Hospital Laboratory Director

This position is incentive eligible.

About the role

We have an exciting opportunity for you to join HCA Florida Oak Hill Hospital, part of the nation's leading provider of healthcare services, HCA Healthcare.

Responsibilities

• Concurrently monitors employee and departmental performance to ensure adherence to policies and procedures, timelines, and regulatory requirements.
• Reviews all departmental policies and procedures at least annually and revises as needed; develops, implements, and monitors new policies and procedures.
• Ensures department employees attend all mandatory in-service training and staff meetings.
• Develops monitoring systems for the collection, documentation, and reporting of quality assessment and improvement data; extracts pertinent information, initiates corrective action plans, and re-monitors results.
• Evaluates existing systems and processes, develops corrective action plans for service/quality trends, and monitors for improvement.
• Ensures departments proactively respond to feedback from internal and external customers and implements improvement mechanisms to enhance laboratory services.
• Concurrently monitors resource utilization, including payroll, supplies, expenses, client volume, revenue variation reports, outpatient volume reports, mileage, and expense logs; takes immediate action to rectify issues.
• Ensures weekly and monthly corporate key indicators accurately measure past and current performance for proactive response to a changing environment.
• Ensures legal and ethical practices are maintained.
• Prepares and submits capital expenditure requests, department projections, and annual budget.
• Monitors and evaluates staff activities, providing management, coaching, guidance, delegation opportunities, and on-the-job training to ensure operational efficiency and adherence to policies.
• Screens, interviews, and selects qualified individuals for open positions within the department.
• Reviews and revises all department employee job descriptions annually; provides updated job descriptions if substantive changes are made.
• Completes and conducts performance evaluations for all staff under direct supervision after three months of employment and annually.
• Maintains department education files, including new employee orientation checklists, equipment training checklists, mandatory in-service attendance confirmation, and continuing education.
• Develops and monitors improvement action plans to correct poor job performance.
• Initiates counseling and discipline according to policies and procedures.
• Ensures terminations, status changes, and other personnel actions are completed in a timely fashion.
• Reviews and approves payroll time sheets, purchasing requisitions, check requests, and scheduling requests.
• Reports employee injuries within specified time frames and follows IRL policy/procedure for work-related injuries.
• Directs and organizes the operations of the hospital rapid-response laboratories through delegation of responsibilities and authority, and overall direction of the hospital laboratory management team.
• Effectively communicates with IRL System personnel at all levels to coordinate efforts, meet special needs, and address problems or concerns.
• Works with IRL System management to maintain regular, two-way communications and integration of core laboratory and hospital personnel.
• Conducts regular Town Hall Meetings at all IRL System facilities and contributes to quarterly newsletters for IRL System personnel.
• Ensures a service delivery system that sets standards of excellence in quality, response time, and overall user satisfaction.
• Meets regularly with IRL and hospital management to ensure effective inter-departmental interfaces are established, maintained, and enhanced.
• Monitors and stays abreast of legislative and regulatory changes affecting the laboratory industry; ensures changes are communicated and implemented on a timely basis.
• Investigates, recommends, and purchases equipment, supplies, and instrumentation appropriate to current and planned future needs.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree (required) or Master's Degree.
• State of Florida Supervisor's License in at least 3 areas: Blood Bank/Immunohematology, Chemistry, Hematology, Histology, Microbiology, Serology/Immunology (required).
• 3+ years of experience in a supervisory/management role in a clinical laboratory setting (required).
• This role requires full COVID-19 vaccination based on local, state, and/or federal law or regulations (unless a medical or religious exemption is approved).

About the organization

HCA Healthcare Laboratory Services is a full-service provider of clinical laboratory and anatomic pathology services, offering hospitals, physicians, and clients timely diagnostic information for patient care. Our infrastructure includes a fully automated esoteric core laboratory in Fort Lauderdale, a histology and microbiology operation in Largo, Florida, and a network of hospital-based rapid-response laboratories present in four HCA Healthcare divisions in Florida. Our core laboratories support more than 250 acute and rehab hospitals, physician practices, surgery centers, and commercial accounts.

HCA Healthcare has been recognized as one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies® by the Ethisphere Institute more than ten times. In recent years, HCA Healthcare spent an estimated $3.7 billion in costs for the delivery of charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses.

Benefits

HCA Florida Oak Hill Hospital offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career, and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:

• Comprehensive benefits for medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, behavioral health, and telemedicine services.
• Wellbeing support, including free counseling and referral services.
• Time away from work programs for paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage, and leaves of absence.
• Savings and retirement resources, including a 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service), Employee Stock Purchase Plan, flexible spending accounts, preferred banking partnerships, retirement readiness tools, rollover support, and financial wellbeing counseling.
• Education support through tuition assistance, student loan assistance, certification support, dependent scholarships, and a partnership with Galen College of Nursing.
• Additional benefits for fertility and family building, adoption assistance, life insurance, supplemental health protection plans, auto and home insurance, legal counseling, identity theft protection, and consumer discounts.

Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.