Santa Clara Valley Healthcare (SCVH), a comprehensive and progressive public healthcare organization including a large and highly respected teaching hospital, is conducting a nationwide search for a system level Chief Operating Officer (COO). Reporting to the Chief Executive Officer (CEO), the COO will manage and direct administrative functions, activities, services, and staff for SCVH. This leader will develop strategies, manage, and implement high standards of service excellence, community, and business relations and ultimately the enhancement of patient outcomes. The COO will be responsible for the general operations and related functions of the enterprise health system; maintaining conditions for the effective and efficient operation of hospitals and clinics; and for developing goals and expectations that enable staff to deliver high-quality, cost-effective care and services.
As a complex health system including a teaching hospital, SCVH offers all normal hospital services, including Labor and Delivery. Major service lines include a nationally recognized Rehabilitation Center, a Mother Infant Care Center, a Regional Burn Trauma Unit, a Regional Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Trauma Services, Intensive Care Services and comprehensive Cancer Services. SCVH also has one of the few comprehensive Emergency Departments in the Bay Area and provides emergency and acute psychiatric care. SCVH has 12 comprehensive health centers offering Primary Care, Dental, and Urgent Care Services geographically spread across Santa Clara County and over 40 Adult and Pediatric Specialties ranging from Orthopedics, GI, ENT, Urology, to Ophthalmology, Nephrology and more. SCVH operates numerous community-based programs that outreach to vulnerable and at-risk populations, such as the Valley Homeless Healthcare Program and Mobile Dental Program.

The required knowledge and abilities would typically be acquired through the attainment of a Master's degree, from an accredited college or university in Hospital Administration, Health Care Administration, or Business Administration or a closely related field and approximately 7 - 10 years of increasingly responsible experience in hospital management, a significant amount of which would have been in a senior management position in a health or hospital system preferably in a teaching hospital.