President - Beth Israel Deaconess Needham

Beth Israel Lahey Health; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 360,000 - 426,000; Full time

Job summary

Beth Israel Deaconess Needham, part of Beth Israel Lahey Health, seeks a President to lead BID Needham to deliver safe, high-quality care, efficient operations, and strategic growth within a growing integrated health system.

The President will steward fiscal health, champion patient satisfaction, and build partnerships across the system, communities, and philanthropic efforts to advance mission and community service in the Greater Boston area.

Qualifications

• Leads organizational change initiatives across a community hospital network.
• Manages talent development and leadership succession across the hospital leadership.
• Builds cross-functional collaboration across the Beth Israel Lahey Health system.

Responsibilities

• Provide executive leadership for BID Needham, ensuring safe, high-quality care and efficient resource management.
• Drive strategic growth and fiscal health while integrating BID Needham within the BILH system.
• Foster patient satisfaction, community partnerships, and philanthropic support to advance mission.

Skills

Leading Change

Leading People

Collaborating & Influencing

Job description

Beth Israel Deaconess Needham (BID Needham) is a rapidly growing community hospital serving the southwest and metrowest suburbs of Boston. Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital Needham has served residents in Needham, Newton, Dedham, Dover, Medfield, Sherborn, Wellesley, Westwood and other surrounding communities for more than 100 years.

BID Needham is committed to achieving high quality and safe care for the patients we serve. At Beth Israel Deaconess

Needham, we're shaping the future of health care.

BID Needham is a part of the larger Beth Israel Lahey Health Care System (BILH) and collaborates with other affiliates and shared system services on many healthcare initiatives, research, including a cancer center located in Needham licensed under BIDMC.

• Licensed 73-bed acute care community hospital
• More than 245,000 outpatients visits per year
• 5,300 annual inpatient discharges per year

Points of Pride

• Nationally recognized by the American Heart Association's Get With the Guidelines program with two achievement awards - Stroke GOLD PLUS with Target: Stroke Honor Roll Elite and Target: Type 2 Diabetes Honor Roll. The awards recognize BID Needham for its commitment to the most up-to-date evidence-based treatment guidelines to improve patient care and outcomes.
• Boston Magazine recognized 59 BID Needham affiliated physicians and surgeons across 27 medical specialties in its most recent 'Top Doctors' guide.
• BID Needham was founded as Glover Hospital in 1912 and has served the community for more than 100 years.

Key Strategic Priorities

• Building on our legacy as a leading-edge, comprehensive community hospital by expanding our hospital footprint, growing key services, and upgrading clinical spaces in alignment with community needs.
• Investing in the development of new solutions and technologies that drive growth, improve patient outcomes, and transform care delivery, including in cardiology and surgical services.
• Pursuing programs and strategies to invest in the next generation of talented healthcare workers, including recruitment and retention initiatives.

BID Needham is part of Beth Israel Lahey Health, a health care system that brings together academic medical centers and teaching hospitals, community and specialty hospitals, and more than 4,700 physicians and 39,000 employees in a shared mission to expand access to great care and advance the science and practice of medicine through groundbreaking research and education.

Position Summary:

The President will ensure that BID Needham functions at the highest levels including delivering safe, high-quality coordinated care, efficient management of resources, smooth and efficient administrative services, and implementation of strategic and operational plans. The President will be responsible for the executive leadership, strategic growth, and fiscal health of BID Needham. They will recognize the inclusive and collaborative culture of the hospital that has made it a success in the community and among its patients and use that as a steppingstone to further integrate into the Beth Israel Lahey Health (BILH) system.

The President will work collaboratively with system-wide leadership and other BILH hospital and business unit presidents to advance goals to strengthen its mission of becoming a fully integrated system of patient care, education, research, and community service. This individual will identify new strategic partnerships that extend into the community, ensuring a robust health system distinguished by offering outstanding patient care programs and strong financial performance.

The President will be a strong operational leader with sound fiscal management experience who will continue BID Needham's culture of quality and patient satisfaction. The President will be a visible and enthusiastic leader within the organization and community and a vital partner in increasing philanthropic support for the Hospital.

Abilities & Skills:

Leading Change

• Articulates and leads next level of community care strategy.
• Identifies and enlists key influencers to act as change agents, involving them in designing and delivering change to deliver on the BILH long-range strategy and plan, Blueprint 2030.
• Communicates a compelling business case to the whole organization to gain buy-in for significant change and a consolidated community division approach.
• Takes important action to set new norms for the organization.
• Adapts change plans/influence strategies to the organization's political realities and constraints.

Leading People

• Gives ownership to the entire team to deliver on the newly defined strategic objectives.
• Cultivates and supports talent in order to create a feeling of team among community presidents, boards and direct reports.
• Passes leadership responsibilities down through the organization, ensuring alignment with the overall strategy and/or direction.
• Sets up forums or practices to reinforce independent and open communication among team members.
• Gives the team broader visibility inside the organization including publicly recognizing its accomplishments. Offersteammemberstootherpartsoftheorganizationwheretheycanbemostuseful.

Collaborating and Influencing

• Builds confidence and credibility among all the community presidents.
• Builds partnerships across the enterprise to address organization-wide challenges or opportunities.
• Creates an environment of shared values where collaboration is expected at all levels.
• Systematically builds support at multiple levels and across groups to achieve alignment, acknowledging differences in interests.
• Listens, collaborates and supports local teams to be effective.

Pay Range:

$360,400.00 USD - $425,600.00 USD

The pay range listed for this position is the annual base salary range the organization reasonably and in good faith expects to pay for this position at this time.

In addition to base compensation, this position may be eligible for additional compensation, which may include performance-based incentive bonuses.

Beth Israel Lahey Health, including all of its employing entities, are a purpose-driven, values-based organization that unites our workforce of people who provide exceptional health care to everyone we serve. All of the employing entities of Beth Israel Lahey Health maintain policies of equal employment opportunity and non-discrimination in employment. Please see here for more information about our purpose and values and here for more information about our Equal Employment Opportunity Policy.