SVP & Chief Nursing Officer

The Senior Vice President Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) serves as the senior-most nursing executive for Luminis Health, providing system-wide strategic, clinical, and operational leadership across all nursing and designated patient care functions. As a key member of the health system executive leadership team, the system CNO is accountable for clinical quality, and advancing nursing practice, care delivery systems, patient experience, workforce engagement, quality, safety, and financial performance across all assigned hospitals and care settings. The role establishes and sustains a consistent professional practice model, shared governance, and evidence-based care delivery systems aligned with system strategy, Annual Operating Plan (AOP), and True North metrics.

The CNO partners closely with executive leadership to ensure alignment, standardization, operational effectiveness, and execution. Non-nursing departments may report to this position. Demonstrates ability to lead across diverse clinical cultures and practice environments, effectively engaging stakeholders to align differing perspectives, workflows, and norms in support of a shared organizational vision for patient care, quality, and safety, and operational efficiency, discovery and innovation.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. 1. Strategy Alignment a.

Leads the development, translation and execution of system strategy (Vision 2030, AOP, True North) into enterprise-wide nursing priorities, operating plans, and measurable outcomes. b. Establishes and enforces enterprise-wide nursing strategy, care delivery models, standards, and performance frameworks to ensure consistent, scalable, high-quality care across all care settings.

c. Drives system integration of nursing leadership and operations, consolidating hospital-based practices into a unified, high-performing enterprise model. d.

Partners with and advises executive leaders, clinical chairs, and service line leaders, shared services, and foundation partners to identify growth, care redesign, and service integration opportunities. 2. Nursing Practice, Quality, and Safety a.

Serves as executive co-leader of system quality governance with Chief Clinical Officer and Vice President of Quality and Patient Safety; ensuring integration of evidence-based practice, nursing research, and high-reliability behaviors. b. , Magnet and Pathways to Excellence standards) and shared governance councils across all practice settings.

c. Drives improvement and execution with all quality and throughput metrics, especially related to Quality Based Reimbursement and all other quality metrics. d.

Sponsor Environment of care and regulatory readiness, tracers, and system corrective action plans. 3. Performance Improvement and Innovation a.

Establishes, directs, and sustains a culture of performance improvement opportunities and coordinate actions that advance quality, patient safety and patient and employee satisfaction. b. Advises the CEO, EVP and Chief Operating Officer and executive leadership on enterprise clinical quality and safety initiatives.

c. Uses data analytics and best practice benchmarking to drive improvements in quality, safety, patient experience, workforce engagement, and financial performance. 4.

Health Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion a. Leads the development and sustainability of an organizational culture that reduces disparities in care delivery, outcomes, workforce experience, and access. b.

Ensures integration of diversity, equity, and inclusion principles into nursing practice, workforce development, and leadership decision-making. 5. Workforce Development and Succession Planning a.