Healthcare Administrator

Duties and Responsibilities:  A healthcare administrator manages the administrative tasks that involve hospitals.  They keep track of patient records, answer phone calls, issue and pay bills, etc.  The job of a healthcare administrator is to handle the “office-task” part of being a doctor.  They help doctors a lot because without a healthcare administrator, a doctor would have to handle all of the responsibilities.

Salary:  The average salary for a healthcare administrator is $103, 000.

Education:  The minimal education requirement to become a healthcare administrator is a bachelors or masters degree in public health/nursing or hospital/business management.  Healthcare administrators are also required to have certain job skills like interpersonal skills, leadership, organization skills, and problem solving skills.

Demand for this profession:  The number of jobs for future healthcare administrators is 333,000 in the years 2014-2024.  This is expected to grow 17% in the years 2014-2024.

Do you think you would like to be one?  Why? Why not?

I would not like to be a healthcare administrator because I think it is too much like an office job, which I do not like.