Adventist Health is more than an award-winning health system. We provide whole-person care to our communities and champion the greater good - from the operating room to the boardroom, we are driven by our unique passion to live God's love through health, wholeness and hope. From Oregon to Oahu, we have a calling to always do more. Now is your chance to apply your passion to our mission.

We're looking for someone to join our team as a Director, Emergency Management who:

• Assumes responsibility for all aspects of the Emergency Management Program including being the driving force of the program's emergency managements success, ensuring objectives. Partners with senior leadership team, leads key strategic initiatives and coordinates with AH executives. Represents the emergency management program in collaboration with external partners and stakeholders to ensure alignment and partnership with Private and Public Emergency Management Organizations.

  Essential Functions:

  • Attends emergency preparedness meetings with local regional state and federal level agencies and incorporates outcomes decisions and recommendations to quality and safety leadership hospital executives and Emergency Management leadership. Attends and participates actively participates in hospital and or health care coalition sponsored committee meetings that may but not limited to infection control, safety, quality, and emergency preparedness. Demonstrates competence in hospital Emergency Management concepts. Leads a multidisciplinary approach to ensure a standardization and integration of emergency planning standards into routine processes and activities. Oversees the Emergency Management system committee to assure effective oversight and monitoring and reporting of Emergency Management standards.
  • Provides supportive leadership during activations of the emergency operations plan and provides guidance and direction to the incident management team as needed. Provides guidance and mentoring as the Emergency Management subject matter expert engaging with all departments and on and off-site clinical staff and partners and engages leadership in establishing a culture of continuous preparedness. Designs, develops and implements hospital training and exercises to include drills slash exercises in partnership with leadership physicians and healthcare workers associated with TJC, CMS, OSHA, NFPA, and other applicable regulations relating to Emergency Management program requirements.
  • Ensures and monitors that leadership and health required health care workers are trained in hospital command center operations, national incident management, and hospital incident management system, and maintains required training documents. Engages with offsite departments to include, but not limited to, clinics, dental, home health, and hospital at home programs and develops department specific emergency plans and includes departments in training/education, drills slash exercise annually. Provides support as subject expert and ensures alignment and compliance with TJC, CMS, FEMA, OSHA, NFPA Emergency Management requirements for all sites.
  • Annually, and as reviewed, review, update, and seek input on the sites or Emergency Management plan. Leads the development and annual maintenance of the facilities written disaster plans and procedures to ensure effective multi-hazard disaster response. Develops the annual hazard vulnerability analysis at the site level and for all appropriate locations which may or may not be included under the hospital license. Provides direction and ensures the development and maintenance of the sites core documents including disaster inventory, emergency action plans, each ICS documents, annual risk report, after action reports for all incidents and exercises, and emergency preparedness policies and procedures. Maintains all HPP grant documentation and ensure that documentation is complete and available for review by internal audits and external agencies. Supports the development and maintenance of hospital decontamination program to ensure compliance with State and Federal regulations. Complies with all AH policies and procedures. Supports a safe work environment for staff by ensuring adherence to all safety/infection control policies and procedures/practices to include but not limited to the wearing of appropriate protective clothing and gear and the proper handling of contaminated equipment and tools. Identifies performance improvement opportunities using internal and external auditing to include rounding, tracers, and other appropriate methodologies. Engages in proactive problem resolution and strategies for emergency management program management to include incorporating best practices and alignment with system emergency management initiatives. Participates and supports incident investigations to identify causal factors to determine how incidents might be prevented in the future. Recommends remedial and corrective action

The estimated base pay for this position is $132,384 to $198,577. Additional individual compensation may be available for this role through years of experience, differentials, extra shift incentives, bonuses, etc. Base pay is only a portion of the total rewards package and a comprehensive benefits program is available for qualifying positions. Please contact our Talent Acquisition team for more information.