Chief Nursing Officer

Title: Chief Nursing Officer, Miller Children’s and Women’s Hospital

Location: Long Beach, CA

Department: Administration

Status: Full-time

Memorial Care is a nonprofit integrated health system that includes four leading hospitals, award-winning medical groups – consisting of over 200 sites of care, and more than 2,000 physicians throughout Orange and Los Angeles Counties. We are committed to increasing access to patient-centric, affordable, and high-quality healthcare; your personal contributions are integral to Memorial Care's recognition as a market leader and innovator in value-based and other care models.

Across our family of medical centers, we support each one of our bright, talented employees in reaching the highest levels of professional development, contribution, collaboration, and accountability. Whatever your role and whatever expertise you bring, we are dedicated to helping you achieve your full potential in an environment of respect, innovation, and teamwork.

Memorial Care seeks an authentic, collaborative, strategic, visible, and dynamic executive to serve as the next Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) for Miller Children’s & Women’s Hospital. This is an exciting opportunity to join a leading tertiary teaching, Magnet- designated medical center with national recognition for several clinical service lines. MCWH is one of only eight freestanding children’s hospitals in California.

Miller Children’s & Women’s Hospital holds a truly unique place in our region as one of the rare institutions dedicated to the comprehensive care of both women and children under one roof. With this distinctive platform, the Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) will play a pivotal role in shaping the next era of family centered care. This executive leader will have the opportunity to define what the future of integrated women’s, children’s care looks like advancing clinical excellence, enhancing the patient and family experience, and ensuring our care model evolves with the needs of the community.

We are deeply committed to providing equitable, high‑quality care for every family we serve. The new CNO will champion this mission by fostering a culture grounded in compassion, quality, and innovation—ensuring Miller’s continues to stand at the forefront of inclusive, future‑focused care for women, children, newborns, and their families.

The CNO has responsibility and accountability for patient care, safety and quality, budgetary oversight, regulatory compliance, and operations related to the clinical and administrative management of the nursing services within MCHW. Ensures the provision of quality patient care through staff recruitment and retention, workforce competency development, patient education, continuous quality improvement, professional nursing practice, resource allocation, financial oversight, and interdisciplinary relations.

The CNO aligns nursing services with MCWH’s strategic goals, regulatory requirements, and ethical standards.

Accountable for fiscal and material management to include capital purchases and operational budgetary performance. Coordinates a multidisciplinary hospital team to ensure continuous improvement, staff empowerment, excellence, compassion, and accountability. The CNO drives excellence in patient- and family-centered care by advancing customer satisfaction and ensuring the delivery of cost‑effective, market‑competitive programs and services. Participates in strategic planning, policy formation, human and material resource management, and financial performance to meet patient care needs.

Provide leadership of the Miller Children’s & Women' Hospital management and clinical teams for the Children’s & Women’s Care Lines. Insures realization of established quality and economic objectives of the hospital in fulfillment of the Memorial Care’s mission, values and philosophy.

The Chief Nursing Officer is expected to model Loving Leadership by fostering a culture of empathy, accountability, and respect, ensuring that caregivers feel valued, supported, and empowered to deliver exceptional patient care. The successful candidate demonstrates compassionate, people‑centered decision‑making…