Covenant Health

President & Chief Administrative Officer (CAO), Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center

Full time, 80 Hours Per Pay Period, Day Shift 

Covenant Health Overview:

Covenant Health is the region’s top-performing healthcare network with 10 hospitals, outpatient and specialty services, and Covenant Medical Group, our area’s fastest-growing physician practice division. Headquartered in Knoxville, Covenant Health is a community-owned integrated healthcare delivery system and the area’s largest employer. Our more than 11,000 employees, volunteers, and 1,500 affiliated physicians are dedicated to improving the quality of life for the more than two million patients and families we serve every year. Covenant Health is the only healthcare system in East Tennessee to be named a Forbes “Best Employer” seven times.

About Fort Sanders Medical Center:

Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center is an award-winning, certified, and accredited facility with 541 beds. As a Joint Commission Comprehensive Stroke Center, Fort Sanders offers state-of-the art care that maximizes recovery from stroke.  We are also the region’s leader in areas such as bariatric surgery, robotic surgery, high risk labor and delivery and minimally invasive spine surgery. Our door-to-balloon times for heart attack patients are below the national average, and our hip fracture center offers advanced diagnosis, surgery and recovery procedures for hip patients.

Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center is a member of Covenant Health, a locally-owned, non-profit health system based in Knoxville, TN, with a “patient-focused” culture. It has been recognized by Forbes Magazine as its 2020 “Best-in-State-Employer” for Tennessee. The CEO of our company, Jim VanderSteeg, attends every new employee orientation and will ask you to sign our pledge of excellence to always put patients first, strive for excellence in everything we do, and make Covenant Health the first and best choice for patients in our region. As you’d expect, we offer our employees a robust benefits package, including: offering unmatched medical insurance, tuition reimbursement; student loan repayment assistance, certification bonuses; leadership and professional development programs; an employer-matched 401(k); and a generous Combined Time Off (CTO) program.

Position Summary:

The President & CAO of Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center is responsible for overall management of the medical center to ensure achievement of objectives established by the Board of Directors.

Recruiter: Bradley Sparks || bsparks2@covhlth.com || 865-374-5382

• Determines vision, mission and strategic direction of Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center. Establishes policies, procedures, and practices to guide quality performance of activities.
• Delegates to subordinate managers responsibility and authority, and provides leadership necessary for effective performance of their responsibilities.
• Ensures the medical center operates within federal, state and local laws and regulations as regards delivery of quality health care to the communities in which we serve.
• Reviews and controls program results for the medical center to insure that missions are achieved in terms of quality, timeliness, costs, and effectiveness.
• Reviews and studies activities of the medical center to: focus goals and objectives; define current and future business needs and growth opportunities; and then to translate these into long-range plans and strategies.
• Monitors operations and activities of organizations and makes changes in structure, organizational design, methods of operation necessary for effectiveness, growth and profitability.
• Ensures a professional working environment that will optimize employee motivation, performance through meaningful work assignments, proper utilization of personnel, effective staffing, training and development, an effective performance planning and review system, and equitable pay relationships.
• Creates a favorable organization image in the community through projects, membership on board and committees, and business contacts. Encourages subordinate managers to exercise this responsibility.
• Is available to employees and supervisors by periodic walk-through of working areas and facilities. Periodically meets with employees for informational purposes and to determine the concerns of the medical center.
• Provides leadership for conducting business activities in strict compliance with Covenant Health’s policies, procedures and practices, with a strong commitment to established missions for the medical center. Responsible for this commitment by subordinate managers and all employees.

Minimum Education:

Graduate degree in business administration or hospital administration required.

Minimum Experience:

Must have at least fifteen (15) years of healthcare experience in a multi-function health system. Should have demonstrated capability in key management functions of planning, organizing, leading and controlling.

Licensure Requirement:

None