Chief Nursing Officer

Company: Fresno Surgical Hospital
Location: Fresno
Posted on: February 8, 2026

Job Description:

Chief Nursing Officer at Fresno Surgical Hospitalsummary: The Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) at Fresno Surgical Hospital oversees all nursing and clinical departments to ensure high-quality patient care and efficient staffing. The role involves strategic planning, policy development, budget management, and collaboration with hospital leadership and medical staff. The CNO is responsible for continuous quality improvement, compliance with healthcare standards, and maintaining effective relationships with all hospital stakeholders. United Surgical Partners International (USPI), the country’s largest Ambulatory Surgery Center platform, is seeking a Chief Nursing Officer for Fresno Surgical Hospital in Fresno, CA. Fresno Surgical Hospital is accredited by The Joint Commission. Our technology allows surgeons to perform procedures in the specialty areas of: Breast Surgery, Colon & Rectal, General Surgery, Gynecology, Orthopedic Surgery, Ophthalmology, Otolaryngology, Pain Management, Plastic Surgery, Podiatry, Spine, Urology. There are 13 Operating Rooms and 5 Treatment Rooms. The ideal candidate for this role will either have Surgical Hospital or other Hospital Leadership experience. Job Summary The CNO is responsible for management of all nursing service departments and other clinical departments of the hospital. The CNO is responsible for the quality of patient care and ensures that sufficient and properly prepared personnel carry out these functions. This position is responsible for all departmental functions in support of the hospital mission, vision, and facility goals. The CNO identifies the cost-effective systems needed to support the business of the department considering business trends, resource availability, and changes in customers. This position establishes effective working relationships with all constituencies including patients, physicians, employees, volunteers, and vendors. The CNO identifies and remedies through continuous customer satisfaction data and employee involvement. The CNO works with other Senior Management in meeting facility goals. Develops, directs the implementation, and ensures compliance of Standards of Practice that promote optimum health care delivery. Job Responsibilities • Develops, hospital plan for the provision of nursing care that is designed to support improvement in nursing practice and is based on both the needs of the patient and is based on both the needs of the patient to be served and the hospital mission. • Reviews work schedules, assignments, patient classification, and supervisor's reports to assess daily the appropriate number and level of personnel needed to provide quality care. • Recommends and carries out changes in personnel and assignments accordingly. • Acts as administrative resource to clinical directors/coordinators in areas including (but not limited to): - Development and updating of policies, procedures, and job description; - Budget preparation for clinical departments; - Personnel functions, evaluation, and grievances; - Improvement of clinical services performance. • Develops and/or assists with the development of hospital wide patient care programs, policies amid procedures that describe how they needs of patients or patient populations are assessed, evaluated, and met. • Develops staffing plan for all nursing units and Nursing service lines of authority and support staff. • Attends and participates in Medical Staff and Medical Executive Committees, and hospital Board meetings in planning promoting and conducting organizational performance - improvement activities. • Actively participates with the governing body, management team, medical staff, and clinical areas in developing, implementing, and evaluating in hospital's strategic plan, budgets, resource allocation and operation/plan and policies. • Meets regularly with Administrative team to discuss objectives, staffing needs, management problems. • Implements the finding and informed up to date in all aspects of nursing care and management through literature, workshops, seminars, courses, and conferences with other Chief Nursing Officers. • Implements an effective on-going evaluation process for patient care to ensure continuous improvement as part of the hospital-wide Performance Improvement process. • Evaluates and ensures the nursing process is carried out in a continuous manner on all patients. • Ensures the continuous and timely availability of nursing services to patients. • Implements the findings of current research from nursing and other literature into the policies and procedures governing the provision of nursing care. • Ensures nursing service staff carry out applicable processes in the patient care and organization-wide functions described in this manual. • Assigns responsibility to individuals or groups of nursing staff members to act on improving the nursing service’s performance. • Actively participates in the hospital’s leadership functions. • Collaborates with other hospital leaders in designing and providing patient care and services. • Participates with hospital leaders in providing for enough appropriate qualified nursing staff members to care for patients. • Develops, presents, and manages the nursing services’ portion of the hospital’s budget. LI-KT1 Required Experience: Salary Range: $150K - $210K Qualifications: Education • Required: Bachelor's degree in Nursing and Master's degree in Nursing, Healthcare Administration, or Business Administration. Experience • Required: 5 years progressive management experience in hospital environment as a direct of multiple, complex nursing departments.Preferred: Previous experience as a CNO. Previous experience in a surgical hospital. Certifications • Required: Currently licensed, certified, or registered to practice profession as required by law, regulation in state of practice or policy. AHA BLS. USPI complies with federal, state, and/or local laws regarding mandatory vaccination of its workforce. If you are offered this position and must be vaccinated under any applicable law, you will be required to show proof of full vaccination or obtain an approval of a religious or medical exemption prior to your start date. If you receive an exemption from the vaccination requirement, you will be required to submit to regular testing in accordance with the law. Employment practices will not be influenced or affected by an applicant’s or employee’s race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status or any other legally protected status. Tenet will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities unless doing so would result in an undue hardship. Keywords: Chief Nursing Officer, nursing leadership, hospital management, patient care quality, clinical operations, healthcare administration, staffing and scheduling, performance improvement, budget management, surgical hospital

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