Administrator, Healthcare Management

About This Role

This administrative role involves the daily coordination and oversight of a healthcare center, ensuring compliance with federal, state, and local regulations governing long-term care facilities. The Administrator is responsible for maintaining high-quality care for patients and residents, managing facility operations, and representing the center in external dealings.

Responsibilities

• Maintain current written policies and procedures that govern the operations of the facility
• Assist department directors in the development and implementation of performance evaluations
• Interpret the Center's policies and procedures to employees, residents, family members, visitors, government agencies, etc. as necessary
• Ensure that all employees, residents, visitors, and the general public follow established policies and procedures
• Assume the administrative authority, responsibility and accountability of directing the services and programs at the facility
• Represent the facility in dealing with outside agencies, including governmental agencies and third-party payers, or provide an authorized representative of the facility when unable to attend such meetings
• Schedule, assist, and/or participate in all meetings, including Quality Improvement Committee meetings, Utilization Review meetings, Infection Control Meetings, Risk Management Meetings, etc.
• Make routine inspections of the facility to assure that established policies and procedures are being implemented and followed
• Participate in facility surveys/inspections made by authorized government agencies
• Assist with the review and ensure proper submission of a plan of correction for deficiencies noted during survey inspections and provide a written copy of such plan to the appropriate governing agency and/or corporate staff for review
• Maintain adequate communication with residents, patients and their families
• Delegate a responsible staff member to act on your behalf when absent from the facility
• Assist in the recruitment and selection of qualified department directors, supervisors, consultants and other auxiliary personnel
• Consult with department directors concerning the operation of their departments to assist in eliminating/correcting problem areas, and/or improvement of services
• Assist in the development, implementation and control of annual budgets and revenue/expense controls
• Review and interpret monthly financial statements with departmental staff and implement necessary controls to ensure compliance with budgetary parameters
• Counsel/discipline personnel fairly and without regard to race, color, creed, national origin, age, sex, religion handicap, or marital status, when necessary and ensure proper documentation in accordance with the Center's policies and procedures