New Mexico Administrative Code › Title 7 - HEALTH › Chapter 7 - HOSPITALS › Part 4 - BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF MINERS' COLFAX MEDICAL CENTER › Section 7.7.4.11 - ADMINISTRATION OF THE MEDICAL CENTER

Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 13, July 16, 2024
A. The board of trustrees may provide for the
				management and administration of the medical center by contracting with a
				corporation engaged in providing management services in conformity with
				standards for an accredited hospital. The board of trustees may employ directly
				a competent, experienced, professional hospital administrator. In either case,
				a medical center administrator shall be secured and shall be the chief
				executive officer responsible for the management of the medical
				center.
B. The chief executive
				officer of the medical center shall have all authority and responsibility
				necessary to operate the medical center in all its activities and departments,
				subject only to policies issued by the board of trustees and to applicable
				federal and state laws and regulations. He or she shall act as the duly
				authorized representative to the board in all matters in which the board has
				not formally designated some other person to act. He or she shall report as
				directed to the chair between board meetings and to the board at each
				meeting.
C. The authority and
				duties of the chief executive officer shall include, but not be limited to: to
				sign, together with such other authorized board member, any deeds, mortgages,
				bonds, contracts or other instruments which the board has authority to execute
				except in cases where the execution shall have been expressly delegated by the
				board or by the by-laws or by statute; to carry out all policies established by
				the board of trustees; to conduct all activities of the medical center in
				compliance with federal and state laws and regulations; to prepare an annual
				budget showing the expected receipts and expenditures as required by the board
				and by departments of state government; as head of the medical center, to
				select, employ, control, and discharge all employees, consistent with the
				regulations of the state personnel board, and to develop and maintain
				additional personnel policies and practices approved by the board of trustees;
				to see that all physical properties are accounted for, safeguarded, and kept in
				a good state of repair and operating condition; to supervise all business
				affairs and to ensure that all funds are collected and expended to the best
				possible advantage; to assist the chief of staff, the medical staff, and all
				those concerned with the rendering of professional services to the end that the
				best possible care may be rendered to all patients; to submit regularly to the
				board of trustees, or its authorized committees, periodic reports of medical
				center services, statistics, and financial activities and to prepare and submit
				such special reports as may be required by the board of trustees; to attend all
				meetings of the board of trustees, of the committees on which he or she serves
				and other committees as necessary or required, and the medical staff executive
				committee; to perform any other duty that may be necessary or in the best
				interest of the medical center; to serve as the liaison officer and channel of
				communications for all official communications between the board of trustees
				and the medical staff.