Chief Executive Officer

CEO, Fairfield Memorial Hospital - Deaconess

Fairfield, IL

Deaconess Health System in Evansville, IN has a formal management agreement with the Fairfield Memorial Hospital Board of Directors to ensure the continued success of a long standing Critical Access Hospital in Southern Illinois.

Deaconess Health System is currently seeking a Chief Executive Officer for Fairfield Hospital.  The CEO will be an employee of Deaconess Hospital.

Job Summary includes:

Responsibilities include maintaining service excellence in areas of patient care and safety, medical team and employee relations, finance, along with capital and technology acquisition. CEO would additionally ensure regulatory and accreditation standards are met while being an integral and engaged community member. Excellent salary and benefit package along with relocation provided.

Successful CEO candidates will possess the following:

•    Prior hospital CEO experience or progressive senior leadership experience as a COO, Clinical or Financial Director

•    Knowledge of Critical Access Hospitals/Rural Healthcare delivery

•    Ten years’ overall hospital/healthcare experience

•    Results driven leader demonstrating a history of success in healthcare management

•    Bachelor’s degree with Master’s level degree desired

Deaconess Health System is the premier provider of health care services to 51 counties in three states (IN, IL, and KY). The system consists of 18 wholly owned, joint ventured, sponsored or affiliated hospitals located in southern Indiana, southeastern Illinois and western Kentucky.

Fairfield Memorial Hospital is a fully-accredited, not-for-profit critical access hospital. It has 25 acute-care beds and employs more than 250 employees. The medical staff at FMH is made up of more than 90 credentialed physicians and healthcare providers. It is accredited by the Joint Commission. FMH offers a number of services including a 30-bed Skilled Care Unit, Home Health Services, 24-hour emergency care, ICU, surgical services, diagnostic imaging, pulmonary and cardiac rehab and occupational, speech and physical therapies. FMH opened Horizon Healthcare in 2008, a certified hospital based-rural health clinic. It is now housed in a 25,486 square foot facility in Fairfield and has two other locations as well.

Interested applicants may formally apply to the Deaconess Career site:

Job Posting URL

https://pm.healthcaresource.com/cs/deaconess/#/preApply/34038