Chief Operating Officer to serve as a member of the Senior Management team in Cookeville, Tennessee!
Position Summary: The Chief Operating Officer serves as a member of the senior management team and provides leadership, direction and administrative supervision for all aspects of hospital operations with emphasis regarding quality and performance improvement, safety, patient and medical staff satisfaction, utilization management, clinical operations and efficiencies and growth and development of services and programs. The Chief Operating Officer reports to the organizations Chief Executive Officer and also collaborates effectively with the President of the Medical Staff and the Medical Staff Leadership to achieve established objectives.Experience: Previous clinical practice experience. Previous experience in hospital operations and medical staff leadership and management. Proven leadership and communication skills. Experience in the management and supervision in the areas of quality and performance improvement, utilization management, clinical operations and efficiencies, safety, and programs and services growth and development. Education: MD or DO degree, completed residency training in a recognized specialty, board certification in the specialty of training. Completion of Masters Degree in management (MBA, MHA, or MPH) is required.About Us: Cookeville Regional Medical Center is a 247-bed, acute tertiary care center located in the heart of the Upper Cumberland in middle Tennessee. Serving the region´s population of close to 300,000 people, we have grown to provide inpatient, outpatient, rehabilitation and emergency care in addition to a host of specialty services such as The Heart Center, The Cancer Center and The Spine Center. In addition, Cookeville Regional has more than 130 physicians on its active medical staff providing care in 36 specialties. Recently, Cookeville Regional completed an $80-million, six-story patient tower with all private patient rooms including an updated, state-of-the-art Cancer Center. Special care was taken with all the little details of the facility design. All efforts were made to make the facility as much like home as possible without sacrificing medical care and treatment. With state-of-the-art technology and skilled, caring health professionals Cookeville Regional is dedicated to providing the highest quality care for our community. Cookeville is located centrally on the Cumberland Plateau between Knoxville, Nashville and Chattanooga in Putnam County. We boast two area recreational lakes, Center Hill and Dale Hollow as well as numerous golf courses for the amateurs and the pros. With low crime rate, low property taxes, no state income taxes and an area full of friendly caring people, Cookeville is one of the best places in the country to live and raise a family. Putnam County offers the best in educational opportunities including quality K-12, Nashville State and Tennessee Technological University.