Chief Nursing Officer
Piedmont Fayette Hospital
Fayetteville, GA - United States
Piedmont Fayette Hospital, a not-for-profit community hospital located in Fayetteville, GA, seeks a dynamic, culture-driven, progressive nursing leader to serve as its next Chief Nursing Officer (CNO). This is an excellent opportunity to lead the vision and oversee nursing and clinical services as an executive leader, and coordinate activities, processes, and policies resulting in high-quality patient centered care. This opportunity is available due to the planned retirement of the current CNO, Merry Heath, who is retiring after 25 years of impactful service with Piedmont Healthcare.
Piedmont Fayette Hospital is a rapidly expanding and financially robust, 310-bed acute care, not-for-profit community hospital with over 2,200 employees. It combines clinical excellence with a focus on wellness, high-quality care, and exceptional service. Serving Fayette County, Georgia, and surrounding areas, Piedmont Fayette’s service area includes a population of approximately 1 million people with over 50% of its patients coming from outside of the county. The hospital provides 24-hour emergency services, medical and surgical services, and obstetrics/women’s services. The hospital features advanced medical technology, including robotic surgery, digital imaging, diagnostics, rehabilitation, cardiovascular services, hyperbaric medicine, wound care services, and a comprehensive cancer center. Due to the area’s rapid growth, a design and development program for the hospital’s expansion is currently in discussion and will add up to120 beds and 8 OR’s by late 2027, early 2028.
As the second legacy hospital within the Piedmont Healthcare system, Piedmont Fayette often serves as a testing site for initiatives later implemented system-wide. The hospital enjoys strong financial health with net revenues exceeding $600 million. Piedmont Fayette is a vital part of Piedmont Healthcare, a private, not-for-profit organization founded in 1905. Piedmont Healthcare employs over 44,000 staff members who care for 4 million patients across 1,755 locations. The organization has grown rapidly to include 25 hospitals, serving communities that encompass 80 percent of Georgia’s population.
Reporting directly to the Chief Executive Officer of Piedmont Fayette and with matrixed reporting to Piedmont Healthcare’s Chief Nurse Executive, the CNO will serve as the voice of nursing and clinical leadership. The CNO will oversee and direct all aspects of patient care services at the hospital, including nursing practices in Cardiovascular units, Critical Care, Extended Care, Inpatient and Occupational Rehabilitation, Intermediate Care, Medical/Surgical, Neuroscience, Obstetrics/Gynecology, and Oncology. The CNO is responsible for the practice of all nurses at the hospital. This role focuses on leading, collaborating, integrating, facilitating, and evaluating to develop and support systems necessary for professional nursing practice. The CNO will work with other hospital executives to make decisions impacting service outcomes across all settings and maintain patient care standards that align with Piedmont Healthcare’s mission, vision, and values.
The CNO will maintain a consistently positive presence, demonstrate strong communication skills, focus on strengthening recruitment and retention, and play a key role in advancing quality and care delivery. The ideal candidate will have significant and progressive leadership experience in nursing operations within an acute care facility, along with a demonstrated ability to drive results through collaboration while driving accountability throughout nursing as well as other associated disciplines. The new CNO will be an engaging leader with an effective communication style, data-driven approach, and the ability to advocate for nursing staff while collaborating broadly with physicians, clinicians, and other departments across the organization. They will be a transparent leader who can deliver tough messages to the CEO around performance, barriers to achieving the hospitals goals, and what is needed to reach those goals. A Master’s degree in nursing or a related field is required.
The CNO will possess a strong understanding of operational and financial management related to exceptional patient care, nursing performance, patient experience, quality, and patient safety metrics within a hospital system. They will continue to foster the development, coaching, and mentoring of a high-performing nursing team focused on service excellence and continuous improvement.
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