Director of Population Health & Value-Based Care

Rome Health•Rome, NY

About The Position

The Director of Population Health & Value-Based Care provides strategic and operational leadership for developing and implementing Rome Health’s emerging population health strategy. The role builds a practical, sustainable approach to improving clinical outcomes, patient access, care coordination, quality performance, and organizational readiness for value-based reimbursement. As the organization develops its population health capabilities, the Director assesses current capabilities, establishes priorities, coordinates existing resources, develops performance measurement systems, and creates a multi-year roadmap. This is a hands-on leadership role balancing strategy with implementation in a resource-conscious environment. The Director leads population health strategy and program development; supports progression toward appropriate value-based payment models; engages physicians and clinical teams in practical workflows and quality improvement; develops actionable reporting, dashboards, and performance measures; and strengthens care management, transitional care, chronic disease management, and coordination across care settings. The role also aligns initiatives with quality, patient safety, preventive care, access, and community health priorities, and develops relationships with community and healthcare partners as appropriate. Initial priorities include completing a population health readiness and capability assessment; establishing baseline quality, utilization, clinical, and financial measures; developing a prioritized three-year roadmap; identifying priority populations; establishing an initial physician/provider performance dashboard; evaluating care-management and transitional-care workflows and value-based payer arrangements; implementing two to three measurable improvement initiatives; and establishing regular reporting to senior leadership. The Director will recommend future staffing, technology, analytics, and program investments based on demonstrated needs and priorities.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in healthcare administration, nursing, public health, business administration, or a related field.
Minimum of five years of progressively responsible healthcare experience, preferably involving operations, quality improvement, population health, care management, physician practice operations, analytics, managed care, or value-based care.
Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional projects and engage physicians and healthcare professionals.
Strong analytical, problem-solving, project-management, written, verbal, and presentation skills.
Ability to independently organize work priorities, adapt to changing priorities, and manage multiple tasks or projects.
Ability to travel to various Rome Health sites as needed.
Ability to stand for long periods and push wheelchairs.
Demonstrate initiative, drive, poise, maturity, professionalism, flexibility, and patience.

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree in healthcare administration, public health, business administration, nursing, or a related discipline.
RN or other clinical background.
Experience with value-based payer programs, ACOs, clinically integrated networks, population health analytics, or EHR reporting.
Experience in a community hospital, physician organization, multispecialty medical group, or similarly sized healthcare organization.

Responsibilities

Assess current population health resources, capabilities, data, programs, and opportunities.
Develop and maintain a multi-year population health and value-based care roadmap with achievable clinical, operational, and financial priorities.
Identify priority patient populations and scalable interventions appropriate to a community-based health system.
Recommend future staffing, technology, analytics, and program investments based on demonstrated needs and measurable value.
Support Rome Health’s progression toward appropriate value-based payment models while preserving operational and financial discipline.
Evaluate value-based payer programs, quality incentives, shared-savings opportunities, performance requirements, and areas of risk.
Collaborate with finance and contracting leadership to assess organizational readiness for future arrangements and monitor performance.
Build productive relationships with physicians, advanced practice providers, nursing, and clinical leadership.
Translate population health objectives into practical clinical priorities and workflows that minimize unnecessary administrative burden.
Engage clinicians in quality improvement, care-gap closure, chronic disease management, patient access, and appropriate utilization.
Collaborate with information technology, EHR, quality, finance, and operational leaders to establish an actionable population health reporting structure.
Develop dashboards and key performance indicators for high-risk populations, care gaps, quality performance, utilization, and program outcomes.
Translate clinical and financial data into useful information for clinicians, management, and senior leadership.
Evaluate and strengthen care management, transitional care, chronic disease management, and coordination across care settings.
Develop processes to identify and support high-risk and high-utilization patients, using existing organizational resources whenever practical.
Align population health initiatives with quality, patient safety, preventive care, access, and community health priorities.
Develop productive relationships with community and healthcare partners when appropriate to improve patient outcomes.
Complete a population health readiness and capability assessment and establish baseline quality, utilization, clinical, and financial measures.
Develop a prioritized three-year population health and value-based care roadmap.
Establish an initial physician/provider performance dashboard and identify priority populations.
Evaluate and strengthen care-management and transitional-care workflows.
Assess existing value-based payer arrangements, opportunities, and areas of risk.
Implement two to three targeted improvement initiatives with measurable outcomes and establish regular reporting to senior leadership.
Set and organize work priorities independently and for the assigned team, adapting successfully to changing priorities.
Work concurrently on a variety of tasks and projects in an environment that may be stressful and involve individuals with diverse personalities and work styles.
Travel to various Rome Health sites as needed.