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Prime Healthcare Management
Ontario, California

Chief Nursing Officer

Registered NurseFull-Time

Listed compensation

$160k-$200k

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Job Description

Prime Healthcare is an award-winning health system headquartered in Ontario, California. Prime Healthcare operates 54 hospitals and has more than 360 outpatient locations in 15 states providing more than 3.0million patient visits annually.

It is one of the nation’s leading health systems with over 60,000 employees and physicians. Twenty-one of the Prime Healthcare hospitals are members of the Prime Healthcare Foundation, a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit public charity. Prime Healthcare is actively seeking new members to join our corporate team!

Prime Healthcare stands apart from others by its unique ability to save and transform hospitals. We have been named the “fastest-growing hospital system” in the country by Modern Healthcare. And as we continue to grow and fulfill our mission of “saving hospitals, saving jobs and saving lives,” we remain committed to delivering exceptional care, and creating a legacy that will improve healthcare.

Prime Healthcare and the not-for-profit Prime Healthcare Foundation serve more than 600 communities across 14 states with more than 57,000 staff and affiliated physicians in Alabama, California, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Michigan, Missouri, Nevada, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Texas.

If you wish to contribute to the Prime Healthcare legacy within a Chief Nursing Officer capacity for a hospital within our family of acute care hospitals (or future hospitals), then join our executive leadership network to begin exploring immediate and future opportunities.

Responsibilities

As a Chief Nursing Officer leading one of our facilities, you'll be responsible for:

Providing strategic leadership as the senior executive position responsible for all nursing and other designated patient care functions and services within the hospital organization.

Functioning at an executive level to provide effective and coordinated leadership to deliver nursing care, treatment, and services.

Assuming responsibility for assessing, planning, coordinating, implementing and evaluating nursing practice on a facility level.

Assuming 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.

  • Representing nursing concerns on the governing board and at medical staff leadership meetings.
  • Serving as a member of professional staff committees in matters pertaining to patient care and has authority to speak on behalf of nursing and clinical areas to same extent that other hospital leaders speak for their respective disciplines or departments.
  • Demonstrating thorough knowledge of Federal, State, Local Laws, and Accreditation Standards.

Implementing standards of nursing practice and standards of care, annually reviewing and revising as necessary to reflect changes in nursing practice.

Demonstrating knowledge of proper identification and reporting of medical/health care errors. Protecting the patient in the event of a medical/healthcare error and as appropriate, assisting in medical/health care error resolution.

Demonstrating knowledge of responsible cost controls mechanisms to insure maximum effectiveness of funds expended from approved departmental budgets.

Qualifications

In order to be considered for a Chief Nursing Officer position within our facilities, you'll possess the following qualifications:

  • Active and current professional registered nurse licensed in the state in which they practice is required.
  • An academic degree in nursing is required, and a postgraduate degree in nursing or related field (may include health care administration or business administration) or a written plan with specified time-lines to obtain a postgraduate degree is required.
  • Current BLS (AHA) certificate and maintain current.
  • Minimum of five (5) years of progressive management experience in a facility environment, as a Nursing Director of multiple, complex nursing departments.
  • Minimum of two (2) years previous leadership or administrative experience required.
  • Highly effective interpersonal and communication skills.
  • Proven leadership ability and facility operational expertise.
  • Ability to serve as role model and advocate for the professional discipline of nursing.

Proven ability to effectively and efficiently organize patient care promoting optimal outcomes, patient safety, and patient, physician and employee satisfaction.

Proven success recruiting, retaining and developing staff. Strength in mentoring and developing staff, encouraging professional growth and achievement.

Proven track record in taking the lead in complying with regulatory standards, rules and laws.

Pay Transparency

Prime Healthcare Management, Inc. offers competitive compensation and a comprehensive benefits package that provides employees the flexibility to tailor benefits according to their individual needs.

Our Total Rewards package includes, but is not limited to, paid time off, a 401K retirement plan, medical, dental, and vision coverage, tuition reimbursement, and many more voluntary benefit options. Benefits may vary based on employment status, i. e. full-time, part-time, per diem or temporary.

A reasonable compensation estimate for this role, which includes estimated wages, benefits, and other forms of compensation, is $160,000.00 to $200,000.00 on an annualized basis.

The exact starting compensation to be offered will be determined at the time of selecting an applicant for hire and will be dependent on a wide range of factors, including but not limited to geographic location, skill set, experience, education, credentials, and licensure.

Additionally, employees in this position may be eligible to participate in the Company’s annual discretionary bonus program. Discretionary bonuses, if any, are based on a number of factors, which include but are not limited to individual and Company performance.

Employment Status: Full Time

Shift: Days

Equal Employment Opportunity

Company is an equal employment opportunity employer.

Company prohibits discrimination against any applicant or employee based on race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, age (subject to applicable law), disability, military status, genetic information or any other basis protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws.

The Company also prohibits harassment of applicants or employees based on any of these protected categories. Know Your Rights: eeoc.gov

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Qualifications

Experience
5+ years of experience

Key Skills

Nursing administrationPatient care managementRegulatory complianceClinical staff competencyBudgetingInterpersonal skillsStaff developmentQuality improvementMedical error resolution

Nursing Administration — Registered Nurse Career Context

Of the 45 active Nursing Leadership listings this role was benchmarked against, 24% are remote, 53% have no call, 71% require no weekends.

The cost-of-living index for California is 110.7 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)), so the posted ~$180k midpoint carries the purchasing power of roughly $163k in an average-cost state. 63.6% of California clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

Nursing Leadership by the numbers
MeasureThis jobMarket
Cost-of-living adjusted pay~$163k in purchasing powerCalifornia index 110.7 (US = 100)BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)
Nursing Administration listings in California20 active—live on WeekdayDoc, Nov 2026
All nursing leadership listings in California406 active5,691 nationallylive on WeekdayDoc, Nov 2026
Work settingon-sitepeers: 24% remote · 53% no call · 71% no weekends45 benchmarked listings
Sign-on & loan repaymentnot statedCalifornia registered nurse listings (all specialties): 11% state a sign-on bonus (median $8k) · 4% offer loan repayment406 active listings, Nov 2026
New Nursing Administration RN listings115 in the last 30 days129 the 30 days before (−11%)U.S., first seen on WeekdayDoc, Nov 2026
Sources: WeekdayDoc live listing index, BEA Regional Price Parities (2024); as of Nov 2026. Same values as the Weekday Verdict and Market Insights on this page. California figures use all nursing leaderships: too few California Nursing Administration postings state pay.

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Salary Distribution

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Annual compensation range

Benefits & Perks

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401k / retirement match
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Sign-on bonus
33%
Loan repayment
11%
CME allowance
6%
Relocation assistance
6%

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Work-life snapshot

median 1.5this job 1.5
Better work-life than 30% of Nursing Leadership listings

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 1,187 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

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About Prime Healthcare Management

Hospitals and Health Care
Ontario, California
5,001-10,000 employees

Benefits & Perks

Paid time off
401K retirement plan
Medical, dental, and vision coverage
Tuition reimbursement
Voluntary benefit options

Living in Ontario

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$643k≈ 4.0× annual pay
Typical market rent
$2,580/mo≈ 19% of gross pay
Residents’ average commute
32 min
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
106.4
State income tax
Up to 13.3%
Sources & methodology

Sources: Zillow home values (Sep 2026), Zillow market rents (Sep 2026), U.S. Census ACS 2024 five-year.

BEA 2024 · Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.

Ratios use this listing’s gross annual pay. Not a cost-of-living guarantee.