Full Time Licensed Nursing Home Administrator

Nursing Home Administrator (LNHA)

Status: Full-Time

Location: Avamere Health Services of Rogue Valley, Medford, Oregon

Please apply here: https://teamavamere.com/

The Licensed Nursing Home Administrator (LNHA) is a healthcare professional who manages the day-to-day operations of a nursing home facility. The LNHA is responsible for ensuring that patients/residents receive high-quality care while also adhering to state and federal regulations. This involves a wide range of duties, including financial management, staff supervision, and maintaining a safe and comfortable environment for patients/residents.

At Avamere, we believe in taking care of our employees. We offer a comprehensive benefits package that includes:

•  Health Insurance: Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans. Low individual and family deductible. 
• 401 (k) Plan: After 90 days of employment, with matching program.
• Paid Time Off (PTO): Accrue up to 4 weeks PTO per year, 6 holidays and accrued sick leave.
• EAP Canopy with unlimited telehealth mental health visits.
• Continuing Education and Higher Education Reimbursement.
• Generous employee referral bonus program.
• Flexible Spending Accounts & CERA: Medical FSA, Dependent Care FSA and CERA (Commuter Expense Reimbursement Account).
• Professional Development: Opportunities for growth and development within the company.
• Voluntary Benefits: Life insurance, disability coverage, supplemental hospital, accident and critical illness coverage, Legal Services, Pet Insurance, discount programs and more.

Personnel Management:

• Responsible for hiring, orientation, training, and retaining appropriate number of qualified staff to carry out facility programs and healthcare services.
• Ensure employee performance meets or exceeds expectations and periodic performance appraisals are conducted on a timely basis.
• Responsible for building and maintaining a collaborative and positive work environment across all departments.
• Work timely and directly with the home office HR Department on all employee relations, performance improvement and Union related issues to follow policies and procedures.
• Ensure all HR policies and programs are implemented and followed in facility.
• Ensure the development and implementation of employee health and safety programs to provide safe work environment.

Financial Management:

• Prepare the annual budget for the facility. Monitor the monthly financial performance of the facility in relation to budget and make corrective financial changes at facility as needed.
• Monitor accounts payable, accounts receivable, and all medical billing activities.
• Manage all provider agreements and reimbursements.
• Manage all labor, overtime and other staffing expenditures.

Marketing/Patient/Resident Census:

• Management of patient/resident census, admissions, assessments, care planning and discharge process ensuring all patients/residents receive appropriate care and support.
• Responsible for marketing SNF Services to hospitals, physicians and other healthcare organizations in the community.

 Patient/Resident Quality Care:

• Ensure the quality and appropriateness of resident/patient care meets or exceeds company and regulatory standards.
• Ensure that nursing services are planned, implemented and evaluated to maximize patient/resident quality of life and quality of care.
• Ensure that social services programs are planned, implemented and evaluated to meet the patient/resident psychological and social needs and preferences to maximize patient/resident quality of life and quality of care.
• Ensure that culinary service programs are planned, implemented and evaluated to meet the patient/resident nutritional needs to maximize patient/resident quality of life and quality of care.
• Ensure that medical services are planned, implemented and evaluated to meet the patient/resident medical care needs and preferences to maximize patient/resident quality of life and quality of care.
• Ensure that therapeutic recreation/activities are planned, implemented and evaluated to meet the needs and interests of patient/resident to maximize patient/resident quality of life and quality of care.
• Ensure that rehabilitation programs are planned, implemented and evaluated to maximize patient/resident optimal level of functioning.

Facility Operations:

• Supervises the purchase of supplies and equipment and maintains appropriate inventories.
• Supervises the physical operation of the nursing home including the direction of maintenance and repairs.
• Acts as liaison between patients/residents.
• Ensure facility is a safe, clean, comfortable, and appealing environment for residents, patients, visitors and staff in accordance with company guidelines.
• Complete required forms and documents in accordance with company policy and state and/or federal regulations.
• Manage all aspects of state, federal and local standards and regulations (for example, ADA, OSHA, CMA, etc.).

Compliance:

• Act as main facility representative during state/federal surveys.
• Assign appropriate staff to work with survey personnel, conducting daily meetings on survey results.
• Work with the survey team to provide information that may remove or lower the scope/severity of any deficiency.
• Develop plan of correction for any survey deficiency to ensure that there is no reoccurrence.
• Provide updates to the leadership team on survey findings, correction plans, monitoring guidelines and any follow-up survey results.

Qualifications: 

• Bachelor's degree or higher in healthcare administration, business administration or similar degree.
• Licensed Nursing Home Administration in the State this position is held in.
• 2 or more years’ experience in supervisory positions in a nursing facility and/or hospital clinical setting.
• Thorough knowledge of State and Federal regulations, the survey process, survey tag/deficiencies, quality measures and development and implementation of plan of correction actions.
• Knowledgeable of reimbursement regulations and nursing practices and procedures, and the laws, regulations and guidelines pertaining to nursing facility administration.

Apply online at https://teamavamere.com/ or email resume to KCastillo@avamere.com