Manager Cancer Registry

zabeth Healthcare, every role supports our mission to provide comprehensive and compassionate care to the communities we serve. For more than 160 years, St. Elizabeth Healthcare has been a trusted provider of quality care across Kentucky, Indiana, and Ohio. We’re guided by our mission to improve the health of the communities we serve and by our values of excellence, integrity, compassion, and teamwork.

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Shift/

Hours:

Full Time, 40 hours/week, 1st shift, 8:00AM - 5:00PM with flexibility.

Following the initial full time in office training period, the role is eligible for a hybrid work schedule with one in office day per week.

St. Elizabeth Healthcare is hiring a Manager for Cancer Registry.

The Manager for Cancer Registry protects cancer registry data integrity, timeliness, and federal plus multi-state reporting compliance through operational leadership of cancer registry services, staff supervision, AI-enabled workflow oversight, and oncology program governance support. This role is accountable for managing and maintaining internal Oncology Quality Standards compliance through influence and partnership with physician and operational collaborators.

• Provides operational leadership for cancer registry staff through workforce planning, performance management, competency validation, training, mentoring, professional development, and corrective action as needed. Promotes accountability and adherence to established expectations.
• Develops, implements, and maintains registry-related policies, procedures, and standard work. Conducts routine and annual review to ensure alignment with workflows, standards, and program requirements.
• Monitors registry work queues, backlog, productivity, abstraction timeliness, edit resolution, follow-up completion, and submission readiness to ensure team capacity is aligned with required deadlines and reporting expectations.
• Ensures registry staff onboarding, competency validation, continuing education, and certification-related development are maintained to support abstraction quality, coding accuracy, and regulatory compliance.
• Monitors AI-enabled registry system performance, identifies workflow or output concerns, escalates system/vendor issues as appropriate, and supports ongoing optimization to ensure technology-enabled workflows produce reliable and efficient registry operations.
• Oversees the daily operations of the cancer registry including case finding, abstraction, follow-up, data submission processes, audit responses, and meeting reporting requests. Ensures workflows are executed consistently and efficiently while meeting expectations for accuracy, completeness, and timeliness. Lessons learned from audits are used to improve workflows.
• Ensures consistent adherence to AI-enabled cancer registry workflows and prevents regression to manual processes. Oversees validation of AI-generated outputs and supports optimization of workflow performance and efficiency.
• Ensures accuracy, completeness, and timeliness of cancer registry data and reporting. Uses metrics to benchmark performance.
  Participates in abstracting, follow-up, and analytic/reporting activities if needed to meet program goals and requirements.

• Maintains operational accountability for cancer registry compliance with applicable state reporting requirements, registry standards, audit expectations, and organizational data integrity requirements.
• Maintains accountability for submissions to the Kentucky, Indiana, and future states’ Cancer Registries and serves as the primary point of contact for communication, inquiries, and audit-related activities.
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