Texas Children’s Hospital is searching for a Director of Transplant Services to provide administrative oversight of all solid organ transplant programs and vascularized composite allograft services. In this position, you will provide 24-hour accountability for the administrative, regulatory, and fiscal oversight. Additionally, you will ensure that high quality outcomes will result through leading, planning, managing, and implementing operational improvement processes, and work closely with transplant medical and surgical leadership to deliver cost effective services and provide strategic planning to promote program growth, leading to revenue generation and increased market share.

 

Responsibilities:

• Ensure the delivery of safe, high quality, age appropriate, cost-effective care and/or service within a family-centered care environment, as measured by variance analysis reports, revenue enhancement/expense reduction, patient satisfaction scores, patient complaints, regulatory compliance, and new programs/initiatives

• Lead/participate in Quality Improvement projects to enhance patient care delivery and/or patient satisfaction

• In coordination with service line executives and marketing, collaborate on and develop active marketing and outreach programs to grow and sustain market share for each program

• Foster a strong customer service focus and culture in the Transplant service line

• Establish and maintain effective working relationships with medical leadership, direct reports and appropriate interdepartmental liaisons to ensure the achievement of identified goals

• Interact and serve as a resource and leader to individuals responsible for coordinating all aspects of the delivery of care with the Transplant service line

• Ensure creation of a work climate that fosters employee participation, satisfaction and organizational commitment as measured by annual employee survey results, turnover rates, and employee initiatives

• Develop appropriate financial reporting and control mechanisms

• Responsible for annual budgeting, projections, and revenue integrity for all transplant programs

• In collaboration with executive, medical and surgical leadership, develop and prioritize service-based goals that support the organization’s strategic plan

• Serve as the liaison with Government Reporting, Financial Reporting, and Decision Support

• Ensure regulatory compliance with all applicable regulatory entities such as the Joint Commission (TJC), Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Texas Department of Health and Human Services (THHS), and United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS)

 

Requirements:

• Master’s Degree in Nursing, Business, or healthcare related field required

• At least 3 years of transplant management/leadership experience required

• RN - Lic-Registered Nurses by Texas Board of Nursing or Nursing Licensure Compact preferred

• CNL - Cert-Clinical Nurse Leader by American Association of Colleges of Nursing preferred

 

About Texas Children’s Hospital

Since 1954, Texas Children’s has been leading the charge in patient care, education and research to accelerate health care for children and women around the world. When you love what you do, it truly shows in the smiles of our patient families, employees and our numerous accolades such as being consistently ranked as the best children’s hospital in Texas, and among the top in the nation by U.S. News & World Report as well as recognition from Houston Business Journal as one of this city’s Best Places to Work for ten consecutive years. 

 

Texas Children’s Hospital is affiliated with Baylor College of Medicine, one of the largest, most diverse and successful pediatric programs in the nation. 

 

Texas Children’s Hospital is home to the No. 1 Pediatric Transplant Center in the United States, regularly performing transplants for children other programs might consider untreatable, including transplants in infants. The Transplant Center treats newborns to young adults from across the country and around the world.

 

For the past seven years in a row, Texas Children’s has performed more heart, kidney, liver and lung pediatric transplants combined than any other program in the nation, with outcomes that meet or exceed the best in the country.

 

Texas Children’s is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All applicants and employees are considered and evaluated for positions at Texas Children's without regard to mental or physical disability, race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, genetic information, military or veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status or any other protected Federal, State/Province or Local status unrelated to the performance of the work involved.

 

Confidential Inquiries

Barry Marshall – TMG Senior Consultant & Executive Recruiter

(913) 927-5680 / search@transplantmanagement.com

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