Summary The Assistant Chief, Health Administration Service, has full management responsibility for enrollment, eligibility, and registration functions, administrative and technical support in direct patient care areas, emergency and after-hours administrative operations, decedent affairs, telephone operations, veteran transportation, beneficiary travel and data validation to ensure timely, accurate workload reporting. Responsibilities Program & Operations Management Responsible for directly and through subordinate section chiefs and supervisors, planning, organizing and implementing programmatic areas and evaluation of operations in his/her areas of responsibility. Formulates and issues policies relating to the broad area of patient administration. Develops and maintains a comprehensive patient administration program, providing services and technical counsel necessary to meet the procedural, legal and administrative requirements relating to the care and treatment of patients and to ach...