VP, Perioperative & Procedural Operations

The VP of Perioperative and Procedural Operations serves as a crucial link between diverse organizational functions, the Executive Leadership of OU Health (OUH) to support the mission, vision and values of OUH. The VP, Perioperative aligns and cascades organizational goals to the departments of oversight ensuring that strategic and operational efforts support the provision of safe, quality and productive, cost-effective care to our patients while working in partnership with our physician workforce to ensure efficient and effective processes are achieved to support optimal patient outcomes and experience.

Directly reporting to Executive Leadership, the VP, Perioperative aids in the development and execution of operational plans required for achievement of enterprise-wide perioperative and procedural services strategies which are congruent with the mission, vision, values and strategic goals of the enterprise. This will be accomplished by leading within the structure and framework of accountability and sustainability set forth by OU Health Leadership in order to effectively communicate, collaborate, and engage a team of stakeholders; identifying key performance indicators and ensuring their alignment with metrics focused on quality, safety, experience, and efficiencies; executing on a quality improvement plan that ensures the best outcomes through performance-improvement activities; optimizing the use of information systems and technology and ensuring compliance with regulatory and accreditation requirements.

Essential Responsibilities:

Responsibilities listed in this section are core to the position. Inability to perform these responsibilities with or without an accommodation may result in disqualification from the position.

• OU Health enterprise-wide responsibility for directing assigned areas of operation, tactics supporting the OU Health system strategies, policies and procedures, budget process, project implementations, human resource management and committee representation.
• Responsible for collaboration with physicians, leadership, OU Health colleagues, and community stakeholders in developing goals and objectives for meeting the outcomes goals of OU Health and ensuring ongoing communication and partnership across site leadership teams and services.
• Responsible for ensuring Perioperative and Procedural services consistency and compliance and other regulatory standards, implementing and monitoring financial controls to ensure effective utilization of resources through budgeting and analysis of management reports, development of staff and services, as well as organizational performance improvement, quality management, evidence-based outcome and setting the communication tone, values and culture of OU Health.
• Responsible for ensuring development and enforcement of all applicable policies, standards and regulations related to assigned areas of responsibility.
• Responsible for the implementation of process improvement initiatives and creation of an environment that places an emphasis on continuous monitoring and improvement within the assigned areas of responsibility.
• Establishes operational plan for areas of responsibility that supports the overall goals and strategies of Adult Services and OU Health as a whole.

Primary areas of responsibility are as follows while also serving as a content expert and support for all procedural care across OU Health:

• Perioperative Services, inclusive of surgical, pre-operative, post-anesthesia and post-operative departments
• Sterile Processing departments
• Invasive Cardiology
• Interventional Radiology and Radiology Nursing
• Endoscopy Services
• Invasive Pulmonary Services

Leadership & Strategy

• In collaboration with the site and enterprise executive leadership teams, drive the growth, development, and management of Perioperative services.
• Develop and maintain effective working relationships with leadership and key stakeholders across OUH and OUHSC as applicable. Work with leaders to coordinate services across all entities and throughout the health system, as applicable.
• Develop and lead the Perioperative and Procedural services leadership teams in close partnership with the physician leader/medical director of the services (where applicable).
• Engage in professional development and educational activities designed to promote, manage, and maintain state-of-the-art knowledge of developments in healthcare delivery, management, and business planning.

Operations

• Identifies opportunities to ensure effective employee engagement, quality of healthcare delivery, financial sustainability, and growth of the clinical service's impact on healthcare delivery and the system-wide goals of OU Health.
• Shares responsibility for accomplishing the organization's patient service, financial efficiency, and employee engagement goals.
• Oversees the business and fiscal management, including contracts, billing, compensation, procure to pay functions of Perioperative services, the financial reporting, budgeting, and internal controls of reporting.
• Ensures successful accreditation and re-accreditation of strategic programs, as applicable to the perioperative space and the programs it supports.
• Utilizes benchmarking tools (i.e. Vizient) to guide continuous performance improvement activity within the Accountability and Sustainability framework set by the OUH and Division Executive Leadership.
• Ensures daily execution of standard work processes at the frontline level to include performance improvement methodologies designed to empower Perioperative services frontline employees and providers to continuously improve upon the operational performance of Adult services.
• Develops and implements evidence-based practice programs through collaborative partnership with surgeons, anesthesiologists and nursing care teams across the surgical continuum.

Compliance

• Fosters a culture of compliance and continual state of regulatory readiness, ensuring that operational and administrative functions, including record keeping and reporting comply with applicable local, state, and federal regulations, and accepted rules of accrediting agencies; initiates corrective action as necessary.

Fiscal

• Works with site and enterprise Executive Leadership to prepare operating budgets and capital budgets; oversees said budgets throughout the course of the fiscal year and ensures that operating costs remain within the established fiscal parameters.
• Manages costs by continually seeking data that will identify opportunities and taking appropriate action with regard to non-value added services and costs.
• Directs and/or conducts determination-of-need and cost-benefit studies.
• In conjunction with the Executive Leadership and Finance support colleagues, directs, coordinates, and oversees preparation of financial records, reports, and analyses applicable to the assigned areas of responsibility. Reviews and interprets records and reports to ascertain extent to which goals are being attained.

Minimum Qualifications:

Education

• Master's degree in healthcare administration, business, nursing or other related field required;

Experience

• 7 to 10 years of progressively responsible leadership experience within the Perioperative environment of a healthcare delivery system, preferably an academic health system.

License(s)/Certification(s)/Registration(s) required

• Member of ACHE or ACHE Fellow preferred; CNOR preferred.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Demonstrated success fostering successful, large-scale change management outcomes through effective planning and communications is required.
• Operational experience and a record of success in complex settings required, preferably including an academic healthcare perioperative environment.
• Experience in business development, including strategic planning and operational leadership which includes significant budgetary responsibility required.
• Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively and effectively with a wide variety of professionals, with an emphasis on physicians and senior leaders.
• Experience leading a team of skilled, independent and competent departmental leaders.
• Ability to lead and work in collaboration with a diverse leadership group and relate to a broad group of leaders and stakeholders.
• Ability to plan, organize, prioritize, allocate resources, and manage multiple ongoing, concurrent projects.
• Interpersonal skills to successfully interact with all people, with the ability to gain buy-in from multiple people for the good of the organization.