Director Perioperative Services

Director Perioperative Services

Omaha, Nebraska

CHI Health Creighton University Medical Center - Bergan Mercy

CUMC - Bergan Mercy is searching for a Director of Perioperative Services. The ideal candidate will be a humble servant leader, who is compassionate and visionary. The role requires an experienced leader with a background in perioperative services management, from a large academic center or a tertiary care center. The candidate has strong analytical skills, which involve overseeing a team of 200 staff members and four departments (Main OR, CV, GI, and Sterile Processing).

The facility boasts 16 ORs (12 general, 4 cardiovascular, 5 GI rooms), a sterile processing unit, 2 hybrid interventional rooms, a neuro-interventional suit, and latest equipment for cardiovascular and neurosurgical/spine procedures, including 4 top-of-the-line robots. CUMC - Bergan Mercy is a Level 1 Trauma Center and a Comprehensive Stroke Center with two EDs serving the lower midwest including West IA and Nebraska. We specialize in open and structural heart procedures, complex vascular, neurosurgical and spine surgery, and cancer. Additional services offer a robust robotic program for thoracic, trauma and emergent general surgeries, urology, gynecology, and colorectal procedures.

As a flagship academic institution, CUMC Bergan Mercy trains fellows, residents and students on a daily basis in all procedural areas. We handle a significant volume of transfers being the primary referral center for all CHI facilities in the lower Midwest. We continuously strive for care excellence, patient experience and the highest level of safety culture. Our long-term goals are service optimization and growth, particularly for complex cardiovascular, thoracic and neurovascular disease processes.

1. Manage performance with the authority to interview, hire, orient, terminate, promote, train and conduct performance evaluations; and allocate and direct staffing needs to meet patient, unit and department needs and collaborate with others to ensure overall staffing needs are met.
2. Assures appropriate level of understanding, awareness and compliance with all applicable Joint Commission, federal, state and agency laws, regulations, guidelines and professional standards.
3. Ensures optimal utilization of department resources through participation in planning capital and operational budgets, in development and implementation of systems and practices that achieve defined objectives, in internal and external benchmarking activities and in monitoring, analysis and resolution of budget and productivity variances.
4. Works collaboratively to develop plans, goals, and implementation strategies in support of CHI Health's Mission, Vision, and nursing, campus, and system business objectives. Maintains a department scope of care based on patient population and identified needs.
5. Develops, coordinates, and manages operating systems, operational standardization, service standards, approaches, communication methods and policies across CHI Health.
6. Maintains a system of management reporting that provides the system with timely and relevant information on all aspects of areas of responsibility.
7. Participates in the development of quality indicators and responds to a full range of financial, service and quality indicators in all areas of responsibility.
8. Maintains a collegial and cooperative relationship with the other Hospital Operations and Service Line Directors, working as a team to search out and implement efficiencies, economies and best practices.
9. Provides high quality perioperative services at reasonable costs by directing the programs, policies and procedures for all areas of responsibility. Develops, monitors, and ensures implementation of evidence based clinical standards of nursing practice.
10. Promotes a culture of customer service focused on patients, families, visitors, physicians, other departments and the community. Establishes and maintains cooperative and collaborative relationships with the CHI Health and Independent Medical Staff. Develops and implements programs and processes to support patient and physician satisfaction.

Required Bachelor's Degree in related discipline; Master's Degree strongly preferred

Current Registered Nurse License in Nebraska or Iowa, Nebraska and Iowa are compact states, so license must be held in the state of your residence.

BLS certification is required upon hire. Acceptable credentialing bodies and certifications include the following: American Heart Association: Basic Life Support for Healthcare Providers.

At CHI Health Creighton University Medical Center - Bergan Mercy, our focus is patient-centered care. Our level I trauma center and academic medical center campus is designed to heal the body, mind, and spirit of every person in a more comfortable, less stressful hospital environment. Our full range of medical services includes trauma services, heart and vascular care, emergency services, surgery, maternity, cancer care, and diagnostic imaging.