Social Care Integration Program Manager

Overview:

CommonSpirit Health was formed by the alignment of Catholic Health Initiatives (CHI) and Dignity Health. With more than 700 care sites across the U.S. from clinics and hospitals to home-based care and virtual care services CommonSpirit is accessible to nearly one out of every four U.S. residents. Our world needs compassion like never before. Our communities need caring and our families need protection. With our combined resources CommonSpirit is committed to building healthy communities advocating for those who are poor and vulnerable and innovating how and where healing can happen both inside our hospitals and out in the community.

Job Summary / Purpose

The Program Manager is key to the mission of improving the quality of life for CommonSpirit Health patients and communities. The successful candidate will be responsible for managing and supporting the development, design, and implementation of initiatives aimed to address health inequities and social needs related to social, economic, and environmental conditions that impact the lives of vulnerable populations across CommonSpirit Health. The manager is expected to have strong analytics, communications, and project management skills and be self-driven and passionate about health equity. The manager will support the design, implementation, and evaluation of new approaches for integrated and person-centered care delivery to drive better, more equitable health outcomes. Programmatic areas may include but are not limited to: addressing health-related social needs, integration of care extenders (community health workers/advocates or promotoras), and alignment with mental health/substance abuse, chronic disease, and healthy aging services.

This role sits within the national offices of CommonSpirit health primarily supporting multiple markets in the rapid scaling of system initiatives. This is a two year grant funded position with the possibility of continuing.

Essential Key Job Responsibilities

• Support the design, implementation, and management of  community centered care models to align health and social care in multiple communities with internal and external partners. 

• Assist the management, operationalization, and improvement of new community health initiatives aimed at advancing and aligning social services, Medicaid, and Medicare in CommonSpirit Health locations. 

• Be responsible for day-to-day project management, including tracking budgets, developing work plans, and writing reports.

• Identify and evaluate business opportunities, technology solutions, and partners that drive effective impact and support CommonSpirit Health’s community health strategy. 

• Maintain close working partnerships with internal and external hospital, community, and cross functional stakeholders to address social needs in a coordinated approach. 

• Contribute to strategic decisions that affect the development and implementation of evidence-based programs, policies, and procedures to achieve community health goals.

• Support adoption of of upcoming policy/advocacy, Medicaid, Medicare, and commercial payment shifts,, and any other internal or external initiatives with community health function. 

• Able to use effective measurement techniques to measure the quality and quantity of work effort for the purpose of process improvement and impact evaluation. 

• Contribute to written products, such as white papers, memos, case studies, presentation decks, TA tools, etc.

• Professional maturity and self-management in working within a remote environment.

Required  Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college in health administration, public health, or a comparable education and at least five years of full-time experience working in a healthcare, public health, or other related business environment coordinating projects. 

OR

• Master’s degree in health administration, public health, or comparable education and at least three or more years of full-time work experience in a healthcare, public health, or other related business environment coordinating projects.

Required Minimum Knowledge, Skills, Abilities and Training

• This is a remote position.
• Strength in two or more of the following areas: written communications (white papers, articles, playbooks, etc.), grant-writing, project or program management, program evaluation or data analysis (quantitative or qualitative research), community/public health technical assistance or consulting services, social determinants of health initiatives, Medicaid or Medicare
• Occasional local and national travel may be required.