Chief Executive Officer - San Gorgonio Memorial

Chief Executive Officer

The Chief Executive Officer has overall operational responsibility and will oversee Metro West Medical Center. The CEO will lead by example, setting clear strategies and performance expectations in an environment of participation and collaboration with senior management, physicians, and the Joint Advisory Board(s).

Functional Expectations & Requirements

• Ensures a positive working relationship with physicians; creates a culture of open progressive communication and mutual understanding between the physicians, facility leadership and employees.

• Develops and leads a top‑notch administrative team.

• Establishes a sense of mutual “pride of ownership” among constituencies, including physicians, employees, and the community. Nurtures a culture of shared purpose and goals among these groups, fostering greatly improved working relationships and ensuring consistent quality of patient care.

• Maintains a highly visible presence, interacting constantly with key stakeholders to inform and advise them of strategies, current healthcare trends, legislation, and activities. Represents the facility as a vital provider and employer by being an active civic leader in the community.

• Recruits and retains first‑rate physicians to work with the facility.

• Exhibits strong communication, presentation and listening skills to ensure facility‑wide collaboration and coordination, especially concerning physicians, employees and the community.

• Displays strong business acumen, a sophisticated knowledge of healthcare funding, and experience in competitive marketplaces with the ability to make complex and difficult decisions.

• In conjunction with the Chief Financial Officer of the facility, the Chief Administrative Officer will sign to certify the financials of the facility on a quarterly basis.

• Appropriately assesses strategic opportunities to enhance the facility’s market position.

• Assures the highest standards of healthcare delivery and outcomes, ensuring a constant patient focus.

• Shows creativity and judgment in developing and communicating an executable vision that includes new product lines and services, partnerships, and ventures.

• Continues to build solid, effective relationships with appropriate partners, payors, businesses, customers, and the community at large.

• Ensures positive employee relations and trust through communication, education, consistency, and dependability.

• Leads the development of progressive physician/facility strategies and executes plans in order to optimize the long‑term potential of the facility.

• Fosters a work climate that attracts quality employees and promotes the facility as a provider of choice for patients.

• Demonstrates successes in integrating medical staff and creating opportunities for growth and profitability.

Organizational Leadership - Expectations & Requirements

Drive Organizational Success

• Translates complex strategies into aggressive and achievable team/individual goals, targets and action plans that deliver results (e.g., local employer outreach strategy, with target employers, assigned leads, and defined approach).

• Creates focus, energy, and commitment to key Tenet operational initiatives (e.g., highly visible champion for Tenet initiatives such as TGI, MPI, etc.).

• Maintains ongoing feedback, measurement and assessment processes that determine progress to plan and, if necessary, lead to course correction (e.g., weekly reporting and team dialogue of physician sales activities).

• Builds consensus and commitment among various stakeholders, often with competing priorities (e.g., bringing physicians, managers, and employees together to improve patient service).

• Participates in talent planning to ensure recruitment and development of high performing leaders. Shapes roles and assignments in a way that maximizes individual capability and performance contribution (e.g., identifies and develops/mentors’ talent).

Use Astute Judgment

• Demonstrates intellectual curiosity by seeking out new information and market awareness and uses that knowledge to improve the business (e.g., identify a weakness of a competitor in a service line, and bolster the facility…