VP, Clinical Lines of Business

Vice President, Clinical Lines of Business

Summa Health System is recognized as one of the region's top employers by a number of third party organizations, including North Coast 99. Exceptional candidates gravitate to Summa because of its culture, passion for delivering excellent service to our patients and families commitment to our philosophy of servant leadership, collegial working relationships at every level of the organization and competitive pay and benefits.

The VP, Clinical Lines of Business is Summa Health's lead executive accountable for the strategy, clinical integration, operations, consumer experience, and financial performance of all four Clinical Lines of Business within the Integrated Health Services (IHS) model. This role provides unified executive leadership across a broad, complex clinical portfolio - inclusive of all of the system's service lines and medical group practice operations - and ensures that each line delivers a coordinated, consumer-centered experience across inpatient, ambulatory, virtual, and post-acute settings.

• Strategic Leadership & Integration
  • Set and execute a unified clinical and operational strategy across all four Clinical Lines of Business, aligned with Summa Health's IHS vision and enterprise priorities.
  • Lead appropriate IHS operational meetings as the integrating executive - translating enterprise strategy into line-level priorities and ensuring cross-line alignment.
  • Drive consumer-focused transformation, including access strategy, referral pathway design, digital navigation, and always-on engagement across care settings.
• Clinical & Operational Excellence
  • Oversee the development and refinement of evidence-based pathways, care models, and low-cost/high-quality programs that advance population health outcomes.
  • Champion technology enablement - remote monitoring, clinical decision support, digital care redesign, and innovation partnerships - to advance outcomes and experience.
  • Optimize site-of-care decisions, access/capacity management, scheduling efficiency, and transitions across inpatient, ambulatory, and post-acute environments.
• People Leadership & Dyad Management
  • Lead, develop, and support four Medical Director / Administrative Head dyads - building a high-performing, accountable leadership team across the portfolio.
  • Shape physician leadership structures within each line as the IHS model matures, ensuring clear reporting lines for all employed providers.
  • Represent the lines of business in executive and enterprise forums, including the IHS-Acute interface.
• Financial Stewardship & Performance
  • Hold executive accountability for operating and capital budget performance, growth strategies, and efficient resource utilization.
  • Leverage the Service Line Command Center and IHS performance dashboards to monitor, interpret, and act on financial and clinical performance data.
  • Guide prioritization of technology, workforce, and programmatic investments across the portfolio; evaluate and scale innovations that advance both outcomes and efficiency.

• Win as One Summa Align teams around shared goals; resolve cross-functional issues; model enterprise thinking and organizational stewardship.
• Deliver the Future Anticipate capability needs; develop leaders and teams; sponsor improvement and innovation.
• Create Clarity and Trust Set clear priorities and expectations; foster psychological safety; lead with consistency, transparency, and fairness.
• Own the Results Establish aligned goals and measures; use data to identify gaps; hold self and others accountable for meaningful outcomes.