Clinical Laboratory Director: Quality & Compliance Leader

Prime Healthcare Services; Illinois; On-site; USD 85,000 - 124,000; Full time

Job summary

Olympia Fields Hospital, a Prime Healthcare member, seeks a visionary Clinical Laboratory Director to provide strategic and operational leadership for our laboratory services. This role advances quality, regulatory excellence, team development, and timely diagnostic testing to support exceptional patient outcomes.

Key responsibilities include ensuring regulatory compliance, budgeting, staffing, and cross‑site standardization of policies and procedures within a growing health system.

Qualifications

• Experience leading laboratory operations and teams.
• Familiar with CLIA, CAP, Joint Commission, ACHC, state and federal regulations.
• LEAN Six Sigma certification preferred.
• Master’s Degree preferred.
• ASCP or equivalent license preferred.
• Minimum 5 years supervisory clinical laboratory experience.
• General accounting and statistics and financial operating experience.

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

Education

Bachelor of Science in a scientific field

Master’s Degree preferred

ASCP or equivalent license preferred

Job description

Olympia Fields Hospital, a Prime Healthcare member, seeks a visionary Clinical Laboratory Director to provide strategic and operational leadership for our laboratory services. This role advances quality, regulatory excellence, team development, and timely diagnostic testing to support exceptional patient outcomes.

Key responsibilities include ensuring regulatory compliance, budgeting, staffing, and cross‑site standardization of policies and procedures within a growing health system.