The AVP of Nursing Operations & Post Acute Care provides executive leadership and strategic direction for nursing operations across the continuum— from acute inpatient setting through skilled nursing, rehabilitation, and home health partnership. The role drives operational excellence, regulatory compliance, and quality outcomes for inpatient operations, care coordination, transitional care, and post-acute services, ensuring a seamless, patient-centered experience across care settings.
Education
- Bachelor's Nursing or related field
Work Experience
- 8 years progressive leadership in hospital or health-system operations
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (KSAs)
- Deep understanding of nursing operations, post-acute care systems, and care coordination processes.
- Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills with ability to translate data into actionable insights.
- Communication and collaboration skills with the ability to influence across disciplines.
- Ability to lead through change, drive strategic initiatives, and achieve measurable results.
Job Duties
- Lead enterprise initiatives for inpatient operations, care coordination and transitional care; orchestrate cross‑functional alignment with hospital operations, medical staff leadership, and case management.
- Standardize care transition workflows including handoffs to SNF, IRF, LTACH, and home health; reduce avoidable readmissions and delays.
- Develop and manage preferred post‑acute provider networks; negotiate performance expectations, quality/safety standards, and throughput goals; monitor performance dashboards.
- Use clinical/operational data to identify trends and opportunities; translate insights into action plans with targets, timelines and accountability.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
- Comply with all policies and standards.
Physical and Environmental Demands
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Light Work – Exerting up to 20 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 10 pounds of force frequently, and/or a negligible amount of force constantly (represented by walking or standing). Duties performed routinely require exposure to blood, body fluid and tissue. The incumbent works in a patient care area, works directly with patients, or works with specimens that could contain communicable diseases, bearing an occupational risk for exposure to all communicable diseases. Because the incumbent works within a healthcare setting, there may be occupational risk for exposure to hazardous medications or hazardous waste.
Equal Opportunity Employer
The employer is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status. Ochsner is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any legally protected class, including protected veterans and individuals with disabilities.
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