Executive Vice President Health System Affairs

Executive Vice President Health System Affairs

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ABOUT UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER

The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center ranks among the top academic medical centers in the world.  Its faculty members – who are responsible for a broad array of groundbreaking biomedical research advances – are respected for their dedication to teaching and patient care. The Medical Center has four degree-granting institutions: UT Southwestern Medical School, UT Southwestern Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, UT Southwestern School of Health Professions, and the Peter O’Donnell Jr. School of Public Health.  The schools train about 3,700 medical, graduate, and allied health students, residents, and postdoctoral fellows each year.

UT Southwestern was named one of the Top Five Best Organizations for Leadership Development (BOLD) Award winners by the National Center for Healthcare Leadership (NCHL) in 2022. The NCHL conducts a survey of health care organizations across the U.S. every other year to assess all components of organizations’ efforts to prepare and develop leaders.

A great medical center offers outstanding patient care in addition to fine teaching and innovative research.  We emphasize compassionate medical treatment.  UT Southwestern’s physicians are equipped to bring the latest laboratory findings to each patient.  We provide inpatient care to nearly 117,000 people and oversee approximately 3 million outpatient visits annually. UT Southwestern has approximately 21,000 employees and an operating budget of approximately $4.1 billion.

Position Summary

The Executive Vice President for Health System Affairs for UT Southwestern is a senior Health Care Executive with extensive experience in personnel management, operations, institutional and professional business planning, strategic planning, and hospital and practice plan management in an academic setting.   The EVP is the overall leader of UT Southwestern’s clinical enterprise, and is responsible for the successful strategic, operational, and service-related performance of the Health System, including the faculty practice. 

UT Southwestern Health System is composed of the University’s hospitals, clinics and practice plan. The EVP will be responsible for implementing strategic priorities and initiatives, ensuring efficient and productive administrative operations for the health system, and developing and implementing key new initiatives focused on the coordination of the institutional and professional clinical programs, including quality and compliance, as well as the integration of the clinical strategic plan into the research and educational missions.

To execute the strategic priorities of UT Southwestern and the Health System, the EVP will partner and work closely with the Executive Vice President of Academic Affairs, Provost, and Dean of the Medical School; Executive Vice President of Business Affairs; and Executive Vice President of Institutional Advancement; as well as other senior leaders throughout the institution.

Job Duties

1. Leads UT Southwestern’s clinical enterprise and drives superior performance that includes successful achievement of its annual operational plans and the associated metric targets in the categories of clinical quality, safety, customer service, work culture, finance, and growth.
2. In close collaboration with the President, the EVP leads the strategic planning, market analysis, business development and affiliations for the Health System. The EVP provides leadership to ensure that sufficient resources, both human and financial, are invested in the development and implementation of all strategic organizational plans, including those around performance improvement, patient satisfaction, and population health.
3. Ensures that UT Southwestern provides clinically excellent, state-of-the-art healthcare, while building and maintaining positive and effective relationships with other constituents within the UT Southwestern Medical Center and Southwestern Health Resources enterprise.
4. Responsible for leading the strategic planning for development of key clinical service lines, including UT Southwestern's Clinical Strategic Plan. 
5. Collaborates with the EVP Academic Affairs, Provost and Dean of UT Southwestern Medical School to ensure that the clinical enterprise fully supports and reflects the world-renowned scholarly education and research missions of UT Southwestern.
6. Provides leadership, innovation, and prioritization of the expansion of access to UT Southwestern ambulatory and in-patient hospital services. The EVP is responsible for creating systems and processes that ensure patient access across the continuum of care. 
7. In partnership with nursing leadership, the EVP works with the administrative team to ensure efficient and effective capacity management.
8. Working closely with fellow clinical leaders (Chairs, CMO, CEO of hospitals), the EVP integrates clinical services across the full continuum of care to enhance access, improve patient throughput and outcomes, and develop and enhance the use of partner hospitals within the region.
9. Assesses the UT Southwestern Health System management structure and effectiveness and enhances management and service line capabilities by realigning the structure, recruitment, retention, mentoring, and professional development, as needed.
10. As appointed by the President, the EVP serves as a member of several boards, including the UT Southwestern Medical Group Board and University Hospitals Board, among others. 
11. Serves in a key leadership role with affiliated facilities such as Parkland Health & Hospital System, Children’s Health, and the Dallas VA Hospital, and actively participates in contract negotiations with those entities.
12. The EVP is a key UT Southwestern leader working with the leadership of Southwestern Health Resources. In conjunction with this partnership, the EVP serves as Senior Executive Officer of the Joint Operating Company, an umbrella encompassing Clements University Hospital and THR’s Dallas flagship, Texas Health Dallas.
13. Oversees managed care contracting for the hospital and practice plan by working with Southwestern Health Resources leadership as the contracting arm of UT Southwestern. Identifies and implements programs to integrate and synthesize the hospital patient care services with the practice plans.
14. Oversees the Health System network strategy and provides programmatic oversight.
15. Works with leaders across all three aspects of the mission of UTSW to support innovative, integrated technological advances aimed at enhancing the interoperability of clinical, operational, and financial information systems.
16. Participates in successfully identifying and implementing business development initiatives at the local and enterprise level to increase volume, efficiency, and profitability in support of the overall clinical, research, and educational mission.
17. Oversees major facility planning, design, construction, facilities management, and renovations for the Health System. This includes space planning with respect to clinical based research activities.
18. In partnership with the EVP Business Affairs, the EVP works with financial and administrative teams on issues specific to monthly operational analysis, quarterly budget reviews, and annual budget preparation.
19. Supports the development of enterprise-level business intelligence and analytics to drive integrated, comprehensive strategic decision-making and resource allocation.
20. Maintains compliance with regulatory agencies governing healthcare delivery by continually monitoring the operations of UT Southwestern Medical Center programs and physical properties.
21. At the direction of the President, the EVP supports development and fundraising efforts for various capital projects, campaigns, programs, and service lines.
22. Optimizes patient experience and engagement across UT Southwestern by focusing on patient needs and continuous improvement in quality and safety.
23. Oversees the current and future clinical growth of the Health System, seeking opportunities for appropriate expansion and opportunities for increased operational efficiency.
24. Develops strong and mutually beneficial relationships with key partners of UTSW, including but not limited to Parkland, Children’s of Dallas, and Texas Health Resources.
25. Responsible for the successful opening of a new behavioral health hospital, in partnership with the Texas Health and Human Services Commission, and a new pediatric campus, in partnership with Children’s Health.
26. Performs other duties as appropriate.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

