Chief Operating Officer & Chief Nursing Officer

Overview

Ardent Health is a leading provider of healthcare in communities across the country. With a focus on consumer-friendly processes and investments in innovative services and technologies, Ardent is passionate about making healthcare better and easier to access. We are driven by our purpose of caring for people: our patients, our communities and one another.

Located in Brentwood, Tennessee, Ardent has earned a reputation as one of the industry’s strongest and most innovative healthcare systems. Our facilities and clinics are consistently recognized among healthcare’s best employers. We recognize each hospital and clinic is as unique as the community it serves. We strive to maintain strong community ties through advisory boards, contributions, charitable care, education and outreach.

Ardent includes:

• 30 hospitals
• 280 sites of care
• 4,281 beds
• 24,000+ team members
• 8,200+ nurses
• 1,800+ aligned providers
• 5.8M annual provider encounters
• 421 medical residents

Ardent makes considerable investments in people, technology, facilities, and communities, producing high quality care and extraordinary results. From newly constructed facilities and expanded services, to lifesaving technology and outstanding opportunities for employees, Ardent is committed to providing its hospitals and clinics the tools needed to succeed.

We believe it is this mix of corporate support and local autonomy that equips our teams for success.

Hackensack Meridian Pascack Valley Medical Center is a 128-bed, full-service, acute-care community hospital, located in Westwood, NJ providing a caliber of care consistent with Hackensack Meridian Health’s world-class standard. The state-of-the-art facility features a new Emergency Department, a state-of-the-art maternity center, a women’s imaging center, cardiac and pulmonary rehabilitation, a center for joint replacement, a wound care center, and an intensive/critical care unit.

We are proud to be certified by the Joint Commission for Stroke, Sepsis, and Ortho/Hip and Knee, and our maternity care is top-rated, with recognition as one of America’s Best Maternity Hospitals by both U.S. News and World Report and Newsweek. Additionally, we have been recognized as a Top Community Hospital by Leapfrog Group among other recognitions.

We have an exciting opportunity to join our leadership team at Pascack Valley Medical Center as the Chief Operating Officer and Chief Nursing Officer (COO/CNO)

As a member of the senior management team, the Chief Operating Officer and Chief Nursing Officer (COO/CNO) will actively participate in strategic, operational, and financial decision-making. The COO/CNO will work closely with the CEO in all aspects of hospital management, site coordination, and organizational integration activities to ensure achievement of adopted goals and strategies. The COO/CNO will have an active role in establishing systems and organizational structure to support the overall vision and strategic direction of the organization as well as assessing and identifying operational strategies, performance metrics, and financial opportunities to execute.

• Provides administrative direction, evaluation, and coordination of the functions and activities for the operation of assigned clinical and non-clinical departments.
• Collaborates routinely with the CEO concerning policy recommendations and suggested courses of action pertinent to the efficient operation of assigned departments.
• Manages the implementation for major strategic, clinical and/or operational initiatives.
• Mentors and develops leaders, fostering achievement of goals and objectives, high performing leadership practices, collaboration, and innovation.
• Guides department leaders in establishing measures of performance, increased productivity, quality improvement, and cost management.
• Enhances quality outcomes by partnering with leadership for shared clinical decision making, but maintain overall responsibility for all of patient care. CNO has overall responsibility for patient care.
• Collaborates with directors in hiring, orientation, evaluation, discipline, and education of clinical…