Chief Executive Officer - Florida Coast Medical Center

MARKET SUMMARY :

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Florida Coast Surgical Hospital will be Tenet Healthcare’s inaugural Treasure Coast facility, situated on twenty-five acres at Becker Road and Florida’s Turnpike.

This 54-bed hospital, named the Florida Coast Medical and Surgical Center, will provide a range of surgical services, including orthopedics, spine, robotics, general surgery, and advanced cardiac care, along with diagnostic services.

The facility will be supported by the Palm Beach Health Network (PBHN), the largest health system in Palm Beach County. PBHN includes six healthcare facilities that collaborate to deliver exceptional care to the community.

Each hospital within the network offers unique, specialized services, ensuring that patients receive high-quality healthcare without having to leave the network.

The CEO will be responsible for establishing a cutting-edge hospital in a scenic coastal community, overseeing and organizing the opening of the hospital to operational excellence, which is currently under construction and scheduled to open in September 2025.

The CEO will be overseeing this pivotal phase, shaping the future of healthcare in our vibrant locale.

POSITION SUMMARY :

The Chief Executive Officer has overall operational responsibility and oversight of Florida Coast Surgical Hospital. The Chief Executive Officer will be responsible for leading by example and setting clear strategies and performance expectations in an environment of participation and collaboration with senior management, physicians, and the Joint Advisory Board(s).

FUNCTIONAL EXPECTATIONS & REQUIREMENTS :

The Chief Executive Officer has the following functional responsibilities in leading Florida Coast Surgical Hospital :

• Ensures a positive working relationship with physicians; creates a culture of open progressive communication and mutual understanding between the physicians, facility leadership, and employees.
• Develops and leads a top-notch administrative team.
• Establishes a sense of mutual pride of ownership among constituencies, including physicians, employees, and the community.

Nurtures a culture of shared purpose and goals among these groups, fostering improved working relationships and ensuring consistent quality of patient care.

Maintains a highly visible presence, interacting constantly with key stakeholders to inform and advise them of strategies, current healthcare trends, legislation, and activities.

Represents the facility as a vital provider and employer by being an active civic leader in the community.

• Recruits and retains first-rate physicians to work with the facility.
• Exhibits strong communication, presentation, and listening skills to ensure facility-wide collaboration and coordination, especially concerning physicians, employees, and the community.
• Displays strong business acumen, sophisticated knowledge of healthcare funding, and experience in competitive marketplaces with the ability to make complex and difficult decisions.
• In conjunction with the Chief Financial Officer of the facility, the Chief Administrative Officer will sign to certify the financials of the facility on a quarterly basis.
• Appropriately assesses strategic opportunities to enhance the facility’s market position.
• Assures the highest standards of healthcare delivery and outcomes, ensuring a constant patient focus.
• Shows creativity and judgment in developing and communicating an executable vision that includes new product lines and services, partnerships, and ventures.
• Continues to build solid, effective relationships with appropriate partners, payors, businesses, customers, and the community at large.
• Ensures positive employee relations and trust through communication, education, consistency, and dependability.
• Leads the development of progressive physician / facility strategies and executes plans to optimize the long-term potential of the facility.
• Fosters a work climate that attracts quality employees and promotes the facility as a provider of choice for patients.
• Demonstrates successes in integrating medical staff and creating opportunities for growth and profitability.

ORGANIZATIONAL LEADERSHIP - EXPECTATIONS & REQUIREMENTS :

As a leader in healthcare, Tenet is committed to providing the best possible care to every patient, with a clear focus on quality and service.

Strong leadership is essential to delivering on this commitment, and we believe that the quality of our leaders can give us a significant long-term competitive advantage.

We want to ensure every current and future leader in Tenet is successful, and we support that through our selection and hiring process and by providing coaching and training to our leaders.

In this regard, we have identified core competencies that will enable a leader to succeed at Tenet, and have defined them within the following five areas critical to performance :

Drive Organizational Success

• Translates complex strategies into aggressive and achievable team / individual goals, targets, and action plans that deliver results.
• Creates focus, energy, and commitment to key Tenet operational initiatives.
• Maintains ongoing feedback, measurement, and assessment processes that determine progress to plan and, if necessary, lead to course correction.
• Builds consensus and commitment among various stakeholders, often with competing priorities.
• Participates in talent planning to ensure recruitment and development of high-performing leaders.

Use Astute Judgment

• Demonstrates intellectual curiosity by seeking out new information and market awareness and uses that knowledge to improve the business.
• Uses a fact-based approach to assessing and designing solutions.
• Understands and addresses complex issues in the critical areas of healthcare.
• Defines unambiguous strategies for growth and operational excellence.
• Understands financial indicators / levers and delivers earnings and cash flow at or above budget.
• Critically and logically evaluates strategic and operational alternatives.

Lead Boldly

• Takes decisive action in high-stakes situations, times of crisis and uncertainty.
• Takes calculated risks to stay competitive in the industry / market.
• Promotes or asserts own position and ideas.
• Champions new ideas and initiatives that create operational / strategic advantage.
• Seeks out and decisively confronts and resolves issues or barriers to success.

Shape Strategy

• Develops progressive physician / facility strategies that achieve / exceed service, quality, growth, and cost targets year after year.
• Develops and communicates strategies that achieve competitive advantage.
• Builds a credible, high-return physician growth / replacement strategy.
• Counters competitive threats by leading distinctive change initiatives.

Earn Unwavering Trust

• Demonstrates high visibility networking and interacting constantly with key stakeholders.
• Builds solid effective relationships with physician partners, payers, and customers.
• Exhibits excellent communication, presentation, and listening skills.
• Maintains high ethical standards and integrity consistent with Tenet values and compliance expectations.

CANDIDATE EXPERIENCE, ATTRIBUTES AND EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS :

Minimum ten to fifteen years of progressive experience in facility or healthcare management, culminating in successfully leading a complex entity in a culturally diverse, competitive urban environment.

The incumbent should possess the following experiences, professional and personal attributes, and education :

• Demonstrated, sophisticated understanding of healthcare and facility financial matters.
• Experience as a senior operational executive in a proprietary facility.
• A proven background in developing and implementing successful strategies.
• A strong reputation for sustained, successful, inclusive, trust-based physician relations.
• A highly effective manager with a demonstrated track record of bold leadership.

Professional Attributes

• Must have independent judgment and decision-making capability.
• A visionary with the ability to think strategically.
• Demonstrated success in balancing cost and quality issues.
• Superior knowledge of healthcare trends and legislation.
• Track record of active community leadership.
• Proven ability to provide high-quality, cost-effective care.

Personal Attributes

• The ability to communicate effectively with diverse constituencies.
• One who encourages feedback and collaborative efforts in his / her staff.
• An individual of the highest personal and professional integrity.

Education / Certifications

An undergraduate degree in Business, Health Care Administration, or a related field is required. A Master’s degree is strongly preferred.

Compensation

A competitive compensation program will be tailored to the selected candidate. The base salary will be supplemented by a performance bonus and a comprehensive, well-rounded benefits program, which includes relocation assistance.

Travel

Minimal

Tenet Healthcare complies with federal, state, and / or local laws regarding mandatory vaccination of its workforce. If you are offered this position and must be vaccinated under any applicable law, you will be required to show proof of full vaccination or obtain an approval of a religious or medical exemption prior to your start date.

If you receive an exemption from the vaccination requirement, you will be required to submit to regular testing in accordance with the law.

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