Center Director
Company: Ambulatory Surgery Center
Location: Morehead City
Posted on: May 27, 2023
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Job Description:
Center Administrator
Surgical Center of Morehead City
Responsible for coordinating and directing activities of the Center
according to accepted standards. Responsible for the fiscal
activities of the center. Works collaboratively with Nurse Manager,
Clinical Director, or Charge Nurse (as required) to oversee the
supervision and direction of nursing care and patient scheduling,
according to the centers policies, procedures, and objectives.
Responsible for management of all aspects of personnel, education
of personnel, and administrative duties. Works closely with the
Governor's Board and center staff in coordinating patient and staff
service functions.
QUALIFICATIONS:
---Associates and/or Bachelor's degree required from an accredited
college or university
---Master's degree preferred
---At least five (5) years of healthcare-management experience
---At least one (1) year experience in an ASC
---CPR certification and/or ACLS-PALS certification (as required by
Center)
---Evidence of leadership qualities
---Strong ethical and moral character references
---Language skills adequate for high-level written, interpersonal,
and telephone communication in American English (if Center requires
bilingual, this section can be modified)
---Computer literacy
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
Operations:
---Monitors FTE utilization and makes recommendations to promote
cost-effective man-hour practices
---Oversees the comprehensive and informative orientation programs
for new employees in all clinical areas
---Directs and participates in Center committees, meetings,
in-services, and activities
---Provides input regarding short and long term goals of the
Center
---Ensures center is clean and facility is maintained per policy,
accreditation, and regulatory compliance
---Ensures equipment is clean, disinfected, sterile (as required),
and operational at all times
---Ensures continuing education for clinical staff members as
needed
---Monitors operational activities for effective and efficient
management of daily operation
---Manages performance of services provided by contracted providers
(e.g., pathology, radiology, housekeeping)
---Prepares or delegates staffing schedules in accordance with
vacations, holidays, daily personnel assignments and duties
according to experience and skill level to provide quality patient
care
---Ensures staff are cross-trained (as appropriate) to provide a
productive and efficient work environment for all areas
---Reviews daily time and attendance sheets and maintains
attendance logs
---Observes and evaluates the performance of all center personnel
and works to continuously improve the quality of care
and services
---Counsels center personnel and makes recommendations for salary
adjustments, promotions, and/or terminations
---Evaluates suggestions, grievances, and processes to identify
opportunities to improve performance and quality of care
---Analyzes data from quality assurance performance-improvement
program and prepares reports and action plans
---Shares knowledge gained in continuing education with center
personnel
---Regular and predictable attendance
---Attends all required education
Serves in the role of Disaster Coordinator and works with
applicable agencies
Medical Staff
---Maintains open line of communication with Medical Director,
Anesthesia Director, and QAPI Chairman
---Oversees medical staff/allied health credentialing program
---Coordinates with Medical Director ongoing and event related Peer
Review Processes
---Maintains confidentiality of medical staff/allied health
credentialing files
Regulatory
---Remains current on applicable state and federal laws, rules and
regulations, and professional and accrediting-body
standards
---Submits required reports on a timely basis
---Develops, interprets, and implements policies, procedures,
regulations, programs, and recommended practices to meet
requirements of regulatory and accrediting organizations
---Reviews policies/procedures to ensure continued compliance with
state, federal, and accrediting-body rules, regulations,
and standards
Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement (QAPI):
---Assists in the implementation and maintenance of the center's
adopted quality assessment, performance improvement
program
---Assists in the maintenance, education, and implementation of the
centers policies and procedures to the Governing
Board, the QAPI committee (as required) and the wider Healthcare
team
---Assists in the implementation and maintenance of the center's
adopted compliance program
---Actively contributes to the QAPI process and identifies his or
her own role and contributions
---Ability to analyze data from performance improvement program,
prepare reports, and develop action plans for
presentation to the QAPI Committee
---Serves on the Quality Assessment, Performance Improvement (QAPI)
committee
Safety
---Implements best practices and regulations adopted, to provide
safety in the workplace
---Monitors the Center's physical environment and initiates methods
for maintaining safety, comfort, cleanliness, and
efficiencies
---Monitors the care, cleaning, and required maintenance of
equipment to maintain proper working conditions. Identifies
and evaluates need for items relative to trends, center personnel
requests, and positive patient outcomes
---Works with the Safety Officer to resolve observed or suspected
safety violations and hazards to ensure policy/procedure
compliance
---Submits information to licensed (as state required) healthcare
risk manager, for preparation of risk management reports
---Ensures OSHA regulations are met, clinical staff are educated,
and supplies are readily available
Maintenance and Materials Management
---Identifies need for new/different items, in regard to trends and
center needs, within budget allowances, to promote cost
effectiveness, and minimize waste
---Promotes cost containment and efficient use of Center resources,
utilizing Materials Management principals
---Analyzes and makes recommendations for potential cost-effective
improvements within the center
---Ensures center is maintained to provide a comfortable and safe
working environment
---Chairs or participates on designated committees
---Ensures adequate inventory and manages new product/equipment
implementation
---Monitors and verifies required materials management
documentation (i.e., purchase orders, invoices, delivery
receipts
etc.) are current and complete
---Ensures appropriate purchasing practices are followed
Marketing
---Assists with marketing plan in collaboration with management
company and Governing Board
---Markets to managed-care entities (as required by center)
---Markets to physicians and their staff (as required by
center)
---Maintains awareness of medical community and assesses new
provider's candidacy for medical staff membership
Financial
---Monitors and analyzes monthly operating reports (MOR)
---Promotes cost containment and efficient use of Center
resources
---Assists in the development and implementation of capital and
operating budgets
---Submits reports on the Center's fiscal, human, and material
resource requirements
---Conducts and analyzes cost benefit analysis to identify
potential cost-effective improvements and make
recommendations
---Approves payroll submissions
Professional competence:
---Participates in continuing education and other learning
experiences
---Maintains membership in relevant professional organizations
---Seeks new learning experiences by accepting challenging
opportunities and responsibilities
---Shares knowledge gained in continuing education with center
personnel
ESSENTIAL VALUES, CODES OF CONDUCT
---Demonstrates knowledge of and adheres to the Code of Conduct
---Adheres to the Nursing Scope of Practice - for Registered Nurses
only
---Promotes patient safety and communicates concerns appropriately,
following Chain of Command
---Promotes patient and physician satisfaction
---Follows all rules and regulations for PHI and HIPAA protections
of patient information
---Follows all policies and procedures, including, but not limited
to, attendance, timeliness, and safeguarding confidential
information
---Reports incidents in a timely manner, in RL6
---Detail oriented
---Attitude that is caring, respectful, sensitive, tactful,
compassionate, empathetic, and tolerant
---Recognizes and defines problems, collects data, establishes
facts, draws valid conclusions, and corrects errors
---Ability to multi-task effectively and efficiently
---Ability to effectively present information, respond to questions
and professionally interact verbally and/or in writing with
managers, co-workers, patients, and the general public
---Ability to interpret a variety of instructions in a variety of
forms and deal with abstract and concrete variables
---Exhibits mental alertness for quality decision making and
exercising good judgment
---Works well with others - a team player
---Exhibits high level of integrity
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