Director - Nursing, Women's Services - Acute

(This role has a hybrid schedule with 3 days in office and 2 days flex-remote)

Join a dynamic organization driven by our passion for healthcare. UHS is seeking talented individuals who are eager to contribute their expertise and pursue rewarding careers. As a leader in acute care and behavioral health, UHS provides high-quality care to over 3 million patients annually, across our national network of facilities.

The UHS Corporate Quality Management Department is hiring a Director - Women's Services to ensure that evidence-based standards exist at all UHS acute care hospitals that provide women’s services. This role will function as the subject matter expert for women’s and perinatal services and is available to women’s services units for clinical advice, guidance, and to provide resources regarding professional and regulatory standards. 

Key Responsibilities include:

• Function as a resource for Women’s Service units within UHS. Provides guidance on clinical issues as needed to ensure ongoing excellence in providing high quality, safe patient and family centered care

• Provide ongoing assessment of the current state of Women’s Services at all UHS acute care sites. Ensure compliance with published standards of care, both professional practice standards and regulatory standards

• Provide leadership, guidance and support to all Women’s Services units to meet and comply with published standards of safe, perinatal core measures, publicly reported metrics, and quality care. Ensure that each facility meets and exceeds Quality Assessment and Performance Improvement (QAPI) requirements from CMS

• Keep abreast of current research and professional practice guidelines. Ensures emerging standards of evidence-based care are disseminated to local facilities to enable local facilities to remain compliant with industry and professional practice standards. Ensure UHS education supports the needs of the facility-based units

• Keep abreast of the evolving science of Women’s Services nursing

• Develop and ensures implementation of evidence-based protocols and guidelines for use at local facilities to ensure evidence-based standards are translated into tools and methods for rapid implementation to sustain improvement and foster reliability

• Monitor quality and safety data and utilizes that data to improve performance at all UHS facilities. Leads the development of Women’s Services High Reliability Units at all UHS acute care sites. Guide the integration of standards with measuring tools to ensure optimal outcomes while providing safe, high-quality patient and family centered care

• Function as a liaison between Women’s Services nursing and information services to ensure user-friendly, comprehensive nursing documentation services exist at local facilities

Master's degree with 8 -10 years' experience years of clinical nursing experience in an acute care setting, preferably in Maternal Newborn Care. Membership in professional organizations preferred. 

• Current license to practice professional nursing
• Demonstrate advanced knowledge of nursing clinical practice and management of complex environment
• Extensive knowledge of principles and practices relevant to nursing and quality patient and family care activities are required
• Extensive knowledge and skills sets for clinical improvement methodology for tracking and trending improvement
• Ability to apply process improvement practices to improve quality and safety of care.
• Interpersonal skills to foster an interdisciplinary, collaborative environment. Ability to plan, direct, and implement change. Highly developed written and verbal communication skills
• Travel up to 50% to assess UHS facilities, attend conferences as well as UHS Nursing leadership meetings

This opportunity provides a rewarding career, challenging and rewarding work environment as well as growth and development opportunities within UHS and its subsidiaries, including competitive compensation, excellent Medical, Dental, Vision and Prescription Drug Plan, and 401k with company match.

One of the nation’s largest and most respected providers of hospital and healthcare services, Universal Health Services, Inc. (NYSE: UHS) has built an impressive record of achievement and performance. Growing steadily since its inception into an esteemed Fortune 300 corporation, annual revenues were $15.8 billion in 2024. During the year, UHS was again recognized as one of the World’s Most Admired Companies by Fortune; and listed in Forbes ranking of America’s Largest Public Companies. Headquartered in King of Prussia, PA, UHS has approximately 99,000 employees and continues to grow through its subsidiaries. Operating acute care hospitals, behavioral health facilities, outpatient facilities and ambulatory care access points, an insurance offering, a physician network and various related services located all over the U.S. States, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the United Kingdom. www.uhs.com

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