Company: Oak Street Health
Title: Practice Manager, House Calls Program
Company Description
The mission of Oak Street Health is to rebuild healthcare as it should be. We are a rapidly growing, innovative company of community-based healthcare centers delivering higher quality health and wellness care that improves outcomes, manages medical costs and provides an unmatched experience for adults on Medicare. The Oak Street model integrates outstanding clinical expertise, technology, and teamwork to deliver improved care quality and cost savings. These cost savings are then reinvested into care in our communities, creating a virtuous cycle of improving community health.
We are a national organization serving over 100,000 patients and we are growing rapidly. We are a diverse team of care providers, service team members, technologists, community outreach experts, business professionals, and more -- all dedicated to our Oaky Values and motivated by our mission. We’re looking forward to getting to know you! For more information, visit www.oakstreethealth.com.
Program Overview
Oak Street Health@HOME delivers high-quality primary care to Medicare patients in their home. The @HOME program takes a team-based approach to providing outstanding patient care. Our Care Teams - consisting of a Provider, Medical Assistant/Scribe (CIS/MA), Behavioral Health Specialist (BHS) and Mobile Operations Coordinator (MOC) - build individual relationships across a panel of about 75 patients, seen monthly. The Care Team is responsible for delivering excellent, high-touch primary care, and coordinating the care of our patients throughout the healthcare delivery system.
Role Description
The House Calls Practice Manager leads market operations in providing the best patient care and a great place to work in order to keep patients happy, healthy and out of the hospital. Practice Managers, together with their dyad Medical Director, have oversight over both clinical and non-clinical duties, support operational initiatives, drive teams towards achieving patient satisfaction and clinical outcomes measures, and generally ensure the market is running smoothly and in a timely manner on a daily basis.
Staff Management and Development
Hire, train, supervise, coach, mentor and manage a multi-disciplinary team
Ensure the market is a Great Place to Work and teams are engaged and thriving; build a culture of engagement and demonstrate the Oaky Values and Service Behaviors at all times
Market Operations
Ensure teams are providing great clinical care to high frailty patients according to defined pathways within the patient’s home, including relentless follow-through with home health, specialists, social workers, hospitals, SNFs, and specialists
Ensure teams are providing an Unmatched Patient Experience, ensuring patients are delighted with the level of care they receive, and providing service recovery as needed
Ensure market operations are running smoothly and safely on a daily basis, including ensuring there is adequate staffing each day, arranging coverage for any call-offs or scheduled PTO, ensuring scheduling and billing processes are executed efficiently, ensuring that all Standard Operating Procedures are followed
Drive results for patients in Oak Street Health’s care model by ensuring that standard meetings, huddles and best practices for preventive care are being followed. Support the care team in achieving a variety of patient experience, clinical outcomes and team member experience metrics
Lead the implementation of operational initiatives, including training the team on new initiatives and workflows.
Assess and address root causes when goals are not reached. Lead the execution of continuous improvement initiatives
Use Oak Street Health’s proprietary software, reporting systems and chosen EMR to monitor completion of a variety of tasks and workflows
Leadership and Culture
Build dyad relationship with Medical Director to lead the market and make collaborative decisions that support the best interests of the patients and care teams and drive success for the market
Build relationships with care teams. Acknowledge and celebrate successes of care team members and communicate opportunities for improvement
Listen to feedback from care team members and address concerns with constructive problem-solving
Conduct performance reviews, discuss goals and help develop plans to achieve these goals
Cascade both programmatic information to care team members as well as escalate care team concerns and ideas to program leadership.
Advocate for program, care teams, and patients
Support a positive, Oaky culture of joy in practice
Be an ambassador to corporate center-based field leadership by building relationships with regional leadership to grow program awareness, scope and coverage
Lead and drive crossmarket projects, as assigned
Other duties as assigned
What we’re looking for
Motivated, experienced leaders with:
Required:
Strongly Preferred:
Bachelor’s Degree in a related field
5 or more years of experience in a supervisory role within a clinical setting
Experience with Google Suite
Experience successfully driving teams towards achievement of metrics
Other Skills:
A supportive attitude toward our patient population of older adults
A passion for mentorship and team development
Ability to drive a team culture that is collaborative, patient-centric and oriented toward driving results for our current patients and growing our impact with new patients while making it a Great Place to Work for our teams
A passion for mentorship and team development
A problem-solving orientation and eagerness to identify process gaps and implement practical solutions
A flexible and positive attitude, including being comfortable with ambiguity
A proactive and adaptable working style - able to cover tasks as they arise and regularly make independent decisions regarding competing priorities
A problem-solving orientation and eagerness to identify process gaps and implement practical solutions. Impeccable judgment and maturity
Ability to remain calm in the midst of the storm, guiding others to smart, effective solutions
Able to handle confidential information with discretion
What does being “Oaky” look like?
Radiating positive energy
Assuming good intentions
Creating an unmatched patient experience
Driving clinical excellence
Taking ownership and delivering results
Being relentlessly determined
Why Oak Street Health?
Oak Street Health is on a mission to “Rebuild healthcare as it should be'', providing personalized primary care for older adults on Medicare, with the goal of keeping patients healthy and living life to the fullest. Our innovative care model is centered right in our patient’s communities, and focused on the quality of care over volume of services. We’re an organization on the move! With over 150 locations and an ambitious growth trajectory, Oak Street Health is attracting and cultivating team members who embody “Oaky” values and passion for our mission.
Oak Street Health Benefits
Mission-focused career impacting change and measurably improving health outcomes for Medicare patients
Paid vacation, sick time, and investment/retirement 401K match options
Health insurance, vision, and dental benefits
Opportunities for leadership development and continuing education stipends
New centers and flexible work environments
Opportunities for high levels of responsibility and rapid advancement
Oak Street Health is an equal opportunity employer. We embrace diversity and encourage all interested readers to apply.