Description:
Excela Health has engaged Witt Kieffer to
help them find a physician executive to serve as VPMA
and Chief Quality Officer.
Excela Health has engaged
Witt Kieffer to help them find a physician executive
to serve as VPMA and Chief Quality Officer. Formed
in 2004 with the merger of three hospitals in Westmoreland
County and enlarged in May, 2008 with the additional
of Mercy Hospital of Jeannette, Excela is the premier
health system on the eastern outskirts of Pittsburgh.
Presently,
over 20% of Excela Health's medical staff of 600 physicians
are employed by Excela Health Physician Practices (EHPP
-- includes family medicine, internal medicine gastroenterology,
orthopedics, cardiology, and cardio-thoracic surgery
(with growth from only 3 small practices three years
ago to nearly 130 employed physicians in early 2008).
The size of the EHPP has doubled in the past two years
and over the next 12-18 months, it is anticipated that
an additional 50-100 physicians will be employed. Excela
Health has recently completed a multi-year strategic
plan that sets ambitious goals for growth and development
of the organization, including a capital plan that
will invest substantial resources in the construction
and re-configuration of its existing hospitals.
Candidates
will need significant experience in physician leadership
roles and contemporary knowledge and experience in
quality. Experience in a multi-hospital system is strongly
preferable.
Resumes and cv's may be submitted to
Carson Dye, FACHE and John Thornburgh at
ExcelaVPMA@wittkieffer.com.
Items that cannot be sent electronically may be
sent to:
Coral Arneson, C/O Witt/Kieffer,
2015
Spring Road, Suite 510
Oak Brook, IL 60523
phone:
630-575-6170
fax: 630-990-1382
