Health Systems Administrator (Assistant Director)

Health System Administrator (Assistant Medical Center Director)

The John D. Dingell VA Healthcare System is currently recruiting for a Health System Administrator (Assistant Medical Center Director). The Assistant Director shares with the Executive Leadership Team a level of responsibility for the direction and management of the Medical Center and is directly responsible for facilities operations. The Assistant Director plans, coordinates, supervises, and directs various administrative and health related services.

Major Duties Include :

• Participating on a day-to-day basis in top level executive discussions, decisions, policy making and actions of all administrative functions and indirectly of all clinical matters impacting patient care.
• Resolving complex and unusual health care administration issues by independent analysis and action, with the potential to set precedent, and lead organizational change.
• Responsible for the development of plans, programs, direction, and monitoring of clinic and health plan management.
• Applying specialized principles and practices of health care management to coordinate, direct, and control programs and resources for both clinics and health plan administration.
• Overseeing budget and fiscal management for the facility services assigned such as resource management and FTEE control within the assigned services.
• Representing the healthcare system by establishing and maintaining community partnerships, and relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Participating in the development of strategic plans in order to ensure progressive solutions that directly support the mission of the organization.
• Initiating organizational change, as a result of program changes or independent of program change, in order to effect internal improvements, take advantage of particular personal strengths of employees, improve internal relations, etc.
• Evaluating each subordinate manager's success in contributing to accomplishment of the institution's goals.
• Systematically evaluates data on all facets of the clinical and administrative programs to assess the degree to which each is vulnerable to mismanagement, fraud and abuse, and for establishing internal controls for each area, appropriate to the assessed vulnerability.
• Evaluating the effectiveness of the established controls for investigating problem areas in-depth and recommending corrective action when necessary.
• Collaborating with and / or assists others within or across work groups to validate and / or improve / solve practice problems / issues either on the basis of application of current evidence-based knowledge.
• Assessing the need for equipment, supplies, and space for the safe, effective, and appropriate treatment of highly technical cases at this complex tertiary care referral center.
• Assessing the impact of situations to predict potential outcomes for the Detroit VAHCS.
• Develops and implements changes which influence the efficiency and quality of care.
• Acting as liaisons between facility clinical and administrative services in order that they more effectively provide training, develop implementation strategies, translate problems and facilitate a resolution.
• Developing both long and short-range policies and plans for the organization by coordinating the medical administrative needs of the medical center.
• Making final administrative planning decisions for a health care delivery system comprised of the full range of administrative services and selected allied health services.
• Coordinating program activities supervised to promote efficient operation and to ensure that the missions of the sites are fulfilled.