Vice President, Nursing, Facilities Activation

Job Description

Our Nursing Vice President of Facilities Activation will play a critical executive leadership role in supporting Inova’s transformation of hospital care through the transition from Inova Alexandria Hospital to two new state-of-the
- art hospital facilities. The

Our Nursing Vice President of Facilities Activation will play a critical executive leadership role in supporting Inova’s transformation of hospital care through the transition from Inova Alexandria Hospital to two new state-of-the
- art hospital facilities. The Landmark campus will replace the Seminary Road hospital with an 838,000-square-foot facility featuring 192 private inpatient beds, advanced cardiac and neurosciences services, women’s health services, and a standalone Inova Schar Cancer Center. The Springfield Franconia campus will expand the existing Health Plex with a new 110-bed hospital offering advanced emergency and surgical services, along with an outpatient center focused on orthopedics.

This leader will help ensure nursing, clinical operations, workforce readiness, care models, technology, and patient-centered workflows are fully prepared to support a seamless transition and deliver safe, high-quality care across both new facilities from day one.

The Vice President, Nursing, Facilities Activation provides executive leadership of nursing teams for the planning, activation, and operational readiness for new hospital facilities across Inova. This role is responsible for integrating nursing, clinical operations, facility planning, care model design, and technology implementation to support successful hospital openings. The leader drives strategic development and execution across multiple work streams to ensure the operational readiness of the largest healthcare workforce in alignment with Inova's mission, values, quality standards, and care transformation priorities.

Working collaboratively with executive leadership, physicians, operational leaders, and cross-functional teams, this role ensures that new hospitals are designed and activated to deliver safe, high-quality, efficient, and patient-centered care from day one. This role also provides nursing and clinical leadership for new facility development, including care delivery model design and delivery, workforce readiness, regulatory preparedness, quality metrics integration, emergency preparedness, and implementation of enabling technologies and operational processes.

• Leads the nursing activation strategy for new hospital facilities, ensuring operational, clinical, technical and nursing linkages for successful opening and stabilization.
• Leads identification of appropriate staffing levels and identifies and resolves potential gaps prior to opening.
• Directs onboarding needs of new team members and integration into the activation process across multiple work streams while ensuring on-time and on-budget execution of people into programs and projects.
• Oversees the design, implementation, and standardization of care models, nursing practice, and operational workflows to align with Inova system standards and strategic priorities.
• Partners with executive leadership, service line leaders, physicians, nursing leaders, IT, finance, facilities, and other stakeholders to identify, prioritize, and implement clinical and operational requirements to integrate into the new facilities.
• Provides executive leadership in decision-making related to all nursing team members within hospital activation and clinical nursing practice is operationalized based upon evidence-based standards of care, regulatory requirements, and professional standards.
• Deploys change management tools and techniques as a major component of activation.
• Ensures new…