CEO search committee adopts revised prospectus and job description, selects 'essential hospital' wording
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The Hospital Authority CEO search committee approved revisions to the CEO prospectus and job description, agreed to use the term 'essential hospital' instead of 'safety net,' and voted to post the materials for candidates to review.
The Hospital Authority CEO search committee on Feb. 4 voted to finalize and publish the prospectus and job description for its CEO search after agreeing on several wording and scope changes.
Committee members directed AMN Healthcare Consulting to use the term "essential hospital" across recruitment materials rather than "safety net," a choice members said would broaden appeal to potential candidates while remaining legally accurate. "If legally accurate and comfortable with our organization, I'll also like 'essential hospital' better than 'safety net' because I think it gives you a greater growth opportunity," said Christy Smith, a committee participant.
The committee approved edits that keep the documents at a higher level of expectation rather than prescribing specific activities. Members removed several prescriptive lines from the prospectus that called for routine town halls, regular health fairs and specifically elevated one program (the hospital's food pharmacy) above other services. "To elevate that one program over every other service is not appropriate in a document like this," a committee member said during the discussion.
Paragraph 7 in the job description was revised to make collaboration language more inclusive. The committee agreed the description should read that the CEO "collaborates with faculty and medical staff of Meharry Medical College and other affiliated institutions in relation to the teaching and academic medical center environment," broadening the text to include faculty and unspecified partner institutions.
The search consultants also made small copy edits to ensure consistent references to the governing body as the "Hospital Authority Board" and to simplify wording in the job performance expectations, removing the phrase that called the strategic plan a "living document." Committee members said the prospectus should refer generally to "a strategic plan" rather than implying candidates will be executing a specific five-year plan.
After discussion, a motion to finalize the documents consistent with the meeting's deliberations was moved, seconded and approved by voice vote. AMN will incorporate the agreed edits and make the revised prospectus and job description public for candidate review.
The committee's action means the materials will be used to engage and screen candidates in the next phase of the search process. The committee did not adopt new specific programmatic requirements or mandate the frequency of meetings between the CEO and medical staff; those operational decisions were left to the eventual hire.
