Description

Job Summary:

Throughput Managers are responsible for ensuring that our patients are in the right place at the right time - this includes timely patient admission, bed placement, identification of delays that impact patient flow across the medical center. For quality outcomes, it is imperative that we ensure that our patients are in the right place at the right time.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Identify bottlenecks and road-blocks that delay patient flow and recommend changes in the process of the day.
• Authority to reprioritize patient flow under the supervision of the AMCA or Throughput Director.
• Decision-making responsibility regarding patient placement.
• Provides daily, weekly and/or monthly real time reports for on-the-spot decision making regarding patient and access in levels of care.
• Responsible to coordinate with ED for timely patient admission within one-hour from physician order.
• Manage patient placement utilizing the Bed Planning tool in HealthConnect
• Proactively look at future demand/capacity and plan adequate staffing
• Monitor the Admissions, Discharges and Transfers and proactively seek solutions to issues/barriers in patient flow (e.g. moving staff to maximize ratios)
• Escalate bed capacity issues to AAMD, and staffing issues to the CNE, and contact/collaborate with other department leaders as appropriate
• Respond to escalations in the absence of a Department Administrator
• Respond to codes for appropriate level of care placement
• Collaborate with ED Director, if diversion is warranted
• Be trained as the member of the Emergency Management Team (EMT)
• Approve overtime for staff, as needed
• Redistribute resources, as needed
• Approve final staffing of all units
• Recommend to Hospital Executive Team (HET) to open/close units depending on demand-capacity analyses
• Supervise opening/closing of units
• Monitors financial performance, identifies and implements strategies to reduce cost and improve quality of care/service; Will staff units based on ADTs and maximize ratios.
• Accountable to promote an organizational culture of safety. Ensures appropriate patient, employee and department safety standards and guidelines are implemented consistently in the delivery of health care.
• Adhere to administrative, legal and regulatory requirements of government/regulatory agencies.
• Establishes, implements and maintains patient care and service standards to meet members and internal client expectations and needs in a changing, competitive health care market.
• Hold staff accountable in providing the highest quality of care while in compliance with the Nursing Practice Act, TJC, Federal, State and local requirements.
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  • Manages and resolves HR and risk management issues in the absence of the DA.
  Basic Qualifications:
  
  Experience
  • Minimum two (2) years experience in a nursing leadership role OR four (4) years Bed/Hospital Capacity Management experience.
  
  
  
  Education
  • BSN required
  
  License, Certification, Registration
  
  • Registered Nurse License (California)
    
  • Basic Life Support
    
  • Advanced Cardiac Life Support
    
  
  Additional Requirements:
  • Knowledge of the bed board process, policies and procedures as it relates to admission/discharge/transfer of patients, both internally and externally.
  • Hospital staffing experience.
  • Demonstrated interpersonal, written and oral communication skills
  • Knowledge of Nurse Practice Act, TJC, and other local state and federal regulations.
  • Ability to use sound judgement, handle potentially charged issues and escalate as needed.
  
  Preferred Qualifications:
  • House Supervisor, bed placement experience
  • MSN preferred
  
  Primary Location: California,Los Angeles,Los Angeles Medical Center
  Scheduled Weekly Hours: 1
  Shift: Night
  Workdays: Sun, Mon, Tues, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat
  Working Hours Start: 07:30 PM
  Working Hours End: 08:00 AM
  Job Schedule: Per Diem
  Job Type: Standard Worker Location: Onsite
  Employee Status: Regular
  Employee Group/Union Affiliation: NUE-SCAL-01|NUE|Non Union Employee
  Job Level: Team Leader/Supervisor
  Department: Sunset Medical Center - Admin Supp-Nursing Staff Ofc - 0801
  Pay Range: $65.96 - $85.35 / hour Kaiser Permanente is committed to pay equity and transparency. The posted pay range is based on possible base salaries for the role and does not include the value of our total rewards package. Actual pay determined at offer will be based on years of relevant work experience, education, certifications, skills and geographic location along with a review of current employees in similar roles to ensure that pay equity is achieved and maintained across Kaiser Permanente. Travel: No On-site: Work location is on-site (KP designated office, medical office building or hospital). Worker location must align with Kaiser Permanente's Authorized States policy. Kaiser Permanente is an equal opportunity employer committed to fair, respectful, and inclusive workplaces. Applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic or status.
  
  For jobs where work will be performed in unincorporated LA County, the employer provides the following statement in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment:
  
  
• Consistently supports compliance and the Principles of Responsibility (Kaiser Permanente's Code of Conduct) by maintaining the privacy and confidentiality of information, protecting the assets of the organization, acting with ethics and integrity, reporting non-compliance, and adhering to applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations, accreditation, and licensure requirements (where applicable), and Kaiser Permanente's policies and procedures.
• Models and reinforces ethical behavior in self and others in accordance with the Principles of Responsibility, adheres to organizational policies and guidelines; supports compliance initiatives; maintains confidences; admits mistakes; conducts business with honesty, shows consistency in words and actions; follows through on commitments.
• Job duties with at least occasional or possible access to: (1) patients, the general public, or other employees; (2) confidential protected health information and other confidential KP information (including employee, proprietary, financial or trade secret information); (3) KP property and assets, for example, electronic assets, medical instruments, or devices; (4) controlled substances regulated by federal law or potentially subject to diversion.

Requisition #: 1407087

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