About this opportunity
Summa Health lists this VP, Clinical Lines of Business opportunity in akron, Ohio. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.
Job description
Vice President, Clinical Lines of Business
Summa Health System is recognized as one of the region's top employers by a number of third party organizations, including NorthCoast 99. Exceptional candidates gravitate to Summa because of its culture, passion for delivering excellent service to our patients and families commitment to our philosophy of servant leadership, collegial working relationships at every level of the organization and competitive pay and benefits.
Summary
The VP, Clinical Lines of Business is Summa Health's lead executive accountable for the strategy, clinical integration, operations, consumer experience, and financial performance of all four Clinical Lines of Business within the Integrated Health Services (IHS) model. This role provides unified executive leadership across a broad, complex clinical portfolio - inclusive of all of the system's service lines and medical group practice operations - and ensures that each line delivers a coordinated, consumer-centered experience across inpatient, ambulatory, virtual, and post-acute settings.
Key Responsibilities
Strategic Leadership & Integration Set and execute a unified clinical and operational strategy across all four Clinical Lines of Business, aligned with Summa Health's IHS vision and enterprise priorities.
Lead appropriate IHS operational meetings as the integrating executive - translating enterprise strategy into line-level priorities and ensuring cross-line alignment.
Drive consumer-focused transformation, including access strategy, referral pathway design, digital navigation, and always-on engagement across care settings.
Clinical & Operational Excellence Oversee the development and refinement of evidence-based pathways, care models, and low-cost/high-quality programs that advance population health outcomes.
Champion technology enablement - remote monitoring, clinical decision support, digital care redesign, and innovation partnerships - to advance outcomes and experience.
Optimize site-of-care decisions, access/capacity management, scheduling efficiency, and transitions across inpatient, ambulatory, and post-acute environments.
People Leadership & Dyad Management Lead, develop, and support four Medical Director / Administrative Head dyads - building a high-performing, accountable leadership team across the portfolio.
Shape physician leadership structures within each line as the IHS model matures, ensuring clear reporting lines for all employed providers.
Represent the lines of business in executive and enterprise forums, including the IHS-Acute interface.
Financial Stewardship & Performance Hold executive accountability for operating and capital budget performance, growth strategies, and efficient resource utilization.
Leverage the Service Line Command Center and IHS performance dashboards to monitor, interpret, and act on financial and clinical performance data.
Guide prioritization of technology, workforce, and programmatic investments across the portfolio; evaluate and scale innovations that advance both outcomes and efficiency.
Core Leadership Expectations
Win as One Summa Align teams around shared goals; resolve cross-functional issues; model enterprise thinking and organizational stewardship.
Deliver the Future Anticipate capability needs; develop leaders and teams; sponsor improvement and innovation.
Create Clarity and Trust Set clear priorities and expectations; foster psychological safety; lead with consistency, transparency, and fairness.
Own the Results Establish aligned goals and measures; use data to identify gaps; hold self and others accountable for meaningful outcomes.
Minimum Qualifications
Formal Education Required: Bachelor's Degree
MBA, MHA or Master's in a related field
Knowledge and Experience Required: Ten (10) years of increasing healthcare leadership experience in operations and strategy, including health system, hospital, medical group, and/or consulting roles
Demonstrated success in performance improvement and business development
Experience partnering with clinical leadership strongly preferred
Other Skills, Competencies and Qualifications: Forward-looking view of consumer engagement, embracing technology and AI-driven solutions
Strong communication and employee/clinician engagement skills
Experience leading leaders, supporting multiple functions simultaneously, solving complex problems, and demonstrating results
Strategic and businesses planning expertise, bringing together functions from HR, Recruitment, Operations, Marketing, Finance, IT, etc.
Experience overseeing large operational and capital budgets, with experience in medical group operations a plus
Level of Physical Demands: Sedentary: Exerts up to ten pounds of force occasionally and/or a negligible amount of force frequently.
Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled
Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled
Salary
$147.26/hr - $220.92/hr
Benefits
Basic Life and Accidental Death & Dismemberment (AD&D)
Supplemental Life and AD&D
Dependent Life Insurance
Short-Term and Long-Term Disability
Accident Insurance, Hospital Indemnity, and Critical Illness
Retirement Savings Plan
Flexible Spending Accounts - Healthcare and Dependent Care
Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
Identity Theft Protection Location
1077 Gorge Blvd., Akron, Ohio
Employment Type
Regular Employee
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Worksite address
akron, OH, 44329, US
Who can apply
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