**Overview**
**About Us**
Dominican Hospital (a member of Dignity Health) is a 222-bed facility that offers a wide range of services to residents of California’s Central Coast. With 24/7 emergency care, comprehensive care in cardiac, orthopedics, oncology, women’s and children’s services, we continue to lead the region in medical innovation and excellence in healthcare.
**Comprehensive Care**
Dominican offers emergency services and is a Certified Stroke Center and Chest Pain Center. Dominican’s services include the only comprehensive Cancer Center in Santa Cruz County, a Total Joint Replacement program, and advanced neurological and endoscopic services. Dominican regularly receives ‘A’ grades for hospital safety from Leapfrog Group, and has received national recognition for superior patient safety, cardiac care, and stroke treatment from Healthgrades, a leading provider of comprehensive information about physicians and hospitals.
As Santa Cruz County’s heart attack (STEMI) receiving center, Dominican Hospital provides cutting edge cardiac care. The hospital’s heart attack treatment times consistently beat the national average, and the hospital offers two cardiac catheterization labs available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Groundbreaking cardiac procedures at Dominican include the Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVR) procedure, which allows for heart valve replacement without opening a patient’s chest.
Dominican Hospital has forged significant partnerships with area hospitals to bring exceptional care to Santa Cruz County. The hospital offers a level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) through a partnership with Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford. Neurosurgery at Dominican is also offered through a partnership with Stanford Health Care.
**In The Community**
Beyond care inside the hospital, Dominican is dedicated to the health and wellness of the Santa Cruz community.
Community programs include a Mobile Wellness Clinic, a tattoo removal program, and support groups for patients and new mothers. In addition, and in accordance with our mission, Dominican Hospital supports programs for the underserved in our community, including children and adults, students, seniors, and the homeless population. Dominican also has received several awards for environmental excellence.
**Responsibilities**
This position reports to the Chief Nursing Officer. This position is responsible for the overall operations, direction and strategic oversight of the Acute Rehab Unit at Dominican Hospital. This position collaborates with hospital and physician leaders to optimize census development and growth, ensures regulatory compliance, oversight for CARF accreditation and clinical/quality outcomes for the unit. This position is responsible for developing a community involvement and marketing strategy to ensure success of the Acute Rehab program.
Responsible for the overall direction and supervision of Rehabilitation staff. Provides and promotes a learning environment for staff. Empower staff to perform their job and to delegate responsibility effectively. Clearly communicates performance standards and expectations to staff and holds staff accountable to those standards. Encourages staff to provide mutual recognition of one another's achievements both individually and in teams. Effectively responds to employee concerns/questions and suggestions in a timely manner.
Responsible for the preparation, implementation and monitoring of the annual budget for the Acute Rehab Unit at Dominican Hospital and Operate Programs within budget and financial targets.
**Qualifications**
**Minimum Qualification**
Experience
Minimum of five (5) years of Clinical experience and two (2) years of leadership experience.
Education
Master’s Degree in clinical specialty such as Nursing or Physical Therapy. Nursing Candidates must have at least a Bachelors in Nursing (BSN) with Master's degree in Nursing or other-related fields (e.g., MSN/MBA/MHA).
Licensure
Appropriate Clinical License to (RN or Therapy ) in state of practice, Basic Life Support (BLS), other credentials or modules may be required.
Special Skills
None specified.
Training
None specified.
**Pay Range**
$64.94 - $94.17 /hour
We are an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.