Director-Registered Nurse, Hospice

Job Highlights

Named 150 Top Places to Work in Healthcare 2025 - Becker's Healthcare

Named One of the World’s Happiest Workplace 2025 – WorkL

Named One of America's Best In-State Employers 2025 - Forbes

Named One of America's Greatest Workplaces for Women 2025 – Newsweek

Named One of America’s Greatest Workplaces for Culture, Belonging & Community 2026 – Newsweek

OK-SSM Health at Home Oklahoma City

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Named 150 Top Places to Work in Healthcare 2025 - Becker's Healthcare

Named One of the World’s Happiest Workplace 2025 – WorkL

Named One of America's Best In-State Employers 2025 - Forbes

Named One of America's Greatest Workplaces for Women 2025 – Newsweek

Named One of America’s Greatest Workplaces for Culture, Belonging & Community 2026 – Newsweek

SSM Health is a Catholic, not-for-profit health system serving the comprehensive health needs of communities across the Midwest through a robust and fully integrated health care delivery system. The organization’s 40,000 team members and more than 13,900+ providers are committed to providing exceptional health care services and revealing God’s healing presence to everyone they serve.

With care delivery sites in Illinois, Missouri, Oklahoma and Wisconsin, SSM Health includes 23 hospitals, more than 300 physician offices and other outpatient and virtual care services, 12 post-acute facilities, comprehensive home care and hospice services, a pharmacy benefit company, a health insurance company and an accountable care organization. It is one of the largest employers in every community it serves.

We are seeking a dynamic nursing director with deep hospice experience and a proven track record of leading operational oversight (including quality, compliance, regulatory standards and financial management), driving accountability and facilitating complex interdisciplinary collaboration. This is a hybrid role that leads four facilities across Oklahoma City, OK, St. Louis, MO, and Mt. Vernon, IL.

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Salary

SSM Health values the skills and talents that each team member brings to our organization. Compensation for this role is based on a variety of components including relevant experience, labor market, and other qualifications. The posted pay range for this position is what SSM Health reasonably expects, in good faith, to offer based on the circumstances at the time of posting.

SSM Health may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range as permitted by law.

Responsible for the operations of multiple hospice and palliative care entities, including financial performance, quality improvement, customer satisfaction, employee recruitment and retention, growth, and development of new business lines. Provide strategic and business planning support for supervisors and branch managers within a service area.

• Provides input on completion of annual budget for hospice and palliative care programs based on strategic and marketing plans that are completed at the entity level. Ensures data collection is occurring throughout the year about competitive organization’s strategies within each of the region’s marketplaces. Coordinates, develops and implements the Quality Assurance Performance Improvement Program (QAPI) activities and reports quality measurements to the Board of Directors annually.
  
  Assists in the identification of goals and related patient outcomes, and overall development and implementation of the QAPI program.
• Understands the importance of communication with all levels of the organization, community and customers. Create and implement a communication plan which meets the needs of staff, senior management, customers and the community within the entity’s service area.
• Promotes and maintains an atmosphere of customer service. Provides opportunities for staff to receive continuing education about customer service and interacting with difficult people. Ensures that a customer/patient satisfaction system with feedback and action components is in place. Follow up and resolve customer complaints as needed.
• Implement…