Vice President, Comer Children's Hospital

Join a world-class academic healthcare system, UChicago Medicine, as the Vice President, Comer Children’s Hospital responsible for providing operational leadership for Comer Hospital, Pediatric and Women’s Care Services, reporting to the inaugural President of Comer Children’s Hospital. 

Vice President, Comer Children’s Hospital will focus on the design, implementation, execution, and ongoing operations of comprehensive Women’s and Children’s Services and programs for the University of Chicago Medicine. The VP will create and sustain an environment with appropriate resources, training, system integration and leadership to provide high quality pediatric and women’s health care services in a cost effective manner. They will develop relationships with and serve as liaison to strategic affiliate organizations. Working closely with the Clinical Department Chairs, Medical Directors and Nursing leaders, the VP, Comer Children’s Hospital is responsible for setting policy and practices to have a highly-developed and engaged work force to ensure excellent patient care, satisfaction and compliance with Joint Commission and other regulatory agency standards.

This role will be the operational leader for pediatric and women’s healthcare in setting and executing the vision around patient/family experience and patient safety/health outcomes. As a hospital member of Solutions for Patient Safety (SPS), this role will serve as the co-executive site leader for the patient safety work in the children’s hospital. 

Who you are:

 A passionate and collaborative pediatric healthcare executive with:

• Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree (MSN, MBA or higher) preferred.
• Minimum of ten years progressive leadership experience in a senior health care management position and/or health care operations required.
• Experience with Pediatric care in a Magnet designated organization is preferred.
• Experience with bargaining units is preferred.
• Thorough understanding of regulatory requirements governing healthcare operations and clinical practice.
• Knowledge of best practices, clinical quality metrics, and performance improvement processes to drive continuous excellence in care delivery.
• Strong command of medical, clinical, and industry terminology.
• Demonstrated ability to inspire, motivate, and guide teams toward achieving high performance and organizational goals.
• Ability to cultivate and maintain internal partnerships that enhance clinical care delivery and patient outcomes.
• Demonstrated capability to lead within a complex, academic healthcare environments.
• Expertise in pediatric and family-centered care delivery across inpatient and ambulatory settings, preferred.

What you’ll gain as Vice President, Comer Children’s Hospital: 

• An opportunity to shape the future of pediatric healthcare by partnering with the inaugural President of Comer Children’s Hospital to build a nationally recognized destination for pediatric and perinatal care.
• A highly visible leadership platform with broad responsibility for strategy, operations, growth, and innovation across a world-class academic health system that integrates clinical care, research, and education.
• The ability to make a lasting impact on children, families, and communities by advancing health equity, expanding access to care, strengthening community partnerships, and helping transform health outcomes across Chicago’s South Side and beyond.
• The ability to lead a pediatric hospital through a cultural transformation around patient experience and patient safety

 What you’ll do as the Vice President, Comer Children’s Hospital:

• Lead clinical and business operations, budget development and management, strategic business development and performance improvement for Comer Children’s Hospital and Women’s Care Services. 
• Own decision making for planning and programmatic development for departments including but not limited to:
  • Patient Experience Management
  • Clinical Care Delivery 
  • Finance and Decision Support
  • Business infrastructure and core support services
  • Partnerships with Physicians and Departmental Chairs
  • Operational Management of Information Technology infrastructure and development in partnership with IT Department
• Lead performance improvement initiatives with a focus on business development, revenue enhancement, clinical quality improvement, patient safety, cost-effectiveness, and process efficiency. 
• Develop, direct, and allocate financial resources to ensure adequate human and capital resources to meet patient care needs.
• Foster effective working relationships with executive and medial leadership, medical and clinical staff to ensure attainment of the key critical success factors for the organization such as engagement and operational outcomes. 
• Ensure the future of the organization through effective development, collaboration, and implementation of operational, clinical, and other key aspects of the strategic plan.

E4 Leadership (Equity, Engage, Evolve, Excel) is a patient centered management system that empowers teams to improve on a daily basis. This is done through daily readiness huddles, real time process monitoring, performance review huddles and structured problem solving. E4 Leadership is an evolving system where leaders work together to cultivate a culture of equity and continuous improvement that enables:

1. Each person to realize their full potential for contribution 

2. The organization to achieve high performance outcomes

3. System-wide integration, coordination, and seamless execution

4. Clear focus on exceptional, equitable patient care and experiences.

As part of the leadership team, this position will be instrumental in reinforcing and sustaining UCM’s E4 Leadership Culture.