Executive Director of Cancer Services, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Company: Brigham and Women's Hospital
Location: Boston
Posted on: May 18, 2024
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Job Description:
Job Description - Executive Director of Cancer Services, Brigham
and Women's Hospital (3290221) Executive Director of Cancer
Services, Brigham and Women's Hospital - ( 3290221 ) As a
not-for-profit academic health system, Mass General Brigham (MGB)
is committed to supporting patient care, research, teaching, and
service to the community by leading innovation across our system.
Comprising two renowned academic medical centers (Brigham and
Women's Hospital (BWH) and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH)),
eight other acute care hospitals, and three world-famous specialty
hospitals, MGB provides a complete continuum of care, including a
physician network, community health centers, home care and home
hospital, and an insurance plan.
Within MGB, the Brigham entities include Brigham and Women's
Hospital (BWH), Brigham and Women's Faulkner Hospital (BWFH),
Brigham and Women's ambulatory sites, and Brigham and Women's
Physicians Organization (BWPO) (collectively the "Brigham
Entities"). Brigham is an academic medical center that serves
patients from New England, throughout the United States, and from
120 countries around the world, through clinical services at our
hospitals and 150 outpatient practices with more than 1,800
physicians and 4,000 nurses. The Brigham has the second largest
hospital-based research program in the world, with an annual
research budget of more than $630 million. As a major Harvard
Medical School teaching affiliate, the Brigham is a cherished
training ground for physicians, nurses, and allied health
professionals, with 1,500 graduate medical education trainees in
over 140 of the most sought-after training programs in the
world.
The Executive Director of Cancer Services (ED) is accountable for
the overall development of Brigham oncology services and serves as
a critical leader for the Brigham relationship with Dana-Farber
Cancer Institute (DFCI).
Under the leadership of the Senior Vice President for Clinical
Services (SVP), the ED is ultimately accountable for the overall
administrative leadership, operating results, and cost center
financial performance of the applicable areas. The ED will have
accountability for managing the resources of cancer services and
meeting Brigham-wide expectations of performance and optimization.
Specific areas of responsibility include:
1. Brigham Cancer Center (BCC) The ED serves as the senior
executive for the BCC, including:
--- Overseeing central infrastructure such as the Cancer Registry
and Contract Administration.
--- Working across required constituents to drive forward
implementation of BWH's portion of the MGB Cancer strategy.
--- Serving as the executive sponsor for Brigham cancer network
affiliations.
--- Serving as the co-supervisor (indirect) for the Division
Administrator for Medical Oncology, the Division Administrators for
cancer surgery services, and Department Administrator for Radiation
Oncology.
The ED serves as the primary hospital executive partner for the
joint adult cancer care collaboration with Dana-Farber Cancer
Institute. The ED partners with the academic departments that most
closely align with the DFBCC, including the Departments of
Medicine, Surgery, and Radiation Oncology, as well as many other
academic departments that also provide clinical consultation and
service to DFBCC patients. The ED is responsible for the funding
sources and direct management of hospital FTEs who directly support
the DFBCC, and serves as the Contract Administrator overseeing and
managing the complexities, maintenance, and adherence of the
agreement. This executive will be positioned on the DFBCC Executive
Operations Committee, which is the governing body that oversees and
facilitates the relationship and joint operations of DFBCC. In
addition, the ED is responsible-directly, or in partnership with
senior leader colleagues, the Department Chairs, and/or clinical
leaders-for a number of ongoing, broad organizational requirements,
including:
--- Ensuring that competent, efficient, and coordinated patient
care is uniformly provided to patients in ambulatory, inpatient and
community settings;
--- Ensuring that all educational programs meet institutional and
outside regulatory requirements;
--- Ensuring that all research initiatives are appropriately
supported;
--- Directing and developing the organization of services and
programs within the scope of responsibility of the ED;
--- Managing all operating and capital budgets for the Brigham
within the purview of the ED;
--- Leading the management team within the ED's enterprises toward
attainment of identified short- and long-term goals and
objectives;
--- Advancing the institution's commitment to diversity, equity,
and inclusion;
--- Executing strategies and plans designed to achieve the
institution's strategic objectives; and
--- Collaborating with other institutional leaders to meet MGB
strategic goals and objectives.
PRINCIPAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: Leadership
--- Determines the direction, goals, and objectives of Brigham
cancer services. Establishes and achieves long range goals and
ensures the implementation of strategic business plans that are
aligned with the organization's vision, strategic plans, and
goals.
--- Facilitates the ongoing management of the current DFBCC
multidisciplinary clinical services, discuss and resolve any
cross-DFBCC administrative issues, and direct the planning of
improvements in existing multidisciplinary services.
--- Establish and maintain clear and precise communications and
ensure healthy and collaborative administrative relationships
amongst departments and divisions, the hospital, the system, and
DFCI.
--- Develops and implements policies and procedures consonant with
the Brigham Entities' policies. Assesses administrative and
financial needs and revises policies and procedures to meet
changing needs.
--- Evaluates, initiates, and implements various systems and
procedures, and revises as necessary to maximize efficiency.
--- Serves as a resource for resolution of administrative
questions, issues, and problems.
--- Works with management staff and representatives from other
areas to evaluate, initiate, and implement systems and procedures
and revises as necessary to improve and maximize efficiency.
--- Continuously assesses and improves the efficiency of systems
and processes, and overall expense management.
--- Develops effective, clear, and precise methods of communicating
with the SVP, and with hospital and physician leaders, faculty, and
staff on a regular basis.
--- Keeps current regarding trends and developments in the health
care field, particularly when they pertain to strategic planning,
analytic and decision support tools, financial trends, evolving
technologies and programs.
--- Serves as a representative of the organization if/as
requested.
Service Development & Management
--- Leads and executes the development of new oncology-related
clinical services by leveraging existing infrastructures to provide
high-quality, patient-centric cancer care.
--- Reviews the ongoing management of applicable oncology services,
discusses and resolves any administrative problems that arise, and
directs the planning of improvements in existing clinical
services.
--- Provides direct supervision to the Cancer Registry.
--- Maintains up-to-date knowledge of the American College of
Surgeons (ACS) Commission on Cancer (CoC) certification standards
and requirements and assists in communication, implementation, and
monitoring.
--- Maintains a thorough understanding of clinical reimbursement
and managed care issues specific to oncology. Identify
opportunities to optimize clinical reimbursement and work with
departmental leadership to execute change.
--- Continuously assesses and improves the efficiency of systems
and processes.
--- Capacity
--- Analyzes data to understand the drivers of capacity; uses
formulas and modeling to impact more efficient patient
throughput.
--- Optimizes value by encouraging use of data to drive decisions,
depersonalizing processes and allowing clinical and administrative
staff to actively engage in process improvement activities that
reduce cost and improve revenue.
--- Implements process improvement pilots where the goal is
effective management of patient capacity.
--- Coordinates with clinical leaders to implement standards to
ensure the effective coordination of optimal patient placement.
--- Optimization
--- Develops, executes, and manages coordinated programmatic
initiatives for care model development, care delivery improvement,
cost reduction, administrative alignment, and network and business
development.
--- Monitors and evaluates the adequacy of planned and existing
services and ensures the development of programs and services to
respond to the market.
--- Supports implementation of Enterprise Asset Management in
applicable areas. As a role model and teacher to others, active
participant in rationalizing where care is delivered, and
supporting the development of predictive capabilities.
--- Leads standardization efforts aimed at cost savings,
efficiency, and best practices for patient care.
--- Consults with inpatient leaders to advise on operational
policies and practices.
--- Assures compliance with MGB, BWH, TJC, OSHA, DPH, and state and
federal regulations.
--- Partners with the appropriate compliance offices for audits as
needed and/or directed.
--- Partners with clinical and administrative leaders to identify,
prioritize, implement, and monitor progress of information system
enhancements and upgrades, as well as new system introductions.
Capital Management
--- Oversees all physical space that is part of the portfolio.
--- Takes a leadership role in planning and space allocation for
all current and future applicable services assets across the
Brigham entities.
--- Oversees vendor relationships as applicable.
--- Partners with the SVP for all capital planning relative to
applicable services. Leadership
--- Maintains the solvency of all funds under the ED's purview.
--- Oversees contractual agreements across the BCC, ensuring
system-wide compliance and accuracy; track and monitor all
agreements (contracts, service level agreements, professional
service agreements, etc.) - particularly those with DFCI.
