Baptist Health Louisville is seeking an accomplished, visionary nursing executive to serve as Vice President and Chief Nursing Officer (CNO). As a four-time Magnet®-designated hospital, Baptist Health Louisville has a distinguished tradition of nursing excellence, exceptional patient care, and professional practice. We are seeking a transformational leader who will build upon this foundation while advancing clinical innovation, strengthening interdisciplinary collaboration, and inspiring nursing excellence.
The Vice President and Chief Nursing Officer serves as a key member of the hospital's executive leadership team, providing strategic direction and operational oversight for nursing services throughout the organization. This executive is responsible for establishing standards of professional nursing practice, developing organization-wide patient care programs, and ensuring the delivery of safe, high-quality, evidence-based care in accordance with Kentucky nursing laws and regulatory requirements.
The CNO partners with executive leadership, the governing body, medical staff, and clinical leaders to advance organizational priorities, improve patient outcomes, and promote operational excellence. This position provides executive oversight of nursing policies, professional practice standards, quality improvement initiatives, and patient safety programs while championing a strong shared-governance structure that empowers nursing professionals and supports continued Magnet® excellence.
Additional responsibilities include advancing nursing workforce strategies, leadership development, employee engagement, and succession planning while promoting responsible resource stewardship. The CNO also participates in evaluating and implementing healthcare technologies, clinical information systems, and innovative care delivery models that enhance patient outcomes and operational effectiveness.
This is an exceptional opportunity to influence the strategic direction of nursing within a highly respected healthcare organization committed to quality, innovation, and professional excellence. The successful candidate will play an instrumental role in shaping the future of nursing while continuing Baptist Health Louisville's legacy of outstanding patient care.
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.
