The Lexington VA Health Care System (LVAHCS) is a fully accredited, two-division, tertiary care health care system with an operating bed complement of 172 hospital beds. LVAHCS received a 5-star CMS rating & is 1 of 7 VA Patient Safety Programs of Excellence. The Troy Bowling Campus, located adjacent to the University of Kentucky Chandler Medical Center, offers specialty outpatient care, inpatient acute medical, neurological, surgical, & psychiatric care. The Franklin R. Sousley Campus has a 5-star Community Living Center & cottages with hospice and respite services, primary care, home-based primary care, prosthetics, women's health, optometry, podiatry, massage therapy and chiropractic, mental health, substance abuse treatment, acute rehabilitation, and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder residential rehabilitation treatment. LVAHCS also operates four VA community clinics in Somerset, Morehead, Hazard, & Berea, KY. Lexington VAHCS is part of the VA MidSouth Healthcare Network, which consists of five medical centers in Kentucky and Tennessee.
The incumbent shares with the Executive Leadership Team a level of responsibility for the direction and management of the healthcare system and is directly responsible for all facilities operations. The incumbent has direct line authority and leadership responsibility for all administrative operation support services. The incumbent participates on a day-to-day basis in top level executive discussions, decisions, policy making and actions of all administrative functions and indirectly of all clinical matters impacting patient care.
The Associate Director is responsible for taking an active leadership role in coordinating and developing customer and stakeholder support and resourcing to meet objectives of the healthcare system. Develops collaborative partnerships with stakeholders and makes program execution decisions that affect or determine long range courses of action of critical importance. The incumbents managerial duties and responsibilities involve final decisions which have a direct and substantial effect on the health care organization and programs related to facility operations. These include, but are not limited to decisions affecting the nature, scope, quality of, and emphases on, the facility's patient care programs and activities.
Duties include, but may not be limited to the following:
- Sharing with the Executive Leadership Team (ELT) a level of responsibility for the direction and management of the healthcare system and is directly responsible for all facilities operations.
- A direct line authority and leadership responsibility for all administrative operation support services.
- May serve as the Acting Executive Director in the absence of the Director.
- Taking an active leadership role in coordinating and developing customer and stakeholder support and resourcing to meet objectives of the healthcare system.
- Determining operational services and programs goals and objectives, develop short-and long-range plans for achieving them in conjunction with the overall plans of the Veterans Integrated Service Network (VISN) and consistent with the strategic planning process.
- Directing a comprehensive evaluation of operational services goals and objectives and makes necessary adjustments to improve delivery of patient care services.
- Establishing local policy in such areas impacting facility operations as program emphasis and operating guidelines.
- Administering and ensuring compliance with a system designed for the development and communication of program policies and procedures in accordance with new or existing rules and regulations.
- Administering a management reporting system which provides appropriate data for decision making for facility operations, impacting organizational improvements.
- Performs other related duties as assigned.
Work Schedule: Monday - Friday 8:00am - 4:30pm
Compressed/Flexible: May be available at supervisory discretion
Telework: Available, ad hoc at supervisory discretion
Virtual: This is not a virtual position.
Position Description/PD#: Health System Administrator (Associate Director)/PD99902S
Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: May be authorized for highly qualified candidate.
Permanent Change of Station (PCS): May be authorized for highly qualified candidate. Financial Disclosure Report: Required
Starting at $143,736 Per Year (GS 15)