational needs.
• Collaborate with nursing programs to provide required resources; evaluate graduates.
• Collaborate with academia in nursing research and incorporate nursing research into practice.

Resource Management

• Demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of organizational revenue, expense performance and capital planning.
• Manage fiscal, human and material resources in a cost-effective manner.
• Design and maintain effective systems for resource management in nursing.
• Manage patient care processes such as care management/length of stay to ensure optimal revenue.
• Utilize effective performance management in managing key areas of responsibility.

Quality, Patient Safety and Risk Management

• Contribute to the development and implementation of the organization's performance improvement program. Support the development and implementation of an organization-wide patient safety program.
• Monitor and evaluate quality through public reported measure (i.e. core measures, nurse sensitive patient outcomes, infection control, etc.) in collaboration with the facility DCQI and ICP, as well as national resources.
• Actively participate in facility clinical close calls.
• Define quality metrics by identifying the problem/process, measuring success at improving specific areas of patient care, analyzing the root causes or variation from quality standards, improving the process with the evidence, controlling solutions and sustaining success.
• Interpret information from research.
• Participate in studies that provide outcome measurements.
• Utilize research findings for the establishment of standards, practices, and patient care models in the organization.
• Disseminate research findings to patient care team members.
• Support the development of a facility-wide patient safety program.
• Support a non-punitive environment and a reward system for reporting unsafe practices.
• Design safe clinical systems, processes, policies and procedures.
• Allocate nursing resources based on measurement of patient acuity/care needed.
• Ensure staff is clinically competent and trained on their role in patient safety, performance improvement, and risk management.
• Support a safe culture that assures accountability and respects values and individual contributions.
• Incorporate safety as a design element as appropriate.
• Collaborate with RM to monitor and follow up on clinical risk trends.
• Identify, mitigate and take action to correct areas of risk/liability in patient care.
• Facilitate facility level annual pressure ulcer prevalence and incidence study results with corrective action.
• Collaborate with related team members to monitor and evaluate a Culture of Safety through active coaching of direct reports to ensure that the culture of safety is cultivated at the facility.
• Support the annual AHRQ Patient Safety Survey and follows up with corrective actions.

Information Management and Technology

• Supports and embraces role in the adoption of EMR within facility.
• Demonstrates basic competency in technology applications related to business and clinical functions.
• Recognizes the relevance of nursing data for improving practice.
• Utilizes facility database management, decision support, and expert system programs to access information and analyze data from disparate sources for use in planning for patient care processes and systems.
• Participates in system change processes and utility analysis.
• Evaluates and revises patient care processes and systems.
• Participates in the evaluation of information systems in practice settings.
• Uses computerized management systems to record administrative data (billing data, quality assurance data, workload data, etc.).
• Uses applications for structured data entry (classification systems, acuity level, etc.).
• Recognizes the utility of nursing involvement in the planning, design, choice and implementation of information systems in the practice environment.
• Demonstrates awareness of societal and technological trends, issues and new developments as they apply to nursing.
• Demonstrates proficient awareness of legal and ethical issues related to client data, information, and confidentiality.
• Reads and interprets benchmarking, financial and occupancy data.

Service

• Monitor and evaluate service indicators in collaboration with related team members at the facility level.
• Facilitate education of employees related to service.
• Actively facilitate Physician satisfaction survey, monitors result and collaborates wi...