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OK-SSM Health St. Anthony Healthplex
Worker Type: Regular

Job Highlights:

Named 150 Top Places to Work in Healthcare 2025 - Becker's Healthcare

Named One of the World’s Happiest Workplace 2025 – WorkL

Named One of America's Best In-State Employers 2025 - Forbes

Named One of America's Greatest Workplaces for Women 2025 – Newsweek

Named One of America’s Greatest Workplaces for Culture, Belonging & Community 2026 – Newsweek

SSM Health is a Catholic, not-for-profit health system serving the comprehensive health needs of communities across the Midwest through a robust and fully integrated health care delivery system. The organization’s 40,000 team members and more than 13,900+ providers are committed to providing exceptional health care services and revealing God’s healing presence to everyone they serve.

With care delivery sites in Illinois, Missouri, Oklahoma and Wisconsin, SSM Health includes 23 hospitals, more than 300 physician offices and other outpatient and virtual care services, 12 post-acute facilities, comprehensive home care and hospice services, a pharmacy benefit company, a health insurance company and an accountable care organization. It is one of the largest employers in every community it serves.

Please note that this is a 100% on-site role at Okeene Municipal Hospital, an SSM managed facility, in Okeene, OK.

To request additional information, confidentially submit your interest, or nominate a fellow colleague, please contact:

Jon Dirksen
Executive Talent Partner
jon.dirksen@ssmhealth.com

LI-Onsite

Job Summary:

Functions as the Administrator for the Critical Access Hospital by providing leadership and directing the overall operations consistent with policies and objectives of the organization.

Job Responsibilities and Requirements:

Primary Responsibilities

• Serves as the senior member of the leadership team providing strategic direction on operations. Works effectively as a team member in a dynamic environment, and promotes teamwork within and across the organization by maintaining positive relationships and utilizing effective problem-solving skills.
• Exercises control over the business affairs of the organization. Provides leadership and direction to ensure key strategic and operational goals of the organization are met. Oversees the growth, operations, and financial performance of the organization to include leading the management team and monitoring actual performance against the strategic plan, and taking appropriate actions to increase revenue, leverage resources, and minimize expenses.
• Develops, monitors and revises a strategic plan focusing and directing the organization's future course of action. Develops key performance measures and establishes desired levels of performance based on customer requirements, comparative data and best practices. Evaluates performance data and utilizes it for identification of improvement opportunities and to design and improve processes.
• Oversees the employment, supervision and determination of compensation, consistent with the strategic and financial plan, for all employees of the organization. Coaches and mentors employees. Creates a culture of employee engagement. Organizes departments within the organization through appropriate structure and delegation of functions. Identifies succession planning needs within the organization.
• Develops and maintains relationships with local, state, and federal government agencies, with professional hospital, civic groups, and related health system organizations. Ensures all state and federal regulations are met.
• Ensures compliance with all regulatory agencies governing healthcare and financing, and the rules of accrediting bodies by continually monitoring the operation of programs and initiating changes where appropriate.
• Ensures the existence of systems to monitor all facets of organization performance, including fiscal viability, adherence to goals, quality of services, personnel, productivity and mission implementation. Ensures systems are in place for the negotiation, preparation and evaluation of contracts and leases entered into by the organization. Establishes process improvement initiatives to achieve value-based outcome metrics.
• Increases organizational strength through introduction of new products and services and expansion of others and lowers the total cost of care in the market. Provides operational support and oversight for all aspects of the organization. Oversees marketing, communications and public relations activities for the organization. Utilizes metrics to monitor the effectiveness of marketing efforts.
• Obtains and presents to the board a complete annual audit of the financial operations of the organization for each fiscal year.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Education

Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent years of education and experience

Experience

Ten years’ experience, with five years in direct people management/leadership

Department:

9509050040 Okeene Municipal Hospital

Work Shift:

Day Shift (United States of America)

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

40

Benefits:

SSM Health values our exceptional employees by offering a comprehensive benefits package to fit their needs.

• Paid Parental Leave: we offer eligible team members one week of paid parental leave for newborns or newly adopted children (pro-rated based on FTE).
• Flexible Payment Options: our voluntary benefit offered through DailyPay offers eligible hourly team members instant access to their earned, unpaid base pay (fees may apply) before payday.
• Upfront Tuition Coverage: we provide upfront tuition coverage through FlexPath Funded for eligible team members.

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SSM Health is an equal opportunity employer. SSM Health does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. Click here to learn more.