Vice President, Ambulatory Services

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Work Shift

Day

Work Day(s)

Monday-Friday

Shift Start Time

8:30 AM

Shift End Time

5:00 PM

Worker Sub-Type

Regular

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Job Description

The Vice President Ambulatory Services is accountable for development of the ambulatory and affiliation strategies for Children's. This position provides leadership and oversight of the development and execution of an ambulatory network that aligns with the needs of the organization, ensuring strong collaboration with operations and the facilities development team. The position is also responsible for leading the Affiliations Strategy for Children's including negotiating key terms of any new affiliation or partnership.

The Vice President Ambulatory Services reports to Children's Chief Physician Executive and works closely with the CEO and Chief Medical Officer for affiliation strategy, deal development, negotiation and execution. This leader serves as the lead executive for growth and development of services in the ambulatory setting to achieve growth and financial goals.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities

Ambulatory Strategy and Network Development:

• Develop an overall ambulatory strategy including locations and services and execute the plan in partnership with service line and physician practice leadership.

• Develop an ambulatory network, clarifying which services will be distributed inside and outside the Atlanta MSA.

• Assess locations of all ambulatory locations and determine if appropriate.

• Conduct annual real estate assessment.

• Manage planning and occupancy for ambulatory locations.

• Open health hubs and single specialty locations.

• Focus on patient journey in ambulatory network.

Partnerships and Leadership Collaboration:

• Partner with Physician Practices to ensure specialty distribution

• Partner with Vice President of Facilities Development & Real Estate and the COO, Physician Practices to ensure all initiatives align with the strategy.

• Lead a small team of individuals focused on leading the ambulatory network.

Operational and Financial Optimization:

• Improve financial performance of all outpatient locations.

• Increase volume of all outpatient locations.

• Optimize operating model of all outpatient locations.

• Develop virtual care model.

Affiliation Strategy and Execution:

• Lead the Affiliation Strategy, meeting with potential partners, conducting due diligence and implementing the partnership through launch.

• Develop affiliation strategy for Children's, including models for affiliation and affiliation roadmap (due diligence, assessment, affiliation agreements).

• Partner with key stakeholders to negotiate affiliations, ensuring that all regulatory requirements are met.

• Execute affiliations, managing relationships with partners and internal Children's constituents.

• Oversee affiliations to decide on short and long term goals.

Strategic Planning and Business Development:

• Review, in partnership with strategic planning office and service line leadership, the annual market assessment and recommend strategy for developing programs and services closer to where patients live.

• Develop business plans to support the recommended strategies.

• Execute in partnership with service line leadership and physician practices the plans, ensuring that both short- and long-term goals are met.

• Work closely with leadership to provide direction, monitoring, and conduct financial and operational analysis for relevant affiliations.

Candidate Experience and Abilities

Experience

• Minimum of 10 years of leadership experience with a demonstrated history of successfully leading teams, driving results, and fostering a high-performance culture

Education

• Bachelor's degree in business, finance, healthcare administration or related healthcare field is required.

• Master's degree or advanced degree in business or a healthcare field preferred.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Demonstrated proficiency in business development and financial management.

• Demonstrated entrepreneurial and retail mindset.

• Familiarity in Atlanta healthcare submarkets.

• Demonstrated experience influencing partners to drive collaborative, system-wide initiatives.

• Demonstrated ability to prioritize and manage multiple tasks concurrently. Excellent organizational and delegation skills. Ability to work collaboratively environment.

• Demonstrated ability to bring a "best practice" approach to processes and procedures and foster a responsive service orientation.

• Strong planning, influencing and problem-solving skills.

• Excellent interpersonal and collaboration skills.

• Strong presentation and written communication skills.

• Proactive self-starter, autonomous yet highly collaborative and resourceful.

Children's Healthcare of Atlanta is an equal opportunity employer committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants and employees without regard to race, color, sex, religion, national origin, citizenship, age, veteran status, disability or any other characteristic covered by applicable law.

Primary Location Address

1575 Northeast Expy NE

Job Family

Vice President