Chief Executive Officer - Delray Medical Center, Delray Beach, FL

Palm Beach Group

Delray Medical Center, Delray Beach, Florida

Getting you back to life and feeling better is our goal at Delray Medical Center. Every day our 1,600 employees, 600 doctors work hard to heal at Delray. We are a nationally recognized hospital with focus on trauma, heart and vascular, orthopedic, spine, neuroscience, movement disorder, robotics, general/bariatric surgery, rehabilitation, medical education and research.

We have earned numerous awards for excellence and quality care. These awards mean you, your family, and the community have local access to top-quality medical care. Some of these distinctions include the following:

Quality

• Recipient of Healthgrades® 'America's 50 Best Hospitals' Award™ for 14 Years in a Row (2007-2020).
• Recipient of Healthgrades® 'America's 100 Best Hospitals' Award™ for 8 Years in a Row (2012-2019).
• Recipient of Healthgrades® 'America's 250 Best Hospitals' Award™ for 17 Years in a Row (2003-2019).
• Recipient of the Healthgrades 2019 Patient Safety Excellence Award™, a designation recognizing superior performance of hospitals that have prevented the occurrence of serious, potentially avoidable complications for patients during hospital stays.

Best Specialty

• One of Healthgrades America's 100 Best Hospitals for Stroke Care™ for 7 Years in a Row (2012-2018).
• Joint Commission Certified Thrombectomy Stroke Center.

Cardiovascular

• Five-Star Recipient for Treatment of Heart Attack in 2018.
• Five-Star Recipient for Treatment of Heart Failure for 17 Years in a Row (2003-2019).

Neuroscience/Stroke

• Recipient of the Healthgrades Neurosciences Excellence Award™ for 8 Years in a Row (2012-2019).
• Recipient of the Healthgrades Cranial Neurosurgery Excellence Award™ for 3 Years in a Row (2016-2018).
• Recipient of the Healthgrades Stroke Care Excellence Award™ for 10 Years in a Row (2010-2019).
• Named Among the Top 10% in the Nation for Neurosciences for 8 Years in a Row (2012-2019).
• Named Among the Top 10% in the Nation for Treatment of Stroke for 10 Years in a Row (2010-2019).
• Named Among the Top 5% in the Nation for Cranial Neurosurgery for 3 Years in a Row (2016-2018).
• Named Among the Top 5% in the Nation for Treatment of Stroke for 8 Years in a Row (2012-2019).
• Five-Star Recipient for Cranial Neurosurgery for 3 Years in a Row (2016-2018).
• Five-Star Recipient for Treatment of Stroke for 12 Years in a Row (2008-2019).
• Joint Commission Certified Thrombectomy Stroke Center.

The Chief Executive Officer has overall operational responsibility and oversight of Delray Medical Center. The Chief Executive Officer will be responsible to lead by example, setting clear strategies and performance expectations in an environment of participation and collaboration with senior management, physicians, and the Joint Advisory Board(s).

The Chief Executive Officer has the following functional responsibilities in leading Delray Medical Center:

• Ensures a positive working relationship with physicians; creates a culture of open communication and mutual understanding between the physicians, facility leadership and employees.
• Has experience with GME, research and teaching environments.
• Empowers and leads a top-notch administrative team.
• Establishes a sense of mutual “pride of ownership” among constituencies, including physicians, employees and the community. Nurtures a culture of shared purpose and goals among these groups, fostering greatly improved working relationships and ensuring consistent quality of patient care.
• Maintains a highly visible presence, interacting constantly with key stakeholders to inform and advise them of strategies, current healthcare trends, legislation and activities. Represents the facility as a vital provider and employer by being an active civic leader in the community.
• Exhibits strong communication, presentation and listening skills to ensure facility-wide collaboration and coordination, especially concerning physicians, employees and the community.
• Displays strong business acumen, a sophisticated knowledge of healthcare funding, and experience in competitive marketplaces with the ability to make complex and difficult decisions.
• Appropriately assesses strategic opportunities to enhance the facility’s market position.
• Assures the highest standards of healthcare delivery and outcomes, ensuring a constant patient focus.
• Shows creativity and judgment in developing and communicating an executable vision that includes new product lines and services, partnerships, and ventures.
• Continues to build solid, effective relationships with appropriate partners, payors, businesses, customers, and the community at large.
• Ensures positive employee relations and trust through communication, education, consistency and dependability.
• Fosters a work climate that attracts and retain quality employees, and provides and promotes the facility as a provider of choice for patients.
• Demonstrates successes in integrating medical staff and creating opportunities for growth and profitability.

