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Sr. Vice President, Service Lines and Chief Ambulatory Care Officer

Stanford Health Care
Palo Alto, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 21 Nov 2025
💰 $370,000/yr($280,000/yr$370,000/yr)

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Day - 08 Hour (United States of America)

This is a Stanford Health Care job.

A Brief Overview
The Senior Vice President, Service Lines and Chief Ambulatory Care Officer reports directly to the Chief Operating Officer and has executive responsibility for the strategy and operations of Stanford Medicine's Service Lines and the Ambulatory Care platform. The SVP is the key health system dyadic partner to Department Chairs within the School of Medicine to develop strategic plans and deliver outcomes for a portfolio of Service Lines in concert with the Stanford Medicine Integrated Strategic Plan. This SVP is the business leader for a portfolio of Service Lines and is accountable to manage the Service Lines' integration into the rest of the enterprise through necessary market development, revenue and expense management, and program growth, where indicated. The SVP ensures that the highest quality care and operational excellence is delivered across all service lines within the portfolio and partners with leaders across the system to achieve results.

The Senior Vice President also serves as the Chief Administrative Officer of Ambulatory Care to lead the strategy of ambulatory care services across Stanford Medicine. In this role, the CAO serves as the key partner with the ACMO - Ambulatory Care to lead the governance of ambulatory care structures. The CAO has accountability for the overall success of Ambulatory Care by championing a seamless and coordinated system of care, inclusive of the following: ambulatory quality, patient access and service, health equity, physician and employee wellness, (employee health operation), program development and innovation, ambulatory/hospital transitions management, community partnerships, population health, and accountable care. . While the Ambulatory Care footprint includes various Service Lines, Destination Service Lines, Clinical Operations and Research/Education Programs, the CAO functions to convene all stakeholders and lead the overall success and system integration of the Ambulatory Care clinical platform.

As a member of the senior leadership team, the SVP participates with the other Senior Vice Presidents, Chief Medical Officers and Executives in assisting with the overall management of the health system operations, system improvement, fiscal management, quality/safety and employee/physician experience to carry out the mission, vision, and annual goals of Stanford Medicine.

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Stanford Health Care

What you will do

  • Develops and leads the implementation of strategic planning and governance structures for Ambulatory Care and a portfolio of Service Lines.

  • Consistently assesses performance and plans improvement to meet the mission, vision, and goals of the organization.

  • Leads development of patient access strategy and guides implementation activities that support strategic growth and improve efficiencies in access to care.

  • Partner in leading SHC’s population health and accountable care strategy and oversee care management operations

  • Develops and implements policies that guide and support the provision of services; ensures that policies and procedures are compatible with the function and goals of Stanford Health Care and which meet the external regulatory and statutory requirements

  • Leads Workforce Health & Wellness, the occupational and employee health enterprise for Stanford Medicine, partnering with leaders across all entities to deliver occupational health care and employee wellness initiatives

  • Develops quality performance imperatives and key processes that drive efficiency and customer satisfaction. Determines appropriate performance metrics.

  • Effectively ensures the maintenance of appropriate quality improvement and control programs in response to staff and patient feedback and internal standards of care and external requirements

  • Effectively provides direction and policy interpretation to VPs and Directors in managing their respective areas of responsibility; offers advice in handling special human resources matters and administrative concerns.

  • Ensures compliance with relevant licensing, regulatory, and accreditation requirements

  • Monitors and adheres to budget. Reviews variance reports and financial statements on a monthly basis, and provides justifications for variances or unusual expenditures

  • Represents Ambulatory Care and the Service Lines to the external market, as well as internally through the application of community relations and mar

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