Driving Results

• Particularly strong capability to engage people while establishing and executing performance-oriented goals within highly complex environments.
• Analyzes operational data and employs proven management techniques to obtain maximum effectiveness and efficiency.
• Effectively coordinates various clinical functions and activities that are additive and exponentially helpful in fulfilling the UT Southwestern mission.
• Strong financial acumen with the ability to direct, instruct, and advise administrative staff regarding budget activities.
• Excellent operational and financial track record with an understanding of how to identify and drive levers to effect change in a complex academic healthcare organization.
• Understands and effectively responds to day-to-day problems.
• Translates policies into appropriate operating procedures.
• Evaluates the concerns of the public and translates those concerns into relevant policies, effective operations, responsive services, and new programs.
• Translates a vision for the organization into concrete strategic goals, tactical plans, and individual performance plans with specific metrics and accountabilities.

Collaborating and Influencing

• Builds and maintains strong relationships with department Chairs, clinical leadership, and the medical staff by providing visible and approachable leadership through frequent communication and employee recognition opportunities for faculty and staff.
• Builds partnerships across the enterprise to address health system-wide challenges or opportunities.
• Creates an environment of shared values where collaboration is expected at all levels.
• Systematically builds support at multiple levels and across groups to achieve alignment, acknowledging differences in interests.
• Creates significant mutually beneficial partnerships within the Texas, national, and international healthcare arena.

Leading People

• Enhances employee engagement by maintaining an open, supportive culture of inter-professional and interdisciplinary collaboration and excellence in healthcare delivery and academic leadership.
• Upholds UT Southwestern’s commitment to the values of diversity, equity, and inclusion at all levels of the organization, including health equity throughout the Health System.
• Has a record of identifying, recruiting, and retaining strong, intelligent, creative leaders and forming a cohesive, high-performing leadership team.
• Establishes and maintains effective working relationships with clinical managers, staff, and key stakeholders.
• Communicates the vision and purpose of UTSW with enthusiasm and passion and enlists the top leadership team to reinforce the organization’s purpose, culture, and values.

OTHER PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS

• An expert at building internal and external relationships with a demonstrated track record of working successfully with academic physicians, nationally prominent academicians and physician leaders, diverse management teams, community organizations, local and state government officials, and other major constituencies.
• Has the integrity, emotional intelligence, and dedication to serve as a model for the organization and leadership team.
• Possesses a superior intellect and passion for the work and the tripartite mission of an academic medical center.
• Outstanding interpersonal skills – values and builds effective personal relationships and appreciates and facilitates transparency.
• Collaborator and consensus builder – has a track record of successfully partnering with diverse constituencies, particularly academic medical staff.
• Thinks strategically in a dynamic marketplace with a tolerance for ambiguity and flexibility to change direction, as needed.
• Highly visible and inspiring leader with the ability to communicate broadly and effectively with both internal and external constituencies.
• Confident, engaging, and dynamic leader; possesses a sense of humor and a “can do” attitude.

Experience and Education

Medical (e.g., M.D.) degree and a track record as a highly respected physician in an academic medical center is required, with active Board Certification in a chosen medical discipline strongly preferred.  An MBA or equivalent degree/experience is also preferred.

Ten (10) years progressively responsible experience in leadership roles in a top-ranked academic medical center is required.  Must have served as CEO, COO, CMO, or Department Chair (with profit/loss responsibility) of a major academic medical center hospital or a subsidiary with established academic and research affiliations, ideally in a significant multi-site, multi-hospital healthcare system.

Must have experience leading and implementing innovative quality, safety, and performance improvement initiatives to achieve superior clinical quality and outcomes; financial success; and high patient, physician, and employee satisfaction in an academic medical center and/or health system.

Salary

Salary Negotiable

Benefits

To learn more about the benefits UT Southwestern offers visit HR Resources for Employees – UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas

Working Conditions

Work is performed primarily in general office environment. 

Security 

This position is security-sensitive and subject to Texas Education Code 51.215, which authorizes UT Southwestern to obtain criminal history record information

COVID STATEMENT

For COVID-19 vaccine information, applicants should visit Work and Learn on Campus: COVID-19 – UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas

Any qualifications to be considered as equivalents in lieu of stated minimum requires prior approval of the Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer or his/her designee.

UT Southwestern Medical Center is committed to an educational and working environment that provides equal opportunity to all members of the University community.  As an equal opportunity employer, UT Southwestern prohibits unlawful discrimination, including discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, disability, genetic information, citizenship status, or veteran status.