Director Performance Improvement OR

HCA Healthcare; Denver (CO); On-site; USD 116,000 - 187,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits

Tuition assistance

Employee stock plan

Wellbeing support

Job summary

HCA Healthcare is seeking an OR PI Director in the Denver metro area to drive performance improvement across Surgical Services. This role leads operational assessments, identifies cost-saving opportunities, and develops action plans with division and facility leaders.

The position requires 7+ years of professional experience, a Bachelor’s degree (Master’s preferred), and ~80% travel to facilities in the Continental Division.

Qualifications

• Experience within healthcare operations required.
• Must be proficient in written and verbal skills.
• Division based travel required, 80% travel to facilities in the Continental Division (Denver Metro Area).
• Bachelor’s degree required; Master’s preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead the successful implementation of assigned Performance Improvement projects.
• Assess clinical and financial opportunities within Perioperative nursing units.
• Develop measurement tools and dashboards to improve OR operations.
• Maintain OR dashboard data and analyze variances for cost and productivity improvements.
• Design processes, systems, and operational changes to increase efficiency and effectiveness.
• Collaborate with division, facility, and physician representatives to deliver action plans.

Skills

Healthcare operations

Written and verbal skills

Division travel 80%

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Master’s degree preferred

Job description

This position is incentive eligible.

Salary Estimate: $115980.80 - $186992.00 / year

Learn more about the benefits offered ( https://careers.hcahealthcare.com/pages/employee-benefits-and-rewards ) for this job.

The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range of candidates hired. Factors that may be used to determine your actual salary may include your specific skills, how many years of experience you have and comparison to other employees already in this role. The typical candidate is hired below midpoint of the range.

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Job Summary and Qualifications

Job Summary:

The OR PI Director is responsible for the successful implementation of assigned projects as defined and prioritized by Division and PI leadership. This position plays a key role in division and facility Surgical Services Department process improvement projects by performing operational assessments and analyses, researching and identifying best practices, facilitating groups and teams, managing projects, presenting results and recommendations, and developing measurement tools, to improve HCA operating processes toward greater efficiency and effectiveness. This individual will work directly with division, facility, and physician representatives to collaborate and deliver timely and value added assessments, action plans, and results that improve OR operations. This position is critical in achieving targeted objectives in selected OR departments through process, cost and productivity improvements. This position serves as resource/member of the PI division team in the completion of a minimum of 2 traditional facility Performance Improvement engagements on an annual basis.

Responsibilities:

• Assist facility leaders to implement best practices within the Perioperative departments and identify clinical improvement and cost-savings initiatives.
• Assess clinical and financial opportunities including:

1. Appropriate administration and management of Perioperative departments
2. Assess skill mix opportunities, scheduling, agency nurse usage, staffing and on-call staffing for all Perioperative nursing units.
3. Utilization initiatives
4. Appropriate schedule and block usage
5. Supply chain optimization
6. Product and vendor selection opportunities

• Analyzes all aspects of Surgical Services performance for potential improvement opportunities.
• Maintains OR Dashboard data.
• Designs and recommends processes, systems, procedures, and operational changes to increase efficiency and effectiveness.
• Assists in the establishment of operational work measurements and staffing standards.
• Performs monitoring of throughput metrics and analysis of variances.
• Perform data mining and review of financial and clinical data to assess Surgical Services for operational and financial opportunities.
• Serves as resource/member of the PI division team in the completion of a minimum of 2 traditional facility Performance Improvement engagements on an annual basis.
• Use extracted data to quantify the financial impact of Surgery cost saving ideas.
• Assist in designing meaningful and realistic action plans for the implementation of process improvement ideas.
• Actively communicate with facility, division, and corporate stakeholders to manage the project expectations and activities.
• Develop, execute, and maintain project work plans for each current project and work directly with the department local leadership.
• Serves as a facilitator, technical advisor, and analyst to hospital management and teams on the use of process improvement tools and techniques, analytical techniques, and statistical applications.
• Actively participates in projects and conversations with Surgical Services-focused peers in other divisions via corporate support structure and contributes to enterprise knowledge bank.
• Support bed management or other improvement efforts adjacent to operations of Surgical Services

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• Master’s degree preferred. Relative work experience and/or certifications may substitute.

Qualification:

• 7+ years professional experience; 4-6 years relevant work experience
• Must be proficient in written and verbal skills
• Experience within healthcare operations required
• Division based travel required, 80% travel to the facilities in the Continental Division (Denver Metro Area and Wichita KS)

Benefits

HCA Healthcare, offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:

• Comprehensive benefits for medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, behavioral health and telemedicine services
• Wellbeing support, including free counseling and referral services
• Time away from work programs for paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence
• Savings and retirement resources , including a 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service), Employee Stock Purchase Plan, flexible spending accounts, preferred banking partnerships, retirement readiness tools, rollover support and financial wellbeing counseling
• Education support through tuition assistance, student loan assistance, certification support, dependent scholarships and a partnership with Galen College of Nursing
• Additional benefits for fertility and family building, adoption assistance, life insurance, supplemental health protection plans, auto and home insurance, legal counseling, identity theft protection and consumer discounts

Learn more about Employee Benefits (https://careers.hcahealthcare.com/pages/employee-benefits-and-rewards)

Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.

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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