Chief Nursing Officer
Tower Health, Brandywine Hospital
Coatesville, PA

Brandywine Hospital is seeking an innovative, transformational Chief Nursing Officer (CNO). As a member of the senior management team, the CNO is responsible for all of Patient Care Services, Pharmacy, Respiratory, Professional Practice, Education, Dialysis, Clinical Informatics, Cath Lab, Behavioral Health, Emergency Services, and Perioperative Services. Reports directly to the President & CEO at Brandywine with dotted line to the SVP/CNO for Tower Health.

Key Opportunities:

• Provide leadership that creates engagement and ownership of goals through shared governance.
• Create a nursing environment that fosters collaboration and cultivates relationships across departments.
• Partner with physicians and assist in planning new services that generate additional sources of revenue.
• Create an environment that will encourage recruiting and retention of staff and leadership.
• Develop and manage nursing services budget and ensure sufficient number of qualified staff.
• Analyze areas in planning, promoting and supporting organization-wide performance improvement activities.
• Represent nursing services at all meetings including medical staff and hospital board of director meetings.
• Transformational leadership to guide the organization to Magnet designation.

THE ORGANIZATION at a Glance:

• A community hospital with 171 licensed beds
• $3.5M invested since 2017; $6.9M planned to invest in quality, access, patient experience and community outreach.
• Member of Tower Health, a multi-hospital system with academic, community and specialty services.
• 2019 Mission: Lifeline® Bronze Receiving Quality Achievement Award
• 2019 American Heart Association/American Stroke Association’s Get With The Guidelines® Target: Stroke Honor Roll Silver Plus Quality Achievement Award
• Accredited Chest Pain Center
• Blue Distinction Center for Cardiac Care/Blue Distinction Center for Knee and Hip Replacement