Chief Executive Officer

Grady Memorial Hospital

Chickasha, OK

The Opportunity:

AMN is honored to partner with Grady Memorial Hospital Authority and its Board in the recruitment of a new Chief Executive Officer (CEO). The current CEO, Kean Spellman, has announced his intentions to retire in 2025. A national executive search is underway.

The Position:

Reporting to the Board of Trustees (7 members, plus 3 advisory), the CEO provides administrative leadership and direction to all aspects of Grady Memorial Hospital (GMH), including all operational and clinical activities across the organization. The CEO has executive responsibilities for GMH and represents GMH in the local community. GMH is also the legal entity operating a 28 member strong medical group practice, named Five Oaks Medical Group.

This is an exceptional opportunity for an accomplished, forward-thinking, and collaborative, growth oriented executive to join an outstanding, independent healthcare and medical provider organization at a key time in its history. The future CEO, GMH will have the benefit of building upon a positive organizational culture, coupled with a solid leadership team, good reputation, and overall quality medical staff, but also facing serious financial challenges.

The successful candidate must have gravitas, knowledge, vision, and ability to execute to craft and strengthen a new strategic plan to ensure ongoing and future success, financial stability, and intentional growth, while also maintaining GMH’s existing positive and collaborative culture and continued clinical strength. This new executive will serve as the external voice and face of GMH, the “chief advocate” and be capable of ensuring GMH remains independent, and as a public trust. The hospital is a political subdivision of Grady County.

The Ideal Candidate:

• A graduate degree (e.g., MBA, MHA, MD or other advanced degrees) is strongly preferred.
• Minimum of five (5) years of progressively responsible, successful leadership experience in health care management and operations.
• Leadership experience within a community hospital environment is a must; leadership experience gained in a prospective payment hospital is preferred.
• The successful candidate will currently be a President/Chief Executive Officer, Chief Operating Officer, SVP/VP of Operations, or hold another senior executive level position in a healthcare provider organization with reputation for excellence. Regardless of current and prior positions held, the successful candidate must possess outstanding and hands on operational leadership skills/experience.
• Track record of building partnerships or joint ventures with external health systems is strongly preferred.
• Leadership experience within a public trust is preferred.
• Must have prior experience working collaboratively with a Board, with transparency, trust and willingness to encourage open discussion of key issues appropriate to Board levels. Must also have experience assisting with the development of a strategic plan based on hospital wherewithal to meet community needs.
• Rural healthcare experience is strongly preferred.

The Organization:

Grady Memorial Hospital (GMH) is an independent, community based, non-profit, public trust hospital located in Chickasha, Oklahoma. GMH is comprised of 49 licensed acute inpatient beds, 9 ICU beds, and 24 swing beds.

GMH owns and operates medical practice, Five Oaks Medical , which is comprised of 28 practitioners in addition to physician medicine, pediatrics, orthopedic, pain, and an array of contracted medical and surgical specialists from nearby facilities. The active medical staff includes more than 24 providers.

GMH serves the Grady County region with a wide variety of care options not often found in a small community. Services include emergency services (12,000 annual visits), surgery (1,700 cases annually),diagnostics (including a fixed MRI), diabetes education, infusion, sleep disorders center, primary and specialty care, short stay swing bed rehabilitation services and GMH Surgical specialties includes Pain, ENT, Gastroenterology, General Surgery, Gynecology, Orthopedics and Podiatry. GMH is consistently striving to better understand which services can be added and expanded to better serve the community and keep care locally.

The Location:

Chickasha, OK has a population of 16,000 and is home to one of Oklahoma’s best universities, major employers and popular community events, in addition to being a commercial hub for two counties. This makes Chickasha an excellent place to put down roots. 

Chickasha is located 35 minutes from OKC and Norman directly on I-44, at the crossroads of I-44 and highways 81, 62/9, and 19. We have properties with access to rail in a New Markets Tax Credit area, and our location makes access to market quick and easy. Chickasha is a self-contained community that enables its residents to be as involved int he community as they would like to be, and enable a sense of community that you cannot get in larger cities. With the added bonus of being at Will Rogers World Airport, Oklahoma City or Norman in 35 minutes. 

More information can be found at: https://www.chickashachamber.com/ OR https://www.visitchickasha.com/why-chickasha

Please direct all inquiries, applications, and referrals to:

Richard Heishman

[email protected]

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