These are the ATS keywords, credentials, and software terms that recur across current healthcare administrator job descriptions — organized so you can scan for what your resume is missing. Placement matters as much as presence: an ATS keyword buried in a skills list ranks lower than the same term used in context inside an experience bullet.

Title variants

  • Healthcare Administrator
  • Hospital Administrator
  • Health System Administrator
  • Practice Administrator
  • Director of Operations
  • VP of Operations
  • Chief Operating Officer
  • COO
  • Department Director
  • Service Line Director
  • Practice Manager
  • Clinic Manager
  • Long-Term Care Administrator
  • NHA

Credentials

  • FACHE
  • ACHE
  • MHA
  • CAHME
  • CMPE
  • MGMA
  • NHA
  • NAB
  • LNHA
  • RHIA
  • MBA
  • MPH

Quality and accreditation

  • HCAHPS
  • VBP
  • Value-Based Purchasing
  • CMS Star Rating
  • CMS Care Compare
  • TJC
  • Joint Commission
  • SAFER
  • NPSG
  • DNV-GL
  • HFAP
  • Magnet
  • PCMH
  • NCQA
  • HEDIS
  • ACO
  • MSSP

Financial

  • P&L
  • operating budget
  • capital budget
  • CapEx
  • FTE
  • HPPD
  • productivity
  • revenue cycle
  • payer contracting
  • fee schedule
  • wRVU
  • DCPU
  • net collection rate

Operations

  • ALOS
  • EDLOS
  • throughput
  • bed management
  • capacity planning
  • patient flow
  • census management
  • staffing ratios
  • workforce planning

Regulatory

  • HIPAA
  • EMTALA
  • Stark Law
  • Anti-Kickback Statute
  • False Claims Act
  • OIG compliance
  • CoPs
  • survey preparedness
  • F-tag
  • MDS
  • RAI
  • PDPM
  • OBRA

Strategic

  • service line development
  • business plan
  • CHNA
  • community health needs assessment
  • CON
  • certificate of need
  • market share
  • strategic planning

Long-tail phrases

  • healthcare administrator resume
  • hospital administrator resume
  • health administration resume
  • healthcare administrator cv
  • FACHE resume
  • practice administrator resume
  • healthcare administrator resume examples
  • healthcare administrator resume 2026
  • healthcare operations resume
  • hospital operations resume

Pasting these terms into your resume verbatim without matching context can read as keyword stuffing to a human reviewer, even if it passes the ATS. The full Healthcare Administrator resume guide shows where each category belongs and how to work it into real experience bullets.