• Creates strategic and operational plans that guarantee organizational viability and sound business practices.
• Demonstrates a thorough understanding of systems thinking in a complex environment.
• Challenges the organization for congruency.
• Strengthens infrastructures, systems, and processes to ensure they are designed to achieve outcomes.
• Engages the right people and ensures they are available to accomplish desired results.
• Operates facilities that create and sustain a healing environment.
• Recognizes the critical importance of relevant data and meaningful information to inform decisions.

If you are a PeaceHealth Director

• Translates vision to operational plan.  Focuses on setting and meeting challenging organizational/departmental targets.
• Builds and monitors budget to support plan.
• Creates and monitors infrastructures, systems, processes, and standards to achieve outcomes.
• Insures the availability of competent staff.
• Assures regulatory compliance.
• Establishes performance and accountability expectations and clarifies staff roles.
• Recognizes inter-relationships between plans, operations, work environment, policies, and information.  Adjusts to changes or barriers to implementation.
• Plans, develops, implements, and documents initiatives and projects.
• Makes timely decisions using available information to achieve outcomes.
• Demonstrates decisiveness.

If you are a PeaceHealth Manager

• Focuses on meeting challenging organizational/departmental targets.
• Monitors budget variances and recommends or develops plans for improvement.
• Recommends selection of staff with the heart and skills to accomplish results; strives for fit.
• Assures regulatory compliance.
• Monitors and evaluates performance and accountability of staff.
• Intervenes to ensure that plans, operations, environment, policies, and information support day-to-day work.
• Implements and documents progress, incorporating feedback.

Stu Hennessey
SVP, Legal Services

"I think of my grandfather, who was a carpenter, when I think about alignment. Because when he’d build a structure, he would select floor joists and site-down every one of them to make sure they were straight before he’d use them. Then, when they were all laid out, he’d use his chalk line and level to make sure every joist would support the structure evenly, so that everything would align. We don’t use floor joists at Peace Health, we use people – we select people. And we need them to be the right people with the right characteristics. We also don’t use a chalk line and level. Instead we use our mission and operational planning to make sure everybody is evenly supporting our structure as we move forward..."

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