VP of Oncology

HCA Healthcare, Inc.; Nashville (TN); On-site; USD 210,000 - 320,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Dental & vision

401(k) match

Stock purchase plan

Education assistance

Time off + leaves

Fertility benefits

Counseling services

Employee discounts

Job summary

HCA Healthcare seeks a Vice President of Oncology to lead the Sarah Cannon Cancer Institute at TriStar Centennial Medical Center. You will oversee radiation oncology services, accreditation, and coordination of inpatient/outpatient cancer care, aligning with the Sarah Cannon Enterprise mission.

The role emphasizes strategic planning, budget management, and regulatory compliance, with collaboration across clinical and administrative teams to deliver exceptional patient care.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree, MSN, MBA, or MHA preferred.
• 3-5 years of hospital administrative experience required.
• Experience with an Oncology program preferred.
• Strong leadership and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead oncology service line and coordinate Sarah Cannon Cancer Institute activities.
• Oversee strategic planning, budgeting, and business development.
• Ensure quality management plans and continuous improvement processes.
• Provide oversight of nurse coordinators and program staff.
• Assess programs for operational efficiency and transitions of care.
• Manage pricing, reimbursement, and managed care contracting strategies.
• Develop and monitor payer contracts for stem cell transplantation services.
• Lead program marketing and outreach initiatives.
• Collaborate to ensure patient connectivity and service excellence.
• Maintain regulatory certifications (FACT, CAP, FDA).
• Prepare responses to information requests from insurers.
• Represent the hospital for CoC, NAPBC, FACT, and ACR accreditions.
• Recommend improvements aligning with oncology program strategies.

Skills

Leadership

Strategic planning

Change management

Analytical thinking

Physician relations

Project management

Financial planning

Written and verbal communication

Presentation skills

Education

Master’s degree, MSN, MBA, or MHA preferred

Job description

This position is incentive eligible.

Introduction

Last year alone, HCA Healthcare colleagues invested over 156,000 hours impacting our communities. As a VP of Oncology with TriStar Centennial Medical Center, you can be a manager in an organization that is devoted to giving!

Benefits

TriStar Centennial Medical Center offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:

• Comprehensive medical coverage that covers many common services at no cost or for a low copay. Plans include prescription drug and behavioral health coverage as well as free telemedicine services and free AirMed medical transportation.
• Additional options for dental and vision benefits, life and disability coverage, flexible spending accounts, supplemental health protection plans (accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity), auto and home insurance, identity theft protection, legal counseling, long-term care coverage, moving assistance, pet insurance and more.
• Free counseling services and resources for emotional, physical and financial wellbeing
  
• 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service)
  
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan with 10% off HCA Healthcare stock
  
• Family support through fertility and family building benefits with Progyny and adoption assistance.
  
• Referral services for child, elder and pet care, home and auto repair, event planning and more
  
• Consumer discounts through Abenity and Consumer Discounts
  
• Retirement readiness, rollover assistance services and preferred banking partnerships
  
• Education assistance (tuition, student loan, certification support, dependent scholarships)
  
• Colleague recognition program
  
• Time Away From Work Program (paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence)
  
• Employee Health Assistance Fund that offers free employee-only coverage to full-time and part-time colleagues based on income.

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Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.

Come join our team as a VP of Oncology. We care for our communities and employees! HCA Hope Fund in fourteen years reached a historic milestone: 50 million in help to our colleagues in need. Last year, HCA Healthcare and our colleagues donated 13.8 million dollars to charitable organizations. Apply today!

Job Summary and Qualifications

The Vice President of Oncology assumes service line responsibility and authority for the administration, evaluation, and coordination of the functions and activities of the Sarah Cannon Cancer Institute (SCCI), including radiation oncology services, oncology accreditation, inpatient and outpatient coordination of oncology patient care and the Sarah Cannon Center for Blood Cancer (SCCBC) at TriStar Centennial Medical Center.

What you will do in this role:

• Serve as a key leader at Sarah Cannon Cancer Institute at TriStar Centennial in groups focused on oncology services, emphasizing collaboration between the facility and the Sarah Cannon Enterprise mission, vision, and strategies.
• Program strategic planning, goal setting and business development, and budgeting.
• Assure quality management plan is established with goal achievement documented and quality improvement processes identified.
• Provide indirect oversight of the activities of the nurse coordinators and essential program staff including but not limited to financial coordinators, data manager, regulatory manager, and stem cell processing technologists.
• Evaluate programs for increased operational efficiency, specifically focused on transitions of care, physician communication, and service excellence.
• Provide financial management including pricing, reimbursement and managed care contracting strategies and program costs.
• Develop, negotiate, maintain, and monitor all payer contracts specific to adult and pediatric stem cell transplantation services. Primary point of contact for national, regional, and local payers that want to negotiate or re-negotiate contracts.
• Program marketing and outreach strategy (i.e. educational conferences) development and implementation.
• Collaborate with Sarah Cannon Nurse Navigation Director to ensure excellence in patient connectivity and service offerings.
• Assure attainment and maintenance of program regulatory certification(s). Direct preparation process and on-going maintenance of standards for accreditation by the Foundation for the Accreditation of Cellular Therapies (FACT), CAP and FDA.
• Respond to requests for information (RFIs) from national, regional, and local insurers. RFIs include program information (housing, staff education, medical team, quality management activities, clinical protocols), and volume and outcome data.
• Serve as hospital representative/administrator for CoC, NAPBC, FACT, ACR accreditations, and attends all committee meetings.
• Recommend facility improvements, policy and procedure edits or additions, and quality programs that align with the strategies of the overall oncology program.

What qualifications you will need:

• Master’s degree, MSN, MBA, or MHA preferred.
• 3-5 years of hospital administrative experience required.
• Prior experience working with an Oncology program and knowledge of oncology services required.
• Skilled in leadership, strategic planning, creativity, change management, analytical thinking, physician relations, project management, financial planning, written and verbal communications, presentation skills required.

TriStar Centennial Medical Center is a 740+ bed comprehensive facility. We offer medical and surgical programs. These include behavioral health and 24-hour emergency. These also include heart and vascular and imaging. These also include neurosciences, oncology, orthopedics, pediatrics, rehabilitation, sleep disorder, and womens services. We are an affiliate of TriStar Health. TriStar Centennial Medical Center is a 43-acre campus. We are home to TriStar Centennial Heart & Vascular Center. We are home to TriStar Centennial Womens Hospital. Our campus includes The Childrens Hospital at TriStar Centennial, Sarah Cannon Cancer Institute at TriStar Centennial Medical Center, TriStar Centennial Advanced Joint Replacement Institute and TriStar Centennial Parthenon Pavilion.

HCA Healthcare has been recognized as one of the Worlds Most Ethical Companies® by the Ethisphere Institute more than ten times. In recent years, HCA Healthcare spent an estimated 3.7 billion in cost for the delivery of charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses.

"The great hospitals will always put the patient and the patients family first, and the really great institutions will provide care with warmth, compassion, and dignity for the individual." - Dr. Thomas Frist, Sr. HCA Healthcare Co-Founder

Become a manager with an organization that invests in your career while giving to the community. We are seeking distinguished applicants for our VP of Oncology opening. Help HCA Healthcare create healthier tomorrows for patients and communities.

We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.