Vice President, Hospital Clinical Operations and Chief Nursing Officer 

Summa Health, Akron Campus

Serves as Vice President, Hospital Clinical Operations and Chief Nursing Officer for Summa Health Akron Campus and Summa Barberton hospitals with operational oversight for clinical operations across the hospital. Provides oversight of Respiratory Services and collaborates with physician and administrative leaders to support care delivery. Serves as a member of the hospital leadership team and contributes to strategic planning and operational excellence. Creates a vision and strategic plan to elevate nursing professional practice. Directs and evaluates nursing care through theoretical models of nursing and evidence-based and process improvement methodologies. Leads and guides nursing functions based on the biological, physical, and psycho-social sciences, to attain, maintain, and restore optimum health. Leads and directs nursing care in critical and emergency nursing, medical and surgical nursing including telemetry, and women’s health nursing. Participates in organizational strategic planning, performance improvement activities, and fiscal operations. Leads in developing and evaluating nursing practice, patient care programs, evidence-based policies and procedures that improve patient care outcomes. Collaborates and builds teams with Interprofessional colleagues to provide highly reliable, safe quality care. Responsible for creating and contributing to evidence-based strategies to meet National Database Nursing Quality Indicators (NDNQI) benchmarks, and the prevention of hospital-acquired conditions (HACs) outcome measures, and patient care outcomes. Attends and participates in Nursing Executive Committee, Shared governance councils, and other assigned committees as indicated.

Formal Education Required:
a. Master’s degree required in Nursing or Business/Health Administration mandatory
b. Bachelor’s degree (if not in Nursing, then Master’s degree must be in Nursing).
c. Registered Nurse with current licensure in the State of Ohio or the ability to obtain one

Experience & Training Required:
a. Seven (7) years of progressive nursing administration experience
b. Administrative experience must include current tertiary acute care hospital-based nursing services with a broad scope of responsibility for clinical and fiscal management of general and specialty patient care units
c. Knowledge and skills in evidence-based practice and process improvement methodologies and execution.

Other Skills, Competencies, and Qualifications:
a. Excellent communication, leadership, organizational, and interpersonal skills
b. Strategic, operational planning skills with the ability to develop and communicate a vision and strategy for an integrated health care delivery system in the planning, delivery, and management of care across the continuum

Population Specific Competency:
a. Ability to effectively interact with patients/customers with the understanding of their needs for self-respect and dignity. Lead strategies to incorporate diversity, equity, and inclusion within nursing departments.

Level of Physical Demands:
a. Sedentary: Exerts up to ten pounds of force occasionally and/or a negligible amount of force frequently