Health Administrator Job Description
Health administrator
provides health education to community members regarding the Medical Home, Behavioral Health Services, Emergency Department, Express Care Clinics, and on how to use these existing systems of care.
Health Administrator Duties & Responsibilities
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Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Analyze and interpret federal and state regulations, laws and rules for ODA and for AAAs
Configure clients access to our systems
Provide efficient and effective administration support, including maintenance and update of the company Health and Safety computer based information systems
Responsible for completing the administrative procedures of US and Canada employee Health and Welfare Benefit plans (including medical, dental, vision, disability, life/AD&D, HSA, HCRA/DCRA, COBRA and others) in a consistent manner within the scope of the Plan Documents, Summary Plan Descriptions (SPDs), laws/regulations, and vendor and union contracts
Takes action that is consistent with available facts and documented processes, guidelines, practices and laws/regulations, and in using general direction and previous experience, may independently negotiate timelines with stakeholders to accommodate fluctuating workloads and demands
Obtains medical records from external sources as requested by HCC providers and nurses, requiring expertise in use of multiple external electronic health information acquisition systems
Comply with all requests for routine reporting in conjunction with corporate systems, census, HPPD, budget, Ensure timely submissions of data
Level II assumes the same types of duties, but with responsibility for a large, complex, multi-discipline ambulatory clinic/practice at a single site
Level III assumes the same types of duties, but with responsibility for multiple ambulatory clinics/practices at two or more sites
Plan, develop, evaluate and manage multiple Ohio Department of Aging (ODA) statewide programs and implements development activities of same programs through Area Agencies on Aging (AAAs)
Health Administrator Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Health Administrator
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: CPR, CPI, JCAHO, BLS, MCSA, MCP, RHCE, EPIC, VPP, CNN
Education for Health Administrator
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the health administrator job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Collage and University Degree in Nursing, Health Administration, Business, Healthcare, Graduate, Management, Health, Business/Administration, Supervision, Education
Skills for Health Administrator
Desired skills for health administrator include:
Rules
Laws
Supervisory skills and basic home care skills
MS Office
Regulations pertaining to home health care
Community and outpatient programs to provide continuing behavioral treatment to the patient and family
Excel
Federal and State laws and regulations that govern home health care
Systems
Theory and practice of home health care
Desired experience for health administrator includes:
Direct and coordinate statewide implementation of Older Americans Act (OAA) and related state-funded programs
Direct the statewide development, coordination and review of the AAAs' four-year strategic plans to align with OAA requirements, the State Plan on Aging's strategies and ODA's priorities
Supervise, direct, coordinate and ensure ODA and AAA compliance with OAA and related state-funded programs through on-site and desk review monitoring
Contribute to, plan and achieve applicable goals contained in Ohio's State Plan on Aging
Evaluate overall program, develop and administer OAA budget for fiscal compliance
Researche trends occurring in elder care programming in other states
Health Administrator Examples
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Health Administrator Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is looking for a health administrator. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for health administrator
- Represent ODA at meetings and conferences related to OAA and state-funded programs
- Develop policies, procedures, and division and program objectives on behalf of agency
- Supervise subordinate staff involved in program development, implementation, and development of long and short-term goals and objectives for OAA programs
- Carry out system administration activities in accordance with the documentation
- Build and maintain Shell scripts
- Install and test servers
- Install and test OS patches and security updates
- Perform backup and restore activities
- Contribute to the development of test plans in conjunction with the QA team
- Help document functional specifications, testing and implementation guides
Qualifications for health administrator
- Review accident and incident reports, assist in investigations and liaise with the enforcement authority as required and maintaining the appropriate records
- Undertake safety audits and inspections, present reports and make recommendations as necessary
- Provide leadership and partner with the Associate Department Administrator-Finance to develop and implement improvements to accounting and fiscal processes in the Center for Global Health/Kenya Program
- Serve as Treasurer and primary financial and administrative officer for related supporting organizations registered in the US and overseas to support the mission and operations of the Center for Global Health/Kenya Program
- Prior experience with population-level efforts in behavioral health (includes experience in substance misuse prevention & outreach services) to improve health outcomes
- Experience in oversight of behavioral health system (including quality assurance, compliance, grievances, complaints, and reporting)
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Our company is growing rapidly and is looking for a health administrator. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for health administrator
- Provides administrative maintenance of management systems, data and intellectual materials
- Monitors and prioritizes referrals initiated by HCC providers in i2i electronic referral system throughout the day
- Accurately scans, titles, sorts, and submits paper records into the electronic health record
- Handles calls regarding record requests, referrals and general questions from patients, providers and community practices
