Hospice RN Executive Director I

Gentiva Hospice; Lancaster (Lancaster County); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Gentiva Hospice seeks an Executive Director RN I to lead a hospice location with developing census.

The role emphasizes strategic leadership, operational oversight, and developing teams to deliver compassionate, compliant, patient-centered care while aligning with the organization’s mission and values.

Qualifications

• Licensed RN with leadership experience in hospice/home health.
• Experience managing interdisciplinary teams.
• Strong focus on patient-centered care and regulatory compliance.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic leadership and operational oversight for assigned hospice location.
• Direct interdisciplinary teams to ensure high-quality patient-centered care.
• Drive financial performance and census growth while meeting regulatory standards.
• Collaborate with Governing Body, referral partners, and community stakeholders.

Skills

Executive leadership

Healthcare management

Hospice care

Interdisciplinary teams

Regulatory compliance

Education

Registered Nurse (RN) license

Job description

Overview

Lead with Compassion. Serve with Purpose. Transform Hospice.

We have an exciting and rewarding opportunity for a RN Hospice Executive Director to join our leadership team. This role is ideal for a licensed Registered Nurse (RN) with strong leadership experience in hospice care, home health, or clinical operations management.

If you’re a natural leader who is passionate about patient-centered care, team development, and clinical excellence, we invite you to bring your talent to a place where you can truly make a difference.

The Executive Director RN I provides strategic leadership and operational oversight for assigned Hospice location with a developing census. This role will oversee and lead the day-to-day operations, including managing and directing interdisciplinary teams, ensuring the delivery of high-quality and patient-centered care, fostering a culture of compassion, respect and integrity to meet business and organizational goals, regulatory standards, and community needs. Responsibilities include leadership and development, financial performance, community outreach, human resources, office operations and communication and relationship building with the Governing Body, referral partners, the community. In this role, the Administrator ensures assigned Hospice location delivers outstanding service, while upholding the company’s mission, vision and values.

Essential Functions

• Provides hands-on leadership for a hospice program with growth opportunity, accountable for clinical quality, operational performance, and sustainable census expansion.
  • Demonstrates a commitment to excellence through focusing on quality care and/or service.
• Incorporates continuous quality improvement principles in day-to-day activities.
• Uses statistical and qualitative information to manage quality.
• Requires employees to exhibit technical knowledge and effective skill education related to their job.
• Promotes and monitors compliance with requirements and standards established by accrediting or licensing agencies, regulatory agencies and state or federal law relevant to areas of responsibility.
• Ensures that policies and procedures are followed.
• Accepts responsibility for remaining current in the latest trends, developments and technologies relative to area of work by: Actively pursuing self-development, attending in- services, and circulating relevant information to appropriate employees.
• Recommends and implements policies and procedures, which have been developed by the Administrator and Governing Body that guide and support the provision of services.

• Manages Human Resources effectively.
  • Shows consistency between words and actions.
  • Promotes positive communications and keeps employees informed of changes by ensuring meetings with appropriate staff are conducted and documented. Is available to employees when issues arise.
  • Promotes/provides for core orientation, at the direction of the Administrator, plus locationand job specific orientation, in service training and continuing education for employees, volunteers and contract personnel.
  • Conducts educational programs for outside agencies as deemed necessary.
  • Recommends a sufficient number of qualified and competent persons to provide services. Responsible for the selection, supervision, and evaluation of interdisciplinary team members in collaboration with the Administrator.
  • Collaborates with the Administrator, Corporate leadership and employees to establish goals and standards for performance; reviews and monitors progress regularly and redirects efforts where goals are not being met.