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Baxter International, Inc. has retained Kirby Partners to conduct a nationwide executive search for candidates for their Senior Director, Enterprise Architect.

Baxter International, Inc. is a global medical equipment manufacturing company that provides solutions for diagnostic, critical care, nutrition, kidney care, hospital and surgical products to millions of patients, caregivers, and providers.

For 90 years, Baxter has been making an impact at the critical intersection where innovations that save and sustain lives meet the healthcare providers who make it happen.

Baxter’s portfolio of products, therapies, and digital health solutions is available in more than 100 countries, building upon the company’s rich heritage of medical breakthroughs to advance the next generation of transformative healthcare innovations.

Baxter’s acquisition of Hillrom in 2021 has formed one of the world’s leading medical technology companies, centered around a shared vision to transform healthcare.

Baxter invests in companies with innovative technologies, products, and therapies that accelerate growth and advance patient care. Each investment opportunity undergoes a rigorous evaluation process to determine if it has the potential to address unmet clinical needs and offer sustainable long-term growth. Baxter’s investment focus includes therapeutic areas complementary to Baxter’s presence in critical, hospital, nutritional, renal and surgical care, as well as cutting-edge technology and therapies.

Baxter supports the pioneering efforts of clinicians and scientists through its research and external funding and university partnerships to those who are focused on innovative research, and continuing education for healthcare professionals.

Senior Director, Enterprise Architect Position Overview

The Senior Director, Enterprise Architect is an exciting opportunity to work at the critical intersection where innovations that save and sustain lives meet the healthcare providers that make it happen.

The Senior Director, Enterprise Architect will partner with healthcare customers to develop and deliver bespoke solutions based on Baxter’s products. This position will also work with Baxter’s product team to develop the future roadmaps of Baxter’s products.

The Senior Director, Enterprise Architect will act as a technology leader and SME supporting Baxter’s U.S. Hospital Products Organization (USHPO).

Reporting to the Vice President of Innovation & Enterprise Technology, this role is directly responsible for the review, design, delivery and execution of Enterprise level solutions for Baxter U.S. customers.

Qualifications

Education:

Bachelor’s degree and/or 7+ years of work experience in enterprise architecture solutions management.

Experience:

Must have experience supporting clinical environments to include Acute Care environments.
Experience working with hospital systems’ technical leadership and third party hospital information system providers such as Cerner, Epic, Meditech, etc.
Experience designing solutions that utilize Containerization and Virtualization.

Attributes/skill sets:

Deep knowledge of enterprise technology and architecture.
Strong business acumen and ability to understand complex workflows and business processes.
Critical thinking and problem-solving techniques to implement enterprise solutions.
Comprehensive project management understanding and experience.
Ability to proactively engage in executive presentations and white board sessions.
Baxter’s enterprise software solution architecture and implementation is on-premises and an understanding of different enterprise architecture methodologies is needed.
Ability to work effectively in a cross-functional dynamic team environment.
Ability to work independently, under minimal direct supervision.
Strong analytical, communication, interpersonal and organizational skills.
Creativity in addressing technical challenges.
Technical depth or breadth in one or more systems environments and strategic technologies.
Ability to assist with medical device integration projects.
Must be able to travel 30-40%.
Background in Hospital IT is preferred.

This is a remote opportunity that does entail travel to client sites and occasional visits to Baxter’s U.S. headquarters in Chicago.

For more information about the organization, the Senior Director, Enterprise Architect position, and the community, click the “Full Profile” link (top right sidebar).

Please note that Kirby Partners exclusively represents this job opportunity and all candidates will be presented through our team of executive recruiters. If you have questions about this position, please email Bryan Kirby.

Southern Illinois Healthcare has retained Kirby Partners to conduct a nationwide executive search for candidates for their Vice President/CIO.

The people of Southern Illinois Healthcare (SIH), a not-for-profit health care system, are dedicated to promoting the health and well-being of all of the people in the seven county primary service area they serve. SIH is comprised of over 30 facilities, including three inpatient hospitals, three clinics, numerous physician offices, three walk-in clinics and dedicated centers that include neurology, cancer, heart, sleep, and rehabilitation.

SIH is also affiliated with SIU School of Medicine, Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, and Prairie Heart Institute.

SIH is a member of the BJC Collaborative, a partnership among health care systems throughout Illinois, Missouri, and Eastern Kansas.

Memorial Hospital of Carbondale is the flagship hospital for SIH and regional referral center for the 16 county southern Illinois region with practicing physicians in over 45 different specialties:

154-bed tertiary care hospital
Southern Illinois’ largest and most spacious birthing center with Level II Plus Special Care Nursery
Only dedicated pediatric unit in the region
The core hospital for SIH’s comprehensive, regional heart program, Prairie Heart Institute.
High level surgical capabilities including daVinci technology
Affiliated with SIU School of Medicine through its Family Practice Residency Program
Neuroscience program including neurosurgery and a designated Primary Stroke Center
Accredited by the Commission on Cancer for comprehensive cancer treatment

Vice President/CIO Position Overview

The Southern Illinois Healthcare Vice President/CIO will direct this 3-hospital system’s information technology department to continue working towards the industry’s best IT practices.

