Medical and Health Services Manager

Medical and Health Services Manager

Alt Names: Medical Services Manager, Healthcare Executive, Healthcare Administrator, Health Services Manager

Career Description

Medical and Health Services Managers oversee medical facilities by taking charge in the planning, directing, and coordinating of medical and health services.

Job Responsibilities

  • Keep and organize records of patients, facility services, and staff

  • Create work schedules

  • Provide ideas to improve healthcare services

  • Represent facility in Board and Investor meetings

  • Supervise assistant administrators

  • Communicate with staff, department heads, and patients

Education & Training

  • Bachelors Degree

  • Master’s Degree (Varies by employer)

License and/or Certification

Some employers require you to be certified

Salary

Median: $84,270 [Source: bls.gov]

Valuable Skills & Qualities

This occupation is good for people who are:

  • Visionaries

  • Good communicators

  • Leaders

  • Decisive

  • known to have high ethical standards

Work Environment/ Setting

Medical Office Settings, Hospitals, Group Medical Practices, Nursing Homes

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