About This Role
This Administrator role is responsible for planning, organizing, developing, directing, controlling, and supervising the overall operations of a healthcare facility. The core purpose is to ensure the highest degree of quality resident life is maintained, in accordance with all applicable laws and regulations. The position reports to the President and Governing Body.
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain facility objectives and standards with owner's input and agreement
- Initiate and assist in developing, implementing, and coordinating facility and departmental policies and procedures
- Assure that facility personnel, residents, and visitors follow established policies and procedures at all times
- Appoint, with the approval of the governing body, medical, nursing, and other professional staff
- Appoint, in writing, a responsible person to act in their absence
- Interpret and communicate policies and procedures to personnel, residents, visitors, and family members as necessary
- Review, amend, and maintain facility policies, procedures, manuals, and position descriptions at least annually and initiate changes
- Perform administrative requirements such as completing necessary reports and submitting to the appropriate party as required
- Maintain necessary records, including scheduling, hiring, terminating, weekly time records, workers' compensation, OSHA log, safety committee meetings, emergency procedures, physical plant inspections, Medicaid, Medicare, OBRA, licensure, surveys, and Health Department regulations
- Develop an organizational structure to assure responsibility and accountability
- Plan, develop, organize, implement, evaluate, and direct all departments
- Meet with Resident Council and other resident committees to ensure that facility departments, programs, and activities meet the needs of the residents and can be maintained properly
- Ensure that programs designed for inservice education, on-the-job training, special training, and orientation for new hires meet facility expectations
- Maintain appropriate record-keeping to meet all applicable rules and laws
- Assist in the recruitment, selection, and training of facility personnel
- Hold regular meetings with facility personnel and supervisors to solicit input concerning the operation of the facility, identify and correct problems, and to improve facility services
- Conduct periodic reviews of facility staffing and make appropriate recommendations to owners regarding staffing increases or decreases
- Oversee the annual employee performance evaluation process for all facility staff and make recommendations concerning hiring, terminations, suspensions, and leaves of absence
- Participate in departmental studies and projects which may become necessary
