Group Chief Nursing Officer - Delray Medical Center

Company Background

Tenet Healthcare Corporation (NYSE: THC) is a diversified healthcare services company headquartered in Dallas. Our care delivery network includes United Surgical Partners International, the largest ambulatory platform in the country, which operates ambulatory surgery centers and surgical hospitals. We also operate a national portfolio of acute care and specialty hospitals, other outpatient facilities, a network of leading employed physicians and a global business center in Manila, Philippines. Our Conifer Health Solutions subsidiary provides revenue cycle management and value-based care services to hospitals, health systems, physician practices, employers, and other clients. Across the Tenet enterprise, we are united by our mission to deliver quality, compassionate care in the communities we serve. For more information, please visit www.tenethealth.com [https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tenethealth.com&esheet=52512219&newsitemid=20211020005950&lan=en-US&anchor=www.tenethealth.com&index=2&md5=e91bfdd2efe6fe1f0daa3dc41f7434e5].

Market Summary

 Palm Beach Health Network

Delray Medical Center, Delray Beach, Florida

For more than 40 years, our 536-bed acute care hospital has proudly served the communities of south Palm Beach County. Delray Medical Center (Delray) is a community teaching and research hospital.  Delray is one of two Level I Trauma Centers in the county. Delray offers highly specialized services including award-winning cardiac and vascular care, advanced orthopedic and spine surgery, general and bariatric surgery, neurosurgery and movement disorder center, comprehensive stroke care, behavioral health services, clinical research, and rehabilitative services.

Delray has earned numerous awards for excellence and quality care. Some of these

distinctions include the following:

Quality

• Recipient of Healthgrades® 'America's 50 Best cardiac surgery™ and, top 10% in the nation for cardiac surgery (2026)
• Recipient of Healthgrades® cardiac surgery excellence award (2026)
• Recipient of Healthgrades® 'Critical care excellence award 2026 ™
• Recipient of the Healthgrades Pulmonary care excellence award )2026) ™, Recipient of Healthgrades® 250 Best hospitals (2025)
• Robotic center of excellence (SRC)
• Robotic endoscopic center of excellence (SRC)

Cardiovascular          

• Five-Star Recipient for Valve Surgery 3 years in a row (2024-2026)
• Five- Star Recipient for Coronary Interventional Procedures (2026)
• Five-Star Recipient for Treatment of Heart Failure for 24 Years in a Row (2003-2026)
• Five-Star Recipient for Treatment of Heart Attack 3 years in a row (2024-2026)
• Five- Star Recipient for Defibrillator Procedures 3 years in a  row (2024-2026)
• Five- Star Recipient for Carotid Procedures 2026

Critical Care

• Five-Star Recipient for Treatment of Sepsis for 23years in a row (2004-2026)
• Five-Star Recipient for Treatment of Respiratory Failure for 4 years in a row (2023-2026)
• Recipient of the Healthgrades® Critical Care Excellence Award™2 years in a row  (2025-2026)

Named among top 10% in the Nation for critical care 2 years in a row (2025-2026)

Gastrointestinal 

• Five-Star Recipient for Small Intestine Surgeries for 5 years in a row (2022-2026
• Five-Star Recipient for Gi Bleed (2026) )

Neuroscience/Stroke

• Recipient of the Healthgrades Stroke Care Excellence Award™ for 19 Years in a Row (2008-2026)
• DNV GL Healthcare Certified Comprehensive Stroke Center (2020)
• Recipient of the American Heart Association Get With The Guidelines® – Stroke Gold Plus Award

Weight Loss 

• Bariatric Surgery Center of Excellence
• Optum/United Healthcare Bariatric Center of Excellence

Position Summary

The Group Chief Nursing Officer provides strategic leadership as the senior executive position responsible for all nursing and other designated patient care functions and services within the hospital organization. The role assumes responsibility for assessing, planning, coordinating, implementing, and evaluating nursing practice on a facility level. The role assumes 24/7 responsibility and has accountability to ensure high quality, safe and appropriate nursing care, competency of clinical staff, and appropriate resource management related to patient care. The Group Chief Nursing Officer represents nursing concerns on the governing board and at medical staff leadership meetings. The GCNO will take operational responsibilities for non-nursing departments (ex: Imaging, Cath Lab, others as needed). This role will also serve as the Chief Nursing Officer for the Palm Beach Health Network (PBHN). Seeking a GCNO with strong nursing skills and a leader who is open to broadening their comprehensive hospital background by having responsibilities for ancillary departments as well and aligning key initiatives throughout the PBHN.

