Chief Executive Officer

HCA Healthcare, Inc.; Lake City (FL); On-site; USD 350,000 - 700,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive medical coverage

Dental and vision options

401(k) Plan with match

Employee stock purchase plan

Fertility and family building benefits

Education assistance

Paid time off and family leave

Employee assistance programs

Job summary

HCA Florida Lake City Hospital is seeking a CEO to steer strategic direction, drive growth, and ensure exceptional patient care. The role requires building strong medical staff relationships, aligning leadership around the hospital’s mission, and delivering measurable returns for the company and community.

The ideal candidate will lead with integrity, foster physician collaboration, and develop a culture of accountability while maintaining clinical quality and service excellence.

Qualifications

• Master's degree required in business administration, healthcare administration, or related field.
• 2+ years of experience in a COO or CEO role.
• ACHE Fellow or member preferred.

Responsibilities

• Develop a long-range course of action and set goals to realize the organization’s vision.
• Ensure goals align unit efforts with the hospital's strategic plan.
• Drive execution of business objectives through people, processes, and strategies.
• Build and drive sustained revenue growth for the hospital.
• Establish strategic alliances inside and outside the organization to create opportunities.
• Attract, develop, and retain talent to meet business needs.
• Foster an organizational culture of excellence and integrity.
• Create a physician-friendly culture to attract leading physicians.
• Ensure senior team alignment around patient experience and high-quality service.

Skills

Strategic leadership

Business acumen

Stakeholder management

Change management

Education

Master's degree in business administration, Healthcare Administration, or related field

Job description

This position is incentive eligible.

Introduction

Executives thrive with us! HCA Healthcare is one of the nation’s leading providers of healthcare services, comprising of over 180 hospitals and about 2,000 sites of care in 21 states and the United Kingdom. We are looking for a Chief Executive Officer for our HCA Florida Lake City Hospital team where excellence creates excellence.

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical coverage that covers many common services at no cost or for a low copay. Plans include prescription drug and behavioral health coverage as well as free telemedicine services and free AirMed medical transportation.
• Additional options for dental and vision benefits, life and disability coverage, flexible spending accounts, supplemental health protection plans (accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity), auto and home insurance, identity theft protection, legal counseling, long-term care coverage, moving assistance, pet insurance and more.
• Free counseling services and resources for emotional, physical and financial wellbeing
• 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service)
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan with 10% off HCA Healthcare stock
• Family support through fertility and family building benefits with Progyny and adoption assistance.
• Referral services for child, elder and pet care, home and auto repair, event planning and more
• Consumer discounts through Abenity and Consumer Discounts
• Retirement readiness, rollover assistance services and preferred banking partnerships
• Education assistance (tuition, student loan, certification support, dependent scholarships)
• Colleague recognition program
• Time Away From Work Program (paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence)
• Employee Health Assistance Fund that offers free employee-only coverage to full-time and part-time colleagues based on income.

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Job Summary And Qualifications

The role of the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) combines administrative and executive direction, provides leadership, and directs the overall operation of the hospital consistent with policies and objectives of the hospital and its advisory or governing Board. The CEO will plan, organize, apply, direct, control and evaluates all resources (human resources, facilities, equipment, capital and similar resources) invested in the franchise. The CEO shall use all resources to generate measurable returns to benefit the company, the Community, the Physician and most of all, the Patient. The CEO functions as an executive for the organization and must be highly skilled in building relationships with medical staff, community members and hospital staff.

What you will do in this role:

• You will develop a long-range course of action or set of goals to ensure successful realization of the organization’s vision
• You will ensure the development of clear goals that align a unit’s efforts with the organization’s vision and strategic plan
• You will ensure synergies between people, processes, and strategies to drive execution of business objectives
• You will build and drive sustained revenue growth
• You will build strategic alliances both inside and outside the organization to create business opportunities and execute business strategies
• You will build a competitively superior organization through attracting, developing, and retaining talent to ensure that people with the right skills and motivations are in the right place at the right time to meet business needs
• You will develop an organizational culture that leads to ongoing excellence and effective growth of the business while maintaining the highest integrity
• You will create a physician-friendly culture that attracts leading physicians
• You will promote an environment where employees are engaged and perform at a high level
• You will provide the highest level of patient experience and ensures senior team alignment around patient experience
• You will model and drive a culture of accountability and discipline to attain and sustain outperformance in clinical quality, service excellence, and earnings
• You will promote consistent positive patient interactions that advance the agenda of unparalleled patient service
• You will perform other duties as assigned

What qualifications you will need:

• Master's degree in business administration, Healthcare Administration, or a related field required
• 2+ years of experience in a COO or CEO role required
• ACHE Fellow or Member of ACHE preferred

HCA Florida Lake City Hospital is a 141-bed fully accredited acute care facility located at Highway 90 West and Interstate 75 in Lake City, and has been serving our community for over 50 years.

HCA Healthcare (Corporate)

Based in Nashville, Tennessee, supports a variety of corporate roles from business operations to administrative positions. Like our colleagues in any HCA Healthcare hospital, our corporate campus employees enjoy unparalleled resources and opportunities to reach their potential as healthcare leaders and innovators. From market rate compensation to continuing education and career advancement opportunities, every person has a solid foundation for success. Nashville is also home to our Executive Development Program, where exceptional employees are groomed to take on CNO- and COO-level roles in our hospitals. This selective program focuses on ethics, leadership and the financial and clinical knowledge required of professionals at this level of the industry.

HCA Healthcare has been recognized as one of the World's Most Ethical Companies® by the Ethisphere Institute more than ten times. In recent years, HCA Healthcare spent an estimated $3.7 billion in cost for the delivery of charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses.

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