VP of Compliance

Vice President of Compliance

Hospice | Nationwide (Midwest Preferred)

Our client is a multi-market hospice provider seeking a VP of Compliance to lead clinical compliance strategy and execution across its national footprint.

This is a hands-on leadership opportunity for an experienced hospice RN compliance executive who can quickly identify risk, bring order to a developing compliance program inside a growing hospice organization, and implement practical solutions across multiple markets. You will partner directly with the CEO and clinical leadership teams while building stronger visibility, accountability, survey readiness, and remediation discipline throughout the organization.

• Lead hospice compliance across a nationwide organization, with increasing focus on East Coast operations over the next two years.
• Partner directly with the CEO in a high-trust role designed to bring clearer risk prioritization, stronger analytics, and practical compliance oversight to the organization.
• Rapidly growing company with lots of room to grow professionally.
• Be given the resources and autonomy to get the job done.

The Vice President of Compliance will provide clinical compliance leadership across a multi-site hospice organization. Reporting directly to the CEO, this leader will oversee hospice regulatory compliance, Medicare compliance, survey readiness, QAPI, privacy, accreditation preparedness, and enterprise risk remediation.

The successful candidate is an experienced RN hospice compliance leader who has supported a substantial hospice census (400+ ADC required), led multi-market compliance efforts, and understands how to translate regulatory requirements into durable operational practices. This role requires sound judgment, a practical approach to remediation, and the confidence to evaluate current processes, team structure, and risk exposure.

• Lead the hospice compliance function across multiple markets, and expanding East Coast support needs.
• Identify, assess, prioritize, and remediate clinical, regulatory, Medicare, privacy, and operational compliance risks.
• Partner with the CEO, operations leaders, clinical-services staff, attorneys, and outside consulting resources.
• Establish stronger compliance visibility, reporting, accountability, and go-forward processes across the organization.
• Lead survey readiness efforts, including mock surveys, plan-of-correction support, deficiency remediation, and ongoing readiness monitoring.
• Oversee compliance activities related to Medicare requirements, ADRs, recoupment risk, clinical documentation, QAPI, privacy, and HIPAA.
• Maintain ACHC accreditation readiness and contribute to the organization’s future evaluation of CHAP readiness as appropriate.
• Evaluate the current compliance and clinical-services team structure, clarify responsibilities, and recommend the resources needed to support the function effectively.
• Coach and develop direct reports and cross-functional leaders on compliant hospice operations and practical risk mitigation.
• Translate audit findings, regulatory changes, and operational issues into prioritized action plans that can be executed at the local level.
• Help protect organizational performance by addressing process issues that may create material revenue risk.

• RN licensure required.
• Significant hospice compliance leadership experience required.
• Deep clinical and regulatory knowledge of hospice operations, Medicare requirements, and hospice Conditions of Participation.
• Experience leading compliance for a hospice organization with a census of approximately 400-500 patients or more.
• Demonstrated success leading survey readiness, mock surveys, deficiency remediation, and accreditation preparation.
• Strong…