Director, James Operations - Facilities and Planning

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Job Title:

Director, James Operations - Facilities and Planning

Department:

James | Clinical Operations Administration

Scope of Position 

The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center (OSUWMC), The James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute is committed to enhancing the quality of care provided to patients through teaching, research and patient care; and providing the community/region it serves with high quality services in cancer detection, diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation as one of the nation’s 10 free standing “cancer-only” hospitals. The James is the only cancer program in the country that features a National Cancer Institute (NCI) designated comprehensive cancer center aligned with a nationally ranked academic medical center on the campus of one of the nation’s largest public universities.

 

The Facilities Operations Management and Services Department leadership staff is responsible for overseeing and coordinating activities that support the delivery of high quality patient services and effective hospital operations for all James owned and/or managed facilities, including but not limited to the James Cancer Hospital, outpatient sites (Stefanie Spielman Comprehensive Breast Center, Martha Morehouse Medical Plaza Tower, Mill Run GYN Oncology, James Outpatient Care West Campus, Outpatient Care Powell, and Bob Crane Community Center), and administrative centers (Ackerman Complex and Polaris Innovation Centre). The Department leadership staff collaboratively works with OSUWMC support services leaders, including Security, Facilities Operations, Environmental Services, Supply Chain, Health Facilities Planning, IT, Purchasing and The Ohio State University Facilities Design and Construction Department.

 

Position Summary

The Director James Operations - Facilities & Planning functions as an integral part of The James Facilities Operations Management and Services Department team by managing projects related to the James clinical space optimization. This team member develops standard workflows, translates construction impact plans for the operations team, communicates timelines and logistics for the James facilities team independently for approximately 80 active James construction projects ranging from $5K to $2B in construction costs. 

 

Scope of responsibility is in excess of 2.06M Square Feet across 8 primary locations, providing 15K+ inpatient stays, 488K+ outpatient visits, 14K+ surgeries, 78K infusion, 59K radiation procedures, and 54K mammograms annually. Scope of services is anticipated to grow to nearly 3M Square Feet in the next 5 years. The expansion of The James Hospital and James space in the University Hospital Inpatient Tower will add 148 beds, establishing the James as the 2nd largest Cancer Hospital in America. Integral to bed expansion is unshelling activities for 4 new ORs, relocation of the IR suites, including prep/post unit, James Tower lobby redesign to improve patient satisfaction and security, building systems (pneumatic tubes, autonomous guided vehicles, telemetry, security system, building automation system) integration with existing James Tower to ensure campus wide uniformity, system-wide blood bank relocation, redesign and relocation of Observation Unit, Intermediate Care Clinic, Palliative Unit, Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections Unit