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Position

Vice President, Quality, Patient Safety and Risk Management - Heartland Regional Medical Center

Summary

Cejka Executive Search has been retained to lead Heartland Regional Medical Center’s (HRMC) search for a new Vice President, Quality, Patient Safety and Risk Management. HRMC is a 491-bed medical center and a member of Heartland Health, a not-for-profit, integrated health care system, and a 2009 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality award winner located in St. Joseph, Missouri. With more than 3,000 employees, Heartland Health is the largest employer in St. Joseph, MO and the 17th largest in the greater Kansas City region. Heartland Health also includes a large physician clinic, foundation, health plan and other ventures and affiliations.

The Vice President, Quality, Patient Safety and Risk Management defines and coordinates the roles of clinical quality improvement, regulatory compliance, safety, infection control, event and risk management and patient advocacy. As an organizational thought leader, responsibilities include investigation, reporting and mitigation of medical errors and facility-related risk, assuring comprehensive data collection and analysis to accomplish continuous performance and process improvement. In addition, the Vice President will develop and maintain strong networks with outside agencies and association to help Heartland understand and assure compliance to regulatory standards, safe work environments, and other required and best-practice risk mitigation activities.

Successful candidates will possess a collaborative leadership style, results orientation, and a passion for excellence in patient care. Candidates will be a board certified physician with advanced experience leading and facilitating quality improvement and patient safety initiatives and/or a Master’s prepared registered nurse with similar experience. Progressive management leadership is also required. ID#144356.

Contact

Qualified candidates may submit their CV or contact:
Deedra Hartung
Senior Executive Vice President, Managing Director
Cejka Executive Search
4 CityPlace Drive, Suite 300
St. Louis, MO 63141
Phone: (800) 209-8143
Email: dhartung@cejkasearch.com

Posted on February 7, 2012

Position

Chief Procurement Officer - Sisters of Charity Health System, Cleveland, OH

Summary

The Sisters of Charity Health System is currently recruiting qualified candidates for the position of Chief Procurement Officer. Headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, the Sisters of Charity Health System provides oversight, leadership and strategic direction to more than 20 organizations responding to community needs in Canton and Cleveland, Ohio and Columbia, South Carolina.

The Chief Procurement Officer reports directly to the Senior Vice President of Operations at the Sisters of Charity Health System. This position is responsible for the centralized core supply chain functions and standardization of work practices across the organization to realize the mission of the Sisters of Charity Health System. The Chief Procurement Officer is the executive responsible for the management, administration, and supervision of the System-wide acquisition programs including non-personnel contracting services, purchasing of supplies, equipment and materials. The Chief Procurement Officer leads procurement staff that is responsible for determining specifications, identifying sources, integrating the contracting process, ensuring institutional policy, optimizing group purchasing, contract compliance, order placement, pricing accuracy, expediting, addressing invoice discrepancies, and resolving customer issues.

Qualifications:

• Education: Master’s Degree in Business or related field
• Experience: A minimum of ten years of progressively greater responsibility in supply chain including a multi-hospital system-wide operation;
• Mission: Knowledge of and competencies to work in a Catholic ministry
• Ease in working as a team at an Executive level, collaborative management style, ease in communications; able to exercise duty of loyalty to the organization and team, etc.

Contact

Qualified candidates should submit their resume to Gary Lazroff, Vice President Human Resources, 2351 East 22nd Street, Cleveland, OH 44114 or email to Gary.Lazroff@csauh.com.

Posted on February 3, 2012

Position

Senior Financial Analyst - Dayton, Ohio

Summary

The position of Senior Financial Analyst is with a company located in Dayton, Ohio. This company is in distribution of electronic products and has yearly sales of $50M.
The Senior Financial Analyst will provide financial reporting and analysis for the financial department of the company as well as internal customers. The chosen candidate will build annual budgets and produce monthly reports to track progress toward revenue and expense budgets and also provide input into ongoing sales and margin forecasting. The Senior Financial Analyst will communicate customer, salesperson, vendor and/or product performance issues to required internal customers. This position will prepare reporting and analysis to support corporate projects and to develop easily accessible analysis for senior management. This position will be responsible for all financial and operational report preparation.
Required: Bachelors Degree with emphasis in Accounting or Finance, 4 to 7 years related experience, must have SQL and business writing skills. The chosen candidate Must be proactive, outgoing, decisive, good communicator, go-getter, energetic
Salary: $55,000 to $59,000 + Benefits

Contact

Tom Heeney, CPC
Corporate Resources, LLC
Email: theeney@corpresources.com

Contact

Nominations, expressions of interest, and applications (including a cover letter and resume) should be submitted electronically to Andrew Chastain and Jena Abernathy, the executive search consultants supporting Firelands Regional Medical Center in this search at FirelandsCEO@wittkieffer.com.

Posted on January 23, 2012