Comagine Health is looking for remote Nevada-based
Improvement Advisors to be a part of an interdisciplinary team. As an integral part of the Systemwide Quality Improvement (SQI) division, you will provide consulting and technical assistance to a variety of health care and community stakeholders. This position is responsible for collaborating with various partners to guide them through health system transformation and improvement initiatives, to support their capacity to respond to a changing health care environment and deliver better care. We are looking for candidates with experience in long-term post-acute care facilities or outpatient practices.
Qualified candidates must reside in Nevada to be considered.
SQI encompasses a broad portfolio of contracts and grants, organized into three primary service lines (population health, community health and patient safety) serving clients, including federal and state governments and private institutions. The SQI team includes quality improvement and public health experts who apply their skills to improve the delivery of health care across a variety of settings.
Who is Comagine Health?
Comagine Health is a national, nonprofit, health care consulting firm. We work collaboratively with patients, providers, payers, and other stakeholders to reimagine, redesign and implement sustainable improvements in the health care system.
As a trusted, neutral party, we work in our communities to address key, complex health, and health care delivery problems. In all our engagements and initiatives, we draw upon our expertise in quality improvement, care management, health information technology, analytics, and research.
We invite our partners and communities to work with us to improve health and redesign the health care delivery system.
Competencies
General understanding of health care reform initiatives/environment.
- Theoretical and practical knowledge of quality improvement methods and tools.
- Familiarity with health care terminology.
- Familiarity with health care clinical and operational workflows.
- Proficiency with project management concepts (e.g. project plans).
- Ability to organize and coordinate multiple simultaneous tasks in a team environment.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills.
- Intermediate proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite (Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, Excel).
- Familiarity with videoconference technology (e.g. Zoom).
- Familiarity and hands-on experience with Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and/or Microsoft Teams (Preferred).
What you'll be doing for us:
Consultation and Delivery of Technical Assistance
- Collaborate with internal team members as well as external partners/stakeholders to improve health care delivery systems, processes, and outcomes efficiently and effectively.
- Provide coaching on data collection, interpretation, and utilization to drive performance improvement.
- Design and implement quality improvement interventions based on evidence-based and best practices.
- Contribute to development and maintenance of quality improvement templates, tools, and other materials.
- Provide health care consulting and technical assistance via face-to-face, telephone, video conference or other formats to a variety of stakeholders.
- Document recruitment, technical assistance, and other activities in CRM and other technology solutions; maintains personal proficiency and supports peers in leveraging system capabilities for contacts, accounts, memberships, and relationships in everyday work.
- Partner with team members across projects with the goal of finding synergies between and collaborating across related goals and contracts and meeting the needs of the community.
Training and Subject Matter Expertise
- Continually develop basic to intermediate subject matter expertise on relevant topic areas such as practice management, patient safety, population health, etc.
- Design and implement learning collaboratives, learning and action networks, and other broad-scale delivery of quality improvement education and training.
Stakeholder Engagement and Convening
- Conduct recruitment for QI initiatives, including outreach to providers and other organizations, creating, and managing recruitment plans and using data to target recruitment efforts.
- Convene multiple interdisciplinary stakeholders to build consensus, shared vision, and action plans that contribute to the achievement of bold aims of health care and health improvement and population health initiatives.
- Represents Comagine Health to clients and stakeholders, including associations, community partners, etc.
- Convene and facilitate meetings for training, stakeholder engagement, and coalition-building.
- Coordinate with stakeholder professional associations, coalitions, community organizations and others to share information about project activity, plan joint initiatives, and leverage opportunities to share resources, best practices, and lessons learned to achieve improvement in health care delivery systems, processes, and outcomes.
Project Management
- All team members play a role in tracking project activities, including executing assigned tasks and/or phases of a project plan; monitor deployment of interventions to ensure program effectiveness, and report on progress to team lead.
- As needed, under close oversight of SQI leadership, Improvement Advisors may take on additional project management responsibilities, including:
- Be accountable for the successful performance and meeting of contract deliverables and evaluation measures while utilizing a strategic approach and supporting the creation of well-defined program plans that balance contract deliverables and the true intent of the work to ensure that the mission and vision of Comagine Health are advanced.
- Prepare reports of project progress to share with SQI leadership and contract officers/funders.
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in a health care, public health, or related field (equivalent combination of education and/or work experience in related field may be substituted)
- 4 years of experience in health care, including quality improvement in health care settings and long-term care facilities or outpatient practices
- 2 years of project management experience
Qualified candidates must reside in Nevada to be considered.
Additional certification, education or training may be applicable based on specific contracts
Salary Range: $72,000 - $90,000
The salary range posted reflects the range that Comagine is willing to pay for this position. Salary is determined by many factors, including but not limited to geographic location of where the employee will perform their job duties in addition to their knowledge, skills, education, and relevant work experience.