Summary
The incumbent functions as the Health System Administrator (Associate Director) performing a variety of duties in an extremely complex health care system, which is constantly evolving within a highly complex and competitive geographic area. The San Francisco VA Health Care System (SFVAHCS) is a tertiary hospital with several divisions and is one of the busiest and most complex HCS in the nations. It includes numerous outpatient clinics dispersed over a large geographic region.
Duties
The Associate Director fully participates on a day-to-day basis in top management discussions, decisions, and policymaking. The Associate Director shares the responsibility for top management actions covering all activities except those requiring a strictly medical decision. The Associate Director collaborates with the Deputy Director, Chief of Staff, and the Director, Patient Care Services/Nurse Executive in the formulation and supervision of administrative activities inherent in the clinical programs. In addition, a broad, extensive knowledge of the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) as well as other administrations within the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) provides the background for organization-wide communication as well as the effective and efficient operations of the SFVAHCS.
Duties include:
- Determines program goals and objectives, develops 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.
- Directs a comprehensive evaluation of program and goals and objectives and makes necessary adjustments to improve delivery of patient care services.
- Establishes local policy in such areas as program emphasis and operating guidelines;
- Administers and ensures compliance with a system designed for the development and communication of program policies and procedures in accordance with new or existing rules and regulations.
- Administers a management reporting system which provides appropriate data for decision making in such areas as organizational improvements; change in delegations of authority; position management; and coordination among the center’s programs and services…