As a leader in healthcare, Tenet is committed to providing the best possible care to every patient, with a clear focus on quality and service. Strong leadership is essential to delivering on this commitment, and we believe that the quality of our leaders can give us a significant long-term competitive advantage. We want to ensure every current and future leader in Tenet is successful, and we support that through our selection and hiring process and by providing coaching and training to our leaders.

In this regard, we have identified core competencies that will enable a leader to succeed at Tenet, and have defined them within the following five areas critical to performance:

Drive Organizational Success and Shapes Strategy

• Goal oriented. Drives financial and quality goals.
• Translates complex strategies into aggressive and achievable team/individual goals, targets and action plans that deliver results
• Maintains ongoing feedback, measurement and assessment processes that determine progress to plan and, if necessary, lead to course correction
• Participates in talent planning to ensure recruitment and development of high performing leaders. Shapes roles and assignments in a way that maximizes individual capability and performance contribution
• Demonstrates intellectual curiosity by seeking out new information and market awareness
• Uses a data driven approach to understanding complex issues, assessing and designing solutions

Earn Unwavering Trust

• Demonstrates high visibility networking and interacting constantly with key stakeholders to inform and advise on strategic initiatives, progress, healthcare trends, etc. (e.g., speaks at community events, sits on local boards).
• Builds solid effective relationships with stakeholders
• Exhibits excellent communication, presentation and listening skills that secure commitment and alignment.
• Maintains high ethical standards and integrity consistent with Tenet values and compliance expectations.

Minimum ten to fifteen years of progressive experience in facility or healthcare management, culminating in successfully leading a complex entity in a culturally diverse, competitive urban environment. Incumbent should possess the following experiences, professional and personal attributes and education:

• Demonstrated, sophisticated understanding of healthcare operations
• Experience as a senior executive with proven capability to achieve goals
• A proven background in developing and implementing successful strategies that ensures delivery of high quality, cost effective healthcare.
• A strong reputation for successful, inclusive, physician relations.
• A highly effective manager with a demonstrated track record of bold leadership and bringing teams toward full utilization of their talents and abilities to achieve desired business results.

Professional Attributes

• Must have independent judgment and decision-making capability.
• Excellent human relations skills.
• Visionary with the ability to think strategically and possessing the communication and leadership skills to follow through on development plans.
• Demonstrated success in balancing cost and quality objectives
• Track record of active community leadership. The Chief Executive Officer must be a visible, active participant in civic forums representing the facilities.

Personal Attributes

• Excellent interpersonal skills; and a dedicated listener.
• One who encourages feedback and collaborative efforts in his/her staff in order to promote a higher standard of patient care, cost effective delivery of services, and a team-oriented culture.
• An individual of highest personal and professional integrity, principle and knowledge, earning respect and support when making difficult decisions and choices.

Education/Certifications

An undergraduate degree in Business, Health Care Administration, or related field is required. A Master’s degree is strongly preferred.

Compensation

A competitive compensation program will be tailored to the selected candidate. Base salary will be supplemented by a performance bonus and comprehensive, well-rounded benefits program, which includes relocation assistance.

Travel

Minimal

Tenet Healthcare complies with federal, state, and/or local laws regarding mandatory vaccination of its workforce. If you are offered this position and must be vaccinated under any applicable law, you will be required to show proof of full vaccination or obtain an approval of a religious or medical exemption prior to your start date. If you receive an exemption from the vaccination requirement, you will be required to submit to regular testing in accordance with the law.

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