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President, Chief Hospital Executive, HMH Riverview Medical Center

Req Number: LGZXYN
Location: Red Bank, New Jersey
Posted: 3/16/2026
Category: Life Sciences/Healthcare : Hospital/Health Systems
Job Type: Permanent
Compensation: USD 400,000.00 - 450,000.00 Yearly - Plus Annual Bonus Opportunity and comprehensive benefit package

COMPANY BACKGROUND

Hackensack Meridian Health Riverview Medical Center

Located on the Navesink River in Red Bank, New Jersey, Hackensack Meridian Health Riverview Medical Center offers the convenience and personalized service of a community hospital, combined with state-of-the-art technology such as CyberKnife®, linear accelerators for cancer care, robotic surgery systems, and other resources most often found at leading medical centers throughout the country. Working with physicians and specialists from the top medical schools and residency programs in the nation, our team has treated generations of families throughout the region for almost 100 years.

Hackensack Meridian Health Riverview Medical Center has the fortune of the following Awards and Recognition:

  • Eastern Monmouth Chamber of Commerce Spinnaker Award
  • Ranked No. 12 in NJ and 22 in the NY metro area by U.S. News & World Report (2020/2021)
  • Healthgrades America's Top 250 Hospital (2026, 2025, 2024)
  • Healthgrades Patient Safety Excellence Award (2026, 2025, 2024)
  • Eight-time recipient of an “A” rating for patient safety by The Leapfrog Group
  • Named among “Best General Hospitals” in the U.S. by The Leapfrog Group
  • Third Place winner of the “Most Beautiful Hospital in the U.S.” contest by Soliant Health

Hackensack Meridian Health

Hackensack Meridian Health is a leading not-for-profit health care organization that is the largest, most comprehensive and truly integrated health care network in New Jersey, offering a complete range of medical services, innovative research and life-enhancing care. In addition to their 18 hospitals, they are home to more than 36,000 team members, 7,000 physicians and 500+ patient care locations, including ambulatory care centers, surgery centers, home health services, long-term care and assisted living communities, ambulance services, lifesaving air medical transportation, urgent care centers, physician practice locations, and a fitness and wellness center.

HMH is comprised of 18 hospitals from Bergen to Ocean counties.

Additionally, the network has more than 500 patient care locations throughout the state which include ambulatory care centers, surgery centers, home health services, long-term care and assisted living communities, ambulance services, lifesaving air medical transportation, fitness and wellness centers, rehabilitation centers, urgent care centers and physician practice locations. HMH has more than 36,000 team members, and over 7,000 physicians and is a distinguished leader in health care philanthropy, committed to the health and well-being of the communities it serves. The Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine opened in 2018, the first private medical school in New Jersey in more than 50 years where it welcomed its third class of students in 2020 to its campus in Nutley and Clifton.

Additionally, the network partnered with Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center to find more cures for cancer faster while ensuring that patients have access to the highest quality, most individualized cancer care when and where they need it.

Hackensack Meridian Health is a member of AllSpire Health Partners, an interstate consortium of leading health systems, to focus on the sharing of best practices in clinical care and achieving efficiencies.

Mission, Vision, and Beliefs

Mission:
Transform health care and be recognized as the leader of positive change.
Vision:
Innovation is in our DNA, compelling us to create a world where: the highest quality care is human-centered, accessible and affordable; we deliver outcomes that matter most; and excellence is the standard. We believe in being creative, courageous, compassionate, collaborative and connected.

Awards and Recognitions
Hackensack Meridian Health is continually recognized locally and nationally for their commitment to delivering efficient, quality care. Year after year, HMH is recognized by many of the top accrediting and ranking organizations in the industry including: 
  • U.S. News & World Report has ranked more HMH hospitals in New Jersey to their report than any other system in New Jersey.
  • Becker's Hospital Review recently named HMH among 50 of the greenest hospitals in America as well as one of the 150 Top Places to Work in Health Care.
  • Healthgrades granted HMH the Healthgrades Specialty Excellence Awards™ in multiple clinical categories along with five-star ratings for multiple conditions and procedures in 2019.
  • Hackensack Meridian Health hospitals have been Magnet Nursing-designated for more than two decades. Hackensack University Medical Center has been designated six times and was the first organization to achieve this recognition in the state of New Jersey.
  • eHealthcare Leadership granted HMH with the Best Organizational Commitment to eHealthcare award in 2022.

Website:

https://www.hackensackmeridianhealth.org/en/locations/riverview-medical-center

https://www.hackensackmeridianhealth.org/en

PURPOSE OF THE POSITION

Reporting to the President, Acute Care Hospital Division, the President, Chief Hospital Executive, Riverview Medical Center provides leadership, direction and administration on all aspects of day to day Hospital operations in order to achieve targeted objectives, which includes nursing and support services, medical staff/team member/patient satisfaction, medical manpower/business development and financial performance.

Key Responsibilities
A day in the life of a President, Chief Hospital Executive, Riverview Medical Center at Hackensack Meridian Health includes:
  • Visionary and Strategic Planning: In collaboration with the Regional President and senior leadership team, leverages innovation of current resources and systems and explores and prepares for new models of care that support population health and positions the hospital competitively in the market while responding to the dynamic needs of the community.
  • Relationship Management: Establishes effective working relationships with key constituents, including community, employed and independent physicians, team members, and board members through open collaboration and consistent communication. Creates a greater sense of "systemness" throughout the Hospital.
  • Process Improvement: Exhibits leadership and fosters commitment to continuous quality improvement of quality, safety and the human experience whereby decision-making is driven by data analytics to achieve customer loyalty. Works with hospital and organizational leadership and team members to foster high reliability thinking with sensitivity to operations, a preoccupation with failure, deference to expertise, resilience, and a reluctance to simplify the complexity of the system.
  • Clinical Service Integration: Develops and fosters effective collaboration between clinical departments, matrixed care transformation services, employed and independent physicians, and other affiliated services both within and outside the hospital to ensure a wholly integrated approach to providing services, and fulfilling the hospital's strategic initiatives.
  • People Management: Manages and/or assists in the recruitment, development and supervision of team members. Creates and sustains an environment that fosters trust and team member engagement. Establishes clear objectives tied to department and/or organizational strategic goals. Coaches, counsels and evaluates performance of direct reports.
  • Financial Management: Involved in the development and management of budget for assigned areas. Regularly monitors relevant key financial indicators and performance metrics, modifying business activities where needed in response to changing financial situations.
  • Data Management and Analytics: Track, analyze, and report on relevant data and metrics as needed and/or requested. Develop, recommend and/or implement actions or process improvements as appropriate.
  • Other Duties as Assigned: Complete all assignments and projects in a timely fashion.
  • Adheres to HMH Organizational competencies and standards of behavior.

QUALIFICATIONS
Education, Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Required:
  • Master's Degree - Business Administration or Hospital Administration.
  • Ten (10) years of experience in strategic hospital operations.
  • Five (5) years of experience in senior level leadership.
  • Demonstrated leadership and complex organizational management skills.
  • Well developed planning, marketing, organizational development, and business skills.
  • Information systems capabilities and appreciation for the data which will be required to make meaningful management decisions.
  • Ability to work with physicians and professionals in multiple settings and locations and to promote diversity in the workplace.
  • Excellent leadership and people skills.
  • Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.
  • Ability to multi-task.
  • Excellent collaborator.
  • Experience in creating and managing budgets.
  • Strong project management skills.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  • Proficient computer skills including but not limited to Microsoft Office and Google Suite platforms.
  • Fellow, American College of Healthcare Executives (preferred).

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