NO NEED TO PANIC
It’s no secret that in the healthcare industry staff positions such as Nursing Home Administrators, Executive Directors, Directors of Nursing, MDS Coordinators and RN Supervisors are the key components in the machine that keep assisted living and skilled nursing facilities running on a daily basis. So what happens when one of these crucial positions is suddenly vacant? Well, for starters, a facility’s smoothly running operation can come to a halt. Does it have to be this way? Absolutely not. An interim manager can step in and keep the machine running smoothly while the organization has time to search for a permanent replacement.
EXPERIENCE COUNTS
Professional healthcare recruiters like those at LeaderStat quickly locate interim healthcare leaders, interim c-suite executives and locum tenens when needed. In fact we have an extensive network of interims including Quality Assurance Directors, Nursing Home Administrators, Executive Directors, MDS Coordinators, Directors of Nursing, Unit Managers, and RN Supervisors as well as locum tenens including Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants. They are all seasoned professionals who have years of experience working in the trenches of long term care, senior living communities and other areas of healthcare, which is essential to being an effective interim manager. They remain up-to-date with ever-changing regulatory, compliance, and quality assurance standards, and have a deep knowledge of reimbursement rules and job position expectations, all of which allows them to hit the ground running. Our interims are skilled at getting up to speed quickly, and keeping the day-to-day operations running with little to no disruption to the facility, and without overburdening staff or reducing care for residents.
BEYOND TODAY
Seasoned interims and locum tenens can do far more than keep an organization afloat. The expertise they bring often results in an improvement in the efficiency of essential financial and clinical systems, yielding long-term benefits. Culturally, if the previous leader left under less-than-stellar circumstances, and especially if reorganization is needed, the interim leader can help implement significant functional changes, manage difficult negotiations, engineer any departmental reorganization, and smooth over any lingering resentments, creating an easier transition environment for the eventual permanent replacement; setting up the new leader for success with a fresh start.
TIME TO REASSESS
An interim leader gives the organization time to reassess the position itself, rather than rushing to hire someone similar to who just left. In some cases, facilities find that staff have left because the role changed over time and no longer suited them. Taking the time to review the position’s responsibilities and workload often results in finding that the needs of the position have changed, and the replacement needs to have different experience and skill sets than those of the previous manager.
If your skilled nursing facility, assisted living community, or healthcare organization is in need of an interim leader or locum tenen, LeaderStat can help.