40 Hours per week
Day Shift
The Associate Director of Operations for Specialty Services provides advanced operational leadership for multiple specialty practices within Baptist Health Deaconess Medical Group (BHDMG). Specialty practices require deeper oversight due to higher clinical complexity, procedure-driven workflows, specialized staffing models, and physician engagement needs.
This role ensures clinical quality, operational efficiency, financial performance, growth planning, regulatory compliance, and high patient satisfaction across assigned specialty clinics. Success is demonstrated by improved patient access, standardization, strong financial results, and strengthened physician alignment.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree required;
- 6–10+ years of healthcare operations experience
- Specialty practice management experience strongly preferred
- Demonstrated ability to lead complex multi-physician operations
Founded in 1924 in Louisville, Kentucky, Baptist Health is a full-spectrum health system dedicated to improving the health of the communities it serves. The Baptist Health family consists of nine hospitals, employed and independent physicians, and more than 400 points of care, including outpatient facilities, physician practices and services, urgent care clinics, outpatient diagnostic and surgery centers, home care, fitness centers, and occupational medicine and physical therapy clinics.
Baptist Health’s eight owned hospitals include more than 2,300 licensed beds in Corbin, Elizabethtown, La Grange, Lexington, Louisville, Paducah, Richmond and New Albany, Indiana. Baptist Health also operates the 410-bed Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville in Madisonville, Kentucky in a joint venture with Deaconess Health System based in Evansville, Indiana. Baptist Health employs more than 23,000 people in Kentucky and surrounding states.
Baptist Health is the first health system in the U.S. to have all of its hospitals recognized by the American Nursing Credentialing Center with either a Magnet® or Pathway to Excellence® designation for nursing excellence.
Baptist Health’s employed provider network, Baptist Health Medical Group, has nearly 1,500 providers, including more than 750 physicians and more than 740 advanced practice clinicians. Baptist Health’s physician network also includes more than 2,000 independent physicians.
Learn more at BaptistHealth.com.
