Healthcare administrators work behind the scenes to make large-scale decisions for the healthcare facility or institutions. They deal directly with policy and budgets to create better patient experiences and ensure the safety of guests and staff. Nexus HR is a full healthcare recruitment firm solution. We evaluate personnel files, resumes, supply cognitive and behavioral tests if you include that in your plan, we schedule interviews, send out offer letters, and even perform background and license checks. Our duty is to shape the policy that runs the facility and improve the patients’ experience. Healthcare administration jobs are essential to successful and efficient healthcare facilities. Healthcare administrators regularly interact with doctors, nurses, surgeons, and technicians. They direct the operation of healthcare organizations and rarely meet directly with the patients in the healthcare facility.
Due to the constant need for healthcare facilities, from hospitals to nursing homes, healthcare administration is a vital, stable job for those interested in improving healthcare policy. Healthcare administrators have in-depth knowledge of the regulatory framework in patient care. Their responsibilities are entirely different from the responsibilities of a doctor or physician. While physicians manage patients directly, healthcare administrators oversee the facility itself, and usually have a bachelor’s degree or master’s degree in healthcare administration.
What Do Healthcare Administrators Do?
A healthcare administrator’s job responsibilities may change depending on the facility. Healthcare administration jobs can work in nursing homes, surgery, physical therapy, and other healthcare facilities.
The most common job responsibilities for a healthcare administrator include:
Develop work schedules for staff and physicians.
Manage facility finances.
Manage patient fees and billing.
Improve facility efficiency and quality.
Ensure that the facility complies with all laws and regulations.
Train staff members.
Communicate with physicians and nurses.
Present investor meetings and meet with governing boards.
Monitor budgets and spending.
Healthcare administrators have a wide range of roles and need to be flexible enough to pick up new roles through their employment. The location and size of the healthcare facility may also influence the job responsibilities.
Some healthcare administrators may manage an entire facility, while others may focus on a single department within a facility. No matter where the healthcare administrator is employed, they are required to know both state and federal laws and ensure that HIPAA laws are followed within their area of expertise.
Medical Assistant jobs at Nexus HR provide clinical and administrative assistance for their assigned clinic. This position includes several tasks that help the clinic perform effectively including admitting patients, scheduling appointments, and closely working with the providers. This position reports to our Clinic manager. Major duties to perform are;
Work directly with the provider(s) to provide quality care to patients.
Performs diagnostic tests, administer medications, and collect/prepares specimens within the scope of practice as directed by a clinician and practice infection control techniques.
Prepares patients for appropriate exams/procedures as directed by the assigned provider by escorting patients to exam rooms, measuring vital signs, and properly documenting information obtained through patient records via the EMR system.
Assist providers in exam rooms and give instructions to patients as instructed by providers.
Answers telephone inquiries and triage messages from patients and front office staff to physicians and physician assistants.
Ensures that exam rooms are clean, stocked, and appropriately set up prior to rooming each patient. Assists in maintaining the cleanliness and serviceability of facilities and equipment; performing opening and closing duties.
Ensures all related reports, labs, and information required are available in patients’ medical records prior to their appointment.
Upkeeps required compliance logs (temperature logs, cash logs, etc.)
Properly cares for medical equipment and performs maintenance responsibilities.
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Nexus HR has developed a metric based interviewing guide that gives employers the ability to set their minimum and maximum salary range and factor in not only the candidate’s interview responses, but their experience, composure, and cultural fit. This will allow you to quickly offer healthcare administration jobs and the appropriate salary based upon the candidate in front of you. Don’t hold an endless amount of interviews and settle for whose left. Use our guide and hire faster with more confidence.
Nexus HR has always had the mission to take the HR administration off the hands of the medical institutions, so that they can focus on their business.