Available Healthcare Positions

This position manages and facilitates operations within the pre-procedural, post-anesthesia, surgery outpatient departments and anesthesia departments.

The University of Kansas Health System is the region’s premier academic medical center, with annual ambulatory volumes of more than 1 million completed appointments, including 165,000 telehealth appointments, over 100 clinics and multiple locations in the Kansas City metro as well as across the state.

The Health System Director of Ambulatory Operations has overall responsibility and accountability for the Health System’s Ambulatory role of Operations which includes the goals, objectives, responsibilities, skills, abilities, knowledge and experience to organize, govern, enable, manage, analyze, plan, execute, control, monitor, measure, improve and assure the specific functions noted below are integrated and coordinated across the enterprise.

The Health System Director of Ambulatory Operations directs ambulatory practice operational activities to ensure accomplishment of objectives.  Analyzes quantitative performance results and advises the management team to ensure operational efficiency, quality service and financial profitability through short and long-range action planning in order to achieve and maintain growth.  Leads efforts to standardize operations across practice sites, identify synergies and implement best practices and process improvement.  Continually evaluates practice strategies and plans to meet changing national, state, and local needs.  Ensures the maintenance of quality patient care and adherence to federal, state, local laws and regulations.  Oversees the operations and activities of the Practice/Network and management company except those activities directly involving the practice of medicine.  Maintains responsibility for operations and activities across multiple sites.  Supports and adheres to The University of Kansas Code of Ethics and Business Standards.