Director-Registered Nurse, Hospice

SSM Health; Oklahoma; Hybrid; USD 116,000 - 173,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid Parental Leave

Flexible Payment Options: DailyPay

Upfront Tuition Coverage: FlexPath

Job summary

SSM Health seeks a dynamic nursing director with deep hospice experience to oversee operations across four facilities in Oklahoma City, St. Louis, and Mt. Vernon. This role requires leadership in quality, compliance, regulatory standards and financial management while guiding strategic planning and staff development.

The position is hybrid, with responsibilities spanning budgeting, growth of new services, and coordination with multiple teams to deliver exceptional patient care and outcomes.

Qualifications

• Eight years’ management experience with three years in post-acute service area.
• RN licensure in IL, MO and OK as required.

Responsibilities

• Oversee operations of multiple hospice and palliative care entities with focus on financial performance and quality improvement.
• Provide strategic and business planning support for supervisors and branch managers within a service area.
• Recruit, develop and retain staff while driving growth of new business lines.
• Ensure compliance with regulatory standards and maintain high customer satisfaction.
• Lead the organization’s continuous quality improvement initiatives and interdepartmental collaboration.

Skills

Operational oversight

Quality improvement

Regulatory compliance

Financial management

Education

Master’s degree

Job description

Job Highlights

Named 150 Top Places to Work in Healthcare 2025 - Becker's Healthcare

Named One of the World’s Happiest Workplace 2025 – WorkL

Named One of America's Best In-State Employers 2025 - Forbes

Named One of America's Greatest Workplaces for Women 2025 – Newsweek

Named One of America’s Greatest Workplaces for Culture, Belonging & Community 2026 – Newsweek

It's more than a career, it's a calling

OK-SSM Health at Home Oklahoma City

Worker Type

Regular

Job Highlights

Named 150 Top Places to Work in Healthcare 2025 - Becker's Healthcare

Named One of the World’s Happiest Workplace 2025 – WorkL

Named One of America's Best In-State Employers 2025 - Forbes

Named One of America's Greatest Workplaces for Women 2025 – Newsweek

Named One of America’s Greatest Workplaces for Culture, Belonging & Community 2026 – Newsweek

SSM Health is a Catholic, not-for-profit health system serving the comprehensive health needs of communities across the Midwest through a robust and fully integrated health care delivery system. The organization’s 40,000 team members and more than 13,900+ providers are committed to providing exceptional health care services and revealing God’s healing presence to everyone they serve.

With care delivery sites in Illinois, Missouri, Oklahoma and Wisconsin, SSM Health includes 23 hospitals, more than 300 physician offices and other outpatient and virtual care services, 12 post-acute facilities, comprehensive home care and hospice services, a pharmacy benefit company, a health insurance company and an accountable care organization. It is one of the largest employers in every community it serves.

We are seeking a dynamic nursing director with deep hospice experience and a proven track record of leading operational oversight (including quality, compliance, regulatory standards and financial management), driving accountability and facilitating complex interdisciplinary collaboration. This is a hybrid role that leads four facilities across Oklahoma City, OK, St. Louis, MO, and Mt. Vernon, IL.

Pay Range

$115,564.80 - $173,347.20

Pay Rate Type

Salary

SSM Health values the skills and talents that each team member brings to our organization. Compensation for this role is based on a variety of components including relevant experience, labor market, and other qualifications. The posted pay range for this position is what SSM Health reasonably expects, in good faith, to offer based on the circumstances at the time of posting. SSM Health may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range as permitted by law.

Job Summary

Responsible for the operations of multiple hospice and palliative care entities, including financial performance, quality improvement, customer satisfaction, employee recruitment and retention, growth, and development of new business lines. Provide strategic and business planning support for supervisors and branch managers within a service area.

Job Responsibilities and Requirements

Primary Responsibilities

• Provides input on completion of annual budget for hospice and palliative care programs based on strategic and marketing plans that are completed at the entity level. Ensures data collection is occurring throughout the year about competitive organization’s strategies within each of the region’s marketplaces. Coordinates, develops and implements the Quality Assurance Performance Improvement Program (QAPI) activities and reports quality measurements to the Board of Directors annually. Assists in the identification of goals and related patient outcomes, and overall development and implementation of the QAPI program.
• Understands the importance of communication with all levels of the organization, community and customers. Create and implement a communication plan which meets the needs of staff, senior management, customers and the community within the entity’s service area.
• Promotes and maintains an atmosphere of customer service. Provides opportunities for staff to receive continuing education about customer service and interacting with difficult people. Ensures that a customer/patient satisfaction system with feedback and action components is in place. Follow up and resolve customer complaints as needed.
• Implement benchmarks and performance criteria for the individual entities within a service area. Provide senior management with accurate performance information. Assist managers/supervisors with ideas and implementation of intervention strategies or other tactics to enhance financial performance and grow the business.
• Provides a personal example of living the principles of continuous quality improvement whereby decision-making is driven by data, and customer-supplier relationships are facilitated both within and outside the System.
• Maintain a low HR turnover rate by insuring that hospice and palliative care programs create an atmosphere where employees enjoy working and perceive a fair and equitable management style with open communication. Develop and sustain staffing models for palliative care programs.
• Makes effective use of the resources within the region for new program development, systems improvement, best practice development and promotion.
• Support and implement an organization-wide sales and marketing mentality. Support the efforts and role of sales and marketing staff. Develop and give presentations as needed.
• Provides opportunities to hospice and palliative care managers for career development, ongoing education and training.
• Works in a constant state of alertness and safe manner.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Education

• Master’s degree

Experience

• Eight years’ management experience with three years in post-acute service area

Required Professional License And/or Certifications

• State of Work Location - Illinois: Registered Professional Nurse (RN) - Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation (IDFPR)
• State of Work Location - Missouri: Registered Nurse (RN) Issued by Compact State or Registered Nurse (RN) - Missouri Division of Professional Registration
• State of Work Location - Oklahoma: Registered Nurse (RN) Issued by Compact State or Registered Nurse (RN) - Oklahoma Board of Nursing (OBN)

Work Shift

Day Shift (United States of America)

Job Type

Employee

Department

8050000114 Administration

Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

Benefits

SSM Health values our exceptional employees by offering a comprehensive benefits package to fit their needs.

• Paid Parental Leave: we offer eligible team members one week of paid parental leave for newborns or newly adopted children (pro-rated based on FTE).
• Flexible Payment Options: our voluntary benefit offered through DailyPay offers eligible hourly team members instant access to their earned, unpaid base pay (fees may apply) before payday.
• Upfront Tuition Coverage: we provide upfront tuition coverage through FlexPath Funded for eligible team members.

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SSM Health is an equal opportunity employer. SSM Health does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.