CHI · 2 days ago
VP Patient Care Services
CHI St. Alexius Health – Dickinson is seeking an experienced, mission-driven nursing executive to serve as the Vice President, Patient Care Services. This leader provides strategic direction, operational oversight, and clinical excellence across all nursing and patient care services, ensuring alignment with the mission, vision, and values of CommonSpirit Health.
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Responsibilities
Provide executive oversight of nursing operations, clinical leadership, and patient care delivery
Lead initiatives that improve quality, safety, patient experience, and clinical outcomes
Ensure full compliance with regulatory, licensure, and accreditation standards (CMS, Joint Commission, ND Board of Nursing)
Partner with nursing and clinical leaders to review cost, quality, safety, utilization, and value metrics and drive performance improvements
Lead organizational change using CommonSpirit’s change models and strategic priorities
Oversee budget development, productivity, staffing models, and allocation of resources to balance patient needs with operational sustainability
Build and support a strong nursing leadership team through mentoring, coaching, and succession planning
Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, and ethical leadership
Develop and maintain effective relationships with medical staff, system leaders, community partners, and other hospital departments
Maintain clinical exposure and respond to staffing or work-flow needs as required, consistent with critical access hospital leadership expectations
Qualification
Required
Master's degree or post-graduate nursing or healthcare-related degree required
Minimum of 7 years of related clinical experience or 5 years of progressive leadership experience
Quality, safety and patient experience
Clinical strategy and operations experience
Active Registered Nurse (RN) license in North Dakota (Compact accepted) required at hire
Basic Life Support (BLS) certification required at hire
Preferred
Critical Access Hospital leadership experience
Company
CHI
Catholic Health Initiatives, a nonprofit, faith-based health system formed in 1996 through the consolidation of four Catholic health systems, expresses its mission each day by creating and nurturing healthy communities in the hundreds of sites across the nation where we provide care.