Director, Surgical Access & Capacity Optimization

Harborview Medical Center; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Harborview Medical Center’s Ambulatory Surgical Division is seeking a Director of Surgical Access and Optimization to drive access, capacity, and throughput improvements across ambulatory clinics, perioperative services, and hospital programs.

You will partner with physicians, nursing, operational, and executive leaders to identify opportunities for service expansion, optimize resource use, and enhance financial performance while ensuring high-quality patient care.

Qualifications

• Requires advanced degree in a health-related field.
• Minimum seven years of progressive leadership experience in healthcare operations, finance, or performance improvement.
• Experience leading multi-stakeholder, cross-functional initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise-wide strategies to improve surgical access, capacity, throughput, and operational performance across ambulatory clinics, perioperative services, and hospital-based programs.
• Direct strategic initiatives to advance growth, optimize resource use, and enhance financial performance.
• Partner with physicians, nursing, operational and executive leaders to identify opportunities for service expansion and operational excellence.
• Oversee surgical scheduling operations and standardization to ensure efficient patient-centered workflows and capacity utilization.
• Develop and execute strategies to improve patient progression through the surgical continuum from referral to recovery.
• Provide advisory support to executive leadership using data-driven insights to drive measurable results.
• Oversee ambulatory business operations including budgeting, labor productivity, revenue cycle monitoring, and analytics.
• Lead initiatives to improve revenue integrity, reimbursement, charge capture, denial prevention, and overall contribution margin while maintaining quality and access.
• Develop and use dashboards, predictive analytics, and financial models to support capacity planning and informed decision-making.
• Foster collaboration and continuous improvement across enterprise teams.

Skills

Strategic leadership

Healthcare operations

Performance improvement

Cross-functional collaboration

Data-driven decision making

Education

Master's in Healthcare Administration / MBA / MPH / related field

Job description

Harborview Medical Center’s Ambulatory Surgical Division is seeking a Director of Surgical Access and Optimization to drive access, capacity, and throughput improvements across ambulatory clinics, perioperative services, and hospital programs.

You will partner with physicians, nursing, operational, and executive leaders to identify opportunities for service expansion, optimize resource use, and enhance financial performance while ensuring high-quality patient care.