Manager, Practice Operations - Cardiovascular

St. Luke’s University Health Network; East Stroudsburg (Monroe County); On-site; USD 90,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

St. Luke's University Health Network is seeking a Manager, Practice Operations to lead the operations of assigned practices, ensuring successful practice operations and a patient experience aligned with SLPG standards.

You will drive workflow execution, supervise a team, and collaborate with Billing, Facilities, and Access Center to optimize performance. The role emphasizes strong leadership presence, strategic thinking, and a commitment to service quality to achieve financial and operational

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in health, business, or related field preferred.
• Minimum 2+ years of medical office or practice operations experience, including at least 1 year in a healthcare setting.
• Experience supervising staff, supporting performance management, and maintaining service and quality standards.

Responsibilities

• Performs leadership and managerial functions across the employee life cycle for direct reports: hiring, onboarding, performance management and coaching.
• Ensures operational readiness for clinical and administrative operations, including scheduling, inventory, and facilities.
• Manages practice operations, workflow execution, and overall patient experience.
• Coordinates with Billing/Coding, Facilities, PIC/Access Center to optimize practice operations.
• Maintains collaboration with Access Center and related functions to enable seamless operations.
• Serves as escalation point for operational, technological, patient, and employee issues.

Skills

Leadership presence

EQ

Communication skills

Strategic thinking

Quality focus

Customer service orientation

Team development

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in health, business, or related field

Job description

About St. Luke's

St. Luke's is proud of the skills, experience and compassion of its employees. The employees of St. Luke's are our most valuable asset! Individually and together, our employees are dedicated to satisfying the mission of our organization which is an unwavering commitment to excellence as we care for the sick and injured; educate physicians, nurses and other health care providers; and improve access to care in the communities we serve, regardless of a patient's ability to pay for health care.

The Manager, Practice Operations leads and manages the operations of assigned practices to ensure successful practice operations, effective execution of operational workflows, a patient experience consistent with SLPG standards, and a highly engaged practice operations team.

Job Duties and Responsibilities

• Performs all leadership and managerial functions across the employee life cycle for direct reports including hiring, onboarding/orientation, performance management, ongoing coaching and development, recognition, etc.
• Ensures operational readiness for clinical and administrative operations (e.g., developing employee schedules; maintaining supply inventory, office equipment and furnishings, cleanliness; facilitating daily huddles; updating time management systems; maintaining Point of Care licensing, etc.).
• Manages practice operations, workflow execution, employee collaboration and overall patient experience.
• Partners with other organizational functions (e.g., Billing/Coding, Facilities/Property Management, Hospital Entity departments, Access Center, etc.) to coordinate and facilitate effective practice operations.
• Maintains strong collaboration and connectivity with Access Center operations and centralized functions (e.g., POD, Capacity Management, etc.) to enable seamless operations and optimal patient/employee experiences (e.g., transfers, triage protocols, template changes, huddles, POD/practice connectivity, etc.).
• Serves as point of escalation and addresses critical operational, technological, patient, and employee issues.
• Achieves expected practice financial performance through judicious expense management, efficient resource utilization, volume growth, and execution of expected financial management best practices.
• Utilizes organizational tools to monitor practice performance (volume, patient satisfaction, productivity, quality, etc.), identifies opportunities for improvement, and develops/implements improvement strategies via a multidisciplinary, team-based approach.
• As applicable, effectively utilizes practice leads (e.g., Practice Operations Coordinators, Clinical Coordinators, etc.) to support oversight of practice workflows/processes, etc.
• Ensures adherence to policies, procedures, and SLPG Access Governance Principles.
• Other duties as assigned.

Physical and Sensory Requirements

• Sitting for up to three (3) hours per day; three (3) hours at a time.
• Standing for up to eight (8) hours per day; eight (8) hours at a time.
• Walking for up to six (6) hours per day; one (1) hour at a time.
• Frequent fingering, handling, grasping, twisting, and turning as it relates to therapeutic procedures.
• Consistently lift, carry, and push objects up to 10 pounds.
• Occasionally lift, carry, and push objects up to 75 pounds.
• Rarely lifting with assistance, up to 100 pounds.
• Rarely pushing and pulling patients weighing up to 300 pounds in a wheel chair or stretcher.
• Occasionally stooping and bending.
• Must be able to perceive attributes of an object through touch.
• Seeing as it relates to normal near, far, color, and peripheral vision.
• Hearing as it relates to normal conversation and high and low frequencies.

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in health, business, or related field preferred.

Training and Experience

• Minimum of 2+ years of medical office or practice operations experience, including at least 1 year in a healthcare setting.
• Experience managing or supporting daily operations such as staffing coordination, scheduling, patient access, workflow management, and regulatory compliance.
• Demonstrated ability to supervise staff, support performance management, and maintain service and quality standards.

Competencies

• Strong business acumen
• Skilled in all forms of communication
• Effectively able to develop self and others
• Leadership presence/EQ, presents as a composed and competent leader
• Quality focused
• Exudes patient and customer service focus
• Shares a compelling strategy that inspires others

St. Luke's University Health Network is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

About the Organization

Founded in 1872, St. Luke’s University Health Network (SLUHN) is a fully integrated, regional, non-profit network of more than 23,000 employees providing services at 16 campuses and 350+ outpatient sites. With annual net revenue in excess of $4 billion, the Network’s service area includes 11 counties in two states: Lehigh, Northampton, Berks, Bucks, Carbon, Montgomery, Monroe, Schuylkill and Luzerne counties in Pennsylvania and Warren and Hunterdon counties in New Jersey.

St. Luke’s hospitals operate the largest network of trauma centers in Pennsylvania, with the Bethlehem Campus being home to St. Luke’s Children’s Hospital. SLUHN is the only Lehigh Valley-based health care system to earn Medicare’s five-star ratings (the highest) for quality, efficiency and patient satisfaction. It is both a Leapfrog Group and Healthgrades Top Hospital and a Newsweek World’s Best Hospital.

The Network’s flagship University Hospital has earned the 100 Top Major Teaching Hospital designation from Premier 13 times total and eleven years in a row, including in 2023 when it was identified as THE #4 TEACHING HOSPITAL IN THE COUNTRY. In 2021, St. Luke’s was identified as one of the 15 Top Health Systems nationally.

St. Luke’s is the ONLY health care institution in the Lehigh Valley to be named a Top Workplace regionally repeating the exclusive honor for the third year in a row. Also, for the third straight year, St. Luke’s has been a Top Workplaces in the Philadelphia Region by the Philadelphia Inquirer, ranking 9th in the large employer category for 2025 and the only health care system in PA to receive this award.

In 2025, St. Luke’s was recognized as a national Top Workplaces by USA Today, three years in a row, including the 3rd best health care system in the nation in 2023 and 2024. Lastly, in 2025, St. Luke’s was named a Top Workplace in New Jersey for the third year in a row.

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