Director, Surgical Services, Norton Audubon Hospital
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![]() United States, Kentucky, Louisville | |
![]() 1 Audubon Plaza Drive (Show on map) | |
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Responsibilities The Director, Surgical Services provides oversight to and direction for the full spectrum of preoperative, intraoperative and postoperative care. This includes, but is not limited to, making recommendations on policy issues and technology needs regarding surgical services, identifying opportunities to attain superior quality and safety at the best cost, implementing solution sets and ongoing evaluations of performance, as well as planning, directing and evaluating operational performance of the surgical services division. Key Accountabilities:
Norton Audubon Hospital is a 432-bed acute-care hospital specializing in cardiac, surgical, pulmonary, orthopedic, vascular, urologic, emergency and diagnostic care. The hospital is home to one of the largest and most comprehensive heart care programs in the Louisville area, having performed the world's second artificial heart transplant in 1984. It has one of the most successful ECMO and cardiogenic shock programs in the country, with survival rates above the national average, and its comprehensive hybrid A-fib ablation program consistently ranks among the top 10 nationally in procedural volume. The hospital's multidisciplinary structural heart team performed the first transcatheter pulmonic valve replacement in the region in 2023. Norton Audubon Hospital has achieved HeartCare Center National Distinction of Excellence through the American College of Cardiology, and Center of Excellence in Kidney Stone Management from the Surgical Review Corporation. The hospital also offers care for complex lung conditions such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, asthma, pulmonary fibrosis, pulmonary hypertension, pulmonary nodules, sleep apnea and more, and is recognized as a Pulmonary Hypertension Center of Comprehensive Care by the Pulmonary Hypertension Association. Norton Audubon Hospital is certified by DNV as a Primary Stroke Center, offering comprehensive stroke intervention and treatment. The hospital has also achieved ventricular assist device credentialing, and has been recognized by DNV as an Advanced Orthopedic & Spine Center of Excellence for knee and hip replacement, and shoulder and spine surgery. Norton Audubon Hospital provides full inpatient and outpatient medical and surgical services and special programs focused on joint care, urology, critical care, geriatric services, sleep disorders, pain management, wound healing, vascular access and music therapy. Qualifications Required:
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