Manager, Cardiac Cath & EP Lab

Sutter Health • San Francisco, CA

9d • $161,491 - $242,258 • Onsite

About The Position

Manages and provides operational leadership to outpatient/inpatient cardiac catheterization laboratory, which may include one or more teams providing patient care. Plans and organizes operations and resources to ensure effective and efficient delivery of patient care consistent with applicable laws, standards and regulations. Primary responsibility is the management of the human, financial and capital resources to achieve optimal clinical and efficient outcomes of the Cardiac Catheterization Lab.

Requirements

• Bachelor's: Healthcare Administration, Business Administration, or related field
• Equivalent experience will be accepted in lieu of the required degree or diploma.
• 8 years recent relevant experience
• Knowledge and understanding of California Department Health of Public regulations, Joint Commission standards, and Medicare Conditions of Participation.
• Demonstrated leadership skills, including team building, and coaching/mentoring with the ability to motivate and engage others.
• Thorough understanding of operations and workflows and how department’s process/workflow impacts other department operations.
• Demonstrates understanding of business and operational requirements.
• Ability to develop and manage a budget.
• Demonstrates tactical and analytical thinking and planning skills, and is able to develop plan to accomplish objectives, identify obstacles and resolve operational issues.
• Knowledge of emerging treads and how it impacts operations.
• Ability to build and establish effective working partnership with employees, peers and/or leaders to achieve business objectives.
• Verbal and written communication, and interpersonal skills.

Responsibilities

• Plans and organizes cardiac catheterization. EP, and IR operations and resources to ensure effective and efficient delivery of patient care consistent with applicable laws, standards and regulations.
• Monitors clinical performance and outcomes in accordance with national benchmarking registry data. Course corrects accordingly.
• Ensures procedures are scheduled timely and efficiently via working with centralized scheduling staff.
• Works closely with current and new physician partners to meet their needs and welcomes new physicians.
• Assures patient satisfaction is a top priority with outstanding results.
• Ensures cath. lab and teams are in a constant state of readiness for The Joint Commission (TJC), California Department of Public Health (CDPH), Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) inspections.
• Assists finance with proforma assumptions, research equipment needs, works with vendors, and secures physician feedback.
• Provides guidance and direct intervention in resolving challenging or complex situations.
• Identifies and works to remove barriers that may hinder the achievement of process/productivity improvement and efficiency.
• Designs and implements systems which ensure the provision of safe and effective care in accordance with hospital policies.
• Leads departmental goal setting process and provides roadmap for accomplishing goals. Monitors progress, developing action plans to address issues and challenges.
• Communicates affiliate, operating unit and system goals to staff, helping staff understand impact on operations and resources.
• Develops plan of action to address current and future resource needs in order to meet service and/or operational demands and objectives.
• Identifies process improvement opportunities, and initiates action plan to meet short/long term operational objectives or service level agreements.
• Develops metrics and methods for measuring outcomes against relevant internal and external benchmarks; assists in the identification of criteria and effective qualitative/quantitative measurement tools.
• Prepares reports and/or analyses, identifying operational trends and recurrent issues, and recommends and implements course of action.
• Establishes and manages capital and operational budgets to achieve financial targets via effective utilization of personnel, resources and supplies.
• Monitors department productivity, ensuring operational challenges are addressed timely.
• Reviews financial reports and develops and implements corrective action plans to address unfavorable variances.
• Reviews and approves employee expense reimbursements, and billing statements from vendors according to established protocol.

Benefits

• Eligible positions also include a comprehensive benefits package.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager