SEC. 12.201. MEDICAL DIRECTOR AND HEALTH SERVICES ADMINISTRATOR.
§ 12.201
The Health Service Board may appoint a full-time or part-time medical director and must appoint a full-time administrator to run the Health Service System. Both officers serve at the Board's pleasure, and the Board must confine itself to policy and appeals matters while ensuring rules are clear enough for the administrator to implement.
The Health Service Board can hire a doctor (medical director) and must hire a manager (administrator) to run the city's health plan. Both can be fired by the Board at any time. The Board's job is to set policies and hear appeals, not to get involved in day-to-day management. The Board needs to write its rules clearly so the administrator can actually follow them.
- Could be simpler:The section uses outdated singular pronouns ('He or she') and could be streamlined by consolidating the parallel appointment language for the two positions into a single structure.
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Official text
The Health Service Board may appoint a full-time or part-time medical director. He or she shall hold office at its pleasure. The medical director shall be responsible to the Board as a board, but not to any individual member or committee thereof. The Health Service Board shall appoint a full-time administrator with experience in administering health plans or in comparable work, who shall hold office at the Health Service Board's pleasure. The Health Services administrator shall administer the Health Service System in accordance with the provisions of this Charter and the rules, regulations and policies of the Health Service Board. The Board and each committee of the Board shall confine its activities to policy matters and to matters coming before it as an appeals board. The Board shall prepare its rules, regulations and policies so that they are clear, definite and complete and so that they can be readily administered by the Health Services administrator.
(Amended November 2004)