--- Oversees financial transactions associated with oncology
services for accuracy, timeliness and compliance.
--- Examines, analyzes, and interprets financial reports for the
purpose of giving advice, preparing statements and projections, and
ultimately managing resources.
--- Supervises the activities of subordinates who are responsible
for being familiar with and approving all expenditures, assigning
cost centers, monitoring compliance with budgets, and identifying
and investigating potential problem areas and proposing
-solutions.
Budgeting
--- Partners with all required constituents to prepare annual
budgets for the hospital in the prescribed format for the
responsible areas, and on behalf of service line advancements.
Presents and justifies budget requests to the SVP.
--- Prepares analyses and forecasting for introduction of new
programs/services.
-Fiscal Management
--- Responsible for the cost center fiscal management of all areas
of responsibility.
--- Establishes and achieves financial goals and measures,
monitors, and ensures the on-going financial performance.
--- Facilitates effective cost containment practices through
monitoring of volume trends, proactive management of capacity
(physical and human resource), supplies, service contracts, and
professional services agreements.
--- Oversees expense management issues; performs comparative
analyses; develops and implements strategies for cost containment.
Oversight
--- Approves all relevant capital purchases and tracks ongoing
expenditures.
--- Ensures that the highest standards of integrity, ethics,
control, and confidentiality are maintained at all times across all
financial and accounting matters under the purview of the ED. Human
Resources Management Management Actions
--- Coordinates with Human Resources for the interviewing, hiring,
personnel transactions (hiring, salaries, promotions, job
descriptions, etc.) and implementation of institutional corrective
action policy for staff.
--- In conjunction with Human Resources leadership, serves as a
primary resource for issues related to professional and
non-professional staff benefits.
--- Using MGB's HR systems, initiates, approves, and coordinates
with Human Resources for approval of human resources changes (e.g.,
salary adjustments, salary distributions, training records, etc.)
for staff who reside under the ED's reporting tree (or delegates
said work).
--- Prepares performance reviews on direct reports.
--- Takes corrective and disciplinary action, up to and including
termination, as necessary to maintain the highest level of staff
productivity and effectiveness.
--- Reviews workload issues to ensure appropriate staffing.
Oversight
--- Provides direct supervision to and is responsible for the
conduct, operations, and results of the professional and
non-professional staff.
--- Develops and implements change management programs including
efficiency and resource utilization projects.
--- In times of transition, supports areas that require interim
leadership support.
-Development
--- Actively considers opportunities to grow the abilities, skills,
and support of employees through professional development, enhanced
communication vehicles, employee-focused initiatives, and
otherwise.
--- Culture/Equity
--- Reviews, supports, and ensures salary and wage equity for
staff.
--- Creates a supportive, educational, and development-focused
environment for all staff.
--- Ensures the support and maintenance of a diverse, inclusive,
and professional environment for all staff. Compliance
--- Develops, implements, oversees and approves departmental
policies, procedures and systems and revises as necessary to
maximize efficiency.
--- Responsible for ensuring compliance with regulatory bodies and
making managers aware of policy and procedure changes. Other
--- Oversees general administrative matters.
--- Develops letters, presentations, announcements, and other
communications; all documents must be of the highest caliber of
refinement and professionalism.
--- Serves on committees as needed or assigned.
--- Leads or participates in special projects and perform other
related tasks as requested or required. --- 10+ years of experience
as a leader within an academic medical center.
--- Experience in managing and leading cancer services.
--- Demonstrated track record of successfully leading teams.
--- Experience working in a highly matrixed organization /
environment preferred; healthcare industry experience strongly
preferred.
--- Master's degree preferred. --- 10+ years of experience as a
leader within an academic medical center.
--- Experience in managing and leading cancer services.
--- Demonstrated track record of successfully leading teams.
--- Experience working in a highly matrixed organization /
environment preferred; healthcare industry experience strongly
preferred.
--- Master's degree preferred. Mass General Brigham is an Equal
Opportunity Employer & by embracing diverse skills, perspectives
and ideas, we choose to lead. All qualified applicants will receive
consideration for employment without regard to race, color,
religious creed, national origin, sex, age, gender identity,
disability, sexual orientation, military service, genetic
information, and/or other status protected under law. -
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