Chief Operating Officer System Owned Hospital

Description

The Chief Operating Officer provides strategic leadership and operational management for all administrative matters and full accountability for achieving the operational and financial goals for the system owned hospital and/or academic health center in partnership with the Chief Clinical Officer and Chief Nursing Officer. These functions include: planning, managing, and evaluating all administrative, financial and operational activities. Reports directly to the President, Clinical Enterprise. The primary duty of employees in this classification is the management of a customarily recognized department or subdivision, including the supervision of three or more full-time equivalent employees every week. Direction is over a permanent status-continuing function, not a collection of employees assigned to complete a project. Management duties include interviewing, selecting and training of employees; setting and adjusting their rates of pay and hours of work; planning and directing their work; appraising their productivity and efficiency for the purpose of recommending promotions or other changes in their status; handling their complaints and grievances and disciplining them when necessary. Management responsibilities include the authority to hire, fire, or promote assigned employees or make recommendations that are given particular weight. Employees have impact on budgeting, controlling costs, planning, scheduling, and procedural change. Under FLSA, incumbents in this position meet the criteria for exempt status.