Respiratory Therapist

GENERAL

PURPOSE:

(Purpose and Function):

The Respiratory Therapist Service for Operations is responsible to assist with all but not limited to internal departmental communication and operations, facilitating, and coordinating patient care, quality assurance, census development and marketing of Respiratory Services in his/her facility.

1. Monitors financial performance of rehab department and effectively seeks methods to improve this performance while ensuring that the facility’s and Care Rite Centers standards are consistently observed.

• Achieving and maintaining revenue, productivity and gross profit margin goals.
• Appropriate and effective utilization of nursing staff with respiratory treatments.
• Managing key operations and financial levers to achieve budget projections, including development and implementation of action plans as necessary.
• Completing mid-month and end-of-month billing timely and accurately.
• Accountable for implementing strategic plans and actively managing the operations of assigned area.
  
  Contributes to the overall planning for the area and serves as area leader.
• Creates business plans, designs new units, and monitors space utilization and patient flow.
• Plans and directs all daily clinical and non-clinical operations.
• Establishes and monitors tracking mechanisms for the review and analysis of patient volume, patient flow, types of tests performed, productivity and profitability.
• Plans, evaluates, and revises procedures and practices for accomplishing objectives.
• Accomplish respiratory therapy services goals regarding human resources by choosing, interviewing, hiring, assigning, training, and monitoring new staff, communicating, and enforcing rules and regulations amongst them, holding them accountable to clinic rules and regulations, regularly assessing and troubleshooting their job proficiency and outcomes and advising as to compensation specifics for everyone.
• Initiate organizational techniques that will improve respiratory therapy services outcomes and develop information, strategies, and changes for the overall department’s direction.
• Monitor the follow-up of staff to both functional and organizational objectives set by the department.
• Evaluate and assess health care trends to establish new patterns of service based on vital measurements, productivity statistics, quality control and customer satisfaction and outcome.
• Design operational care systems, monitor influx of resources, troubleshoot respiratory therapy services general issues, and implement appropriate change when necessary.
• Encourage positive financial habits by assessing prior year financial trends and variances and forecasting for current and future years to optimize monetary dealings, restructure finances as necessary and align resources with supply and demand and economic indicators.
• Educate medical care providers, such as staff and nurses, through seminars on critical respiratory care and increasing awareness of respiratory therapy health issues throughout the clinical community.
• Arrange educational opportunities for respiratory therapy services students, including organizing their clinical rounds, observing, and giving feedback on each of their performances, coaching them through assessments, recommending additional educational outlooks and engaging them with appropriate learning modalities.
• Act on medical care provider committees and boards with respiratory therapy-oriented projects inside and outside the clinical realm.
• Acknowledge, research, and install developing respiratory therapy services technology and equipment and aid in the regular restructuring of resources to improve health care outcomes.
• Maintain relevance by keeping up with professional…