Director - Respiratory Care

INTEGRIS Health; Oklahoma City (OK); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

INTEGRIS Health is seeking a Director of Respiratory Therapy at Baptist Medical Center in Oklahoma City to lead 24/7 respiratory care across three locations. The role drives strategic and operational leadership, budget oversight, and standardization of care to ensure high-quality outcomes.

This executive position requires strong experience in high-acuity respiratory care, budget management, and cross‑campus collaboration with physicians and nursing leadership to align protocols and priorities.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 7 years of progressive respiratory care experience in a hospital setting or a minimum of 5 years of respiratory leadership experience.
• Demonstrated experience leading respiratory care in high-acuity settings such as ICU, ED, rapid response, ventilator management, neonatal/pediatric/adult critical care, or procedural areas.
• Demonstrated experience with budget management, productivity monitoring, quality improvement, regulatory readiness, staff development, and performance management.

Responsibilities

• Strategic and service-line leadership across three hospital locations.
• Lead Respiratory Services as an integrated, multi-location hospital service line.
• Establish and maintain a consistent respiratory care operating model across all locations.
• Partner with the Physician Medical Director to align protocols, clinical standards, scope of practice, medical staff expectations, and quality priorities.
• Serve as the executive-facing respiratory leader for budget review, staffing model design, productivity expectations, capital planning, workforce strategy, and service-line performance.
• Represent Respiratory Services in hospital operations, quality, safety, emergency preparedness, workforce planning, and patient flow forums.
• Ensure staffing to support 24/7 respiratory care operations across three locations.
• Lead the Manager of Respiratory Care and respiratory supervisors in daily staffing, scheduling, flexing, escalation, performance management, and operational consistency.
• Develop and monitor productivity standards using volume, workload, acuity, missed therapy, delayed treatments, ventilator days, respiratory procedures, rapid response activity, and overtime.
• Standardize supervisor accountabilities by campus, shift, specialty area, and relief/quality support.
• Lead respiratory-related performance improvement projects in partnership with Quality, Nursing, Critical Care, Emergency Services, Infection Prevention, and Medical Staff.
• Maintain orientation, annual competencies, continuing education, specialty competency validation, and preceptor processes.

Skills

Respiratory leadership

High-acuity care

Budget management

Education

Graduate of a Registry Eligible Respiratory Therapy School

Master's degree in healthcare administration, business, nursing, science, or related field

Job description

Job Description

Join our team as a day shift, full-time, Director of Respiratory Therapy at INTEGRIS Health Baptist Medical Center in Oklahoma City, OK.

Get to Know Your Team

• INTEGRIS Health, Oklahoma’s largest not-for-profit health system, is seeking a dedicated caregiver to join us in our mission to partner with people to live healthier lives.
• Benefits of being an INTEGRIS Health caregiver include front‑loaded PTO, medical benefits through the extensive INTEGRIS Health network, financial assistance for continued education, 24/7 mental health support and more.
• Take the first step toward growing your career by joining us.

Responsibilities

The Director of Respiratory Care provides strategic, operational, clinical, financial, and workforce leadership for Respiratory Services across three hospital locations.

The role is accountable for safe, reliable respiratory care delivery in a high‑acuity hospital environment, including critical care, emergency response, ventilator management, procedural support, neonatal/pediatric/adult respiratory care as applicable, competency management, productivity, budget performance, quality outcomes, and cross‑campus standardization.

Job Responsibility:

• Strategic and service‑line leadership
• Lead Respiratory Services as an integrated, multi‑location hospital service line.
• Establish and maintain a consistent respiratory care operating model across all locations.
• Partner with the Physician Medical Director to align protocols, clinical standards, scope of practice, medical staff expectations, and quality priorities.
• Serve as the executive‑facing respiratory leader for budget review, staffing model design, productivity expectations, capital planning, workforce strategy, and service‑line performance.
• Represent Respiratory Services in hospital operations, quality, safety, emergency preparedness, workforce planning, and patient flow forums.
• Operations and staffing
• Ensure staffing to support 24/7 respiratory care operations across three locations.
• Ensure staffing plans are aligned to acuity, census, ventilator demand, emergency response needs, procedural coverage, and patient flow.
• Lead the Manager of Respiratory Care and respiratory supervisors in daily staffing, scheduling, flexing, escalation, performance management, and operational consistency.
• Develop and monitor productivity standards using volume, workload, acuity, missed therapy, delayed treatments, ventilator days, respiratory procedures, rapid response activity, and overtime.
• Standardize supervisor accountabilities by campus, shift, specialty area, and relief/quality support.
• Quality, safety, and regulatory performance
• Ensure respiratory care is delivered in accordance with hospital policy, medical staff direction, regulatory requirements, professional standards, and state licensure requirements.
• Lead respiratory‑related performance improvement projects in partnership with Quality, Nursing, Critical Care, Emergency Services, Infection Prevention, and Medical Staff.
• Workforce, education, and caregiver development
• Ensure orientation, annual competencies, continuing education, specialty competency validation, and preceptor processes are reliable and documented.
• Partner with Human Resources on retention, engagement, corrective action, career pathway development, market competitiveness, and workforce analytics.
• Finance, budget, and resource stewardship
• Own the Respiratory Services operating budget, productivity performance, labor utilization, overtime management, supply utilization, equipment planning, and capital recommendations.
• Review budget variances and develop action plans in partnership with Finance and hospital operations.
• Evaluate new technology, supplies, equipment, and service expansion requests using clinical need, safety, financial impact, and return‑on‑investment principles.
• Support annual budget planning and ongoing budget review with data‑driven recommendations.
• Physician, nursing, and interdisciplinary partnership
• Maintain strong working relationships with pulmonology, critical care, emergency medicine, anesthesia, neonatology/pediatrics as applicable, nursing leadership, case management, quality, and ancillary services.
• Resolve cross‑department operational issues that affect patient flow, safety, respiratory response, or care coordination. Promote interdisciplinary communication, protocol adoption, and consistent respiratory practice across locations.

Qualifications

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

EXPERIENCE:

• Minimum of 7 years of progressive respiratory care experience in a hospital setting or a minimum of 5 years of respiratory leadership experience, including manager‑level or equivalent responsibility.
• Demonstrated experience leading respiratory care in high‑acuity settings such as ICU, ED, rapid response, ventilator management, neonatal/pediatric/adult critical care, or procedural areas.
• Demonstrated experience with budget management, productivity monitoring, quality improvement, regulatory readiness, staff development, and performance management.

EDUCATION:

• Graduate of a Registry Eligible Respiratory Therapy School
• Master's degree in healthcare administration, business, nursing, science, or related field, or completion within 24 months.

LICENSE/CERTIFICATIONS:

• NBRC‑RRT (Registered Respiratory Therapist)
• RCP (Respiratory Care Practitioner) or ability to obtain before start date.

This job requires the incumbents to operate an INTEGRIS‑owned vehicle OR personal vehicle (non‑INTEGRIS‑owned) and therefore must have a current Oklahoma State Driver's License as well as a driving record which is acceptable to our insurance carrier.

INTEGRIS Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All applicants will receive consideration regardless of membership in any protected status as defined by applicable state or federal law, including protected veteran or disability status.