VP Patient Care Services

As our VP, Patient Care Services, you will define and execute the strategic vision for patient care system-wide, ensuring exceptional, high-quality, and compassionate care delivery. This executive role drives operational excellence, innovation, and continuous improvement. You will be responsible for the day to day, directing, planning, and overseeing multi-departmental patient care programs and non-nursing clinical services. Partners closely with the CNE/COO to align care delivery across departments and hospitals. This role will also support the CNE as the Assistant Chief Nursing Officer (ACNO) and help direct nursing services, ensuring high standards of patient care, and aligning nursing goals with the hospital’s strategic vision.

Every day you will strategically direct patient care units and services, fostering clinical excellence. Responsibilities include mentoring senior leaders, setting system-level patient safety and compliance, and optimizing workflows for superior outcomes. You'll represent patient care at the executive level, driving key initiatives.

To succeed, you need exceptional executive leadership, visionary strategic management, and profound clinical expertise. You must influence a culture of excellence, drive transformative improvement, and deliver organizational patient care goals, with a proven history of leading complex clinical teams and shaping change effectively.

• Oversees the operations of several departments and directs the daily operations of nursing, care management, and respiratory services. Works to develop organizational solutions for nursing care delivery, including when appropriate, providing consultation guidance or management regarding nursing functions.
• Implements and monitors an effective, ongoing program to measure, assess, and improve the quality of nursing care, treatment and services delivered to patients.
• Develops nursing leadership that is capable of meeting financial goals, retaining staff, mentoring and coaching staff, developing positive relationships with patients, physicians and families.
• Ensures that the patient care units and services are in compliance with JCAHO, Federal and State regulations and professional organization standards, and that quality control programs are maintained as appropriate.
• Works collaboratively with others to create and execute integrated business plans. Identifies short- and long-range goals as well as desired outcome measures and develops a plan of implementation, monitoring, reporting and evaluating.
• Oversees the development and monitoring of departmental budget and all related expenditures including recommendations of a sufficient number of qualified and competent staff, space and other resource needs ensuring maximization of resources, efficiency and cost-effectiveness of patient care operations.

Required

• Two to five years nurse leadership experience.
• Master’s Degree in Nursing, Business or Health Administration or equivalent degree in Nursing.
• Current State (CA) RN license.

Founded in 1940, Dignity Health - Marian Regional Medical Center is a 191-bed, acute care, nonprofit hospital located in Santa Maria, California. Serving over 250,000 patients annually, the hospital offers a full complement of services including Level II Trauma Center, Level III NICU, cancer care, orthopedics, and stroke care. Additionally, Marian Regional Medical Center has been recognized as an LGBTQ+ Healthcare Equality High Performer by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation. It is a Joint Commission-certified Primary Stroke Center, and the only healthcare facility on the Central Coast to offer ECMO.

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Depending on the position offered, CommonSpirit Health offers a generous benefit package, including but not limited to medical, prescription drug, dental, vision plans, life insurance, paid time off (full-time benefit eligible team members may receive a minimum of 14 paid time off days, including holidays annually), tuition reimbursement, retirement plan benefit(s) including, but not limited to, 401(k), 403(b), and other defined benefits offerings, as may be amended from time to time. For more information, please visit our Total Rewards.

Unless directed by a Collective Bargaining Agreement, applications for this position will be considered on a rolling basis. CommonSpirit Health cannot anticipate the date by which a successful candidate may be identified.