About This Role
This administrative role directs the daily healthcare functions of a community, ensuring the highest quality of care for residents in accordance with federal, state, and local standards. It involves planning, developing, organizing, implementing, evaluating, and directing healthcare programs and activities, while also assuming administrative authority and accountability.
Responsibilities
- Direct the day-to-day health care functions of the community in accordance with current federal, state, and local standards, guidelines, and regulations
- Plan, develop, organize, implement, evaluate, and direct the health care programs and activities at the community
- Assume administrative authority, responsibility and accountability for health care programs
- Review community policies and procedures periodically (minimum of one a year), and make changes as necessary to ensure continued compliance with current regulations (i.e. ADA, ergonomic, air quality, etc.)
- Represent the community in dealings with outside agencies, including governmental agencies and third-party payers, or provide an authorized representative when unable to attend meetings
- Make routine inspections of the community to ensure established policies and procedures are being implemented and followed
- Make written and oral reports and recommendations to the Executive Director concerning the operation of the community
- Assist in identifying, evaluating, and classifying routine and job-related functions to ensure that tasks involving potential exposure to blood/body fluids are properly identified and recorded
- Review and develop a plan of correction for deficiencies noted during survey inspections and provide a written copy of such plan to the governing board and ombudsman representative as required
- Serve on various committees of the facility (i.e., Infection Control, Quality Assurance Assessment, etc.) and provide written/oral reports of committee meetings to the governing board, as directed or necessary
- Assist in developing and implementing appropriate plans of action to correct identified quality deficiencies
- Delegate administrative authority, responsibility, and accountability to other staff personnel, as deemed necessary, to perform their assigned duties
- Consult with department directors concerning operations to assist in eliminating/correcting problem areas, and/or improvement of services
- Review and check competence of workforce and make adjustments/corrections as required or necessary
- Assist department directors in the planning, conducting, and scheduling in-service training classes, on-the-job training, and orientation programs to ensure the current materials and programs are provided
- Review and interpret monthly financial statements for responsible departments
