Clinical Lab Director: Quality, Compliance & Strategy

Prime Healthcare Services; Olympia Fields (IL); On-site; USD 85,000 - 124,000; Full time

Job summary

Olympia Fields Hospital, a member of Prime Healthcare, seeks a Clinical Laboratory Director to provide strategic and operational leadership across the laboratory services, ensuring regulatory compliance and timely, accurate diagnostic testing that supports excellent patient outcomes.

This role emphasizes quality, accreditation readiness, team development, budget oversight, and collaboration with hospital leadership to standardize policies and instruments while advancing laboratory excellence

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science degree in a scientific field to meet CLIA requirements.
• Valid license or certificate of CLS/MLS/Medical Technologist, ASCP or equivalent preferred.
• Minimum 5 years supervisory clinical laboratory experience.
• General accounting and statistics and financial operating experience.
• Quality control and quality tools management courses desired.
• LEAN Six Sigma certification preferred.
• Master’s Degree preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic and operational leadership for all laboratory services, overseeing administrative, financial, technical, quality, compliance, and personnel functions.
• Ensure compliance with CLIA, CAP, Joint Commission, ACHC, state, federal, and organizational regulatory requirements.
• Lead quality assurance, quality improvement, accreditation readiness, and performance initiatives to drive operational excellence.
• Direct departmental budgeting, staffing, resource allocation, supply chain management, and laboratory information systems to support efficient operations.
• Collaborate with site leadership and Corporate Laboratory Operations to standardize policies, procedures, equipment, instrumentation, forms, and best practices across the health system.
• Monitor and achieve laboratory performance goals, ensuring departments meet or exceed established financial, quality, service, and operational KPIs.
• Support laboratory operations through hands-on involvement as needed, while leading special projects and strategic initiatives within established timelines.

Skills

Leadership

Regulatory compliance

Quality improvement

Team development

Education

Bachelor of Science degree

Master’s Degree preferred

ASCP license or equivalent preferred

Tools

Quality control tools Knowledge

LEAN Six Sigma certification

Laboratory information systems experience

Job description

Olympia Fields Hospital, a member of Prime Healthcare, seeks a Clinical Laboratory Director to provide strategic and operational leadership across the laboratory services, ensuring regulatory compliance and timely, accurate diagnostic testing that supports excellent patient outcomes.

This role emphasizes quality, accreditation readiness, team development, budget oversight, and collaboration with hospital leadership to standardize policies and instruments while advancing laboratory excellence