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Senior Director of Nursing

Abby Care· Nursing
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Illinois$140k - $170kFull-timePosted 4w ago

About the role

Senior leadership role providing strategic, multi-state clinical leadership and operational governance across a designated region for Abby Care, a home care platform. Full-time remote opportunity based in Central or Eastern Time Zones with regional travel.

Responsibilities

  • Executive Report Outs: Own the aggregation, analysis, and presentation of regional clinical and quality performance metrics to the executive team.
  • Strategic Alignment: Translate corporate clinical strategies into standardized, actionable operational practices across multiple markets and states.
  • Cross-Functional Partnership: 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.
  • Macro Capacity Planning: Oversee regional clinical capacity models to ensure local agencies can support census growth, service line expansions, and geographic surges.
  • Leadership Development: Standardize onboarding, mentoring, and professional growth pathways for local DONs/Administrators to build a resilient, high-performing leadership pipeline.
  • Retention & Culture: Monitor regional nursing turnover and burnout trends; partner with HR to implement regional strategies that champion clinician well-being and engagement.
  • Regional Quality Ownership: Drive regional performance against enterprise clinical quality strategy, QA/QAPI initiatives, and utilization benchmarks.
  • Clinical Escalations & Edge Cases: Serve as the regional authority for the review and escalation of complex clinical edge cases, high-risk patient events, or severe adverse incidents.
  • Root Cause & Corrective Strategy: 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.
  • Continuous Survey Readiness: Standardize a proactive, "always-ready" culture for CMS CoPs, ACHC/Joint Commission accreditation, and varying state-specific regulations.
  • Audit & Response Leadership: Oversee the preparation for, and response to, state surveys and federal audits. Review and sign off on all local Plans of Correction (POC) before execution.
  • Risk Mitigation: Work alongside the corporate Compliance team to proactively identify, track, and mitigate legal, financial, and clinical operational risks across the region.
  • Tech & Product Collaboration: Partner directly with the Product/IT teams to drive technical updates that reduce clinician documentation burdens, and standardize clinical workflows across their markets.
  • Practice Standardization: Minimize unwarranted practice variations across state lines while ensuring strict adherence to individual 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 Registered Nurse (RN) license
  • Multistate/Compact license eligibility required (and willingness to obtain licensure in additional states within the region as necessary)
  • Minimum of 5+ years of progressive home healthcare experience
  • 5+ years of clinical leadership experience in a home health or comparable multi-site setting (e.g., Regional DON, VP of Clinical Operations, or senior-level agency administrator)
  • Demonstrated experience managing multi-site teams, successfully leading agencies through state/federal regulatory surveys, and scaling clinical operations during rapid growth

Skills

Required:Executive reporting and data synthesisClinical governance

Benefits

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

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