Executive Director, Heart & Vascular Services, Marin Heart Institute, Full-Time, Days

ABOUT MARINHEALTH

Are you looking for a place where you are empowered to bring innovation to reality? Join MarinHealth, an integrated, independent healthcare system with deep roots throughout the North Bay. With a world-class physician and clinical team, an affiliation with UCSF Health, an ever-expanding network of clinics, and a new state-of-the-art hospital, MarinHealth is growing quickly. MarinHealth comprises MarinHealth Medical Center, a 327-bed hospital in Greenbrae, and 55 primary care and specialty clinics in Marin, Sonoma, and Napa Counties. We attract healthcare’s most talented trailblazers who appreciate having the best of both worlds: the pioneering medicine of an academic medical center combined with an independent hospital's personalized, caring touch.

MarinHealth is already realizing the benefits of impressive growth and has consistently earned high praise and accolades, including being Named One of the Top 250 Hospitals Nationwide by Healthgrades, receiving a 5-star Ranking for Overall Hospital Quality from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and being named the Best Hospital in San Francisco/Marin by Bay Area Parent, among others.

Company

Marin General Hospital dba MarinHealth Medical Center

Compensation Range

$107.55 - $161.32

Work Shift

Day Shift (United States of America)

Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

Job Description Summary

The Executive Director, Heart & Vascular Services provides strategic, operational, financial, and people leadership for MarinHealth’s cardiovascular service line across the Medical Center and Medical Network. Operating within a dyad leadership model, the Executive Director partners with physician leaders across cardiology, vascular surgery, cardiac surgery, radiology, and related disciplines to advance an integrated, high-performing Cardiovascular Institute. The role is accountable for translating enterprise strategy into measurable service-line results across inpatient, outpatient, diagnostic, and procedural settings, including patient access, quality and safety, growth, care standardization, financial stewardship, workforce performance, technology and capital planning, regulatory readiness, and regional competitiveness.

The Executive Director establishes clear performance expectations, uses data to identify opportunities and risks, develops leaders, and ensures that approved plans are executed in alignment with MarinHealth policies, applicable regulatory requirements, and C.A.R.E.S. standards.

Job Requirements, Prerequisites and Essential Functions

Education

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution in healthcare administration, business administration, nursing, health sciences, or a related field required.
• Master’s degree in healthcare administration, business administration, public health, nursing, or a related field preferred.
• Clinical education or professional background relevant to cardiovascular care is preferred but not required.

Experience

• Seven (7) years of progressively responsible healthcare leadership experience, including responsibility for complex operations, service-line or program performance, and multidisciplinary teams.
• Demonstrated experience managing operating performance and financial results, including budgets, productivity, business planning, resource allocation, and performance improvement.
• Demonstrated experience partnering with physicians and other clinical leaders to implement operational, quality, growth, or program-development priorities.
• Demonstrated experience leading change across multiple departments, functions, sites, or stakeholder groups in a matrixed environment.
• Leadership experience in cardiovascular services or another complex procedural/clinical service line strongly preferred.
• Experience in an integrated delivery system spanning hospital and ambulatory/medical-network operations preferred.
• Experience with cardiovascular registries and performance programs such as NCDR, STS, VQI, or comparable specialty registries preferred.
• Experience evaluating clinical technology, capital investments, digital health, imaging, or procedural platforms preferred.

Licenses & Certifications

• Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives (FACHE) preferred
• Project Management Professional (PMP) preferred
• Lean Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt preferred

Prerequisite Skills

• Advanced knowledge of healthcare operations, service-line management, patient access, quality and safety, regulatory expectations, and financial stewardship.
• Ability to understand cardiovascular clinical programs and workflows sufficiently to partner effectively with physicians, nursing, technical teams, ancillary services, and administrative leaders.
• Ability to translate strategy into executable plans with defined owners, milestones, measures, and follow-through.
• Demonstrated financial and analytical acumen, including interpretation of volume, access, productivity, quality, workforce, cost, revenue, margin, and market data.
• Ability to develop business cases, evaluate return on investment, prioritize capital and operating resources, and identify financial or operational risk.
• Executive-level communication, facilitation, negotiation, and influence skills, including the ability to address conflict and hold leaders accountable in a respectful, fact-based manner.
• Ability to recruit, develop, coach, evaluate, and performance-manage leaders and teams using clear expectations and documented performance standards.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities, make timely decisions with incomplete information, escalate material risks appropriately, and maintain confidentiality.
• Working knowledge of clinical information systems, reporting tools, digital health, procedural technology, and data governance sufficient to sponsor and evaluate technology-enabled improvement.

Primary Customer Served (Age Specific)

• Primarily adult and older-adult patients receiving cardiovascular diagnostic, medical, surgical, interventional, or ambulatory services; pediatric exposure may occur based on service configuration or care coordination needs.
• Internal customers include physicians, advanced practice providers, nursing and technical teams, department leaders, executives, Medical Network partners, and support functions.
• External customers and stakeholders may include patients and families, community physicians, vendors, payers, regulatory/accrediting bodies, and community partners.
• (X) Infants: Birth up to 1 year
• (X) Toddlers: 1 up to 3 years
• (X) Preschool Children: 3 up to 6 years
• (X) School Age Children: 6 up to 12 years
• (X) Adolescents: 12 up to 18 years
• (X) Early Adults: 18 up to 45 years
• (X) Middle Adults: 45 up to 61 years
• (X) Late Adults: 61 up to 80 years
• (X) Late, Late Adults: 80 years and up

Patient Privacy (HIPAA Compliance)

• Protects the confidentiality, integrity, and appropriate use of protected health information and other confidential business, employee, physician, and patient information in accordance with MarinHealth policy and applicable law.
• Accesses, uses, discusses, and discloses confidential information only as required for authorized job responsibilities and applies minimum-necessary principles where applicable.
• Promptly reports suspected privacy, security, or confidentiality concerns through established MarinHealth processes and supports corrective action within areas of responsibility.

Duties And Responsibilities

Essential Duties (Not Modifiable)

• Strategy & Integration: Develops, recommends, and executes a comprehensive Heart & Vascular Services strategy aligned with MarinHealth enterprise priorities. Establishes annual and multi-year objectives, measures, milestones, and accountabilities that advance an integrated Cardiovascular Institute across specialties, sites, and care settings.