Administrator-Miller Healthcare

About the role

The Licensed Nursing Home Administrator (LNHA) is responsible for the overall operations of the skilled nursing facility, Miller Healthcare. In this leadership role, the LNHA manages, supervises, and coordinates all facility departments to ensure top quality care and successful financial performance. Responsibilities include strategic planning with an emphasis on integration within a broader healthcare continuum, personnel management, staff development, resident service provision, marketing, and admissions. The Administrator ensures compliance with all applicable state and federal requirements.

Responsibilities

• Oversees healthcare-related programs and services to residents, ensuring compliance with all applicable state-mandated rules and regulations.
• Operates Miller Healthcare to ensure company profitability by participating in the budget process and meeting budget and census targets.
• Actively manages and leads the team, including recruiting, retention, performance management, scheduling, employee development, competency, coaching, and feedback.
• Manages turnover and ensures adequate staffing through recruitment, selection, orientation, training, and staff education.
• Develops and maintains systems to monitor business operations, including occupancy rate, income and expenses, supply and capital asset inventories, resident and staff satisfaction, and staff meetings/development.
• Ensures and maintains all required reporting to state and federal bodies (e.g., Payroll Based Journal (PBJ), resident injury notifications, NHSN information, IDPH vaccination/COVID data).
• Maintains current knowledge of reimbursement regulations, nursing practices, and laws pertaining to nursing facility administration to ensure facility compliance.
• Communicates policies, procedures, regulations, and reports to personnel, residents, family members, visitors, and government agencies.
• Leads the annual IDPH survey, CMS regulatory surveys, and complaint surveys, developing plans of correction for cited deficiencies.
• Reviews accident/incident reports (e.g., falls, injuries, abuse) and resident complaints, monitoring the effectiveness of the facility’s risk management program.
• Ensures the facility is maintained in a clean and safe manner for resident comfort and convenience.
• Upholds residents' rights to fair and equitable treatment, self-determination, individuality, privacy, property, and civil rights.
• Ensures timely and accurate completion of all billings, accounting, and bookkeeping requirements, including month-end reports.
• Oversees contracts for approved services and evaluates the performance of service contractors.
• Implements a quality assurance program to evaluate departmental performance on an ongoing basis.
• Manages resident funds in accordance with federal and state regulations, maintaining appropriate accounting records.
• Performs additional duties as assigned to ensure business continuity.

Requirements

• A minimum of three (3) years of applicable management or comparable experience in a long-term care setting.
• Current, unencumbered, active license to practice as a Nursing Home Administrator in the State of Illinois.
• Current CPR certification or obtainment within 6 months of hire (renewal required annually).
• Bachelor’s Degree completed or in process (must be completed within 3 years of hire).

Preferred Qualifications

• Three or more years of experience as a successful LNHA.
• Master’s Degree (MBA or related healthcare field) completed or in process (must be completed within 3 years of hire).

Employee Health & Physical Requirements

Exposure/Sensory Requirements:

• Exposure to Chemicals: Refer to MSDS Sheets.
• Video Display Terminals: Average.
• Blood and Body Fluids: Minimal (assisting in direct resident care).
• TB or Airborne Pathogens: Minimal (assisting in direct resident care).

Sensory Requirements:

• Speech: Needed for presentations, training, telephone communication, and facilitating meetings.
• Vision: Needed for computer entry, reading memos, and literature.
• Smell: Needed for electrical/fire safety.
• Hearing: Needed for telephone communication, meetings, and listening to employee concerns.
• Touch: Needed for writing, computer entry, and filing.

Activity/Lifting Requirements:

• Percentage of time during the normal workday:
  • Sit: 40%
  • Stand: 20%
  • Walk: 20%
  • Twist: 5%
  • Kneel: 2%
  • Squat: 3%
  • Bend: 3%
  • Reach above shoulders: 2%
  • Lift: 5%
  • Drive/Climb/Crawl: 0%
• Weight lifted during the normal workday:
  • Up to 10 lbs: Frequently
  • Up to 20 lbs: Frequently
  • Up to 35 lbs: Frequently
  • Up to 50 lbs: Frequently
  • Up to 75 lbs: Occasionally
  • Up to 100 lbs: Occasionally
  • Over 100 lbs: Occasionally
• Maximum consecutive time (minutes) during the normal workday for each activity:
  • Sit: 60
  • Stand: 30
  • Walk: 10
  • Twist: 5
  • Kneel: 5
  • Squat: 5
  • Bend: 5
  • Reach above shoulders: 5
  • Lift: 10
• Repetitive Use of Hands: Simple grasp up to 10 lbs, pushing/pulling up to 150 lbs daily, fine manipulation (calculator, keyboard, writing instruments).
• Repetitive use of foot or feet in operating machine control: Not required.

Environmental Factors & Special Hazards:

• Inside hours: 8
• Outside hours: 0
• Temperature: Normal range
• Lighting: Average
• Noise levels: Average
• Humidity: Normal range
• Atmosphere: No special hazards
• Protective Clothing Required: Gloves, gown, and goggles as needed.

Pay

USD $63.30 - USD $88.03 per hour.