Description

Vice President & Chief Nursing Officer
Reid Health

Richmond, IN

The Opportunity:

Reid Health is seeking an accomplished, collaborative and highly visible nursing executive to serve as its next Vice President and Chief Nursing Officer (CNO). Reporting directly to the President and Chief Executive Officer, the CNO will join Reid at an important point in the organization's evolution, one characterized by strong financial performance, growing patient volumes, significant investments in technology and innovation, improving patient experience, and a renewed focus on organizational culture, accountability and collaboration.

This is an opportunity for a nursing leader who wants to make a meaningful and visible impact. Reid has many of the foundational elements necessary to support exceptional nursing practice: strong relationships with local nursing schools, an established pipeline of new graduate nurses, advanced clinical technology, a highly developed Epic environment, and an executive team committed to engaging directly with frontline caregivers. The next CNO will have the opportunity to bring these assets together through a cohesive nursing strategy that strengthens culture, develops leaders, improves retention and advances clinical excellence.

The Position: 

The Vice President and CNO is the senior executive responsible for nursing practice and nursing leadership across Reid Health. The CNO provides strategic, clinical, operational and administrative leadership to ensure the delivery of safe, high-quality, evidence-based and patient-centered care while creating an environment in which nurses and nursing leaders can thrive. As a member of the executive leadership team, the CNO will serve first and foremost as an enterprise leader, contributing to decisions and strategies that extend beyond nursing. The successful executive will bring a system perspective to organizational issues, build strong relationships with C-suite peers and physician leaders, and make decisions based upon what is best for patients and Reid Health as a whole. The CNO will lead the continued transformation of nursing culture and practice, strengthen accountability and engagement, build leadership capability and succession, advance workforce recruitment and retention strategies, and partner closely with Quality and Patient Safety leadership as Reid continues its high-reliability journey. The Vice President / Chief Nursing Officer is responsible for overseeing and directing nursing departments and nursing practice across the healthcare system. The CNO provides leadership to Nursing Units, Emergency Services, Urgent Care, Quality and Patient Safety, Cardiovascular Procedures and Diagnostics, ROSE, Crothall, Reid Health Ambulance, and Community Ambulance Partners. The CNO provides strategic guidance, administrative expertise and operational leadership to ensure the delivery of high-quality patient care while promoting a positive work environment for nursing staff. The CNO is accountable at the strategic level for planning, development of new services, policy formation, human resource management and organizational effectiveness, financial performance, patient care services operations, and medical and management staff relations. In addition, the CNO provides leadership to clinically transform the healthcare delivery structure and position the organization to be a leader in a value-based/risk delivery model. Expertise in program development, clinical standards development, clinical staffing systems, care models, contracting, information systems, reimbursement, and a broad vision for the future of the healthcare industry are essential to this position. 

The Ideal Candidate:

• Bachelor of Science in Nursing required. Master of Science in Nursing or Master of Health Administration preferred.
• A minimum 10 years of leadership experience required, with at least five years of senior leadership in a healthcare organization.
• Licensure and Certification: Registered Nurse required.

The Organization:

Reid Health is an independent, innovative health system that offers a complex array of services, including open-heart surgery, cancer care, and orthopedics. The organization has been delivering health care to the community since 1905 and has been on the cutting edge of managing population health for communities throughout its history. Governed by a 19-member Board of Directors that includes 4 employed physicians and multiple Board committees with membership of Board members and Community members, Reid Health is known for going the extra mile (GEM) to ensure patients and families are made to feel as comfortable and cherished as possible, whether on the main campus or at one of the numerous satellite facilities in the region of Indiana and Ohio it serves.

Reid Health includes Reid Health Hospital, a 227-bed hospital on the main campus in Richmond, Indiana; an Emergency Department with outpatient services in Connersville, Indiana; and numerous Reid Health Physician Associates satellite locations in the region of East-Central Indiana and West- Central Ohio. The main Reid Health facility in Richmond sits in a park-like campus of about 100 acres, creating a healing environment for patients, families, and employees. Reid Health has a service area that is home to about 280,000 people and includes six counties in Indiana and two counties in Ohio. In FY 2024, Reid Health had about 12,458 admissions, 54,358 emergency department visits, 3,881 inpatient surgery cases, and 10,395 outpatient surgery cases. Total net operating revenue for Reid Health is approximately $648 million.

The Location:

Richmond is a city in East-Central Indiana and borders on the state of Ohio in the Dayton Metropolitan Area. It is the county seat of Wayne County and has a population of more than 35,000 people. Richmond is noted for its significant historic architecture and has several districts and individual buildings that are noted on the National Register of Historic Places. Richmond is sometimes called the "cradle of recorded jazz" because the earliest jazz recordings and records were made at the studio of Gennett Records, the first to record such artists as Louis Armstrong, Bix Beiderbecke, Jelly Roll Morton, Hoagy Carmichael, Lawrence Welk and Gene Autry. Richmond is located about 12 miles south of Hoosier Hill, the highest point in Indiana.

Please direct all inquiries, applications, and referrals to: 

Richard Heishman

richard.heishman@amnhealthcare.com

About B.E. Smith Leadership Solutions, Executive and Physician Leadership Search 

B.E. Smith Leadership Solutions, Executive and Physician Leadership Search, is a retained executive search firm serving the healthcare and life sciences industries. Ranked as one of the top healthcare recruiting firms in the country, B.E. Smith Leadership Solutions, is known for leading healthcare into the future by its growing base of clients across the country, drawing on a national pool of candidates.