Supervises local staff in providing high quality, patient-focused, and cost-effective pulmonary clinical services. Ensures compliance with federal, state, and local regulations.
Essential Functions:
- Assists in developing, implementing, and monitoring pulmonary standards.
- Assists in coordinating Plans of Treatment and customer focused delivery of services.
- Ensures all patient care is in compliance with administrative, legal, and regulatory requirements and follows established policies and procedures.
- Works with Site Pulmonary Clinical Services Manager and other health care providers to develop, implement, and provide efficient patient/pulmonary care services and outcomes.
- Identifies and recommends best practice models.
- Assists in developing, implementing, and evaluating standards of practice, to improve quality and service to members.
- Assists in meeting short and long term financial goals by continually planning, developing, monitoring, adjusting and evaluating annual budgets.
- Identifies opportunities to reduce costs, while maintaining quality of services.
- Supervises staff, ensuring all are fully competent in providing the highest quality of care to members.
- Assists in determining appropriate staffing to maintain the service levels.
- Assists in developing programs and presents inservice programs to pulmonary staff.
- Supervises daily unit operations, department and employee safety programs, and risk management.
Qualifications:
Basic Qualifications:
- Experience in respiratory care, in a multi-faceted health care system, multi- service provider setting or academic setting required (usually two (2) yrs).
- Bachelor's degree in respiratory care, health care administration, nursing, business administration or equivalent experience preferred.
- Registered RRT Therapist and current State Respiratory Care Practitioner license required.
- Knowledge of budgeting, staffing, systems, quality improvement, and clinical care delivery in an inpatient setting.
- Knowledge of federal, state, and local regulations.
- Must be able to work in a Labor/Management Partnership environment.
External hires must pass a background check/drug screen.
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