Hartz Search is excited to announce the placement of Travis Maher as the Chief Nurse Executive at Kaiser Permanente – San Jose!
After an extensive national search, Kaiser Permanente selected Travis Maher as the San Jose – Chief Nurse Executive. Travis Maher will provide direction, leadership, planning, organization, and general management for all aspects of patient care within the medical center. As the CNE, Travis ensures the integration of services and compliance with long-range objectives and strategies, including the provision of excellent quality services and responsible fiscal management. This role provides strategic leadership as the patient care executive responsible for the professional practice of nursing and other designated patient care services. Travis has oversight for the professional practice of nursing and the provision of nursing care in all licensed and surveyable areas of the medical center. This role represents the professional practice of nursing and clinical provision of care as a member of the medical center executive leadership team, the medical executive committee and other medical staff committees.
Our sincere congratulations to Travis Maher and Kaiser Permanente!
Travis is a strategic Healthcare Executive with extensive healthcare delivery experience within large highly complex matrixed health systems. He has been with Kaiser Permanente since December 2022. He joined as the Executive Director of Staffing, Scheduling & Strategy of the Northern California Market in Oakland, CA. In this role, he was accountable for strategic leadership to develop, implement and operate the systems and processes to improve, optimize and align scheduling and staffing for all hourly employees of the 21 Northern California Medical Centers. Prior to joining Kaiser Permanente, he was the CNO/ VP, Patient Care at Ascension Saint Joseph in Joliet, IL where he was responsible for nursing services for the 498 licensed bed medical center and over 18,000 admissions per year. Prior to Ascension, he has years of additional CNO experience at Detroit Medical Center, and Abbott Northwestern Hospital.
Travis holds an Associate of Science in Practical Nursing and Bachelor of Science Nursing Degree from Dickinson State University, and an MBA from Cardinal Stritch University.
Kaiser Permanente (KP) is one of the country’s largest not-for-profit health care systems with over $100 billion in annual revenue. Founded in 1945, the company has grown from a 12-bed hospital to serve 12.5 million members in eight states and the District of Columbia. KP is nationally and internationally recognized for providing innovative, high-quality, evidence-based health care and coverage through its integrated system.
More than 235,000 employees and over 24,600 Permanente Medical Group physicians serve the health care needs of members and communities in seven Kaiser Permanente Markets covering Northern California, Southern California & Hawaii, Colorado, Georgia, Mid-Atlantic States (Maryland, Virginia, and the District of Columbia), Oregon and Washington.