Director, Quality Compliance

What We Strive For

Strive Health is built for purpose — to transform a broken kidney care system. We are fundamentally changing the lives of people with kidney disease through early identification, engagement and comprehensive coordinated care. Strive’s model is driven by a high-touch care team that integrates with local providers and spans the entire care journey from chronic kidney disease through end-stage kidney disease, leveraging comparative and predictive data and analytics to identify at-risk patients. Strive Health’s interventions significantly reduce the rate of emergent dialysis crash, cut inpatient utilization and significantly improve patient outcomes and experience. Come join our journey as we create THE destination for top talent in the healthcare community and set a new standard for how kidney care should be done.

Why We’re Worth the Application

• We Strive for excellence and Strive has been recognized with six Best Place to Work awards, including Forbes America’s Best Startup Employers 2023 and 2022, Built In Colorado’s Best Places to Work 2022 and 2024, Comparably’s Best Places to Work in Denver 2022 and The Tech Tribune’s Best Startups in Denver 2022. Additionally, Strive’s CEO, Chris Riopelle, has been recognized as one of Denver Business Journal’s Most Admired CEOs.
• We derive innovation and ideas from through authentic diversity intentionally building a team that represents the populations we serve in partnership with our Employee Resource Groups:
  • Strive Forward - LGBTQ
  • Underrepresented Minorities
  • Women and Allies
• We care and support our Strivers within and beyond work to feel fully charged and empowered through our generous wellbeing offerings including:
  • Flexible time off
  • Companywide wellbeing days
  • Volunteer time off
  • Leave packages including a sabbatical, parental leave and eight weeks paid for living donor
  • Professional development
  • A dedicated certified financial planner
  • Headspace, Carrot Fertility and Gympass for all Strivers
• We like to have fun by celebrating our successes as a team through team building, company gatherings, trivia, wellbeing raffles, pajama days, a companywide book club and more.
• We value tenacity to help us overcome obstacles with grit and determination to deliver compassionate kidney care.

Director, Quality Compliance

The Director of Quality Compliance is accountable for defining strategic direction of the Quality Compliance program through development, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of Strive Health’s accreditation, delegation, and Documentation Management programs The Director leads a team of associates which support all Quality Compliance activities.  The Director utilizes expertise in NCQA accreditation, health plan delegation, and policy management to improve the Quality Program and support patient care.  The Director, along with the Quality leadership team, works to improve patient outcomes, experience, and safety through Quality improvement initiatives.  The Director leads regular mock audits and partners closely with legal and regulatory affairs to ensure that strive maintains continuous readiness for audits and accreditation requirements.   The Director reports to the VP, Quality and is able to ensure day-to-day processes are conducted in accordance with NCQA Standards and other internal and regulatory standards. 

Essential Functions

Leadership

• Provides strategic and day-to-day guidance, leadership, and development to the Quality Compliance team to ensure all components of accreditation, delegation, and documentation management meet expectations of internal and external partners.   
• Creates strategies to develop a continuous readiness program for NCQA accreditations and delegated activities.
• Partners with the markets and clinical teams across all verticals of business to ensure policy and process is maintained in accordance with established standards.  Effectively communicates gaps and recommendations for improvements.
• Develops and maintains reporting and analyses for clinical program effectiveness, in partnership with the Director of Quality Improvement and the Sr. Manager of Patient Experience.
• Acts as advisor to market and business on appropriate documentation and qualitative and quantitative analyses for required improvement opportunities and assuring business owners are acting on their opportunities for improvement.
• Perform a variety of complex work in planning, coordinating, amending and managing continuous readiness activities, utilizing a strong understanding of the business processes related to corporate/market operations and accreditation standards.

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