Associate Director of Health Care

Duties & Responsibilities

• Develops, plans, coordinates and monitors professional and medical aspects related to the delivery of health care services.
• Ensures the maintenance and attainment of quality care, as required under federal, state and local legislation.
• Maintains liaison with internal and external sources.
• Reviews experimental models and design for health care delivery systems to ensure delivery of quality care standards.
• Provides guidance to health care settings for establishment and maintenance of utilization review, quality assurance and discharge planning programs.
• Reviews city, state and federal regulations relating to compliance and advises personnel on compliance improvement for health care programs.
• Designs and/or reviews performance audits and makes recommendations to improve effectiveness and assess quality standards of health care delivery.
• Provides advisory and consultative services to System, health care settings and their staff, as needed, on matters affecting health care programs, standards, and services.
• Advises Director and/or other appropriate leadership on policy and procedural changes, utilization and development of staff, implementation of productivity goals, and makes recommendations for improvements in the design of assigned health care programs.
• Participates in meetings, may plan conferences, seminars with health care groups, medical and professional health care organizations and health care setting medical authorities related to special medical programs, health care standards and practices.
• Supervises staff assigned to departmental activities or units and provides professional and administrative direction.

Minimum Qualifications

• Master’s degree from an accredited college or university in Hospital, Health, Public or Business Administration, Healthcare Management, Public Health or a related discipline; and four (4) years of full-time, paid progressively responsible experience in hospital administration with an emphasis on the development and evaluation of health care delivery services.
• Or Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in disciplines, as listed in #1 above; and five (5) years of full-time, paid experience, as described in #1 above.

Department Preferences

• Risk-Management Experience Preferred

Registered Nurse (RN) or Foreign Graduate encouraged to apply