The Clinical Resource Director is responsible for establishing and leading the supply expense agenda for the clinical resource management program for a hospital(s). The Clinical Resource Director is responsible for driving positive change through program definition and leading initiatives that support the health care organization's clinical expense agenda. The position is responsible for reviewing and optimizing the group purchasing organization’s contract portfolio; and developing and executing product standardization with the value analysis committees. The Clinical Resource Director has a broad enterprise and segment influence and will need to build strategic alliances with Hospital Leadership, Physicians and Supply Chain to execute successfully the clinical supply expense plan. The position requires confidence, independent action, initiative, a sense of urgency, and the ability to make and to take responsibility for their decisions. A well-suited candidate will react, adjust quickly and develop actions during changing conditions.
What you will do in this role includes:
- Develops and implements facility or division-based strategies and processes to reduce supply expense per adjusted admission
- Identifies and implements supply expense margin improvement with a primary focus on high cost of good departments to include surgical services, Cath lab, ep lab and special procedures
- Identifies facility(s) supply expense variances and develops action plans to mitigate an increase in supply expense; and participates in monthly operating reports and supply expense planning
- Participates, develops content and facilitates value analysis meetings such as facility based, division based, service line or physician led meetings
- Utilizes clinical product value analysis committees to review products and technology for clinical evidence and benefit; discuss financial considerations to include contract compliance, cost and reimbursement; identify opportunities to standardize products and reduce waste; and maintain or increases product quality and patient outcomes
- Builds relationships and increases customer satisfaction with hospital leadership, chief medical officer, clinical directors, physicians, value analysis teams and supply chain leadership
- Develops relationships and collaborates with facility leadership and staff, physicians, and supply chain to identify, develop and implement continuous quality improvement and cost containment processes for supplies, technology and labor practice
What qualifications you will need:
- Bachelor’s degree required (Business, Health Administration, Nursing, Pharmacy or other Allied Health Profession) with related experiences in healthcare value analysis, clinical supply chain, or acute care hospital performance - Required
- Master’s degree highly preferred
- Three to five years of value analysis/clinical/hospital leadership experience preferred
- LPN/RN, Certified Materials and Resource Professional (CMRP), Certified Value Analysis Health Professional (CVAHP), or similar credential preferred
