Hospital Laboratory Director

4 weeks ago

Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States HCA Healthcare Laboratory Services Full time
Job Summary

The Director of Laboratory is responsible for overseeing the 24-hour operations and activities of the clinical laboratory to meet organizational and regulatory requirements. This includes laboratory specimen collection, specimen management, clerical functions, in-house and referral testing services. The Director actively participates in strategic and budgetary planning for assigned areas of responsibility and provides direction to department personnel to achieve operational and technical objectives.

Key Responsibilities
  • Concurrently monitors employee and departmental performance to ensure adherence to policies and procedures, timelines, and regulatory requirements.
  • Reviews all departmental policies and procedures at least annually and revises, as needed.
  • Develops, implements, and monitors new policies and procedures as needed.
  • Ensures that department employees attend all mandatory IRL/departmental in-services and staff meetings.
  • Develops monitoring systems for the collection, documentation, and reporting of quality assessment and improvement data.
  • Evaluates existing systems and processes and develops corrective action plans for service/quality trends identified.
  • Initiates changes and monitors for improvement.
  • Ensures that departments proactively respond to feedback from customers (internal and external) and implements improvement mechanisms to enhance the overall ability of the department to meet the customer's needs for laboratory services.
  • Concurrently monitors resource utilization, including payroll, supplies, and expenses, client volume and revenue variation reports, outpatient volume reports, mileage, and expense logs.
  • Participates in MOR and takes action immediately, as needed, to rectify problems.
  • Responsible to ensure the weekly and monthly corporate key indicators are an accurate measurement of past and current performance for a basis for proactive response to a changing environment.
  • Ensures legal and ethical practices are always maintained.
  • Prepares and submits capital expenditure requests, department projections, and annual budget.
  • Monitors and evaluates the activities of the staff and provides management, coaching, guidance, delegation opportunities, and on-the-job training and re-training as necessary to ensure operational efficiency and adherence to policies and procedures.
  • Fosters open communication by offering, encouraging, and accepting suggestions from staff regarding department operations.
  • Screens, interviews, and selects qualified individuals for open positions within the department.
  • Reviews all department employee job descriptions at least annually and revises, as needed.
  • Provides employees with a new job description if substantive changes are made.
  • Completes and conducts performance evaluations for all staff under direct supervision after three months of employment and annually, in a timely manner.
  • Maintains department education files, including new employee orientation checklist, equipment training checklist, mandatory in-service attendance confirmation, and continuing education.
  • Develops and monitors improvement action plans, as needed, to correct poor job performance.
  • Initiates counseling and discipline according to policies and procedures.
  • Terminations, status changes, and other personnel actions are completed in a timely fashion.
  • Reviews and approves payroll time sheets, purchasing requisitions, check requests, and scheduling requests.
  • Employee injuries are reported within specified time frames and IRL policy/procedure for work-related injuries is followed and supported.
Requirements
  • Bachelor's Degree, or Master's Degree
  • State of Florida Supervisor's License in at least 3 areas: Blood Bank/Immunohematology - Chemistry - Hematology - Histology - Microbiology - Serology/Immunology
  • Five years of experience at a supervisory level in a clinical laboratory setting
About HCA Healthcare Laboratory Services

HCA Healthcare Laboratory Services is a full-service provider for clinical laboratory and anatomic pathology services, providing hospitals, physicians, and clients with timely diagnostic information for patient care. Our infrastructure includes a fully automated esoteric core laboratory in Fort Lauderdale, a histology and microbiology operation in Largo, Florida, and a network of hospital-based rapid-response laboratories present in four HCA Healthcare divisions within the state of Florida. Our core laboratories support more than 250 acute and rehab hospitals, physician practices, surgery centers, and commercial accounts.

HCA Healthcare has been recognized as one of the World's Most Ethical Companies by the Ethisphere Institute more than ten times. In recent years, HCA Healthcare spent an estimated $3.7 billion in cost for the delivery of charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses.

Bricks and mortar do not make a hospital. People do.

Dr. Thomas Frist, Sr. HCA Healthcare Co-Founder

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