Director, Post-Acute Care Community Network
Job description
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Stanford Clinicians are recognized as bold leaders, compassionate healers, educators, and mentors, providing the highest standards of excellence in care while generating long-term impressions that continue to set SHC apart as the best place to work and thrive. We offer a wide array of career advancement opportunities, access to the latest technologies and health care innovations, and boasts a workplace culture that encourages personal growth and work-life balance, while honoring its commitment to delivering evidence-based and patient-centered care.
BRIEF OVERVIEW
The Director of Post-Acute Care is responsible for leading the development and implementation of a post-acute care strategy and community network designed to support timely and seamless transitions to the appropriate level of care for SHC patients. This position will establish quality and performance standards, clinical workflows, systems, tools, and metrics to achieve organizational goals and value-based care contract outcomes related to post-acute care. the Director facilitates collaborative relationships between the various post-acute venues to ensure strong partnerships, and future interoperability to achieve the highest quality and experience across the SHC care continuum.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
The essential functions listed are typical examples of work performed by positions in this job classification and are not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, tasks, and responsibilities. Specific duties and responsibilities may vary depending on department or program needs without changing the general nature and scope of the job or level of responsibility. Employees may also perform other duties as assigned.
- Works closely with SHC leaders and post-acute stakeholders to align care coordination activities across the care continuum.
- Develops and maintains strong relationships with post-acute care providers, vendors, community agencies, health plans, etc. that support appropriate and necessary care coordination for SHC patients.
- Conducts regular meetings with community post-acute partners to review performance and outcomes metrics including admit/denial rates, hospital ED and readmission rates, LOS, CMS quality ratings, etc.)
- Collaborates with post-acute partners to identify process improvement initiatives, learning collaboratives, and clinical coordination to improve the quality of care and care transitions.
- Provides leadership in the evaluation and development of agreements such as leased beds, joint ventures, contracted services, reallocation/design of facility space, and medical management if deemed appropriate to meet the needs of post-care capacity for SHC patients.
- Develops relationships and ensures accountability for post-acute provider participants in the ACO
- Manages complex interdepartmental and interdisciplinary relationships to assure collaboration within post-acute care services.
- Incorporates the use of evidence-based practice into post-acute care program development and improvement initiatives.
- Maintains license, certification, and continuing education as required.
- Performs other duties and attends committees as requested.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.
Education
- Master of Science degree in MS, MBA, MPH, Nursing, Healthcare Administration, or a work-related discipline/field from an accredited college or university
- Bachelor’s degree in nursing preferred
Experience
- Five (5) to ten (10) years of clinical experience
- Five (5) years of leadership and management experience within a post-acute healthcare environment
- Experience leading large-scale change efforts and/or academic medicine
- Experience managing projects relevant to the delivery of mission-critical organizational programs and services
- Any combination of education and experience that would likely provide the required knowledge, skills, and abilities as well as possession of any required licenses or certifications is qualifying
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Ability to communicate effectively at all organizational levels and in situations requiring instructing, persuading, negotiating, conflict resolution, consulting, and advising, as well as flawless written communication
- Ability to establish and maintain effective relationships with widely diverse groups, including individuals at all levels both within and outside the organization and gain their cooperation
- Ability to plan, organize, motivate, mentor, direct, and evaluate the work of others
- Ability to resolve conflicts and/or negotiate with others to achieve positive results; establish and maintain effective interpersonal relationships
- Ability to teach, coach as well as provide leadership, and influence others
- Ability to work independently and exercise sound judgment in interactions with physicians, payers, patients, and their families
- Ability to develop project measures of success, analyze progress and evaluate outcomes.
- Ability to cultivate relationships in the post-acute space, including community agencies
- Ability to plan, establish, direct, and execute the strategy to develop a network of aligned post-acute providers within a complex health system.
- Knowledge of regulatory requirements and value-based reimbursement models.
- Knowledge of Post-acute levels of care such as Home Health, Hospice, AIM, Palliative Care, SNF, LTAC, B&C, Sub-acute, Acute rehab
- Knowledge of coding and DRG assignment process preferred
- Knowledge of admission criteria for all levels of care and denials management
- Knowledge of case management principles, processes, and their practical application preferred
- Knowledge of clinical documentation requirements
- Knowledge of clinical, quality, and administrative facets of the healthcare industry
- Knowledge of principles of process improvement methodology, business and management strategic planning, leadership development, and education techniques
Licenses and Certifications
- CA- RN (Registered Nurse)
- Case Management/Social Services\ACM - Certified Case Management preferred or
- Case Management/Social Services\CCM - Certified Case Manager preferred
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SHC Commitment to Providing an Exceptional Patient & Family Experience
Stanford Health Care sets a high standard for delivering value and an exceptional experience for our patients and families. Candidates for employment and existing employees must adopt and execute C-I-CARE standards for all patients, families, and each other. C-I-CARE is the foundation of Stanford’s patient experience and represents a framework for patient-centered interactions. Simply put, we do what it takes to enable and empower patients and families to focus on health, healing, and recovery.
- You will do this by executing against our three experience pillars, from the patient and family’s perspective:
- Know Me: Anticipate my needs and status to deliver effective care
- Show Me the Way: Guide and prompt my actions to arrive at better outcomes and better health
- Coordinate for Me: Own the complexity of my care through coordination
Equal Opportunity Employer Stanford Health Care (SHC) strongly values diversity and is committed to equal opportunity and non-discrimination in all of its policies and practices, including the area of employment. Accordingly, SHC does not discriminate against any person on the basis of race, color, sex, sexual orientation or gender identity and/or expression, religion, age, national or ethnic origin, political beliefs, marital status, medical condition, genetic information, veteran status, or disability, or the perception of any of the above. People of all genders, members of all racial and ethnic groups, people with disabilities, and veterans are encouraged to apply. Qualified applicants with criminal convictions will be considered after an individualized assessment of the conviction and the job requirements.
Base Pay Scale: Generally starting at $86.34 - $114.41 per hourThe salary of the finalist selected for this role will be set based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to, internal equity, experience, education, specialty and training. This pay scale is not a promise of a particular wage.
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