Responsibilities

Functional Expectations & Requirements

Retaining great people at the facility

• Collaborate with human resources and other team members to select, on-board, orient, and provide coaching for direct reports.
• Evaluate and monitor facility level people pillar statistics, participate on related calls, as necessary.
• Consider and/or implement nurse residency programs to ensure pipeline for facility.
• Collaborate with team members to formulate programs to enhance work life balance.
• Partner with related team members to promote a safe work environment that is based on a zero tolerance for sexual harassment, workplace violence and verbal and physical abuse.
• Collaborate with related team members to promote an effective facility level competency program.
• Collaborate to promote a robust employee development and education program that responds to the unique needs of employees across the career continuum (novice to expert).
• Work cohesively with related team members to develop and implement recruitment and retention strategies that ensure a qualified and stable workforce.
• Participate in workforce planning to ensure an adequate and competent workforce.
• Support the design of effective and competitive compensation and benefits programs.

Communication and Relationship Building

• Effectively communicate with all internal and external constituents, including staff, colleagues, and physicians.
• Communicate and administer human resource programs and procedures in accordance with established policies.
• Manage organizational relationships in a manner which builds mutual trust and respect. Establish trusting and collaborative relationships.
• Address and manage conflict in a constructive and productive manner.
• Give timely feedback and reinforce positive behaviors.

Leadership Influence

• Create and communicate a compelling shared vision.
• Develop effective strategies for addressing organizational priorities.
• Develop, communicate, and monitor performance expectations.
• Formulate objectives, goals, and specific strategies related to the organization’s mission and vision.
• Understand effective organizational outcome measures in order to balance cost, quality, and service.
• Measure and analyze performance from the learning and growth, business process, customer, and financial perspectives.
• Promote a results-oriented environment.
• Develop succession plan for nursing leadership.
• Demonstrate effective change management; able to serve as an organizational change agent.
• Coach and mentor aspiring nurse leaders.
• Create an environment in which professional and personal growth is an expectation.
• Articulate the application of ethical principles to operations.
• Manage organizational and individual performance with appropriate rewards.
• Represent nursing and patient care issues within the organization’s governance and medical staff structures.
• Represent nursing and patient care in strategic planning and quality initiatives with the governing body.
• Educate the organization’s board members and physicians regarding healthcare/value of nursing care.

Diversity

• Create an environment that recognizes and values diversity.
• Develop processes to incorporate cultural beliefs into care.
• Design strategies that address the unique needs of a diverse workforce, patient population, and community.
• Assess the current environment and establish indicators of progress toward cultural competency.

Shared decision-making/Shared Leadership

• Engage staff and others in decision-making.
• Promote decisions that are patient centered.
• Provide an environment conducive to opinion-sharing.
• Promote systems thinking as a value in the nursing organization.
• Consider the impact of nursing decisions on the health care organization as a whole.
• Provide leadership in building loyalty and commitment throughout the organization.
• Synthesize and integrate divergent viewpoints for the good of the organization.
• Involves employees in decision-making.
• Attend and participate in regional CNO calls and meetings.

Clinical Practice Leadership

• Understand and articulate patient care standards reflected in federal and state regulation, TJC, the state Nurse Practice Act, and organizational policies and procedures.
• Maintain knowledge of current nursing practice and roles and functions within nursing and other healthcare disciplines.
• Maintain current knowledge of patient care delivery systems and innovations.
• Ensure that nursing practice is consistent with current standards and current evidenced based practice.
• Ensure that the care delivery model, clinical environment of care and related technology is appropriate to needs of caregivers and patients.
• Serve as change agent when patient care work/workflow is redesigned.
• Advocate use of documented best practices.
• Teach and mentor others to routinely utilize evidenced based data and research.
• Assure that the clinical perspective is included in organizational decisions.
• Supports regional senior director and Tenet CNO.

Academic Relationships