The CIO will direct the planning and implementation of enterprise IT systems to improve cost effectiveness, service quality, and business development.

This key system leader will oversee a staff of 125 IT team members, report to the CEO, and is a member of the Executive Team.

Initial projects include:

Transition a recently acquired hospital to SIH systems
Develop plans to continue optimizing applications and technology
Further the growth of telemedicine
With the CHIO, continue to move informatics programs forward
Continue consolidating business and clinical system throughout the enterprise

SIH utilizes Epic as its EHR.

Qualifications

Required:

Bachelor degree
Eight+ years of progressive supervisory experience
Seven+ years of healthcare Information Technology management experience
A proven background in community and rural healthcare management

Preferred:

Master’s Degree
Epic experience
Lean experience

Other:

Residency in or relocation to the Carbondale, Illinois area is required
Covid vaccination is required for employment

For more information about the organization, the Vice President/CIO position, and the community, click the “Full Profile” link (top right sidebar).

Springfield Clinic has retained Kirby Partners to conduct a nationwide executive search for candidates for their Director Data Science & Analytics.

Springfield Clinic is a progressive physician-led health system with 450 physicians and advanced practitioners that serve a population of approximately one million patients throughout the central Illinois region in eighty medical specialties and sub-specialties.

Springfield Clinic is known for delivering state-of-the-art therapies for conditions that would traditionally require treatment in larger, more metropolitan medical centers.

Director Data Science & Analytics Job Overview

With buy-in from leaders across the organization, Springfield Clinic has created the new Director of Data Science and Analytics position to push the boundaries of what is possible with analytics in outpatient healthcare. Their visionary CEO is building a team of leaders who are driven by innovation and leading-edge possibilities. The VP & CIO Jack O’Hara has already made a mark nationally by turning around IT operations and driving advanced initiatives, including developing a revenue-generating telemedicine solution in-house. The Director of Data Science and Analytics will also have opportunity to collaborate with the Director of Research to support physician research leading to publication.

The Director of Data Science and Analytics is responsible for leading the creation and development of data science and advanced analytics at Springfield Clinic–including ensuring continuity and seamless extension of existing programs and collaborating with the CIO in the development of a short- and long-term vision and roadmap.

The Director of Data Science and Analytics will play a key role in internal and external data science and AI products along with advisory services. This leader will be responsible for a team of data scientists, data engineers and ETL developers who are involved in researching, designing, developing and implementing machine learning algorithms, data architecture design and overall data analytics at Springfield Clinic.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or equivalent IT field
3+ years of relevant experience in the data domain within a healthcare related field
Experience with data science, analytics, AI, engineering and/or architecture teams in managing projects/products that utilize big data, advanced analytics and machine learning technologies
Understanding of data and information architecture, including experience with Big Data, relational databases, streaming and batch data processing
Technical knowledge in scripting languages, data warehouse solutions, workflow management, UI/UX/data visualization solutions, distributed logging systems, data science workbenches, data exploration tools, containerization, and API based architecture
Expertise in software development tools including GitHub, Maven, and Jenkins

Southern Illinois Healthcare has retained Kirby Partners to conduct a nationwide executive search for their Vice President/Chief Innovation Officer position.

Southern Illinois Healthcare (SIH) is a not-for-profit health care system, dedicated to promoting the health and well-being of all of the people in the seven-county primary service area they serve. SIH is comprised of over twenty facilities, including three inpatient hospitals, two clinics, two physician office buildings, an urgent care center and dedicated centers that include neuro, cancer, heart, sleep, and rehabilitation. The Vice President/Chief Innovation Officer will join over 3,700 SIH employees, along with physicians and volunteers, and work together to achieve their mission and ensure the healthcare needs of those they serve are met.

SIH is also affiliated with SIU School of Medicine, Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago and Prairie Heart Institute.

VP/Chief Innovation Officer Position Overview:

The Vice President/Chief Innovation Officer (VP/CIO) will direct the information technology department to continue working towards the industry’s best IT practices. Southern Illinois has built an exceptional employee culture of strong performers who live their mission, and there is significant tenure within the organization.

While not needing a “cutting edge” innovator, SIH is looking for discipline around execution and transformational elements. The organization is looking for creativity to help utilize the full value of their systems. They also want IT to have a patient centric focus. The organization has an entrepreneurial and “fail fast” culture.

SIH has an exceptionally strong “patient first” philosophy and a strong commitment to provide the best healthcare possible to the area. The organization has a 60% market share and an AA- rating.

Qualifications

SIH seeks a dynamic and visionary technology leader, adept at dealing with challenging, fast-paced environments, who embraces moving vision to reality. To be successful, this VP/CIO will need to be a relationship builder and collaborator able to drive change, lead, grow and mentor a team, and communicate and champion the vision of IT technology in a consistent and persuasive manner.

Minimum Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree
At least eight years of progressive supervisory experience
At least seven years of Healthcare Information Technology executive experience

Preferred Qualifications:

Master’s degree
Epic experience
Lean experience

Note: Relocation to the Carbondale area is required for this position; a relocation package is offered.

