Manager Inpatient Services

Fort Health Care 611 Sherman Avenue E Fort Atkinson, WI 53538, USA

Fort Health Care is a patient-centered hospital and healthcare system serving individuals, businesses and families in Jefferson, Dane, and Walworth Counties. We are seeking an Inpatient Services Manager to join our Inpatient Services Team.

Shift:
Full time
80 hours per bi-weekly pay period

Fort Health Care is proud to be named a 15-time award winner of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Top Workplace award for southeastern Wisconsin, a 5-time award winner of the USA Top Workplaces award, and a 2-time winner of their Top Workplaces Culture Excellence award for Purpose & Values.

In addition, Fort Health Care is proud to be awarded the inaugural 2024 Wisconsin Hospital Association (WHA) Hospital Mentorship and Quality Champion Award. The Hospital Mentorship and Quality Champion award recognizes a hospital for demonstrating mentoring relationships and engagement through active participation, collaboration and the sharing of tools and resources with other hospitals.

Our Mission Statement is our daily guide to provide the best health care possible. We promote it widely for all we serve to read, understand and to help our public hold us accountable for the promises we make.

Our Mission Statement – Improve the Health and Well-being of Our Community.

Our Vision Statement provides each of us at Fort Health Care with a goal. It is our motivation to improve constantly upon the level of care we provide, and the quality of services delivered.

Our Vision – Be the Healthiest Community in Wisconsin.

We offer competitive pay and benefits, education, and resources you need to perform your job and ample opportunities for professional growth.

The Inpatient Services Manager is responsible for the overall direction of the service line which includes Medical-Surgical, Pediatrics, ICU and IMC. Partnering with the Director of Inpatient and Education Services, the Manager will guide, mentor and maintain a high quality, best practice inpatient service line. This includes, but is not limited to, accountability in fiscal operations, enhancement in quality metrics, department performance improvement plans (PIP), and patient experience, progression of the Shared Governance model, enhanced provider relationships and assistance in service line strategic planning.

The Manager will provide leadership and direction for the overall operations of the service line in accordance with current federal, state and organizational standards within the health care setting. The manager will lead by example, and create relationships that are positive and empower others.

Responsibilities of this position include:

• Leads and manages the clinical and day-to-day operations of the work of RNs, LPNs, CNAs, HUCs, and related personnel within the department. Coordinates hiring, training, and onboarding of staff, including contract staff; conducts employee performance appraisals.
• Works in partnership with the Director of Inpatient and Education Services to strategically plan for various service line opportunities, such as: enhanced quality performance, enhanced patient and staff experience, regulatory guidelines, professional development of staff, impending staffing shortages, healthy work environment, staff retention, recruitment, and turnover, generational differences in the work forces, diversity, equity, and inclusion, and financial sustainability.
• Participates in service line provider-based meetings and case reviews; supports healthy provider-nurse relationships. Collaborates with the Hospitalist Director as well as other medical staff to maintain good rapport to effectively manage, analyze data, and maximize opportunities of the service line.
• Performs staff, provider, and patient rounding frequently to identify opportunities to enhance safe, quality patient care, improve patient and staff experience metrics, meet department performance improvement plan (PIP), maintain or enhance clinical quality and maintain a culture of safety.
• Establishes good rapport and professional working relationship with providers, department leaders, organizational leaders and employees.
• Analyzes, reviews, and records…