Director Hospice Administration - Hospice - Day Shift - Full-time

300 Sharp HealthCare; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 113,000 - 179,000; Full time

Job summary

Sharp HealthCare in San Diego seeks a Director Hospice Administration to lead multi-site hospice operations, ensuring CMS CoPs compliance and high-quality patient-centered end-of-life care. The role covers strategy, financial performance, and workforce effectiveness across locations.

The position requires extensive hospice leadership experience, regulatory expertise, and a track record of improving outcomes while maintaining survey readiness and program quality.

Qualifications

• 5 years clinical and/or administrative experience in hospice or palliative care.
• 4 years management experience.
• Master's degree in healthcare or Bachelor's degree with 2 years healthcare experience required.

Responsibilities

• Provides leadership for multi-site hospice operations.
• Leads growth, stabilization, and turnaround initiatives.
• Oversees IDG processes, care planning, and documentation.
• Ensures compliance with CMS CoPs and patient rights.
• Develops and implements long and short term business plans.
• Identifies and recommends new services aligned with strategic plans.

Skills

Hospice leadership

Leadership

CMS CoPs knowledge

Regulatory compliance

Budget management

Education

Master's degree in healthcare

Bachelor's degree + 2 years healthcare experience

Job description

Hours: Shift Start Time: 8 AM Shift End Time: 4:30 PM AWS Hours Requirement: 8/40 - 8 Hour Shift Additional Shift Information: Weekend Requirements: As Needed On-Call Required: Yes Hourly Pay Range (Minimum - Midpoint - Maximum): $82.000 - $105.810 - $129.620 The stated pay scale reflects the range that Sharp reasonably expects to pay for this position. The actual pay rate and pay grade for this position will be dependent on a variety of factors, including an applicant’s years of experience, unique skills and abilities, education, alignment with similar internal candidates, marketplace factors, other requirements for the position, and employer business practices.

What You Will Do

The Director Hospice Administration (Hospice Administrator) is accountable for strategic alignment, multi-site operational leadership, regulatory compliance, and growth performance of hospice services across assigned locations. This position leads hospice operations through growth, transformation, or turnaround while ensuring continuous compliance with CMS Conditions of Participation, state regulations, and accrediting body standards. This role translates organizational and service-line strategy into standardized, survey-ready hospice operations that ensure high-quality, patient-centered end-of-life care. Responsible for overseeing clinical operations, quality outcomes, financial performance, and workforce effectiveness while maintaining a state of constant survey readiness across all hospice sites.

Required Qualifications

• 5 Years clinical and/or administrative experience in hospice and/or palliative care.
• 4 Years management experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• California Public Health Nurse (PHN) - CA Board of Registered Nursing -PREFERRED
• California Registered Nurse (RN) - CA Board of Registered Nursing -PREFERRED
• Other Qualification Requirements Master's degree in a healthcare related field; or Bachelor's degree and 2 years of relative experience in healthcare may substitute for the Master's degree. - REQUIRED

Essential Functions

• Key Responsibilities Provides leadership for multi-site hospice operations.
• Leads growth, stabilization, and turnaround initiatives.
• Oversees IDG processes, care planning, and documentation.
• Ensures compliance with CMS CoPs, QAPI, and patient rights.
• Growth and Strategic Planning Develops and implements long term and short term business plans which supports financial objectives.
• Identifies, evaluates, and recommends new services consistent with the strategic business plans to achieve the growth and objectives of Sharp HealthCare.
• Aligns operations with organizational strategy.
• Financial Management Manages multi-site operating budgets.
• Monitors productivity, census, and financial performance.
• Responsible for improving operational effectiveness.
• Develops and recommends department operating budget and ensures that departments operate within allocated funds.
• Quality, Compliance, and Audits Complies with organizational practices, policies, and procedures.
• Ensures policies align with CMS hospice Conditions of Participation.
• Oversees hospice QAPI program.
• Leads audits, tracers, and survey readiness activities.
• Maintains licensure, Medicare certification, and accreditation.
• Leads CMS and state survey readiness and corrective action.
• Ensures delivery of compassionate, interdisciplinary hospice care.
• Monitors CAHPS and satisfaction measures.
• Develops and implements quality initiatives including services and programs that result in continuous quality improvement and are in compliance with standards established regulatory bodies or organizations.
• Achieves quality objectives established through the strategic plan, organizational, direction, or regulatory mandates/requirements.
• Develops and recommends overall organizational policies and objectives within functional area and ensures implementation.
• Physician and Stakeholder Relationships Partners with medical directors and physicians.
• Develops and maintains effective relationships with hospital and medical group physicians to ensure program quality and outcomes.
• Develops and sustains successful relationships with hospitalists, medical group leadership and referring physicians to support the strategic plan and business objectives.
• Leadership Provides visible and accountable leadership.
• Exemplifies, supports and advocates the principles, standards, goals and strategies of the Sharp Experience.
• Determines direction, goals, and objectives of assigned areas and ensures implementation of strategic and operating plans.
• Responsible for department staff; develops standards of performance and resolves staff grievances in partnership with Human Resources.
• Uses effective communication and in accordance with Sharp standards.
• Ensures dissemination of information in a timely manner to areas of responsibility.
• Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities This position requires the ability to build and negotiate collaborative relationships.
• Must have comprehensive understanding of hospice functions, standards, policies, and applicable state, federal, and auditing agency regulations.
• Demonstrated experience in developing and implementing new systems, programs, techniques, and/or procedures.
• Have a successful track record in achieving financial goals and objectives.

Equal Opportunity / Diversity Statement

Sharp HealthCare is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, status as a protected veteran, among other things, or status as a qualified individual with disability or any other protected class.

Sharp HealthCare is a not-for-profit health care system based in San Diego, California, with four acute care hospitals, three specialty hospitals, three medical groups and a health plan. We provide medical services in virtually all fields of medicine, including primary care, heart care, cancer, orthopedics, women’s health, rehabilitation, robotic surgery and bariatric surgery. Sharp sets the community standard for exceptional care. Sharp Grossmont Hospital and Sharp Memorial Hospital have received prestigious Magnet recognition by the American Nurses Credentialing Center for excellence in nursing practices and quality patient care. At the heart of our organization are more than 18,000 affiliated physicians, nurses, staff and volunteers who are on a journey to make health care better for our patients and their families. It’s what we call The Sharp Experience – treating each person with dignity, compassion and respect, and using our clinical excellence and advanced technology to deliver the highest-quality patient care. We are dedicated to transforming the health care experience by making Sharp the best place to work, the best place to practice medicine and the best place to receive care in San Diego.