Health Services Administrator

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POSITION:
Health Services Administrator
SCHEDULE:
Full-time/ Monday through Friday/40 hrs weekly
FACILITY:
Western Virginia Regional Jail
LOCATION:
Salem, VA

Wexford Health Sources, Inc. is one of the nation’s largest correctional health care providers. Over the past 30 years, our team of dedicated clinical professionals has helped literally millions of justice‑involved patients receive life‑changing medical and mental health services. The majority of our patients come from marginalized or impoverished backgrounds. In many cases, our doctors, nurses, and behavioral health professionals represent the patient’s first experience with quality, compassionate health care.

We heal and rehabilitate thousands of incarcerated patients every day. When you join Wexford Health you do more than just further your career. You become part of a team‑a family‑whose mission is to care for patients that cannot care for themselves. You change lives. You make a difference.

• Annual review with performance increase
• Generous paid‑time off program that combines vacation and sick leave
• Paid holidays
• Comprehensive health insurance through Blue Cross Blue Shield
• Dental and Vision insurance
• 401(k) retirement saving plans
• Company‑paid short‑term disability
• Healthcare and dependent care spending account

POSITION SUMMARY
The Health Services Administrator is responsible for effectively and efficiently managing the institution’s overall health‑care delivery system and monitoring all health service contract activities; consulting with the Director, Jail Operations and Manager, Jail Operations regarding routine institutional issues of an administrative nature, and discussing issues of a complex or unusual clinical nature involving patient management with the Site Medical Director and providers.

• Acts as a liaison between Health Services and the institutional administration, department heads, subordinates, as well as with the Jails Division regional team and corporate office.
• Develops and implements institutional directives and procedures to comply with administrative directives of the facility.
• Conducts department health and staff meetings (MAC, CQI), and attends facility meetings and training as required. Ensures meeting minutes are taken and shared with all appropriate staff.
• Directs orientation to the facility, the institution, and in‑service educational programs for health service staff, to comply with the facility’s ACA, and NCCHC standards, as applicable.
• Attends all applicable facility administrative meetings and ensures staff is kept apprised of appropriate information.
• Supervises department staff in the resolution of health‑care unit personnel issues or complaints, and/or directly intervening in problem areas to ensure prompt resolution involving the institutional administration, contractor, if applicable, or corporate office personnel as necessary.
• Supervises department staff in the operations of pharmacy, medical records, nursing, lab, xray, etc.
• Provides for the routine meetings and functions required by administrative directives, including Assurance, Pharmacy and Therapeutics, and Health Care Unit Staff Meetings. Submit meeting minutes to appropriate Wexford Health and facility leadership.
• Coordinates and monitors preparation of the institutional health services budget with the Director, Jail Operations and Manager, Jail Operations.
• Approves monthly statistical reports and ensures timely submission; complete all necessary reports on a timely basis.
• Ensures the confidential maintenance and safekeeping of all medical records and information to comply with HIPAA regulations.
• Assists with legal proceedings as needed.
• Monitors overall performance utilizing national standards and contract deliverables.
• Performs administrative employee relations functions, including supervision of performance, recruitment and selection, developing job descriptions, performance management, implementing corrective action and individual development plans, scheduling and approving PTO, etc.
• Supervises scheduling of patients for outside appointments. Reviews initial hospital specialty referrals with the site providers to…