Director, Surgical Services

Company: Norton Healthcare
Location: Louisville
Posted on: June 26, 2025

Job Description:

The Director, Surgical Services provides oversight to and direction for the full spectrum of preoperative, intraoperative and postoperative care. This includes, but is not limited to, making recommendations on policy issues and technology needs regarding surgical services, identifying opportunities to attain superior quality and safety at the best cost, implementing solution sets and ongoing evaluations of performance, as well as planning, directing and evaluating operational performance of the surgical services division. Key Accountabilities: Provide direction to management staff within surgical areas of responsibility. Actively mentor and coach direct reports, providing opportunities for personal and professional growth. Provide a supportive environment for team building. Provide overall leadership, direction and administration of operations for surgical areas of responsibility. Oversee the development and implementation of plans, operations and programs within assigned areas of surgical services. Actively participate in strategic planning, policy formulation, resource planning and facility planning. Remain current with local trends and changes in nursing profession/practice. Provide leadership to surgical services management teams to achieve business goals, quality outcomes and customer satisfaction. Utilize a data-based approach and facilitate innovation and creativity in the identification and development of quality, safety and patient experience initiatives. Identify quality, safety and cost opportunities within surgical services and develop solution sets based on evidence-based best practices to improve the value of services provided. Lead change regarding quality of care and operational enhancements including implementation and communication plans. Provide strategic and financial planning for surgical areas of responsibility. Responsible for the financial performance of surgical areas of responsibility by identifying areas of expense, revenue, growth and excess, including development of operating and capital budgets. About Norton Audubon Hospital Norton Audubon Hospital is a 432-bed acute-care hospital specializing in cardiac, surgical, pulmonary, orthopedic, vascular, urologic, emergency and diagnostic care. The hospital is home to one of the largest and most comprehensive heart care programs in the Louisville area, having performed the world’s second artificial heart transplant in 1984. It has one of the most successful ECMO and cardiogenic shock programs in the country, with survival rates above the national average, and its comprehensive hybrid A-fib ablation program consistently ranks among the top 10 nationally in procedural volume. The hospital’s multidisciplinary structural heart team performed the first transcatheter pulmonic valve replacement in the region in 2023. Norton Audubon Hospital has achieved HeartCare Center National Distinction of Excellence through the American College of Cardiology, and Center of Excellence in Kidney Stone Management from the Surgical Review Corporation. The hospital also offers care for complex lung conditions such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, asthma, pulmonary fibrosis, pulmonary hypertension, pulmonary nodules, sleep apnea and more, and is recognized as a Pulmonary Hypertension Center of Comprehensive Care by the Pulmonary Hypertension Association. Norton Audubon Hospital is certified by DNV as a Primary Stroke Center, offering comprehensive stroke intervention and treatment. The hospital has also achieved ventricular assist device credentialing, and has been recognized by DNV as an Advanced Orthopedic & Spine Center of Excellence for knee and hip replacement, and shoulder and spine surgery. Norton Audubon Hospital provides full inpatient and outpatient medical and surgical services and special programs focused on joint care, urology, critical care, geriatric services, sleep disorders, pain management, wound healing, vascular access and music therapy. Qualifications Required: Three years management in a healthcare setting Bachelor Degree Registered Nurse (KY) Desired: Master Degree

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