Opportunities with American Health Network, OptumCare partner. When you join American Health Network (AHN), you become part of a team that strives to identify and retain the top healthcare professionals in the markets it serves. At American Health Network, we want to be the best health care organization we can be. Our mission is to improve the health of our patients. We’re a physician-led organization, operating over 70 medical offices in Indiana and Ohio, with over 300 providers and 1200 employees. We’re also an OptumCare partner, part of the UnitedHealth Group family of businesses, and backed by the resources of a global health care organization working to help people live healthier lives and help make the health system work better for everyone. That’s an important differentiator as more people need our help simplifying the complexities of the American health care system. At the same time, the culture of AHN supports work-life flexibility for providers and places a high value on their physical, emotional, financial and other aspects of well-being.
Find out what it means to be part of an exceptional company that values its providers, its role in health care, and making a difference one patient at a time. Take a look at American Health Network and explore a new path to your life’s best work.SM
The Vice President of Specialist Operations has An integral role as the leader of the regional team that analyzes industry trends and provides detailed oversight and sophisticated actionable solutions to senior leadership that incorporate all key management areas (talent, clinical, financial, and operations) for advancing American Health Networks vision for specialty care Indiana and Ohio. This role will be accountable for leading the development and execution of the operational and growth strategy that supports our strategic vision, growth initiatives and leadership principles. The ideal candidate must demonstrate strong business, financial, and operational acumen within the healthcare industry.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Influence senior leadership to adopt new ideas, products, and/or approaches, as well as translating highly complex concepts in ways that can be understood by a variety of audiences
- Actualize OptumCare’s core strategy of building of physician-led, value-based, ambulatory care delivery systems by developing and maintaining a “quadruple-aim” specialist provider network
- Recommend, develop and assist in the strategic long-range planning process as it relates to all clinic departments in support of the clinics’ mission, philosophy and goals
- Evaluate and makes recommendations for business development and expansion opportunities within assigned territories
- Oversee the implementation of all expansion projects within assigned territories
- Provide leadership and mentoring to management staff in establishing department objectives related to staffing, policies and procedures
- Work collaboratively with leadership in the development and governs the annual budget for the clinic operations area and implements plans to achieve budgetary goals
- Monitor compliance of all clinic metrics (Customer Service, Membership, Retention, etc.)
- Provide continual process improvement including all clinic processes and/or services
- Ensure all operational services meet regulatory and quality standards
- Maintain professional affiliations and enhances professional growth and development to remain current in the changing healthcare trends as related to management of clinic operations
- Use own proven domain / industry expertise to balance competing priorities in a multi-stakeholder environment
- Possess a good understanding of the healthcare industry from a physician, health plan, and hospital perspective
Required Qualifications:
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Bachelor’s degree in Healthcare Administration, Business Administration or related field
- 10+ years of experience with increasing management responsibility within clinic operations
- An advanced understanding of clinic financials with the ability to analyze operations and continually implement efficient operational processes
- Strong business acumen and proven strategic leadership skills
Proof of immunity to vaccine-preventable diseases is an employment requirement.
Careers with Optum. Here’s the idea. We built an entire organization around one giant objective; make health care work better for everyone. So when it comes to how we use the world’s large accumulation of health-related information, or guide health and lifestyle choices or manage pharmacy benefits for millions, our first goal is to leap beyond the status quo and uncover new ways to serve. Optum, part of the UnitedHealth Group family of businesses, brings together some of the greatest minds and most advanced ideas on where health care has to go in order to reach its fullest potential. For you, that means working on high performance teams against sophisticated challenges that matter. Optum, incredible ideas in one incredible company and a singular opportunity to do your life’s best work.(sm)
Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.
UnitedHealth Group is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment. In addition, employees in certain positions are subject to random drug testing.
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