Chief Nursing Officer DMC Huron Valley-Sinai Hospital

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,
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Market Summary

Detroit Group

DMC Huron Valley-Sinai Hospital, Commerce Township, Michigan 

Located in Commerce, Michigan, a suburb 25 miles northwest of Detroit, DMC Huron
Valley-Sinai Hospital is one of eight hospitals/institutes composing the Detroit
Medical Center [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detroit_Medical_Center]. Huron
Valley-Sinai Hospital is a full-service community teaching hospital with 158
licensed beds, including 6 pediatric beds in a partnership with Children’s
Hospital of Michigan. The hospital is staffed by more than 420 physicians (288
active including 40 employed), 330 nurses, and 800 support staff servicing
more than 40,000 patients annually.

The hospital annually has more than 9,500 admissions, and performs more than
2,500 inpatient and 5,000 outpatient surgeries. Huron Valley-Sinai Hospital
features the Harris Birthing Center, a regional specialty center, the Charach
Cancer Treatment Center, surgical suites, cardiac services, and comprehensive
inpatient and outpatient diagnostic care. The hospital is located in Oakland
County, among the ten highest income counties in the United States with a
population over one million people. Oakland County is comprised of 61 cities,
townships and villages. The communities served by Huron Valley-Sinai Hospital
are mostly suburban and rural, and the area features dozens of lakes, and state
and county parks, and is a recreational destination for hundreds of thousands in
Southeast Michigan. 

The Hospital's busy emergency department treats more than 33,000 patients each
year. Cardiology services include all surgical procedures except transplant,
with four cardiac cath labs available. Orthopaedics and oncology are also core
service lines, with on-site radiation oncology
services and a chemotherapy/infusion clinic. Obstetrics care includes
high-risk pregnancy management, maternal/fetal medicine, and complete labor and
delivery services. Critical care units treat cardiac, surgical, trauma, and
medical cases. 

In addition to its main hospital facilities, Huron Valley-Sinai
Hospital operates two outpatient clinics, including the Charach Cancer Center
and an imaging center in Novi, a suburb 10 miles southeast of the hospital.
Huron Valley-Sinai Hospital was founded in 1986, and grew quickly thanks to the
generosity of William Carls and the Carls Foundation. To honor this
philanthropic history, Huron Valley-Sinai Hospital is located on 1 William Carls
Drive. 

Huron Valley-Sinai Hospital is fully accredited by the Joint Commission on
Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Commission_on_Accreditation_of_Healthcare_Organizations]
(JCAHO). The Joint Commission assesses the quality of care and safety for more
than 15,000 health care organizations. The Joint Commission conducts an
extensive on-site review at least once every three years whose purpose is to
evaluate the organization's performance in areas that affect patient care. 
http://www.hvsh.org/ [http://www.hvsh.org/]

Position Summary

The 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 Chief Nursing Officer represents nursing concerns on the
governing board and at medical staff leadership meetings.

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

* Provide a supportive and stimulating learning environment for nursing
student