Nursing Home Administrator - Long Term Care

Sanford Health•Beaver Dam, WI

2d•Onsite

About The Position

This position is responsible for the overall leadership and management of the location, including meeting established goals and outcomes, ensuring regulatory and organization compliance, directing and coordinating work, financial and operational stability, and demonstrating leadership. The role involves managing resident services by effectively communicating and responding to customers, proactively addressing changes and concerns with families and staff, and ensuring resident needs are met. It also encompasses risk management, including infection prevention and control, maintaining a culture of safety, ensuring resident rights, and HIPAA compliance. The Administrator is also responsible for implementing and leading a Quality Assurance Performance Improvement (QAPI) Program and acts as the Compliance Liaison. Effective communication and documentation are key, requiring clear oral and written expression, timely communication within the organization, and accurate report completion. Additionally, the Administrator works with department teams and consultants to oversee the campus's financial and operational objectives.

Requirements

The ability to be a licensed as a Nursing Home Administrator in the state of practice
Other licenses as appropriate by state requirements and facility needs

Nice To Haves

A Bachelor's degree, preferably in healthcare administration, including course work in business and human resources

Responsibilities

Provide overall leadership and management of the location
Meet established goals and outcomes
Ensure regulatory and organization compliance
Direct and coordinate work
Ensure financial and operational stability
Demonstrate leadership
Communicate, interact and respond to customers effectively and accurately
Proactively communicate any necessary changes, issues and concerns to families, staff and other members of the medical community
Respond quickly and openly to resident's physical, mental and needs and assure they are being met by self or others
Ensure effective marketing and communication for all service levels
Be accessible and practice active listening
Assign responsibility to an individual(s) for the daily management of infection prevention and control activities
Provide equipment/supplies and access to information needed to support the infection prevention and control program
Set expectations for the collection and use of data and information to monitor and control infections
Create and maintain a culture of safety
Ensure a safety program is in place with scheduled inspections making corrections as necessary
Provide equipment and supplies to ensure a safe environment
Assure resident rights are protected and that all residents, families and significant others are made aware of those rights
Ensure HIPAA compliance
Ensure a Quality Assurance Performance Improvement (QAPI) Program is in place
Assign responsibility to an individual(s) for the daily management of QAPI
Ensure the leadership of monthly QAPI committee meetings
Sponsor performance improvement projects and review, approve or reject performance improvement team findings and recommendations
Provide access to information needed to support quality assurance performance improvement and provide equipment and supplies to support QAPI efforts
Support the Chief Compliance Officer in carrying out the Compliance Program as the Compliance Liaison of the facility
Express ideas clearly, concisely and effectively both orally and in writing
Request ongoing feedback on task performance
Communicate upward and downward within the organization appropriately and in a timely fashion
Ensure documentation and reports are completed as required by regulations and/or policy and procedure
Seek clarification of assignments and ask questions when needed
Keep supervisor informed and follow chain of command as appropriate when reporting issues or concerns
Work with department teams, and consultants to oversee operations of the campus