Home Health & Hospice Data Analysis Intern at Cornerstone… · Eagle

Company Description

Cornerstone Healthcare, Inc. (“Cornerstone”), a leading home health and hospice provider, seeks a talented, passionate, and inspirational Executive Director to join our team. This is a unique and intensive opportunity designed for individuals seeking a career as a health care executive. The Cornerstone Service Center is based in Eagle, Idaho, however, we have opportunities and operations across the country. We are currently looking for leaders to operate in various markets.

About the Company

Cornerstone is one of the most dynamic and progressive companies in the rapidly expanding home health, hospice, and home care industries. Affiliates of Cornerstone now operate 24 home health, hospice, or home health and hospice agencies across nine Western states and we expect this growth to continue. These agencies have no corporate headquarters or traditional management hierarchy. Instead, they operate independently with support from the “Service Center,” a world-class service team that provides the centralized clinical, legal, risk management, HR, training, accounting, IT and other resources necessary to allow on-site leaders and caregivers to focus squarely on day-to-day care and business issues in their individual agencies. To learn more about Cornerstone Healthcare, Inc. please visit www.cornerstonehhh.com

About The Ensign Group We are proud to be affiliated with The Ensign Group, Inc., an organization formed in 1999 with the goal of establishing a new level of quality care within the health care industry. The name “Ensign” is synonymous with a “flag” or a “standard,” and refers to a goal of setting the standard by which all others are measured. We share this vision and our core values with other health care providers affiliated with The Ensign Group, such as skilled nursing, assisted living, urgent care and mobile diagnostics. We all believe that through our efforts, we can achieve a new level of client care and professional competence and set a new industry standard for quality home health and hospice services. You can learn more about The Ensign Group at www.ensigngroup.net.

Job Description

Job Summary Work closely with Post-Acute Continuum Care (PACC) Resources to develop and maintain systems, tools, and processes through the collection of data.

Essential Functions Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. • Support PACC Director to Identify new network opportunities by tracking current participation alternative payment models and formulate recommendations to PACC resources. • Research, develop, and maintain alternative care and payment model systems, tools, and processes taking into considering quality, patient experience and financial impact. • Support PACC Director Resource to design innovative education presentations for home health agencies, potential network partners, current network partners, and the healthcare community. • Assist PACC Director in coordinating with agency IDT to identify PACC performance outcome metric goals and thresholds for requiring performance improvement plans. • Create, track, maintain and report on data for outcome metrics in alternative payment models participation, managed care contracts, and on company, cluster, and agency outcomes for Star and Home Health Compare. • Provide support for innovative payment model agreements, including specific performance outcome metrics, provider gain sharing, physician alignment and value based purchasing/pay for performance models. • Maintain current knowledge of alternative payment models (e.g., episodic payments: i.e., bundle payments for care improvement initiative, accountable-care organizations, managed care bundling and clinically integrated networks, etc.) and health care policy as it relates to continuum provider services, regulatory compliance and alternative payment models.

Please note this job description has been designed to indicate the general nature, working conditions and level of work performed by employees within this job. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, working conditions and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Qualifications

Minimum Education Requirements Must be currently enrolled in a Bachelor's Degree Program (rising Junior or Senior) majoring in a Healthcare related field.

Required Skills, Abilities and Licensures • Basic understanding of the post-acute care continuum, health care policy and alternative payment models (BPCI, ACO, Managed Care). • Strong working knowledge of excel to develop and maintain tracking tools both financial and outcome based. • Must possess skills needed to collaborate and strategize with all continuum partners to build seamless quality transitional care processes across multiple settings within the continuum. • Basic knowledge base of the evolving changes within the healthcare industry. • Must be highly professional in demeanor. • Able to think outside the box. • Strong analytical and financial skills, and communication skills. • Must be a team player, critical and creative thinker, and able to build relationships across the team in order to push PACC initiatives forward.

Additional Information

Part-time (up to 30 hours) Location: Eagle, ID

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Cornerstone Healthcare, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other protected characteristics.