Hospice Administrator - Alhambra, United States - Astrana Health

Astrana Health

Verified Company

Alhambra, United States

3 weeks ago

Posted by:

Mark Lane

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Description

Job Summary:

Allied Hospice, a subsidiary of Astrana Health, is currently seeking a lead administrator and executive director to oversee the day to day operations of its hospice program.

The administrator will be responsible for the employment of qualified hospice personnel, the provision of hospice services, and establishing standards of care to comply with federal and state regulations and guidelines.

The lead administrator establishes, implements, and evaluates goals and objectives for hospice services that meet and promote the standards of quality and contribute to the total organization and philosophy.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS/RESPONSIBILITIES

Operational planning and budgeting.
Ensuring organizational compliance with legal, regulatory and accreditation requirements.
Monitoring business operations to ensure financial stability.
Evaluating hospice services and personnel using measurable outcomes and objectives.
Conflict and complaint management and resolution.
Establishing and maintaining effective, open channels of communication including integration or technology, as applicable. Fosters a no-blame culture that encourages reporting of safety and quality of services issues.
Ensuring hospice personnel stay current with clinical information and practices.
Ensuring adequate and appropriate staffing.
Staff development including orientation, in-service, continuing education, competency testing and quality assessment performance improvement.
Ensuring that interdisciplinary care is provided.
Ensuring supportive services are available to personnel.
Ensuring coordination with other departments, services, and senior management, as appropriate.
Ensuring staff and organization stay current on local and national hospice issues and trends.
Ensuring that appropriate service policies and procedures are developed and implemented to accomplish identified outcomes.
Directing staff in performance of their duties including admission, discharge, transfer,

revocation, and provision of service to patients.

Ensuring appropriate staff supervision during all service hours.
Monitoring service utilization to ensure delivery of comprehensive care.
Ensuring services provided by other agencies are authorized by hospice.
Monitoring operational progress toward accomplishing operational and strategic goals.
Ensuring appropriate data collection and regular, complete reports are received by the Governing Body.
Ensuring adequate space, equipment and supplies are available.
Ensuring actionable objectives are derived from evaluation of hospice services and personnel.
Ensuring that structure and systems promote interdisciplinary care.
Ensuring collaboration with agencies and vendors for effective management of services.
Ensuring standards of ethical business and clinical practice are maintained. The above statements are intended to be a representative summary of the major duties and responsibilities performed by incumbents of this job. The incumbents may be requested to perform job-related tasks other than those stated in this description.

POSITION QUALIFICATIONS

A bachelor's degree in business administration, healthcare, or related field.
Three to five years of experience in healthcare management.
Ability to supervise and direct professional and administrative personnel.
Ability to communicate well, both verbally and in writing, with external contacts and community members.
Has knowledge of federal, state, and local regulations governing hospice care.
Has knowledge of hospice philosophy and the services provided to patients and

family/caregivers through an interdisciplinary group.

You're great for this role if:

You are empathic and caring
You have a passion for hospice, as well as the care of terminally ill patients
You are proficient in Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Word.
You have the ability to multitask and problem solve in a fast pace work environment
You have language proficiency in Cantonese, Mandarin, and/or Spanish (but this is not required).

Who We Are:

Astrana Health (

NASDAQ:
ASTH) is a physician-centric, technology-powered healthcare management company.

We are building and operating a novel, integrated, value-based healthcare delivery platform to empower our physicians to provide the highest quality of end-to-end care for their patients in a cost-effective manner.

Our mission is to combine our clinical experience, best-in-class delivery network, and technological expertise in order to improve patient outcomes, increase access to healthcare, and make the US healthcare system more efficient.

Our platform currently empowers over 10,000 physicians to provide care for over 1.2 million patients nationwide. Our rapid growth and unique position at the intersection of all major healthcare stakeholders (payer, provider, and patient) gives us an unparalleled opportunity to combi