Director, Acute & Critical Care at Memorial Hospital in Shiloh

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The Role Director, Acute & Critical Care Nursing Memorial Hospital Shiloh Role Purpose The Director, Acute & Critical Care Nursing provides strategic, operational, and clinical leadership for a comprehensive portfolio of inpatient and rehabilitation services across Memorial Hospital Shiloh. This leader is accountable for ensuring exceptional patient outcomes, operational excellence, financial performance, workforce engagement, regulatory compliance, and the delivery of high-quality, evidence-based care across multiple service lines.

The Director oversees acute care, critical care, specialty nursing, and rehabilitation services, providing 24/7 accountability for clinical operations, patient experience, employee engagement, quality outcomes, and fiscal stewardship. Through collaborative partnerships with physicians, interdisciplinary leaders, and system stakeholders, the Director advances organizational priorities while fostering a culture of safety, innovation, professional development, and shared governance.

Overview Memorial Hospital Belleville is an acute care hospital offering medical and surgical services plus critical and emergency care including Children’s at Memorial for pediatric emergency care. It provides patients a full complement of diagnostic and treatment services as well as heart and vascular care. Memorial, offering medical and surgical services plus critical care, is an accredited Chest Pain Center with PCI by the Society of Cardiovascular Patient Care and is designated as an Acute Stroke Ready Hospital by the Illinois Department of Public Health.

In addition, Memorial Belleville recently was accredited by the American College of Radiology as a designated Lung Cancer Screening Center. Since 2008, it has been designated as a Magnet®-recognized organization for nursing excellence by the American Nurses Credentialing Center. Memorial Hospital Shiloh, a 94-bed, all-private suite hospital was recognized with Magnet status in 2018 and provides emergency care, labor & delivery, nursery, medical and surgical services plus critical care.

The Nursing Administration oversees the various Nursing departments and provides clerical support.

Preferred Qualifications Areas of Responsibility

• Medical/Surgical Nursing
• Labor & Delivery and Post Partum
• Woman & Infants
• Siteman Cancer Center Services
• Leading a team of 200-220 FTE's

Key Responsibilities Strategic & Operational Leadership

• Provide vision, leadership, and direction for acute and critical care services, aligning departmental goals with hospital and health system strategic priorities.
• Lead operational performance across assigned departments, ensuring the delivery of safe, effective, patient-centered care.
• Drive accountability for quality outcomes, patient safety, service excellence, throughput, and operational efficiency.
• Develop and execute strategic initiatives that improve clinical outcomes, patient experience, workforce engagement, and organizational performance.

Clinical Excellence & Quality

• Ensure compliance with professional nursing standards, evidence-based practices, regulatory requirements, accreditation standards, and organizational policies.
• Champion quality improvement initiatives and lead efforts to achieve key performance indicators related to patient outcomes, safety, infection prevention, readmissions, mortality, and patient satisfaction.
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement, accountability, and clinical excellence.

Financial Stewardship

• Accountable for departmental budgets, including labor management, productivity, capital planning, revenue optimization, and expense control.
• Monitor and analyze operational and financial performance metrics, implementing corrective actions as necessary to achieve organizational goals.
• Identify opportunities for resource optimization while maintaining exceptional standards of patient care.

Talent & Culture Leadership

• Recruit, develop, mentor, and retain high-performing leaders and clinical teams.
• Provide leadership oversight for workforce planning, succession planning, employee engagement, performance management, and professional development.
• Promote a culture of collaboration, diversity, inclusion, recognition, and accountability.
• Support nursing excellence through shared governance, clinical advancement, and evidence-based practice initiatives.

Interdisciplinary Collaboration

• Partner with physicians, advanced practice providers, rehabilitation leaders, and multidisciplinary teams to advance care…