Healthcare Equity Quality Coordinator

Saint Vincent Hospital offers a whole new experience in health care. By combining our advanced, state-of-the-art facility with our commitment to providing the best quality of life to the many members of our Worcester community. Saint Vincent Hospital excels at offering the best care in a friendly atmosphere. From our advanced heart and vascular services, to our comprehensive orthopedics and rehabilitation programs, our robust surgical facility including our Da Vinci robotic surgery and Cyberknife technology, to our comfortable and compassionate women & infants programs - you don't have to travel far for high-quality health care: We're right here, in the heart of Worcester.


Onboarding Process: Please be advised that candidates must successfully complete a background check and pre-employment health screening which includes a drug screen.

Position Overview

Lead the development and execution of a market-wide strategic health equity program specifically related to health disparities. The successful candidate will be a visionary, committed to ingenuity that will help influence and move the needle as it relates to health inequity within impacted communities. Oversee and implement strategies to promote and achieve health equity for all patients and actualize goals to become an equitable, diverse, and inclusive organization.

Responsibilities

• Manage and lead the 1115 Waiver MassHealth Hospital Health Equity Incentive Program, including but not limited to
  • Ensuring completeness of demographic and health-related social needs data.
  • Meet performance goals for equitable access and quality, including implementing strategies that reduce healthcare disparities.
  • Enhance capacity and collaboration with clinicians and health system partners to improve quality and reduce health care disparities.
• Work closely with the directors of quality and patient safety, clinical informatics, nurse education, and regulatory to monitor health equity and implement related performance improvement projects.
• Fulfill the requirements of the MassHealth Hospital Quality and Equity Incentive Program (HQEIP).
• Fulfill the requirements of the joint commission health care equity certification.
• Partner with MassHealth ACO to conduct equity improvement/performance improvement projects.
• Manage and lead healthcare equity committees ensuring market wide adoption of health equity initiatives.
• Manage the diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) committees ensuring market wide engagement and lead activities that enhance DEI in our market.
• Serve as an external spokesperson and subject matter specialist on DEI initiatives.
• Serve as an internal change management expert to intentionally build and preserve a culture of DEI throughout the market.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required. Master’s degree in public health, public policy, clinical science, business administration or a related field strongly preferred.
• Experience in project management, change management, health equity, diversity and inclusion.

Tenet complies with federal, state, and/or local laws regarding mandatory vaccination of its workforce. If you are offered this position and must be vaccinated under any applicable law, you will be required to show proof of full vaccination or obtain an approval of a religious or medical exemption prior to your start date. If you receive an exemption from the vaccination requirement, you will be required to submit to regular testing in accordance with the law.

Employment practices will not be influenced or affected by an applicant’s or employee’s race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status or any other legally protected status. Tenet will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities unless doing so would result in an undue hardship.