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41AX Health Services Administrator

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Overview

Health services and hospital administrators manage the business operations of health care facilities and oversee care practices. They work to minimize costs, hire appropriate medical staff, and ensure facilities provide the best possible services.

Core Skills

  • Medical facility and program accreditation support
  • Cross-functional healthcare organizational performance improvement
  • Senior-leader guidance on medical service programs

Civilian Career Paths

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Medical and Health Services Managers

Managing medical service programs, personnel, and operations while advising senior leaders and supporting accreditation transfers directly to healthcare administration.

How to prepare: Build an application portfolio showing the scope of your healthcare programs, staffing responsibilities, performance improvements, and accreditation support, then match it to facility, department, or medical-practice management openings. Check position-specific licensing before applying: nursing-home administration requires a state license, and some other positions require an RN or social-worker license.

What the civilian work involves
  • Direct, supervise and evaluate work activities of medical, nursing, technical, clerical, service, maintenance, and other personnel.
  • Plan, implement, and administer programs and services in a health care or medical facility, including personnel administration, training, and coordination of medical, nursing and physical plant staff.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Microsoft Office software

Notes & Sources

  • Healthcare management education and experience expectations vary by facility and function: a bachelor's degree is typical, some employers prefer a master's degree, and experience sometimes substitutes; prior administrative or clinical experience in a healthcare facility is typically expected.
Evidence for this guidance (3 documents)
  1. DAFOCD, 30 Apr 26: HEALTHCARE ADMINISTRATOR (41AX)

    [1] Specialty Summary section "HEALTHCARE ADMINISTRATOR"; normalized cached text lines 5816-5840; family-level section (41A4, 41A3, 41A1)

    Supports: Medical facility and program accreditation support, Cross-functional healthcare organizational performance improvement, Senior-leader guidance on medical service programs, Medical and Health Services Managers (O*NET 11-9111.00)

  2. O*NET: Medical and Health Services Managers

    [2] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Medical and Health Services Managers (O*NET 11-9111.00)

  3. Bureau of Labor Statistics: Medical and Health Services Managers

    [3] What They Do; How to Become One, education, experience and licensure sections; retrieved 23 September 2026

    Supports: Medical and Health Services Managers (O*NET 11-9111.00)

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