[Hiring] Director, Quality & Health Equity @Oregon Health & Science University

Role Description

The Director, Quality & Health Equity–Value-Based Programs is responsible for developing and implementing the quality and health equity strategy for OHSU Health Services. The Director leads programs that monitor, analyze, stratify, and act upon clinical, claims, demographic, social, and other relevant data to improve outcomes, reduce disparities, decrease cost, and improve overall value for populations served through value-based contracts.

The position provides oversight and management of quality improvement staff and serves as a strategic leader for health equity across the OHSU Health Services network. The Director works closely with various stakeholders to implement and maintain quality improvement and health equity programs.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in healthcare field, business administration or related field.
• Quality improvement training, or equivalent experience.
• Minimum of three (3) years of progressive leadership experience, including leadership in healthcare settings.
• Minimum five (5) years of relevant experience in healthcare quality improvement, population health, value-based care, health equity, or closely related work.

Requirements

• Strong analytical skills with knowledge of electronic medical records, clinical and claims data, quality measurement, and data analysis.
• Knowledge of effective performance improvement strategies, change management, and team building.
• Ability to apply a health equity lens to strategy, measurement, program design, and evaluation.
• Knowledge of health disparities, social drivers of health, culturally responsive care, and methods for stratifying and interpreting population level data.
• Experience building collaborative relationships across health systems, payers, providers, and community organizations.
• Advanced written, oral, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Experience with project, team, and budget oversight. Computer proficiency with MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
• Self-motivated, self-driven, flexible person who can flourish in an office setting as well as in a self-structured independent setting.

Benefits

• Moderate business-office noise (i.e. business office with computers, phones, printers, light traffic).
• Monday through Friday work schedule, variable daytime hours to accommodate meeting schedules and availability to members.
• Virtual and in-person interaction with providers, leaders, payers, community partners, and other internal and external stakeholders, with occasional local travel.

Company Description

OHSU Health Services manages value-based arrangements spanning full-risk/capitated models, shared savings, shared risk, and pay-for-performance across Medicaid, Medicare, Medicare Advantage, and commercial populations. Success under these programs requires improving health and quality, managing cost, advancing health equity, and enhancing the experience of patients, providers, and staff in support of the Quintuple Aim.

We are Oregon's only public academic health center. In addition to caring for patients, we lead groundbreaking research. We also train the next generation of health care professionals. As Portland's largest employer, we give you opportunities to learn and advance in a system of hospitals and clinics across Oregon and Southwest Washington.

OHSU welcomes people of all ages, ethnicities, genders, national origins, religions and sexual orientations. We are striving to build an anti-racist, multicultural institution and encourage people with diverse backgrounds to apply.