Primary Location:

Jewish Hospital

Address:

200 Abraham Flexner Way Louisville, KY 40202

Shift:

Job Description Summary:

About UofL Health:
UofL Health is a fully integrated regional academic health system with five hospitals, four medical centers, nearly 200 physician practice locations, more than 700 providers, the Frazier Rehab Institute and Brown Cancer Center.
With more than 12,000 team members—physicians, surgeons, nurses, pharmacists and other highly skilled health care professionals—UofL Health is focused on one mission: delivering patient-centered care to each and every patient each and every day.

Job Description:

Position Summary and Purpose
The System Director for Respiratory Care for U of L Health is responsible for the administrative, operational, and financial aspects for the Respiratory division, including all departments/areas that report to this position across UofL Health,  Under the supervision of the President of Clinical Support and Ancillary Operations, the Director is accountable for setting departmental goals, operational and capital budgets, managing and monitoring operations, leading and evaluating management/supervisory staff and working collaboratively with hospital departmental staff and physicians. This includes oversight of budgets, contracts, personnel management, clinical performance improvement, and patient experience. The Director, in conjunction with leadership, develops policies and procedures, equipment standardization, contracting quality, service rationalization, and capital strategy for the system.  This position will also work collaboratively with the medical group leadership to insure standardization of services where appropriate and consistency with use of standardized protocols.  The System Director will ensure work quality of all staff and will maintain continuous quality performance improvement activities to validate competency.  The System Director will ensure personnel competency through continuing education and annual competency testing. The System Director may provide care to various patient populations including neonates, pediatrics, adolescents, adults and geriatrics.  

Essential Functions:
•    Provides vision and leadership to ensure long term goals as well as annual objectives are met.
•    Works with physicians, leadership, associates and other departments to create a culture of trust, collaboration and high alignment with the organization resulting in the highest quality of care to patients.
•    Defines the roles, expectations and goals of each member of the Respiratory Therapy division leadership team. 
•    Effective in establishing a culture of patient excellence and quality.   Creative in developing initiatives for improvement. 
•    Implements, in a timely manner, corrective action plans or developments regarding identified deficiencies in staff or unit performance.  Monitors performance improvement and shares results. 
•    Monitors department productivity to ensure appropriate efficiency of departmental operations.  Evaluates and takes appropriate action as needed.  
•    Ensures programs and services are in compliance with hospital and corporate policies as well as federal, state and local regulations. 
•    Effectively prepares, presents and discusses reports, studies, etc., with departmental leadership, Medical Director, physicians, Senior Leadership and other appropriate groups and individuals. 
•    Exercises cost control by using all available data provided to monitor and evaluate variance, taking action when needed.  Assures staff participation in cost control activities. 
•    Monitors personnel expenses by monitoring staffing, absenteeism and overtime. Takes appropriate action to offset/mitigate variances to budget. 
•    Develops and modifies as necessary, an effective organizational structure to accomplish departmental goals and objectives as well as support efficient operations. 
•    Oversees, in conjunction with Department leadership and IT, all aspects of informatics and information technology functions and needs of the organization.
•    Establishes communication plan for engaging physician leaders in department planning, evaluation and performance.  
•    Engages medical staff in planning and evaluation of services. 
•    Involves physicians in service and quality issues resolution. 
•    Ensures physician leaders have information, data and other tools to support and assist them in their roles
•    Creates a professional practice culture using evidence-based knowledge to achieve clinical outcomes and patient satisfaction. 
•    Works with leadership, physicians in establishing appropriate benchmarks for patient experience, quality and services.   
•    Develops and impl