What are the responsibilities and job description for the Vice President Laboratory Services position at Avoca Search?
Avoca Search is excited to partner with The Guthrie Clinic in their search for a Vice President of Laboratory Services. This role is essential in guiding the overall operations for the system’s clinical and anatomical pathology laboratories across the six campuses that comprise the health system. The Vice President will ensure peak laboratory operations by driving optimization of resources, financial performance, growth, safety, teammate engagement, and quality.
The Guthrie Clinic (TGC) is a non-profit integrated health system located in north central Pennsylvania and upstate New York, serving patients from a twelve-county service area. TGC is comprised of a research institute, home care/hospice, hospitals in Sayre, PA, Binghamton Corning, NY, Cortland, NY, Towanda, PA, and Troy, PA, as well as a multi-specialty group practice of nearly 1000 providers with 1.5 million patient visits each year through a regional office network providing primary and specialty care across 29 communities.
The ideal candidate will be an accomplished, forward-thinking, self-starter who has a tactful and politically savvy leadership style with exceptional relationship-building and management skills, as well as deep knowledge of laboratory services including operations, budgeting, customer service, and quality improvement. Candidates must be skilled navigators of complex organizational and leadership structures with multiple business units and possess an understanding of the drivers, trends, and forces that impact health care broadly, and specifically within laboratory services. Candidates will demonstrate extensive knowledge and expertise in industry standards and compliance, have a track record of growing services and volumes, and evidence of a commitment to exceptional patient care. A bachelor’s degree is required; master’s degree and ASCP certification are preferred.
