Daily Operations * The day-to-day operating procedures of a hospital change from venue to venue. However, an administrator can certainly expect to deal with management situations similar to managers in other businesses, e.g. caring for personnel, creating schedules, structuring the work environment, regulating care and managing finances or facilities are often some of the duties an administrator can expect to encounter in her daily routine.
Fiscal Management :Financial manager is one of the most important roles a hospital administrator may have. This may include hiring personnel and ordering medical supplies. It may involve setting rates for health care services. The job might even include developing the financial framework by which new programs may be implemented or old ones expanded. Some fiscal background, therefore, is often required of hospital administrators, particularly in small hospitals where managers are expected to fill more than one specific role.
Clinical Management: If a specific clinical area is understood well by a hospital manager, he may be given the role of the clinical manager of a facility. Clinical managers are important to the operation of a hospital as they can evaluate and make recommendations on specific departments, and have intimate knowledge of procedures that will allow for informed decisions. These individuals' responsibilities are usually more discipline-specific than what a more general hospital manager might expect to encounter.
Health Information: People qualified to make decisions on the collection, security and proper maintenance of patients' records often make good hospital managers. The health information aspect of a hospital manager's job requires diligence and technological knowledge. Hospital managers, in their role as health information officers, may be among the only authorized personnel in a facility to access