Vice President, Women & Infant Services

Vice President, Women & Infant Services

Grady Health

Atlanta, GA

The Opportunity:

Grady, located in Atlanta, Georgia, seeks a transformational nursing executive to serve as Vice President, Women & Infant Services, a highly visible leadership role responsible for clinical, operational, and strategic oversight of one of the organization's most complex and mission-critical service lines.

The Position:

The Vice President provides 24/7 executive leadership for Women & Infant Services, including administrative, clinical, operational, and educational oversight. The role sets the tone for departmental culture, professional practice, and performance, ensuring safe, high-quality, patient-centered care while advancing operational and strategic objectives. This leader will function as the operational and clinical executive for Women & Infant Services, effectively the "CEO" of the service line, and will be accountable for performance across quality, safety, experience, workforce engagement, and financial stewardship. This is a pivotal time for Women & Infant Services at Grady. The division includes high-acuity maternal and neonatal care, serves a medically and socially complex patient population, and operates within a major academic and essential environment. Strong physician partnership, operational discipline, and visible leadership presence will be essential for success. The Vice President will be expected to bring deep subject matter expertise in women's and neonatal services while also leading cultural, operational, and quality transformation. The role reports to the newly appointed Associate Chief Nursing Officer and partners closely with physician leadership, including the Chief of Obstetrics, to align nursing, medical, and operational priorities.

The Ideal Candidate:

• Bachelor's degree in nursing.
• Master's degree in nursing or health care management, business or related field.
• Registered Nurse in the state of Georgia.
• Eight (8) or more years of job-related experience with four (4) or more years in nursing leadership to included experience at the director level or higher.
• An experienced women's services executive (current VP, AVP, or CNO) who combines strategic vision with hands-on operational leadership.
• Deep expertise in maternal-fetal and neonatal nursing operations.
• Executive presence with the ability to lead in high-stakes clinical environments.
• Strong collaborator with physicians and academic partners.
• Skilled change leader able to elevate performance and culture simultaneously.
• Data-driven, quality-focused, and operationally disciplined.
• Passion for health equity and serving vulnerable populations.

The Organization:

Since Grady first opened in 1892, we have continually reinvented ourselves to meet the region's evolving medical needs. In the 1890s, that meant providing the same quality of care for rich and poor, black and white. In the 1920s, it meant performing Georgia's first open-heart surgery. In 2013, it meant creating the first neurological surgical suite within a dedicated stroke center to remove blood clots from the brains of stroke victims. Tomorrow, it will be something we can barely imagine. You may know Grady as one of the nation's best trauma centers. We save people who've been severely hurt in car accidents, industrial mishaps, and other trauma incidents, 24/7. But there's another side to us. The side that heals disease, cares for burns, corrects injuries, treats sniffles. Our physicians, who are in the faculties of Emory and Morehouse medical schools, provide Grady patients with unparalleled care in specialties like cancer, urology, cardiology, neurology, and chronic disease – as well as the more routine, like family medicine and senior care. And we provide this care at Grady Hospital, the Correll Pavilion, and through six (soon to be eight) facilities inside and outside of the Perimeter. Whatever the need, Grady fulfills it – even as we continue to raise the bar for medical care in the region. The world's leading physicians come to Grady to practice here, teach here, and save patients whose conditions are beyond the capabilities of other hospitals.

The Location:

Atlanta was founded in 1837 as the end of the Western & Atlantic railroad line (it was first named Marthasville in honor of the then-governor's daughter, nicknamed Terminus for its rail location, and then changed soon after to Atlanta, the feminine of Atlantic -- as in the railroad). Today the fast-growing city remains a transportation hub, not just for the country but also for the world: Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport is the world's busiest in daily passenger flights. The city has emerged as a banking center and boasts the third largest concentration of Fortune 500 companies in the country. In the past two decades, Atlanta has experienced unprecedented growth -- the official city population remains steady, at about 420,000, but the metro population has grown in the past decade by nearly 40 percent, from 2.9 million to 4.1 million people.

Please direct all inquiries, applications, and referrals to:

Richard Heishman

richard.heishman@amnhealthcare.com

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