Practice Optimization Advisor

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Key Position Details:

• This position will require employees to be onsite at various clinic locations throughout the week.
• Full time position (40 hours per week) - day shift.
• No weekends
• Benefit eligible

Job Description:

The Practice Optimization Program (POP) is a resource to facilitate and ensure providers and practice staff are engaged, empowered, and enabled to achieve success in a patient-centric, physician inspired and clinically driven value-based care model. The Practice Optimization Advisor supports the physician patient relationship inside the practice which allows for sustained engagement to address patient needs in a manner that impacts costs, quality, access, and overall patient experience. POP is designed to address what matters to providers and the care team through the physician lens. Practice optimization activities occur within the practice to empower and enable the entire care team to operate at top of license to improve workflows and processes, enhance point of care experience for both provider and patient, improve practice performance, reduce variation and eliminate duplication.

Principle Responsibilities

• Be accountable for establishing and maintaining sustained engagement within practices that impacts costs, quality, access, and overall patient experience through the deployment of tactical and strategic methodologies.
• Builds and effectively maintains strong relationships with practice operational and clinical leadership that informs development of performance improvement initiatives to achieve identified goals.
• Be a subject matter expert in value-based care who is seen as a thought partner and a trusted point of contact. Including regularly identifying educational needs and proactively seeking to address these barriers across the practice team.
• Develops and deploys localized practice optimization strategies based on data analysis that includes measurable and time-specific aim statements as part of a data-informed PDSA rapid cycle optimization approach.
• Regularly holds practice optimization meetings with practice leadership and key clinical influencers to monitor progress toward, and discuss opportunities related to, deployed practice optimization strategies.
• Uses internal and external data to analyze and interpret trends. Works with appropriate stakeholders to implement proactive strategies to address issues and measure POP impact.
• Demonstrates ability to impact the fourth aim in the quadruple aim by improving physician satisfaction across the areas of personal, professional and income lifestyle to decrease physician burnout.
• Routinely assist and support Enterprise Practice Optimization Team, Market Presidents, and Executive leadership in summarizing and measuring Practice Optimization Program impact, sharing best practices, provider feedback, and opportunities for organizational alignment.

• Other duties as assigned.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business or Healthcare related field or equivalent experience

Preferred Qualifications

• 4+ years of healthcare leadership experience working directly with physicians and practice members with a demonstrated ability to use data, PDSA rapid cycle optimization to influence utilization, cost, and quality metrics
• Primary Care experience strongly preferred

Physical Demands
Sedentary:
Lifting weight Up to 10 lbs. occasionally, negligible weight frequently

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Benefit Summary

Allina Health believes the best way to provide safe and compassionate care for our patients is by nurturing the passion of those who care for them. That's why we devote extraordinary resources to help you grow and thrive - not only as a professional but also as a whole person. When you join our team, you have access to a wealth of valuable employee benefits that support the total well-being - mind, body, spirit and community - of you and your family members.

Allina Health is all in on your well-being. Because well-being means something different to everyone, our award-winning program provides you with the resources you need to help you navigate your personal journey. This includes up to $100 in well-being dollars, dedicated well-being navigators, and many programs, activities, articles, videos, personal coaching and tools to support you on your journey.

In addition, Allina Health offers employee resources groups (ERGs) -- voluntary, employee-led groups that serve as a resource for members and organizations by fostering a diverse, inclusive workplace aligned with the organization's mission, values, goals, business practices, and objectives. Allina Health also engages employees in various community involvement and volunteering events.

Benefits include:

• Medical/Dental

• PTO/Time Away

• Retirement Savings Plans

• Life Insurance

• Short-term/Long-term Disability

• Paid Caregiver Leave

• Voluntary Benefits (vision, legal, critical illness)

• Tuition Reimbursement or Continuing Medical Education as applicable

• Student Loan Support Benefits to navigate the Federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program

• Allina Health is a 501(c)(3) eligible employer

*Benefit eligibility/offerings are determined by FTE and if you are represented by a union.