Manager - Hospitalist Program, Santa Monica

Company: UCLA Outpatient Clinics
Location: Santa Monica
Posted on: June 2, 2025

Job Description:

DescriptionReporting to the Director of Inpatient Services, you will provide administrative, onboarding, and supervisory support to staff, hospitalists, and palliative care providers for Santa Monica Hospital, community hospitals, California Rehab, nursing homes, LTACs, and Preop Clinics where UCLA hospitalists render care.Major duties include, but are not limited to:

• Oversee and provide administrative supervision to support staff, ensuring accurate scheduling of post-discharge follow-up appointments for all medicine patients (geriatrics, cardiology, gastroenterology, oncology) while meeting standards set by the Department of Medicine quality team.
• Oversee the palliative care scheduling team, ensuring all authorizations are obtained and appointments are scheduled appropriately.
• Ensure staff upload all history and physicals and discharge summaries timely from community sites and route medical records to appropriate physicians, maintaining the discharge incentive program.
• Supervise staff responsible for inputting IM bills from community hospitalists and nephrologists, transferring, extracting, and uploading data to UCLA billing.
• Manage hospitalist and community phone lines, ensuring timely responses to patient care issues and staff pages.
• Oversee home health orders, death certificates, and create on-call calendars for emergency rooms, nursing homes, or other services lacking access to UCLA calendars.
• Request and upload medical records for all medicine requests from physicians and NPs to Care Connect.
• Supervise analysts responsible for compiling daily patient census data across all hospitals for senior leadership, including Barlow, CRI, community hospitals, SMH, and RR.
• Report weekly SNF numbers, night triage logs, and historical data for past years.
• Oversee direct admissions for Department of Medicine physicians to Santa Monica Hospital, including urgent same-day, future chemo, and desensitization admissions.
• Manage after-hours answering service for troubleshooting when physicians do not respond to pages, especially after hours.Salary Range: $83,800 - $179,400 annually
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