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American Heart Association - Healthcare Quality Measures Manager in Dallas, Texas
Overview
As we celebrate our Centennial year, we invite you to join us in shaping the next century of impact. Be a relentless force for a world of longer, healthier lives as we remain devoted to a future of health and hope for everyone, everywhere. At the American Heart Association, your contribution matters, and so does your career.
The American Heart Association has an excellent opportunity for a Healthcare Quality Measures Manager based out of our National Center office. This position can be home based.
This is a full time, benefits eligible, grant funded opportunity. Current funding will expire on June 30, 2028, with the possibility of extension.
This individual will be responsible for providing administrative, analytic and technical support for development, specification, maintenance, harmonization, and endorsement of measures used in the organization's suite of quality programs: including Get With The Guidelines: Stroke, Heart Failure, Atrial Fibrillation, Resuscitation and Coronary Artery Disease; ambulatory quality initiatives, special disease-focused initiatives (such as: aortic stenosis, cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic health, cardiogenic shock), certification programs, and EMS Mission: Lifeline. Responsible for supporting advanced data analytics related to measures, including preparing reports, conducting feasibility, reliability, and validity testing, as well as developing and maintaining standardized documentation for program measures.
The Association offers many resources to help you maintain work-life harmonization through your changing needs and life situations. To help you be successful, you will have access to Heart U, our award-winning corporate university, as well as additional training and support, locally.
Responsibilities
- In collaboration with volunteers and staff (measures, research, and Healthcare Information Technology (HIT) staff) operationalizes quality measure concepts and evidence into detailed measure specifications for implementation in the organization’s quality programs.
- Contribute to the design, development, and testing of clinical quality measures.
- Provide strategic and technical expertise related to digital quality measures.
- Analyze existing program measures to identify potentially unnecessary variance and gaps in measures.
- Assist in monitoring relevant national programs such as the Center for Medicare/Medicaid Services (CMS): Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) and Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting Program (HIQR); as well as The Joint Commission; Million Hearts; etc. for changes that may impact measures or programs.
- Coordinate with other staff to communicate changes in national programs and impact to volunteer workgroups and other staff members.
- Create ad-hoc data reports and visualizations using raw data sets.
- Conduct feasibility, reliability, and validity testing of measures to support endorsement efforts and potential inclusion in payment programs.
- Create and maintain standardized documentation for measures used in the organization’s quality programs. Monitor and maintain documentation of the organization's registry programs and measures information in national programs, databases, and clearinghouses.
- Provide project management support and subject matter expertise for the submission of American Heart Association and the American Stroke Association measures to the National Quality Forum (NQF) for endorsement consideration or maintenance of endorsement.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent work experience.
- At least five (5) years of relevant experience.
- Experience with clinical performance measure development, testing, implementation and/or endorsement.
- Familiarity with the broader healthcare quality measurement environment and related organizations.
- Detail oriented with data analysis experience.
- Excellent writing skills.
- Ability to orally present information.
- Ability to work independently.
- Ability to travel 15% local and overnight stay.
Preferred Skills:
- Health IT related knowledge/skills such as electronic medical records, medical coding and/or standard nomenclatures, such as SNOMED, ICDCM, CPT, LOINC and RXNORM.
- Advanced skills in data analysis, including the ability to lead measure testing (reliability and validity) projects.
- Familiarity with the Partnership for Quality Measurement (PQM) measure submission and the endorsement process.
- Experience working with committees and volunteers.
- Ability to mentor/teach measure authoring and testing skills and the quality measurement lifecycle.
- Effective time management skills and ability to consistently meet deadlines.
- Strong attention to detail and commitment to accuracy when writing.
Compensation – Our goal is to ensure you have a competitive base salary. The expected pay range will be $76,000.00 to $96,000.00. Pay is commensurate with experience; geographic differentials to the pay range may apply.
Benefits – We offer a wide array of benefits including medical, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance, along with a robust retirement program that includes an employer match and automatic contribution.
Work-Life Harmonization – The Association offers Paid Time Off (PTO) at a minimum of 16 days per year for new employees. You will also have a total of 12 paid holidays off each year.
The American Heart Association’s 2028 Goal: Building on over 100 years of trusted leadership in cardiovascular and brain health, by 2028 the AHA will drive breakthroughs and implement proven solutions in science, policy, and care for healthier people and communities.
At American Heart Association | American Stroke Association, our mission is to be a relentless force for a world of longer, healthier lives, regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, religion, age, language, sexual orientation, national origin and physical or cognitive abilities.
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Posted Date: 4 days ago (9/30/2024 8:46 PM)
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