Vice President, Cardiovascular Health Destination Service Line

Vice President For Cardiovascular Health Destination Service Line

Stanford Health Care is seeking a Vice President for the Cardiovascular Health Destination Service Line (DSL) in Palo Alto, California. This executive will lead one of the institution's most critical and high-performing service lines, will oversee all aspects of cardiovascular care delivery across inpatient and outpatient settings, including regional network expansion. The Vice President will be responsible for strategic planning, operational excellence, team development, and fostering a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement. They will build trust, drive transformation, and deliver results through inclusive and relationship-centered leadership.

Provides direct and indirect management oversight to all areas associated with designated services within service line throughout Stanford Health Care. Assists in the management of and assures coordination with other Stanford Healthcare departments to ensure a well-coordinated and planned integrated operation of health care delivery services for the patient continuum of care. Accountable for establishing strong professional relations with senior administration, physicians, and nursing across the enterprise. Communicates and interprets Stanford Health Care and departmental mission goals and objectives to all areas of responsibility.

Responsibilities

• Provides leadership and direction in the planning, implementation, and evaluation activities of all areas of responsibility.
• Provides administrative oversight and leadership in a manner that supports the mission, and vision of Stanford Health Care.
• Plans, directs and coordinates service line initiatives related to performance improvement and risk management programs in order to establish value framework and meet employee engagement, clinical quality goals, effective cost management, and patient satisfaction.
• Participates in Stanford Health Care planning activities as a key administrative representative for the destination service line (DSL).
• Sets the strategic direction of the DSL, in collaboration with senior medical director of service line and administrative staff, to establish the mission, strategic plan, budgets, resource allocation, operational plans, and policies for the service line.
• Leads efforts to support regional network development and the coordination of care.
• Develops and implements strategies to support development of a value framework for a regional network to enhance referrals/patient volumes from existing, as well as expanded regional markets.
• Provides direct oversight to areas of responsibility and indirect leadership to all areas associated with the destination service line throughout Stanford Health Care.
• Builds and maintains key strategic partnerships, both internally across Stanford Health Care, across Stanford Health Care network and within the marketplace, that facilitate achievement of goals and objectives.

Education Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Nursing, Health or Public Administration or a related field.
• Master's degree in Business, Health or Public Administration, Management or related field strongly preferred.

Experience Qualifications

• Fourteen (14) years of progressively responsible and related work experience including managing designated service line, or center of excellence within a large complex health system.
• With Master's degree, ten (10) years of progressively responsible and related work experience.

Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Experience with both hospital and outpatient clinic management.
• Experience with strategic market planning and business development.
• The ability to successful and positively interact with physicians.
• Strong financial analysis and management and long-range planning skills.
• Ability to partner in the development and sustainment of goals, vision, and overall direction of the Destination Service Line.
• Ability to provide clear and concise information/presentations to Senior Executive Team.
• Ability to develop directors and managers.
• Develop strong team culture.
• Ability to drive a culture of proactive, integrated, high quality care delivery with a focus on continuous improvement through innovation and transformation.
• Evaluate current operational and referral trends in partnership with Business Development and Strategy to ensure continuous assessment of market opportunities to be presented to DSL leadership.
• Identify, collect, and analyze data related to the internal and external environment as well as Service Line functioning.
• Critically and comprehensively evaluate the Service Line's processes, modes of care delivery and outcomes.
• Ability to mentor senior management, faculty & staff in the principles of process and service transformation.
• Ability to work comfortably with senior executives as well as faculty and staff who have various levels of education and expertise, understand their work patterns and partner to drive improvement.
• Ability to quickly learn new tools and theories in process improvement/change management.
• Strong expertise in Lean, JIT or Six Sigma techniques.
• Leadership skills to motivate cross-departmental performance.
• Ability to communicate and present in public forums.
• Ability to make a significant contribution to the organization's overall effectiveness.
• Commitment to life-long learning and improvement.

Licenses and Certifications

• CA-RN (Registered Nurse)

SHC Commitment to Providing an Exceptional Patient & Family Experience Stanford Health Care sets a high standard for delivering value and an exceptional experience for our patients and families. Candidates for employment and existing employees must adopt and execute C-I-CARE standards for all of patients, families and towards each other. C-I-CARE is the foundation of Stanford's patient-experience and represents a framework for patient-centered interactions. Simply put, we do what it takes to enable and empower patients and families to focus on health, healing and recovery. You will do this by executing against our three experience pillars, from the patient and family's perspective:

• Know Me: Anticipate my needs and status to deliver effective care.
• Show Me the Way: Guide and prompt my actions to arrive at better outcomes and better health.
• Coordinate for Me: Own the complexity of my care through coordination.

Equal Opportunity Employer Stanford Health Care (SHC) strongly values diversity and is committed to equal opportunity and non-discrimination in all of its policies and practices, including the area of employment. Accordingly, SHC does not discriminate against any person on the basis of race, color, sex, sexual orientation or gender identity and/or expression, religion, age, national or ethnic origin, political beliefs, marital status, medical condition, genetic information, veteran status, or disability, or the perception of any of the above. People of all genders, members of all racial and ethnic groups, people with disabilities, and veterans are encouraged to apply. Qualified applicants with criminal convictions will be considered after an individualized assessment of the conviction and the job requirements.

Base Pay Scale: Generally starting at $140.00 - $185.19 per hour. The salary of the finalist selected for this role will be set based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to, internal equity, experience, education, specialty and training. This pay scale is not a promise of a particular wage.