Details
Posted: 27-May-22
Location: Salt Lake City, Utah
Type: Full Time
Categories:
Executive
Sector:
Hospital, Public and Private
College / University
University of Utah Health: Hospitals and Clinics (UUHC) invites inquiries, nominations, and applications for the role of Chief Operating Officer (COO). Reporting to the Chief Executive Officer, the COO will collaborate with the Executive Leadership Team to develop, implement and sustain enterprise-wide programs and strategies that support the mission of this world-class academic health system.
Consistently ranked No. 1 in quality in the nation among academic medical centers, and No. 1 best regional hospital, the University of Utah Health: Hospitals & Clinics is the only university health system in Utah and provides patient care for people across Utah, Idaho, Colorado, Nevada, Montana, and Wyoming. With five hospitals and plans for a sixth, 11 community health centers, a health plan, over 1,700 board-certified providers, a highly-ranked research enterprise, one of nation's largest laboratories, and 8,000 committed staff members UUHC has had success providing the best care to patients all across the spectrum of care.
The COO will be directly responsible for providing leadership for the operations and execution of key strategies across UUHC and its related entities. The COO has responsibility for all main campus and off campus operations across the inpatient and outpatient environments. The COO will be a key partner and advisor to the CEO and will partner with the senior leadership team to ensure that the clinical platform achieves high operational efficiency, quality outcomes, and patient experience while promoting employee engagement.
The successful candidate will be an effective communicator who is team-oriented and can build strong collaborative relationships at all levels in order to deliver an excellent patient, provider, and employee experience. Committed to equity, diversity, and inclusion, the next COO will bring broad executive leadership experience within a highly matrixed, top-performing academic medical center or community delivery health system and possess a minimum of ten years of progressive leadership experience.
Interested parties should direct all inquiries, nominations and applications to Luke Morris and Tiffany Johnson using WittKieffer's Candidate Portal. For additional information, please contact Tiffany Johnson via email at tjohnson@wittkieffer.com or 916.536.6888.
The University of Utah Health values diversity and is committed to equal opportunity for all persons regardless of age, color, disability, ethnicity, marital status, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, veteran status or any other status protected by law.