- Assesses, plans, implements, coordinates, monitors, and evaluates options and services to meet employees' health needs related to Occupational Health and Safety, Workers' Compensation, Leave of Absence including FML, Military, short and long term disability, ADA compliance, OSHA reporting, compliance and disclosure
- Serves as a resource for above mentioned for all network affiliates that are not a direct responsibility
- Ensure that public information (policy manuals, ) describing the services provided in the facility is accurate and fully descriptive
- Assume the administrative authority, responsibility and accountability of directing the activities and programs of the facility
- Represent the facility at and participate in top-level meetings
- Ensure frequent communication with Regional Director of Operations particularly in regard to any operational issues/concerns
Qualifications for health administrator
- Completion of graduate core program in field of public health, health administration, preventive medicine, social work, nursing or other health-related field or public policy & management/public administration or business administration
- Demonstrated knowledge of home care, TJC, and other federal, state, and local regulations
- CLINIC/AMBULATORY MANAGEMENT AND PRIMARY CARE EXPERIENCE PREFERRED
- Prior experience with population-level efforts in behavioral health (includes experience in mental health treatment services) to improve health outcomes
- Prior experience with population-level efforts in behavioral health (includes experience in mental health services and substance misuse services) to improve health outcomes
- Master’s or Bachelor's degree in Health Administration or Bachelor’s or Associate’s degree in Nursing (current and unrestricted license to practice as Registered Nurse)
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Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is hiring for a health administrator. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for health administrator
- Participate in facility surveys (inspection) made by authorized governmental agencies
- Review and develop a plan of correction for deficiencies noted during survey inspections and provide a written copy of such plan to supervisor, corporate office and ombudsman representative if required
- Maintain an appropriate and effective liaison with families and residents
- Maintain a good public relations/marketing program that serves the best interest of the facility and community alike
- Delegate a responsible staff member to act in your behalf when you are absent from the facility
- Ensure compliance with manager on call program
- Process cases created by the Contact Center, inbound mail, or issues sent from the client's Benefit Leads
- Process and analyze various health and welfare reports
- Assist with User Acceptance Testing for new plan and/or system updates, including Annual Enrollment
- Work closely with the Customer Care Sr
Qualifications for health administrator
- Must have the ability to understand, relate, and build confidence in customer
- Ability to demonstrate knowledge of home care, TJC, and other federal, state, and local regulations
- Bachelor’s degree in Safety, Environmental or related field, or equivalent experience
- CHST, GSP, ASP, preferred
- Broad training in a related field usually acquired through high school or work-related experience
- Project management and customer service
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Our company is hiring for a health administrator. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for health administrator
- Compliance duties for the Chemical Hygiene Officer include updating the Chemical Hygiene Plan, training all applicable students and employees, chemical inventory, laboratory safety inspections, and accident report investigations
- The Radiation Safety Program is a slightly smaller program than the Laboratory Safety program but contains the same elements with the addition of tighter control by the NRC over our program
- The management of hazardous waste material covers the use and disposal of any material that is injurious to life, health and property
- Manages the Stockroom Supervisor's work with hazardous waste materials
- Build appropriate professional, friendly and accessible relationships with Contract HSES teams and support functions
- Supporting HSES Managers to ensure accurate data reporting
- Interrogate HSES data streams to assist HSES Management for trends
- Collate business priority information such as man-hours, incidents and observation data
- Have prior experience of providing support to operational and functional teams
- Be fully proficient in all Microsoft office packages
Qualifications for health administrator
- Excellent understanding and use of Electronic Health Records
- Master’s degree and 12 years of experience, Bachelor's degree in computer science or related degree and 14 years of related work experience
- Excellent interpersonal skills, written and oral communication skills (includes informing, negotiating, counseling, ) and demonstrated customer service behaviors
- College Level Business courses desired and/or equivalent work experience
- Skilled in modern office practices, procedures, methods and equipment
- Accomplished at composing business letters and memos
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Our company is hiring for a health administrator. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for health administrator
- Be reliable, proactive and able to meet demanding deadlines
- Have the ability to co-ordinate and prioritise a number of tasks
- Control the daily behavioral safety observations through collation of reports & data entry onto the dashboard
- Collate Dept
- Update the main communication strategy boards for HSE topics
- Collate HSE information for board or site reports
- Not to misuse or interfere with any safety function or equipment
- In addition, you will undertake any training that the company deems necessary
- Produces Publications (Newsletters, notice boards )
- Undertakes preparation for meetings
Qualifications for health administrator
- Minimum of two years prior accounts payable experience
- Prior claims or medical billing experience a plus, but not required
- Minimum 4 years related experience in Environmental, Safety, Security and Facilities management
- Experience in a labor-intensive manufacturing environment
- Knowledge of US and California regulations
- Experience with Desktop and Server Virtualization (VMware, VMware View)