Director Perioperative Services

Established by the Sisters of the St. Francis in 1924, CHI Health Good Samaritan is a 268-bed regional referral center in Kearney, Neb. At CHI Health Good Samaritan, you’ll find an advanced level trauma center that also offers AirCare emergency helicopter transport and an ambulance program providing long distance and local 911 service. Among our many other services are cardiac care including open-heart surgery, a level II neonatal intensive care unit, a nationally accredited cancer center, comprehensive neurosurgery, advanced orthopedic program, and inpatient and outpatient mental health services at our free-standing Richard Young Behavioral Health facility.

As our Director of Perioperative Services, at Good Samaritan in Kearney, NE, you will provide strategic leadership and 24-hour administrative accountability for all perioperative patient care and day-to-day operations adhering to professional standards and regulatory requirements.

Every day you will manage departmental activities through subordinate staff, ensuring the highest level of surgical care and optimal patient outcomes. You will collaborate closely with the Medical Director and other department managers to integrate and evaluate patient care phases, administer the budget, maintain inventory, and ensure compliance with quality and accreditation standards. You will also address daily patient care issues, review satisfaction reports, represent the department on committees, and provide operational input to hospital leadership.

To be successful in this role, you will possess extensive knowledge of healthcare management principles, clinical expertise in perioperative functions, and proven management proficiency in business planning, process improvement, budget, and personnel. Your ability to drive performance improvement across clinical outcomes, cost containment, patient safety, and regulatory compliance will be critical.

• 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.
• Assures appropriate level of understanding, awareness and compliance with all applicable Joint Commission, federal, state and agency laws, regulations, guidelines and professional standards.
• 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.
• 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.
• Develops, coordinates, and manages operating systems, operational standardization, service standards, approaches, communication methods and policies across CHI Health.
• Maintains a system of management reporting that provides the system with timely and relevant information on all aspects of areas of responsibility.

Required

• Bachelors Degree in related discipline and a minimum of five(5) years of progressive work experience
• Basic Life Support - CPR

Preferred

• Masters Degree and two(2) years of supervisory management experience