Executive Director

Executive Director

Regions Hospital

 

About Regions Hospital

 

Regions Hospital is consistently recognized as one of the best hospitals in the region. They were named a U.S. News & World Report 2022 – 2023 Best Regional Hospital and a Watson Health Top 15 Health System for their commitment to making patient care and recovery the best they can be.

 

Established in 1872, Regions Hospital, a private, not-for-profit organization has been providing hope and healing through exceptional hospital care for over 150 years in St. Paul and surrounding communities, as well as for patients from through Minnesota, western Wisconsin, and other Midwestern States.

 

Regions Hospital is part of HealthPartners, an integrated health care organization providing health care services and health plan financing and administration. HealthPartners was founded in 1957 as a cooperative and is now the largest consumer governed nonprofit health care organization in the nation – serving 1.8 million medical and dental health plan members nationwide. Their care system includes a multispecialty group practice of 1,800 physicians and 60 dentists that serve 1.2 million patients. HealthPartners employs 26,000 people, all working together to deliver the HealthPartners mission.

 

Specialty Care at Regions Hospital

 

Regions Hospital is home to several nationally recognized specialty centers which are led by highly skilled doctors, surgeons, rehabilitation specialists, nurses, and staff members.

 

Level 1 Trauma Center for adults and children

 

Regions is one of only three hospitals in Minnesota that is verified as a Level I Trauma Center for both adults and children with the expertise and technology to treat the most serious injuries 24/7.

 

Nationally recognized Burn Center

 

The Regions Hospital Burn Center is one of only eight burn centers in the country to continuously maintain verification by the American Burn Association. They use the latest, most advanced burn treatments, including treatments that were developed at the burn center and innovations like their transparent face mask that have become worldwide care standards.

 

MISSION: To improve health and well-being in partnership with our members, patients, and the community.

 

VISION: Health as it could be, affordability as it must be, through relationships built on trust and service for all.

 

VALUES

 

• Excellence – We strive for the best results and always look for ways to improve.

• Partnership – We are strongest when we work together and with those we serve.

• Compassion – We care and show empathy and respect for each person.

• Integrity – We are open and honest, and we keep our commitments.

 

FAST FACTS

 

• Established in 1872

• Located in St. Paul, MN

• The only Level I Trauma Center for adults and children on the east side of the Twin Cities

• 2022 – 2023 Best Regional Hospital | U.S. News & World Report

• Get with The Guidelines® Stroke Gold Plus Achievement Award | American Heart Association

• Top 15 Health System | Watson Health

• Top 25 Environmental Excellence Award | Practice Greenhealth

• For more information about Regions Hospital, visit their website.

• For more information about Regions Hospital Foundation, visit their website.

 

Commitment to mental health

 

The Mental Health Center at Regions Hospital is one of the largest providers of adult inpatient mental health services in the east metro. Their modern, comfortable mental health facility offers a safe, private, and healing environment with 120 inpatient beds in private rooms.

 

About Regions Hospital Foundation

 

Regions Hospital Foundation works to support the vital work of Regions Hospital by partnering with community members, past patients, and families. Together, they help fund the care, research, and outreach that bolsters their mission.

 

• Funding Priorities: To reflect the role that Regions Hospital has in their community and the expertise of the researchers and staff, Regions Hospital Foundation has several areas of focus.

• Mission in Action Fund: This fund helps the leadership of Regions Hospital answer to the occasion by investing in technology, equipment, education, and staff support.

• Cancer Care and Research: Donations help provide holistic support and education to patients and families, helping them learn about their illness, manage their treatment, and thrive in recovery. They also support Regions Hospital’s world-class research facilities, helping them expand their clinical trial programs and ensuring that hospital patients have access to the best new cancer treatments.

• Neuroscience: Donations extend the HealthPartners Neuroscience Center’s ability to care for patients while developing groundbreaking research.

• Emergency and Trauma Care: Donations help ensure that Regions Hospital can continue providing high-quality and safe critical care to patients of all ages.

• Mental Health Care: Donations provide additional resources necessary to help reduce or eliminate the delays that keep patients from getting the care they need.

 

ADDITIONAL SPECIALITY CARE CENTERS

 

• Breast Health Center

• Capitol View Transitional Care Center

• Emergency Center

• HealthPartners Cancer Center at Regions

• Heart Center

• Intensive Care (ICU)

• Neuroscience Care

• Orthopedic Trauma Care

• Regions Hospital Family Birth Center

• Rehabilitation

• Sleep Health Center

• Stroke Care

• Surgical Services

 

About the Regions Hospital Foundation Executive Director Opportunity

 

The Role

 

The Executive Director of Regions Hospital Foundation leads the Foundation’s philanthropic efforts. This Executive Director leads philanthropic support initiatives to improve health and well-being and promotes partnerships through innovation, creativity, and technology. Additionally, the Executive Director will partner with others within HealthPartners and the community to identify and help address gaps in the care continuum. The Executive Director is responsible for sustaining and nurturing trust and compassion by ensuring all Foundation decisions and actions are in alignment with the organization’s mission, vision, and values.

 

The leader is responsible for Foundation board relations and leading board meetings and activities to achieve goals. This individual will engage patients, families, and community partners to build upon the legacy of securing philanthropic support to improve the health and well-being of our community. Key responsibilities include maximizing major giving support for Regions Hospital. In coordination with the Vice Presidents of Advancement and other foundation executive directors, provide leadership for Regions-specific strategies for other philanthropic activities such as: annual, capital and endowment fundraising programs, planned giving, corporate and foundation relations, special events, volunteer committees, donor relations, and stewardship.

