Director Periop Services and Clinical Care

Hospital Context

• Progress West Hospital
  • Opened in 2007, Progress West Hospital is BJC Health Care’s newest hospital in St. Charles County, featuring modern private rooms.
  • Offers 24‑hour emergency care from WUSM physicians and provides surgical, endoscopy, cardiac catheterization, medical/surgical inpatient services, diagnostic imaging, lab services, and the Advanced Wound Center.
  • Recently expanded its Childbirth Center to include enhanced services for at‑risk mothers and babies, with a newborn ICU for infants born as early as 32 weeks.
  • Certified Level II Stroke Center.
  • Medical office building houses specialists in primary care, cardiology, obstetrics, pediatrics, and orthopedics.
• Barnes‑Jewish St. Peters Hospital
  • Provides comprehensive inpatient and outpatient services including an on‑campus Siteman Cancer Center, the Breast Health and Women’s Center, the Cardiology and Thrombectomy Center, a nationally accredited Sleep and Breathing Lab, and the Outpatient Surgery and Endoscopy Center.
  • Specializes in 24‑hour emergency care from WUSM physicians, surgery, cardiology, pulmonology, women’s health, endoscopy, and more.
  • Access to award‑winning Siteman Cancer Center is available step away from the hospital.

Progress West Hospital is BJC Health Care’s newest hospital in St. Charles County. It features modern private rooms and offers 24‑hour emergency care from WUSM physicians. The hospital provides surgical, endoscopy, cardiac catheterization, diagnostic imaging, lab services, and the Advanced Wound Center. It recently expanded its Childbirth Center to include enhanced services for at‑risk mothers and babies, with a newborn ICU for infants born as early as 32 weeks.

Progress West Hospital is a certified Level II Stroke Center.

Directs the leaders of daily clinical activities in perioperative and clinical services to promote high‑quality and efficient surgical care of patients. Directs units responsible for all direct patient care activities from preadmission testing to the day of surgery, endoscopy, respiratory therapy, PFT labs, angiography/catheterization labs, cardiac rehabilitation, cardiology diagnostics, and central sterile processing. Develops care practices that assure the highest level of safety and quality, patient satisfaction, and a strong culture of teamwork among nursing, surgery, anesthesiology, clinical, and support personnel.

• Manages 7 individuals including onboarding, hiring, training, workload management, and performance evaluations; conducts professional development plans as needed.
• Analyzes financial performance, profitability, market share, utilization of resources, and physician practice patterns; develops plans to positively impact results.
• Ensures effective coordination and collaboration with chiefs of medical staff.
• Plans, develops, and directs operations of the department and integrates services with other departments.
• Creates an environment of patient care that emphasizes service excellence with continuous performance improvement; analyzes trends and statistics to promote efficient utilization of resources.

• Comfortable working in a pluralistic physician platform and within matrixed structures.
• Proven ability to lead large‑scale change and prioritize multiple projects over several years.
• Effective, controlled, congenial leadership presence with strong influencing skills; remains poised under pressure with strong verbal, written, and presentation skills.
• Clearly knowledgeable in field of expertise while demonstrating humility and exceptional skills in building relationships with senior leadership, physicians, and key stakeholders.
• Ability to lead to clear decisions in a changing, ambiguous environment.
• Strategic and critical thinker with appreciation for implementation tactics.
• Keen financial intellect and strong quantitative/analytical acumen.
• Excellent planning, interpersonal, problem‑solving, analytical, and communication skills.
• Adaptable and flexible collaborative style.
• Proven ability to develop relationships, gain credibility, influence, and partner with staff, business leaders, and the clinical community.