Director, Post-Acute Care Community Network - Case Management Department - Full-time (1.0 FTE), Days

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Day - 08 Hour (United States of America)

Why work at Stanford Medicine | Stanford Health Care (SHC)?
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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, and access to the latest technologies and healthcare innovations, and boast a workplace culture that encourages personal growth and work-life balance while honoring its commitment to delivering evidence-based and patient-centered care.

We are seeking a results-driven director to further develop the framework for clinical, operational, and leadership practice. Here, your leadership, coaching, and mentoring would further develop our robust, post-acute care community network.

Are you driven by health care innovation, partnerships, and measurable results to improve the continuity of care and lessen readmissions? Then, join us and make SHC your career home.

Our core benefits include medical insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, an employee assistance program, savings and spending accounts, disability, life and accident insurance, and COBRA. For medical insurance, you have the choice of three generous health plans through Stanford Health Care Alliance, Aetna, or Kaiser Permanente. Each plan includes 100% coverage for preventive care, telemedicine through Teledoc, prescription drug coverage, and behavioral health coverage. Additional incentives exist for healthy choices. And so much more – generous leave & time off, Wellness Program, special programs, educational assistance, and adoption assistance!

This is an onsite Stanford Health Care job.

A 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.

Locations
Stanford Health Care (Palo Alto, CA; onsite)

What you will do

• 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 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.

Education Qualifications

• Master of Science degree in MS, MBA, MPH, Nursing, Healthcare Administration, or a work-related discipline/field from an accr