 

Working with others within HealthPartners and the community, the Executive Director is responsible for sustaining and nurturing trust and compassion by ensuring all Foundation decisions and actions are in alignment with the organization’s mission, vision, and values.

 

Scope of Responsibility

 

• Set strategic course and vision of philanthropic advancement that is in alignment with the mission of Regions Hospital and HealthPartners in collaboration with the senior leadership team.

• Lead the engagement with the Foundation Board and its associated committees to ensure alignment with the mission of the Foundation and HealthPartners.

• Provide leadership to the Foundation Major Gift team.

• Partner with the Foundation staff, hospital leadership, and Foundation Board to identify philanthropic opportunities that will ensure future success and vitality.

• Oversee Foundation initiatives, donor relations, community partnerships, and other key stakeholders.

• Collaborate with stakeholders to identify needs, seek opportunities for expansion of outreach and projection of future organizational growth and impact on community benefit.

• Lead the annual planning, financial, and reporting needs of the Foundation.

 

REPORTING RELATIONSHIPS

 

The Executive Director will report to the President of Regions Hospital and serves a member of the Executive Leadership Team.

 

This leader will have direct oversight of a major gift fundraising team which includes the following direct reports:

 

• 2-3 Major Gift Officers

 

The Executive Director will receive support from and work in strong collaboration with the Vice Presidents of Advancement and the shared services and operations teams supporting the eight HealthPartners Hospital Foundations across the system.

 

The Ideal Candidate

 

The ideal candidate will have a proven track record of providing thoughtful, strategic, collaborative, and effective leadership in philanthropy. They will be passionate about and successful at finding solutions to complex healthcare issues and creating sustainable positive impact. Skilled at fostering a collaborative, motivating, thriving workplace environment for high achieving teams. Experienced in funder engagement, grant administration, and board engagement.

 

The Executive Director will demonstrate the following skills and characteristics:

 

• Demonstrate the organization’s values of Excellence, Compassion, Partnership, and Integrity.

• Fundraising Professional – Senior-level fundraising professional with major fundraising campaign experience, knowledgeable of fundraising best practices, has a goal to diversify funding sources and possess the ability to navigate different constituencies.

• Lead Others – Coaches, mentors, and provides feedback to staff, commits time and resources to staff development, holds staff accountable and rewards and recognizes staff.

• Communicates Effectively – Creates opportunities for two-way dialogue, receptive to critical feedback, translates mission, vision, and strategic objectives into day-to-day work, is visible and approachable in the work setting and uses respectful and healthy communication methods.

• Lead and Manage Change – Assesses individual and team capacity for change, communicates the need for change and the desired outcome, supports the need for change, and uses change models and tools effectively.

• Build Cross-Collaborative Relationships – Highly relational leader who understands, values, and promotes the importance of developing relationships with internal and external stakeholders including physicians, staff, Foundation Board, community, donors and others. Works to advance diversity goals in the workplace and actively build trust with others.

• Business and Professional Expertise and Execution – Applies specialized knowledge to achieve results, innovate, develop, and execute workable plans to achieve objectives, identifies problems and solutions, responds quickly to issues and requests, follows through on plans, commitments and agreements, applies knowledge and expertise in continuous improvement tools and methodologies.

• Patient/Member/Customer Centered – Proactively and consistently seeks to understand our customers/members/patients, does work and leads work from a customer/member/patient perspective, empowers staff to meet customer/member/patient needs.

 

Minimum Requirements

 

• Bachelor’s degree (Masters preferred) in business, marketing, healthcare administration, non-profit management, or related field.

• A minimum of 10 years of progressive leadership experience, including demonstrated success in resource development, experience in healthcare is preferred.

• Demonstrated ability to manage and garner support through annual and major giving, planned giving, corporate/foundation relations, and capital campaigns.

• Ability to select, supervise, inspire, and lead a professional major gift team.

• Experience working within an increasingly complex environment at senior levels.

• Demonstrated experience with strategic planning, forecasting and fundraising tracking, and reporting. •

• Effective and efficient in building budgets, managing resources, and reporting outcomes to build and expand a fundraising program.

• Demonstrated skill in governance and board development. Ability to recruit key community and business leaders to the Foundation Board.

• Strong interpersonal relationship building skills associated with successful development officers, which include outstanding writing and verbal communication skills, sound judgement, demonstrated initiative, positive attitude, personal integrity, confidence, political savvy, and a style which will foster effective relationships with Foundation Board members, donors, patrons, community leaders, and others.

 

LOCATION, COMPENSATION & BENEFITS

 

The primary office is in St. Paul, Minnesota.

 

The expected compensation for this role is $220,000 – $250,000 range plus incentive. The actual base salary may be adjusted based on the following considerations: jobrelated knowledge and skills, and experience. Details on the comprehensive benefits plan offered will be provided.

 

Regions Hospital Foundation has exclusively retained CohenTaylor Executive Search Services to help conduct this search.

 

For more information, or to submit your resume for consideration, please email: Regions@cohentaylor.com.

 

Applications will be accepted and reviewed on a rolling basis. All inquiries will remain confidential.

 

Yellow Ribbon and equal opportunity employer Regions is a designated Yellow Ribbon employer, which means that they have met certain criteria that demonstrate our commitment to veterans and their families. This includes enhanced benefits for employees who serve or have served, and other types of special recognition. They are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class. In addition, they participate in EVerify | EEO Law