Our Client, Red Lake Margaret Cochenour Memorial Hospital (RLMCMH), is an 18-bed hospital in the northwest corner of Ontario. Red Lake provides comprehensive 24-hour emergency care, inpatient acute and chronic care. The organization has a busy telemedicine program, provides chemotherapy for oncology patients, endoscopy service in collaboration with a visiting physician and Mental Health and Addiction Services. Plans are underway to expand outpatient services.
The hospital is located 2 hours north of the TransCanada Highway, 2.5 hours from the next nearest hospital – Dryden Regional Health Centre, and 550 km from Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre, the region’s tertiary care center. The hospital serves the communities of Red Lake, Ear Falls and Wabauskang First Nation, a combined population of 5,100 residents. During the summer months tourism draws many visitors to the community.
The municipality of Red Lake is an area of natural beauty and a great place to enjoy the outdoors. It is a vibrant and friendly small town community. The primary industries in the area include mining, tourism, and forestry.
With a highly-engaged Board of Governors, a strong Senior Leadership Team and dedicated Physicians and Staff, RLMCMH is seeking the recruitment of its next President & CEO – a dynamic individual who will provide executive leadership, build strong community partnerships and relationships, champion the progressive work of the organization and support the hospital in achieving its vision and mission while taking the organization to the next level of excellence.
Reporting to the Board of Governors and working closely with the Board Chair and the Senior Leadership Team, the President & CEO will be a role model, coach, mentor and ambassador for the organization. The President & CEO is accountable for strategic leadership, organizational stewardship, operational excellence and fostering a just culture of collaboration and integration that enhances the provision of excellent patient care and improved patient satisfaction.
As a proven champion of innovation and creativity, service excellence, positive patient experiences, and broad stakeholder engagement, the ideal candidate is a confident decision-maker who can forge successful relationships and maintain the respect of staff, physicians, colleagues, stakeholders, the Board, and the community at large.
The ideal candidate will be an inspiring and empowering leader and influential communicator who understands and has a strong appreciation for the importance of rural health care. Bringing a high degree of executive leadership insight, creativity, fiscal acumen, passion and enthusiasm for the mandate of the RLMCMH, the successful candidate will be a results-oriented leader with a bias to action and will be known for having the ability to leverage resources, set priorities, develop healthy working relationships with all stakeholders, and negotiate solutions to complex problems.
Candidates will have senior leadership experience in a healthcare setting ideally combined with a postgraduate degree in business or administration and demonstrated experience in developing an organization culture that is just and enables safe employee and patient care.
Candidate experience will include demonstrated understanding of hospital governance and experience working with a volunteer Board, thorough knowledge of strategic planning and implementation, capital redevelopment, and a proven track record of innovative leadership strategies that inspire staff, physicians and stakeholders to achieve extraordinary results.
Please forward a CV and cover letter in confidence to:
Marcy Saxe-Braithwaite, Email: msaxe-braithwaite@medfall.com
The Medfall Group, established in 1989, is a Canadian-owned company which specializes in retained Executive Search, Physician Leadership Search, Specialist Physician Search, and Healthcare Management Consulting.
With national and international level reach, we work with Boards, Senior Executive Teams and Senior Medical staff successfully providing solutions to clients in community and academic hospitals, public and private healthcare organizations, universities and academic centres, and not-for-profit organizations in addition to providing services for federal and provincial governments and their agencies.
