Our team members are the heart of what makes us better.

At Hackensack Meridian Health we help our patients live better, healthier lives — and we help one another to succeed. With a culture rooted in connection and collaboration, our employees are team members. Here, competitive benefits are just the beginning. It’s also about how we support one another and how we show up for our community.

Together, we keep getting better - advancing our mission to transform healthcare and serve as a leader of positive change.

Under the direction of the Regional President, the President, Chief Hospital Executive, Southern Ocean Medical Center (SOMC) provides leadership, direction and administration on all aspects of day to day Hospital operations in order to achieve targeted objectives, which includes nursing and support services, medical staff/team member/patient satisfaction, medical manpower/business development and financial performance.

Each and every day at Southern Ocean Medical Center, our physicians, nurses, team members and volunteers come together to capture the spirit of compassionate care and medical excellence that has defined our hospital for more than 40 years. It is our way of assuring that we remain true to providing each patient with a remarkable health care experience.

• Ranked by U.S. News & World Report 2024-25 as a High Performing hospital in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).
• Earned The Joint Commission Gold Seal of Approval® and is also certified by the Joint Commission for stroke and sepsis, a disease-specific care certification which is awarded after an on-site review to assess disease specifics
• Designated an ACS-MBSA QIP Comprehensive Center by the American College of Surgeons as the most comprehensive quality bariatric surgery program in the region
• Achieved its second Magnet® designation, the nation’s highest honor of nursing excellence for quality and safety in patient care
• Received the 2023 American Heart Association’s Get With The Guidelines Gold Plus award for Heart Failure
• Received the 2023 American Heart Association’s Get with the Guidelines® Stroke Gold Plus with Target: Stroke Honor Roll Elite and Target: Type 2 Diabetes Honor Roll
• Recognized as a Center of Excellence in Surgical Safety: Smoke Evacuation facility and a recipient of the AORN Go Clear Award

Learn more about this great hospital as part of the Hackensack Meridian Health network: 

https://www.hackensackmeridianhealth.org/en/locations/southern-ocean-medical-center

A day in the life of a President, Chief Hospital Executive at Hackensack Meridian Health, Southern Ocean Medical Center (SOMC) includes:

• Visionary and Strategic Planning: In collaboration with the Regional President and senior leadership team, leverages innovation of current resources and systems and explores and prepares for new models of care that support population health and positions the hospital competitively in the market while responding to the dynamic needs of the community.
• Relationship Management: Establishes effective working relationships with key constituents, including community, employed and independent physicians, team members, and board members through open collaboration and consistent communication. Creates a greater sense of 'systemness' throughout the Hospital.
• Process Improvement: Exhibits leadership and fosters commitment to continuous quality improvement of quality, safety and the human experience whereby decision-making is driven by data analytics to achieve customer loyalty. Works with hospital and organizational leadership and team members to foster high reliability thinking with sensitivity to operations, a preoccupation with failure, deference to expertise, resilience, and a reluctance to simplify the complexity of the system.
• Clinical Service Integration: Develops and fosters effective collaboration between clinical departments, matrixed care transformation services, employed and independent physicians, and other affiliated services both within and outside the hospital to ensure a wholly integrated approach to providing services, and fulfilling the hospital's strategic initiatives.
• People Management: Manages and/or assists in the recruitment, development and supervision of team members. Creates and sustains an environment that fosters trust and team member engagement. Establishes clear objectives tied to department and/or organizational strategic goals. Coaches, counsels and evaluates performance of direct reports.
• Financial Management: Involved in the development and management of budget for assigned areas. Regularly monitors relevant key financial indicators and performance metrics, modifying business activities where needed in response to changing financial situations.
• Data Management and Analytics: Track, analyze, and report on relevant data and metrics as needed and/or requested. Develop, recommend and/or implement actions or process improvements as appropriate.
• Other Duties as Assigned: Complete all assignments and projects in a timely fashion.
• Adheres to HMH Organizational competencies and standards of behavior.

Education, Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Required:

• Master Degree in Business Administration or Hospital Administration.
• Ten (10) years of experience in Strategic hospital operations.
• Five (5) years of experience in Senior level leadership.
• Demonstrated leadership and complex organizational management skills.
• Well developed planning, marketing, organizational development, and business skills.
• Information systems capabilities and appreciation for the data which will be required to make meaningful management decisions.
• Ability to work with physicians and professionals in multiple settings and locations and to promote diversity in the workplace.
• Excellent leadership and people skills.
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Ability to multi-task.
• Excellent collaborator.
• Experience in creating and managing budgets.
• Strong project management skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Proficient computer skills including but not limited to Microsoft Office and Google Suite platforms.

Education, Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Preferred:

• Fellow, American College of Healthcare Executives.

If you feel that the above description speaks directly to your strengths and capabilities, then please apply today!