Area President, South Chicago and Christ Medical Center

In December of 2022, Advocate Aurora Health and Atrium Health came together to create Advocate Health. Together as one integrated health care system, Advocate Health can now do more, be better and go faster to deliver the best health outcomes, make care more accessible and affordable to all, and help more people live well.

• 3rd Largest Nonprofit Health Care Organization in the United States
• 67 Hospitals Across 6 States
• 1K Sites of Care-150K Team Members-40K Nurses21K Physicians
• 6M Patients
• $5B in Community Benefit

We're compelled by what's possible. Advocate Health is redefining how, when and where care is delivered to help people live well. We're providing equitable care for all in our communities and using our combined strength and expertise to deliver better outcomes at a lower cost.

Major Responsibilities:

• Drives the PSA strategy, provides leadership and direction, and ensures integration with AAH's overall mission and goals. Ensures effective and efficient delivery of a positive patient experience across the PSA as well as compliance with established objectives to achieve the strategic goals of the organization. Acts as a champion for quaternary and tertiary hospital program planning, utilization, development and growth.
• Drives service integration and collaboration throughout the PSA, including the acute and non-acute facilities within the PSA. Ensures performance excellence in service, and is accountable for the development, implementation, and monitoring of strategies to provide quality services, control costs, optimize revenue opportunities, and engages team members and physicians.
• Fosters service integration and collaboration across the acute and non-acute facilities within the PSA and throughout AAH to achieve collaboration and balance across AAH. Ensures the integration and rationalization of services accelerates AAH's growth and the success of the organization's long-term strategies and objectives.
• Ensures the PSA adopts, executes and shares best practice standards for system clinical programs to achieve efficient and effective quality service, patient loyalty and team member engagement.
• Responsible for the profitable growth of the locations, including the services lines within the PSA and oversees the development and execution of profitable growth plans. Responsible for profit and loss within the patient service area, and meeting growth and operating income targets.
• Stays current on market intelligence and relations with key providers of similar services in markets of responsibility.
• Performs human resources responsibilities for staff which include interviewing and selection of new team members, promotions, staff development, performance evaluations, compensation changes, resolution of employee concerns, corrective actions, terminations, and overall team member engagement.
• Develops and recommends operating and capital budgets and controls expenditures within approved budget objectives.
• Responsible for taking an active leadership role in non-profit or community based organizations by providing community service hours or serving in professional organizations. Also, encourages team members to participate in these same community activities.

Education/Experience Required:

• Master's Degree (or equivalent knowledge) in Health Care Administration or related field. Typically requires 15 years of management experience in health care administration or a related field that includes experiences within a large integrated health care system strategically leading the integration of a variety of health care services across multiple markets.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities Required:

• Demonstrated experience in developing a successful, comprehensive strategic plan to integrate services, provide a system approach to meeting growth goals/business objectives over a multi-year period, and profitably grow a large integrated delivery system. Extensive experience driving best practice standards, and ensuring collaboration across business lines and functions. Skills and ability to integrate services within and across the patient service area Thorough understanding of health care delivery functions and financing systems. Expertise in motivating, leading, and problem solving at the executive level in a complex organization. Demonstrates skills in coordinating services, and enhancing collaborative relationships across multiple business lines. Skills and demonstrated experience in establishing excellent working relationships and strategic partnering with various teams and executives across a large organization to achieve a shared vision, values and objectives. Ability to function in a fast-paced, matrix management environment. Excellent written and verbal communication skills to communicate effectively and collaborate with leadership and external organizations.
• None Required.

Physicial Requirements and Working Conditions:

• Travel outside of workplace is required and thus incumbent is exposed to weather and road conditions. Operates all equipment necessary to perform the job. Exposed to normal office environment. This job description indicates the general nature and level of work expected of the incumbent. It is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities required of the incumbent. Incumbent may be required to perform other related duties.

At Advocate Health Care

We pride ourselves on taking care of our people. And not just our patients-we mean you, too. We help each other live well. When you work at Advocate, you get the chance to work with a dedicated team that's as passionate about the work as you are. Here, you'll find limitless opportunities for ongoing learning, career advancement, competitive compensation, and a stable work environment. But more than that, you can change lives-including your own.

Diversity and inclusion matter at Advocate. We celebrate our differences and nurture an environment where everyone feels included. We know that when we reflect the communities we serve, when we embrace differences and bring our whole selves to work every day, we are working as one to build a healthier tomorrow for everyone. Advocate supports a safe, healthy, and drug-free work environment through criminal background checks and pre-employment drug testing. We maintain a smoke-free environment at all our locations. We are an equal opportunity employer.

This job description indicates the general nature and level of work expected of the incumbent. It is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities required of the incumbent. Incumbent may be required to perform other related duties.