System Chief Nursing Officer
Tower Health
West Reading, PA - United States
Tower Health/Reading Hospital, located in Reading, PA seeks a collaborative, creative and inspirational System Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) to lead patient care services into the future. This is an exciting opportunity to partner with senior leadership to continue to provide nursing excellence at a top 50 hospital in the country.
This role will function as the nurse executive for Reading Hospital, as well as for the system. Reading Hospital is the $1.25 billion, 6,100 employee flagship for Tower Health. As a Magnet Recognized, regional referral center with 65% inpatient market share for a primary service population of 325,000, Reading Hospital is staffing 665 beds and is home to many top-tier specialty care centers, including: Reading Healthplex, McGlinn Cancer Institute, Miller Regional Heart Center, an emergency department that includes a Level I Trauma Center, and the Beginnings Maternity Center, which houses the region’s only Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). Healthgrades® has recognized Reading Hospital as one of America’s 50 Best Hospitals for 2023. This is the second year in a row (2022-2023) Reading Hospital has been in the top one percent of hospitals nationwide for overall clinical performance. It is also listed as one of America’s 100 Best Hospitals for seven consecutive years.
Tower Health is a regional integrated healthcare system that offers leading-edge, compassionate healthcare and wellness services to communities in Berks, Chester, Montgomery, and Philadelphia Counties. With more than 10,000 employees, Tower Health consists of Reading Hospital in West Reading; Phoenixville Hospital in Phoenixville; Pottstown Hospital in Pottstown; and St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children, a partnership of Tower Health and Drexel University in Philadelphia. For more information, please visit https://towerhealth.org/.
Reporting directly to the President & Chief Executive Offer of Reading Hospital, the CNO will be responsible for patient care services of Reading Hospital and will play an instrumental role in leading and driving activities operationally, financially, and culturally. The CNO will build on an abundance of existing strengths while also reimagining nursing services and new care models, strengthening the excellence and high-quality care the organization has been known for historically. The incumbent will be a master of developing collaborative relationships and driving outcomes-based initiatives. It will be a priority to develop the most effective and efficient workforce strategy to ensure nursing colleagues are performing to their highest ability and creative, contemporary recruitment and retention practices are being leveraged.
The ideal candidate will be a seasoned, bold and relationship-oriented nursing leader with significant experience developing and executing nursing strategy and operations in a complex acute care organization. Candidates should have experience leading and implementing quality and culture improvement initiatives. The successful candidate will be a leader who holds themselves and others accountable and leads through influence and an orientation toward outcomes and serving patients. A working knowledge of Magnet criteria and principles is preferred.
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