Adm Dir, Medical Imaging

EXECUTES STRATEGY BY:
• Scanning the competitive environment, leading business planning process, and providing strategies to drive profitable service line growth while reducing costs per case.
• Partnering closely with senior executives, sales and marketing executives, and service line management to enable growth strategies.
• Developing business case, including financials, for new program development and capital projects.
• Identifying and driving new physician and volume opportunities for the organization insuring alignment with clinical leaders.
• Working together with marketing and physician relations executives to promote the services to physicians and consumers.
• Collaborating with physicians to develop and foster positive working relationships.

INCREASES OPERATIONAL EFFICIENCY BY:
• Monitoring key operational and financial metrics for improvement opportunities.
• Driving process improvement within the imaging service line to increase team member engagement and physicians satisfaction.
• Enabling finding solutions to problems that get in the way of differentiated service.
• Working with hospital administrative team and department director(s) for program development, implementation, execution monitoring, and evaluation of services at the hospital and offsite locations.
• Ensuring physician and professional staff have the necessary equipment to perform.
• Participating in health system annual budgeting process related to service line.
• Supporting the recruitment process to secure staffing talent.

IMPROVES CLINICAL OUTCOMES BY:
• Supporting a positive patient experience by providing optimal cost-effective delivery of services by physicians and professional staff within a safe department.
• Ensuring that oversight, processes, and resources are in place to improve clinical outcomes.
• Enabling clinical excellence by aligning goals with the clinical leaders and removing barriers for clinical practice as needed.
• Communicating to clinical leaders any matters that can affect the clinical operations and deferring clinical judgments to those leaders.
• Participating in rounding with patients and meeting with physicians and staff to ensure a high-quality patient experience.
• Collaborating with the health system imaging procedure schedulers focusing on accurate data collection and customer service to increase the imaging volume.

IV. Expectations for All Teammates
• Supports the mission, vision, values and strategic goals of Augusta Health.
• Complies with the Augusta Health Standards of Conduct and all policies, procedures, and regulations.
• Performs a variety of related duties as assigned.
• Meets all annual training, health and safety requirements.
• Demonstrates regular, reliable and dependable attendance.
• As needed, may be required to work:
o on weekdays, weekends, evenings and/or night shifts.
o on holidays or additional shifts.
o during disaster situations, i.e., before, during or after a disaster or inclement weather (e.g. hurricane, flood, snowstorm, etc.).
o additional hours after scheduled workday or shift based on operational needs.

VI. Work Environment
• Tobacco-free campus.
• Exposure or potential exposure to blood, bloodborne pathogens and body fluids may be required.
• Exposure to radioactive materials, X-ray or Laser may be required.
• Exposure or potential exposure to hazardous waste, toxic/caustic chemicals or fumes may occur.
• Exposure or potential exposure to outside environmental conditions, extreme cold or heat, noise, vibration or proximity to mechanical parts may be required.
• May be required to balance, bend/stoop, climb, crawl, crouch, kneel, keyboard/type, lift, push/pull, reach, reach above shoulder, use repetitive motion of the elbows and/or wrists, stand, squat, twist, walk and/or use computer mouse.
• May work under stressful circumstances at times.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Associate’s degree in Radiology Technology
• Master’s Degree (MBA, MHA, MPH, or similar degree) 
• Imaging certification 
• 5 years of clinical experience in healthcare
• 3 years of experience in business development
• 5 years of experience in healthcare leadership role
• Or equivalent combination of education and/or experience 

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Radiology Technology

• Advanced imaging certification
• Lean methodology

Competencies, Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Proven success in setting strategic direction and development business plans to promote growth.
• Demonstrated ability to translate strategy into action and multiple priorities.
• Demonstrated ability to lead and promote service excellence for customers.
• Strong business acumen and demonstrated ability to solve business problems through careful and systematic evaluation of information, possible alternatives, and consequences.
• Experienced in developing and encouraging strategic relationships to facilitate the accomplishment of work and organizational goals.
• Communicates with a purpose and intent with people at all levels in the organization and outside networks, including team members, vendors, and patients.
• Demonstrated ability to effectively coach, develop, and lead others.
• Effective interpersonal skills with the ability to partner with and influence all levels of the organization.
• Relevant experience and strong knowledge of Diagnostic and Interventional Imaging Service Line.

Equal Opportunity
Augusta Health recruits, hires and promotes qualified candidates for employment without regard to age, color, disability, gender identity or expression, marital status, national or ethnic origin, political affiliation, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, veteran or military discharge status, and family medical or genetic information.