Community Health Systems (CHS) is one of the nation's leading healthcare providers, and they are seeking a Senior EHR Project Manager for Acute Facility Deployments. This role involves independently managing multiple projects related to OracleHealth EHR and requires expertise in project management, stakeholder coordination, and technical oversight to ensure successful project execution.
Responsibilities:
- This role requires a strong team leader who can coordinate efforts among multiple stakeholders. Successful implementation involves managing expectations of hospital executives and physicians, collaborating with local medical staff (nurses and technicians), engaging local technical resources (systems analysts and programmers), and working closely with vendor support teams
- Ensures projects are executed with precision by applying strong organizational skills, attention to detail, and consistent follow-through to drive tasks, deliverables, and milestones to completion
- Develops and maintains project management tools and documentation to ensure comprehensive planning, execution, and tracking of all project activities, from business requirements through project completion
- Develop, implement, and maintain project plans, including schedules, milestones, and deliverables. Document and manage business requirements to ensure alignment with stakeholder expectations
- Facilitate the definition of success metrics to measure project performance and outcomes
- Monitor and manage resources, including allocation, utilization, and capacity planning
- Maintain scope documentation and ensure scope changes are evaluated, approved, and communicated
- Use project management tools to centralize and organize project information for team access and reporting
- Skilled in partnering with stakeholders to streamline processes and promote continuous improvement
- Develops and delivers clear, concise, and professional communications—including presentations, written reports, and executive summaries—to engage stakeholders, convey project status, highlight key decisions and risks, and support informed decision-making. Tailors content to the audience, facilitates discussions, and maintains credibility while ensuring clarity and alignment
- Demonstrates adaptability by remaining effective and solution-focused in ambiguous situations, and confidently navigates complex, evolving environments to drive projects forward
- Applies CHS project management methodology and standards to ensure consistent, disciplined, and successful project execution, including adherence to established processes, documentation requirements, and governance practices
- Responsible for proactively identifying, assessing, and managing project risks and issues to minimize impact on scope, schedule, and budget. Ensures that risks and issues are documented, mitigated, and communicated to stakeholders in a timely and effective manner
- Coordinates and maintains all project documentation and communications, ensuring information is accurate, accessible, and escalated appropriately when issues or decisions require attention
- Serves as a trusted escalation point for project issues and incidents, providing guidance, support, and resolution to ensure project continuity and team confidence. Foster trust and credibility with project team members to encourage open communication and timely reporting of issues. Promote a proactive culture of problem-solving and accountability within the project team
- Facilitates effective team and stakeholder meetings, ensuring clear communication, productive collaboration, and the establishment of credibility and trust with all participants
- Performs other duties as assigned
- Complies with all policies and standards
Requirements:
- A Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience is required
- At least 5 years of experience with Acute Facility EHR Implementation required
- Expert level proficiency in Microsoft Office software (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Project)
- At least 3 years of experience with SmartSheet preferred
- PMP Certification from the Project Management Institute (PMI) is preferred