City: Carbondale

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

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 Steve Bennett.

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.

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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.

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.