OR Business Manager - Southern Region

Description

MaineHealth Corporate

Management/Leadership
Req #: 43599

The OR Business Manager will support the perioperative departments at Maine Medical Center Biddeford and Sanford. This position will work with OR leaders and perioperative teams at each local site to promote high performance of daily operations with local Surgical Services teams in the region. The OR Business Manager will coordinate between MH system-based entities and Local Health Systems perioperative leadership. In addition, this position will lead and support initiatives to improve financial performance in the perioperative departments.

Areas of responsibility will vary based on the needs of the local sites, but may include:

• Collaborating with clinical service leadership to identify and address service-specific issues
• Implementing Supply Chain initiatives for perioperative departments
• Improving charge capture and cost consciousness
• Interfacing with IT staff and surgical services staff to ensure data accuracy and ease of entry and data retrieval/report generation
• Promoting improved communication with provider offices
• Managing the surgical services annual capital and operations budgets, including cyclic replacement
• Improving OR scheduling to promote patient access, OR utilization and the accurate upfront provision of scheduling information
• Managing facility renovation projects
• Improving case preparedness to ensure the timely and accurate provision of instrument and supplies

This position will manage OR billing and scheduling staff as well as a supply coordinator depending on what is in place and needed at local sites.

This OR Business Manager will report up through the MaineHealth Surgical Services integrated service line and will report to the Director of Perioperative Services for the system service line.

The OR Business Manager will primarily work out of Biddeford, with some time at Sanford.

Required Minimum Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (KSAs)

1. Education: Requires knowledge of practice and administration, and advanced verbal and communication skills in order to prepare reports and work cooperatively with department managers at a level normally acquired through completion of a Bachelor's degree.
2. License/Certifications: N/A
3. Experience: In-depth and up-to-date knowledge of the organization and operation of a large operating room, and related equipment and supplies; and familiarity with budgeting procedures and systems for monitoring and controlling expenditures at a level normally acquired through a minimum of three years progressively more responsible nursing or material management experience.
4. Analytical abilities necessary to prepare and maintain budgets, expenditures, and trials. Prior budgeting experience preferred.
5. Interpersonal skills necessary to develop and maintain cooperative working relationships with a variety of department managers and other departments such as Financial Services and Materials Management, and to provide effective leadership to area employees.

If you have questions about this role, please contact jennifer.kopp@mainehealth.org