Kettering Health Main Campus President

Founded by the family of famed inventor Charles F. Kettering, Kettering Health is centered on the well-being of the people and communities we serve. Since 1964, we’ve been a beacon of healing through our investment in innovative technology and resources to ensure our compassionate care touches the mind, body, and spirit.

During the last 60 years, we’ve expanded our services to care for the more than 1.8 million people in our service area. Today, Kettering Health comprises 14 medical centers, more than 120 outpatient locations, and our Medical Group—over 700 providers strong. To sustain these services, we operate, as a division of Kettering Health Main Campus, Kettering College, a fully accredited college focused on raising up generations of dedicated health professionals to serve Greater Dayton.

As Kettering Health enters its next chapter, we are unifying as a system to offer consumers a seamless, integrated patient experience—whether in one of our hospitals, at a check-up with a primary care physician, or online for a post-op follow-up via telehealth.

We will achieve this through the following operational principles:

• A convenient, accessible digital-first consumer experience
• An insatiable resolve for elevated quality and safety
• A meaningful work environment for our team members
• Smart growth that ensures the right care is delivered in the right place at the right time
• Achieving a sustainable operating margin that enables our mission to thrive

We will do this while keeping the same spirit our founders imagined: cutting-edge innovation fueled by unparalleled compassion.

Kettering Health Main Campus, as a 439-bed hospital with a Level II Trauma Center, is the system’s flagship medical center. Consistently ranked one of the nation’s best hospitals, Kettering Health Main Campus is known for its high-quality cardiovascular, brain and spine, and cancer care. Featuring a compassionate culture, Main Campus has a dedicated team of more than 3,400 employees, 1,200 physicians on staff, 350 volunteers, and 80 medical residents. These team members support more than 325,000 outpatient visits, 2,500 babies delivered, and 50,000 emergency visits annually.

Over the past several years, Healthgrades recognized Kettering Health Main Campus among America’s 100 Best Hospitals for Spine Surgery, Joint Replacement, and Orthopedic Surgery. It was recognized as America’s 50 Best Hospitals for Surgical Excellence. Patients rated the medical center with a 9 or 10 out of ten 73% of the time, 8% higher than national average.

In collaboration with the Acute Care President, Kettering Health Boards of Trustees, Kettering College Board of Trustees, physicians, and the leadership team, the Main Campus President assumes operational responsibility of all activities, including patient care, operations, financial and strategic planning. The president provides strategic input for system service lines, clinical ancillary areas, foundations, quality, and nursing. The position assists the Acute Care President in system development, growth, strategic goals, and operations. Key to success is enhancing employee and physician engagement, supporting excellent quality and safety, growing market share and margin in a manner that is consistent with our mission. The president will create an environment for successful organizational performance and accepts responsibility for the viability of Kettering Health Main Campus.

The first 12 months in the role will be critical to success. It will be important to fill key open roles and finalize the leadership team members. A number of important projects are in flight, including the ensuring patient flow and experience in our ER is pristine, optimization of the OR operations and the neuroscience and cardiac system service lines, all of which will need to be seen through to completion. Throughput and length of stay have been evaluated and have teams focused on improvements. The ability to quickly gain an understanding of current state and guide initiatives through to successful completion is vital.

The Main Campus President will report directly to the Acute Care President of Kettering Health and be a member of the Acute Care Executive Council. Direct reports include:

• Campus Chief Operating Officer
• Campus Chief Nursing Officer
• Campus Chief Medical Officer
• Foundation President
• Kettering College President
• Main Campus Chief of Staff
• Heart & Vascular Service Line
• Brain & Spine Service Line
• Oncology Service Line
• Manager of Spiritual Services

The local campus Finance leader reports indirectly to this role.

In addition to the profile outlined above:

• Oversees operational and performance improvement embracing the lean management model, fostering the adoption of lean, evidenced-based leadership and high reliability.
• Cultivates stakeholder relationships to strengthen market position and cultivates community engagement.
• Understands stakeholder needs and concerns and leverages this to influence and gain support for organizational priorities.
• Provides leadership to ensure Kettering Health Main Campus meets all local, state, and federal legislation and regulations.
• Builds consensus with Leadership and Medical Staff working in cooperation on related strategy and program initiatives. Ensures that the Medical Staff Bylaws, Rules, and Regulations are enforced to ensure quality physician practice and outcomes.
• Sets the tone for a culture of inclusion, engagement, and service among all employees and physicians while aligning to the direction of the organization.
• Ensures transparency and clarity in all actions and communications to key stakeholders i.e., physicians, employees, Board of Directors, community, and government agencies. Builds strong productive relationships with stakeholders to accomplish the stated strategic goals.
• Fosters external stakeholder relationships at the local, state, and federal levels including influencing legislative policy and coalition building to influence effective business and clinical delivery of care.
• Recruits, develops, retains, and leads a talented team of committed executives to cascade and accomplish the goals of Kettering Health Main Campus.
• Builds an environment of shared commitment to organizational goals and fosters an environment conducive to maximizing individual and collective productivity, emphasizing performance, and collaboration.

The Kettering Health Main Campus President will possess the following:

• A minimum of 10 years of progressive executive-level experience in healthcare
• Has demonstrable track record of building operational excellence as illustrated through excellent quality and safety, patient experience, employee engagement and patient flow.
• Must have a proven track record of success in leading profitable financial operations for a multi-site, complex healthcare enterprise
• Demonstrated effectiveness in a large, mission-based, integrated healthcare system is desired
• Strong knowledge across all aspects of healthcare operations (finance, quality, service lines)
• Successful change management and alignment at scale.
• The ability to interact and partner effectively with physicians, both employed and independent, and leaders in the business community as necessary.
• Skills in establishing a balanced perspective on achieving both mission effectiveness and business results is critical.
• Understands the value of health education and is able to collaborate with KH in our integration of Kettering College as a strategic advantage.
• Highly collaborative leadership style and ability to work in a highly matrixed environment.
• Values-driven leader with unquestionable integrity.