Director Ancillary Services

Director Ancillary Services
Remote Position with 50% Travel Requirement

You must reside in one of these states to be eligible for this position:

Arkansas California Kentucky
Massachusetts Nevada New Mexico
Oregon Utah Tennessee
Texas Wyoming

Job Summary:

The Corporate Director of Ancillary Services provides system-level leadership, strategic direction, and operational oversight for ancillary clinical services across the organization, with primary responsibility for Laboratory, Radiology/Imaging, and Respiratory Therapy. The scope of responsibility may expand to include additional ancillary services based on organizational needs.

The Director partners with hospital and corporate leaders to establish consistent standards, improve quality and patient safety, strengthen regulatory compliance, optimize productivity and expense management, advance service-line performance, and support appropriate use of technology, equipment, and contracted services. The role is designed for an experienced healthcare leader with demonstrated success managing complex ancillary, diagnostic, or therapeutic services. Specialty certification across each area of responsibility is not expected;

the Director must be an effective enterprise leader who can lead highly specialized departments in partnership with appropriately qualified local leaders and subject‑matter experts.

This position requires regular travel across assigned facilities to assess operations, support local leaders, standardize best practices, and drive system-wide performance improvement.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide corporate leadership and strategic oversight across all affiliated hospitals.
• Establish system-wide operational standards, performance expectations, policies, and best practices while recognizing facility‑specific regulatory and service requirements.
• Partner with hospital executives and department leaders to improve quality, safety, service, productivity, turnaround times, staffing efficiency, and financial performance.
• Develop and monitor key performance indicators across ancillary services, including quality, utilization, turnaround time, productivity, patient experience, critical‑result communication, therapy outcomes, service access, and other department‑specific measures.
• Support regulatory readiness and ongoing compliance with applicable federal, state, accreditation, and specialty requirements, including CMS Conditions of Participation, CLIA requirements for laboratory services, and applicable imaging and radiation safety standards.
• Collaborate with local service line leaders and qualified specialty professionals to ensure clinical and technical decisions remain within appropriate scope, licensure, certification, and medical staff oversight.
• Identify variation across facilities and lead standardization initiatives that improve reliability, efficiency, quality, and cost effectiveness.
• Evaluate staffing models, skill mix, productivity standards, on‑call coverage, recruitment challenges, and workforce development needs across ancillary departments.
• Partner with Supply Chain, Finance, IT, Clinical Engineering, Operations and hospital leadership on capital planning, equipment replacement, service contracts, vendor performance, and technology optimization.
• Support evaluation and implementation of information systems, interfaces, workflow technology, and other digital solutions affecting ancillary services.
• Review vendors, equipment maintenance, and other outsourced or contracted services for quality, service, utilization, and value.
• Lead or support performance improvement initiatives and outcomes, patient throughput, result availability, and communication of critical findings.
• Facilitate collaboration among ancillary services, nursing, medical…