The Associate Director provides general program direction and delegates authority to the subordinate Service Line manages in an atmosphere which leads to the fulfilment of the Medical Centers health care mission.
- Shares with the Executive Leadership Team a level of responsibility for the direction and management of the Medical Center and is directly responsible for all facilities operations.
- Direct line authority and leadership responsibility for all administrative operation support services.
- 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.
- Serve as the Acting Medical Center Director in the absence of the Director with full responsibility and concomitant authority to carry out the duties and functions.
- Develops collaborative partnerships with stakeholders and makes program execution decisions that affect or determine long range courses of action of critical importance.
- Determines 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.
- Administers a management reporting system which provides appropriate data for decision making for facility operations, impacting organizational improvements…
