Duties
The Deputy Executive Director, Medical Center’s managerial duties and responsibilities involve final decisions which have a direct and substantial effect on the health care organization and programs. These include, but are not limited to, decisions affecting the nature, scope and quality of, and emphases in the facility’s/system’s patient care programs and activities.
The Deputy Executive Director, Medical Center in collaboration with the Executive Director, Medical Center:
- determines program goals and objectives, and develops short and long-range plans for achieving them, in conjunction with the overall plans of the Veterans Integrated Service Network (VISN) consistent with the strategic planning process;
- directs a comprehensive evaluation of program goals and objectives and makes necessary adjustments to improve delivery of patient care services;
- establishes local policy in such areas as program emphases and operating guidelines;
- administers a system for the development and communication of program policies and procedures in accordance with new or existing rules and regulations, and ensures adherence to them; and
- administers a management reporting system which provides appropriate data for decision making in such areas as: organizational improvements; changes in delegations of authority; position management; and coordination among the center’s programs and services.
The Deputy Executive Director, Medical Center will:
- organize and control program evaluation activities;
- develop and coordinate a quality assurance program to ensure that both clinical and administrative activities are in compliance with standards issued by various accrediting and regulatory groups;
- develop plans (with target completion dates) to ensure that action has been taken to correct deficiencies cited by accrediting bodies;
- conduct a comprehensive and effective quality management program for the standpoint of quality or program/service management, and
- ensure that patient complaints related to the communication of clinical aspects of their care are promptly addressed.
The Deputy Executive Director, Medical Center:
- develops with the participation of administrative and clinical managers and chiefs, plans for fiscal year plans that meet the objectives of current and proposed programs;
- develops a balanced financial plan designed to meet realistic needs of the facility and the network; makes important decisions substantially affecting economy of operations by limiting operating expenses without impairing patient care activities through management assessment, cost effective position management techniques, reorganization, methods improvements, and automation;
- ensures that utilization of available resources is in line with plan or modified through recurring review;
- allocates available resources to provide the best possible patient care in line with established priorities;
- expects and obtains, as the accountable official, positive accomplishments in effective utilization of resources as relaxed to budget, manpower, equipment, contractual services, physical facility needs and FTEE control;
- protects integrity of the budget, position management, classification and other processes to ensure compliance with existing statutes, and regulations; and takes timely corrective action where delegated responsibilities are not being properly applied or executed…
