The Chief Financial Officer is responsible for all accounting, budgetary, and financial planning activities within Kearny County Hospital. Kearny County Hospital has a 25 bed critical access hospital, a Long-Term Care Unit, Assisted Living, and Rural Health Clinic.

Must possess a Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution, preferably with an accounting concentration.  Master’s degree or CPA preferred. A minimum of 3 years of financial management experience.

Alongside the leadership team at KCH, the CFO will be responsible for:

• Living the Mission, Vision and Values: Being committed to providing quality, compassionate healthcare services for the community to enrich the lives of our family, friends, and neighbors through service with compassion, teamwork, respect, integrity, value, and excellence.
• Leadership: Provides visionary leadership that inspires the highest levels of performance in the delivery of health care and business and operational administration.
• Medical staff relations. Maintains effective and collaborative relationships with the medical staff that inspires and ensures the ability to meet the health needs of the community, advances quality, patient safety, and patient satisfaction.
• Operational management. Maintains an organized system of management and controls that ensure smooth function of hospital operations, timely accomplishment of goals, and physical, financial, and human resource viability and success. Understands the balance between team engagement, patient satisfaction, quality outcomes, and organization stability and success (financial and growth).
• Quality of care services. Ensures best practice, evidence-based approaches to consistently deliver exceptional, well-coordinated and integrated value-based care that delivers high level outcomes and patient satisfaction while providing personalized care for each patient.
• Strategic planning. Develops, implements, and executes operational plans that ensure timely strategic goal achievements that both grow and sustain the organization through its mission, values, and vision.
• Partnerships and negotiations. Develops strategic, collaborative partnerships and ensures skillful negotiations that help to position the organization for regional success.
• Financial performance. Utilizes financial and analytical skills to lead, monitor and take actions that achieves KCH’s financial stability and long-term success.
• Community relations. Fosters strong community relations and develops collaborative partnerships that advance the interests of the organization and contribute to the health and well-being of the communities served.
• Board relations. Manages the functions of the hospital in accordance with the direction set by the board of trustees.  Informs and advises the board of trustees on matters that influence and impact hospital performance.
• Human resources. Provides leadership and ongoing communication that aligns and challenges the workforce, inspires, and promotes fulfillment of the hospital’s mission, vision and values.
• Regulatory compliance. Ensures legal, regulatory, and accrediting compliance and represents the hospital in relationships with local, state, and federal governing agencies.
• Works collaboratively with political, professional, and administrative bodies to ensure the hospital is proactive in its strategies, operations, and financials.