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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