For more information about the organization, position, and the community, click the “Full Profile” link (top right sidebar) or click here.

Please note that Kirby Partners exclusively represents this opportunity and all candidates will be presented through our team of executive recruiters. If you have questions about this position, please email Steve Bennett.

Mount Sinai Hospital has retained Kirby Partners to identify, qualify and present individuals for their System Director, Clinical Services Position.

Organization Overview

Founded in 1919, Mount Sinai Hospital was created to serve the needs of the Chicago area. Now the Sinai Health System is comprised of 6 medical institutions that passionately serve the communities of west and southwest Chicago. The network includes: Mount Sinai Hospital, Holy Cross Hospital, Sinai Children’s Hospital, Schwab Rehabilitation Hospital, Sinai Medical Group, Sinai Community Institute and Sinai Urban Health Institute. Sinai Health System’s mission is to improve the health of the 1.5 million people who live in their diverse service area, and they aim to do so by becoming the national model for the delivery of urban healthcare. By collectively delivering a full range of high-quality outpatient and inpatient services, as well as a large number of innovative community-based health and social service programs, the members of Sinai Health System are uniquely positioned to serve their constituents while effectively working towards their mission.

System Director, Clinical Services Position Highlights

The System Director, Clinical Services, strives to improve the health of patients, families and communities by leveraging clinical information systems. This includes the use of technology in the direct provision of patient care, establishing effective clinical information systems, planning and delivering educational experiences, supporting life-long learning, and evidenced based practice. This position functions as a liaison between clinical staff and information services staff. The System Director works closely with physicians, nurses, administrators and staff to maximize efficient and effective use of the clinical information systems related to patient care, user satisfaction, clinical productivity, and quality outcomes, and ensures that the organizations clinical information systems meet all regulatory requirements. The System Director is over both the inpatient EMR, Meditech, and the ambulatory EMR, NextGen along with Enterprise Imaging Systems. The position will also oversee BioMed services and will manage a total staff of around 40 FTEs.

The Chartis Group has retained Kirby Partners to identify, qualify and present individuals for their Associate Principal Position.

Organization Overview

The Chartis Group is a preeminent management consulting firm with a stellar reputation for thought leadership and domain expertise in the healthcare provider industry. The firm has served many of the leading players in this space, including more than two-thirds of the nation’s “Honor Roll” academic medical centers, 7 of the top 10 healthcare systems, 4 of the 5 largest not-for-profit health systems, and 9 of the top 10 children’s hospitals. A values-based, highly collaborative organization, Chartis is committed to its mission: to materially improve the delivery of healthcare in the world.

Associate Principal Position Highlights

Senior IT PE colleagues provide leadership on multiple dimensions – thought leadership, project leadership, client leadership, people leadership and firm leadership. In collaboration with other leaders across the firm, senior IT PE colleagues will combine their knowledge, experience, skills and passion to materially improve healthcare. As thought leaders these individuals will develop innovative frameworks, methodologies and tools with broad potential application and serve as firm-wide subject matter experts. S/he will lead strategic and complex engagements and ensure deliverables and results align with the project objectives and client expectations, while building trust-based relationships with executive leadership. IT PE leaders will assist in recruiting, developing and motivating associates within the IT PE service line and on project teams. These individuals will be instrumental in generating new

Organization Overview

Southern Illinois Healthcare is the premier hospital system in Southern Illinois and consists of three hospitals. The largest hospital, Memorial Hospital of Carbondale, is a 153-bed acute care facility and the regional referral center for southern Illinois. It features tertiary care such as vascular, neurology and a Top 100 cardiac program, Prairie Heart Institute. Herrin Hospital features all modern surgical and patient care areas, an eight-bed ICU with house wide telemetry, 117-beds, all-digital imaging and archiving, and a 24-hour hospitalist program. It is home to nationally acclaimed acute rehabilitation through an alliance with the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago. St. Joseph Memorial Hospital, is the only SIH hospital to have a Catholic affiliation, and serves as a critical access hospital in Murphysboro, Illinois. St. Joseph is one of six hospitals nationwide named a 2011 and 2012. In addition to the three system hospitals, IT provides support to two other hospitals on a contract basis.

Position Highlights

This Chief Innovation Officer will direct the information technology department to continue working towards the industry’s best IT practices. The major IT system is Meditech. The CIO departed in November and an interim CIO is in place and is not interested in relocation from his home area.

Organization Overview

RML is a nonprofit specialty hospital with locations in Chicago and Hinsdale serving patients with catastrophic or acute illnesses complicated by multiple medical issues. RML is a joint venture with Loyola University Medical Center and Advocate Healthcare. RML has strong partnerships but is not a controlled entity. RML enjoys autonomy in decision making. RML was recently awarded a clinical excellence grant from CareFusion. RML was one of eleven U.S. nonprofit healthcare institutions selected to develop and share infection prevention best practices.

Position Highlights

The CIO maintains overall responsibility for the information management needs of RML. The CIO oversees operations for all computer hardware, software (operating and applications), data security, information management strategic planning, telecommunications and health information management.