Associate Executive Director

NYC Health + Hospitals; New York (NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

NYC Health + Hospitals Carter seeks an experienced health care administrator to oversee daily operations across Laboratory, Pharmacy, and Diagnostic Bio‑Med services. The role requires developing budgets, aligning with the hospital's strategic goals, and ensuring compliance with regulatory and institutional policies to maintain high-quality patient care.

The candidate will lead multidisciplinary teams, collaborate with department heads, and drive program development and operational planning to

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Hospital or Health Care Administration, Public Health, or related field.
• 5 years of high-level experience in hospital, business, or public health administration in a health-care setting.
• Alternative: Bachelor’s degree with 6 years of high-level experience in similar leadership roles.

Responsibilities

• Oversee Laboratory, Pharmacy, and Diagnostic Bio-Med operations.
• Develop departmental and hospital-wide budgets and strategic plans.
• Ensure compliance with regulatory, statutory, and institutional requirements and policies.
• Lead and coordinate cross-departmental teams and implement new programs.

Skills

Leadership

Regulatory compliance

Strategic planning

Multidisciplinary teamwork

Education

Master’s degree in Hospital or Health Care Administration / Public Health

Bachelor’s degree in Hospital Administration or related discipline

Job description

Marketing Statement

NYC Health + Hospitals/Carter is a state-of-the-art facility with a 4-Star CMS Quality Rating, equipped with 164-bed Skilled Nursing Facility and 201-bed Long-Term Acute Care Hospital (LTACH) based in Harlem. Carter excels at providing quality medical, sub-acute, rehabilitative, and long-term specialty services for individuals in need of medically-complex care like ventilator weaning and onsite-dialysis. Every employee takes a person-centered approach that exemplifies our ICARE values (Integrity, Compassion, Accountability, Respect, and Excellence) through empathic communication and partnership.

NYC Health + Hospitals/Carter is a state-of-the-art facility with a 4-Star CMS Quality Rating, equipped with 164-bed Skilled Nursing Facility and 201-bed Long-Term Acute Care Hospital (LTACH) based in Harlem. Carter excels at providing quality medical, sub-acute, rehabilitative, and long‑term specialty services for individuals in need of medically‑complex care like ventilator weaning and onsite‑dialysis. Every employee takes a person‑centered approach that exemplifies our ICARE values (Integrity, Compassion, Accountability, Respect, and Excellence) through empathic communication and partnership.

From more than 600 Nursing Homes in New York, Carter ranks #4 in Newsweek’s Best Nursing Homes in New York2026; and also received a high‑performance rating for Long‑Term Care and Short‑term Rehabilitation from U.S. News & World Report’s Best Nursing Homes in America 2026. In 2025, Carter was awarded the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Pathway to Excellence with Distinction Award, the nation’s first long‑term facility to receive it.

At NYC Health + Hospitals, our mission is to deliver high quality care health services, without exception. Every employee takes a person‑centered approach that exemplifies the ICARE values (Integrity, Compassion, Accountability, Respect, and Excellence) through empathic communication and partnerships between all persons.

Duties & Responsibilities

Administratively oversee various departments and services, ensuring efficient and effective provision of services. Ensuring areas of responsibility are regulatorily compliant with statutory regulations. Ensures areas of responsibility are compliant with H+H and Facility policies and procedures. Oversight of Laboratory Service, Pharmacy, and Diagnostic Bio‑Md.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: (List in order of importance to role and time spent on function)

• Administratively responsible for: Laboratory, Diagnostic Bio‑Med and Pharmacy.
• Develops long and short‑term goals for the departments in conjunction with Departmental Leadership.
• Collaborates with Department Heads in the preparation of the department’s PS & OTPS budgets and monitors same for cost effectiveness and efficiency.
• Ensures optimal delivery of service in a high‑quality patient centered, customer focused environment.
• Assures compliance with all corporate, regulatory and institutional requirements and policies.
• Maintains appropriate working environment between professional, administrative and non‑professional staff, both intra and inter departmentally.
• Evaluates managerial performance and formulates plans to improve departmental effectiveness.
• Ensures safe work environment for staff, and patients.
• Participates in the preparation of expense and capital budgets covering all categories for short and long range planning and operations.
• Recommends disciplinary actions as necessary and appropriate.
• Provides administrative coverage as off‑site Administrator On Call (AOC).
• Develops and implements departmental and hospital wide policies and procedures.
• Serves on various corporate committees.
• Assists in the development and operational planning of new programs, from analysis to implementation, and undertakes research and studies on selected administration and operations problems.
• Ensure departments consistently deliver safe, efficient, high‑quality services in compliance with all applicable regulatory and accreditation standards.
• Establish departmental goals aligned with the hospital's strategic plan and monitor performance through measurable outcomes.
• Promote continuous improvement through process evaluation, innovation, and evidence‑based management practices.
• Develop, administer, and monitor departmental operating and capital budgets.
• Identify opportunities to improve operational efficiency while maintaining quality patient care.
• Monitor productivity, supply utilization, equipment needs, and financial performance.
• Oversee the coordination and administrative control of biomedical equipment, working with Clinical Engineering and other responsible departments to support equipment receiving, identification, inspection, preventive maintenance, repair, relocation, loaner management, and disposition.
• Ensure that biomedical equipment is not placed into service until required safety inspections, documentation, and acceptance procedures have been completed.
• Other duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications

• Master’s degree from an accredited college or university in Hospital or Health Care Administration, Public Health or a related discipline and five (5) years of high‑level responsible experience in Hospital, Business, or Public Administration or a Health Care Administrator in a position of direct responsibility for operations of a major part or all of a, health care setting, including substantial exposure in meeting community health needs; or
• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in disciplines, as listed in “1” above; and six (6)years of high‑level experience in areas as described in “1” above.

Department Preferences

• 5 – 7 years of management experience involving multidisciplinary operational teams.
• Experience in Post‑Acute Care setting.
• Knowledge of laboratory and pharmacy regulations and services.
• Prior laboratory and pharmacy experience.