Primary Function:

• Under the direction of the ASC Vice President, the ASC Administrator oversees all operational functions, processes, and staff of the facility while demonstrating the primary goal of efficiently providing surgical services that exceed customer expectations and improve clinical and financial target goals.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Develops, monitors and controls the staffing needs, operations and capital budgets.
• Promotes that the surgical programs and clinical services are in compliance with the respective components of regulatory and accrediting body standards.
• Develops, updates, and ensures compliance with appropriate departmental policies and procedure manuals for use by staff.
• Work in conjunction with the ASC Vice President in the evaluation and development of existing and new surgical services at the facility.
• Ensures that the performance benchmarks and matrix are monitored and appropriate feedback is given to all stakeholders.
• Manages the clinical departments of nursing, central supply, medical records
• Ensures that the equipment and facilities are in good functioning order each day, and that the medical staff has all the equipment and supplies necessary to care for patients in their area.
• Performs periodic monitoring of surgical and patient care equipment to ensure adequate function and interfaces with contracted services/vendors to certify that timely repairs and scheduled maintained is performed as needed.
• Provides for a safe environment for patients, visitors, physicians, and personnel
• Evaluates staff performance management and reviews/approves progressive disciplinary action, up to and including discharge/termination.
• Administers and maintains program of job based orientation, training, and ongoing evaluation to assess employee skills/aptitude.
• Maintains employee files and records in accordance with all application state and private accreditation standards.
• Formulates and continually reassesses plans to reduce barriers to providing access to the highest quality patient service.
• Selects, coaches and develops staff in accordance with ASC’s policies and procedures.
• Ensures that all employees are given an orientation to the organization and are instilled with a passion of service excellence in how they approach their day to day responsibilities.
• Maintains membership in professional associations relevant to ambulatory surgery facilities and healthcare administration.
• Promotes the implementation of positive customer relations by the employees and physicians.
• Remains current in changes in the healthcare environment, such as reimbursement, legislative issues and business law, and act accordingly in the best interest of the corporation.
• Actively participates and attends all mandatory in-services and committee meetings.
• Formulates and maintains effective working relationships with peers and management and functions as an effective team member.
• Respects and protects the patients? rights to confidentiality and privacy and discloses information only for professional purposes which are in the patients? best interest with full consideration of their legal rights.
• Performs other related duties incidental to the work described herein.