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Senior Director of Nursing

Abby Care· Nursing
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Hybrid (Nashville)$140k - $170kFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Senior leadership role providing strategic, multi-state clinical governance and operational leadership for Abby Care’s nursing organization across designated regions. Focus on standardizing workflows, quality benchmarks, regulatory readiness, and cross-functional collaboration to scale home-based care.

Responsibilities

  • Own the aggregation, analysis, and presentation of regional clinical and quality performance metrics to the executive team.
  • Translate corporate clinical strategies into standardized, actionable operational practices across multiple markets and states.
  • Partner closely with Regional Senior General Managers to align clinical quality with market growth targets, and collaborate with HR, Compliance, Finance, and Product/IT teams to optimize operations.
  • Oversee regional clinical capacity models to ensure local agencies can support census growth, service line expansions, and geographic surges.
  • Standardize onboarding, mentoring, and professional growth pathways for local DONs/Administrators to build a resilient leadership pipeline.
  • Monitor regional nursing turnover and burnout trends; partner with HR to implement regional strategies that champion clinician well-being and engagement.
  • Drive regional performance against enterprise clinical quality strategy, QA/QAPI initiatives, and utilization benchmarks.
  • Serve as the regional authority for the review and escalation of complex clinical edge cases, high-risk patient events, or severe adverse incidents.
  • Lead regional root-cause analyses for adverse events, ensuring systemic adjustments are implemented across all markets to avoid recurrence, in partnership with compliance, HR and legal as necessary.
  • Standardize proactive CMS CoPs readiness, ACHC/Joint Commission accreditation, and state-specific regulations across the region.
  • Oversee preparation for, and response to, state surveys and federal audits. Review and sign off on all local Plans of Correction before execution.
  • Identify, track, and mitigate legal, financial, and clinical operational risks across the region with Corporate Compliance.
  • Partner with Product/IT teams to drive updates that reduce clinician documentation burdens and standardize clinical workflows across markets.
  • Minimize unwarranted practice variations across state lines while ensuring adherence to state nursing practice acts.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) required
  • Master of Science in Nursing (MSN), Master of Health Administration (MHA), or MBA strongly preferred
  • Current, unrestricted RN license; Multistate/Compact license eligibility required (and willingness to obtain licensure in additional states within the region)
  • Minimum 5+ years of progressive home healthcare experience
  • 5+ years of clinical leadership experience in a home health or multi-site setting (e.g., Regional DON, VP of Clinical Operations, or senior agency administrator)
  • Demonstrated experience managing multi-site teams and scaling clinical operations during rapid growth

Skills

Required:Clinical governanceRegulatory complianceData-driven decision makingCross-functional collaboration

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation packages with annual performance bonus
  • Comprehensive health coverage (medical, dental, vision) with $0 deductible PPO and company-funded HSA, employer-paid life and disability insurance
  • Generous paid time off and 10 paid holidays
  • Financial savings benefits including HSA contributions, optional FSA and commuter benefits, and coverage of 401(k) account fees
  • Paid parental leave
Last updated Oct 14, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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