Hospital Laboratory Director

Summary Job Description: The Laboratory Director is responsible for the technical and administrative operation of the laboratory, pathology, transfusion service, out-patient lab and professional arts laboratory. This key position is responsible for the capital and operational budgets for assigned functional areas. Demonstrates commitment to the quality, philosophy, and values of Baptist Health Floyd by maintaining established policies and procedures, organizational objectives, process improvement, and safety standards. Provides oversight to assigned functional areas to ensure effective and efficient lab operations, including lab planning. Follows up on any reported lab inconsistencies. Provides people leadership and ensures a well-trained and proficient staff. Ensures lab operations meets all regulatory compliance. Develops the annual lab budget and monitors performance/productivity to budget and makes necessary changes to meet budget.

Requirements: Bachelor’s degree in Clinical Laboratory Science required. Master of Science or a Doctoral level degree in a clinical laboratory science or MBA is preferred Experience A minimum of five years of laboratory leadership experience required.

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Baptist Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. Founded in 1924 in Louisville, Kentucky, Baptist Health is a full-spectrum health system dedicated to improving the health of the communities it serves. The Baptist Health family consists of 10 hospitals, employed and independent physicians, and more than 470 points of care, including outpatient facilities, physician practices and services, urgent care clinics, outpatient diagnostic and surgery centers, home care, fitness centers, and occupational medicine and physical therapy clinics. Baptist Health’s eight owned hospitals include more than 2,300 licensed beds in Corbin, Elizabethtown, La Grange, Lexington, Louisville, Paducah, Richmond and New Albany, Indiana. Baptist Health also operates two joint venture hospitals: the 410-bed Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville in Madisonville, Kentucky with Deaconess Health System based in Evansville, Indiana, and the Baptist Health Rehabilitation Hospital, a 40-bed inpatient rehabilitation facility with Encompass Health, based in Birmingham, Alabama. Baptist Health employs more than 24,000 people in Kentucky and surrounding states.

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