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Job Description - Director, Determination of Need Program (260006BB)

Job Description

Director, Determination of Need Program - ( 260006BB )

Description

The Bureau of Health Care Safety and Quality (BHCSQ) is seeking an experienced and skilled administrator, presenter and negotiator to serve as the Director of the Determination of Need (DoN) Program. The Director provides strategic policy direction consistent with both DPH and DoN Program objectives and works with the DoN Application Manager and program staff to review applications presented for DoN that include, but are not limited to, significant capital expenditures, major changes in service, transfers of ownership, original licensure of health care facilities, and DoN-required services and technologies.

The purpose and objective of DoN is "to encourage competition and the development of innovative health delivery methods and population health strategies within the health care delivery system to ensure that resources will be made reasonably and equitably available to every person within the Commonwealth at the lowest reasonable aggregate cost advancing the Commonwealth's goals for cost containment, improved public health outcomes, and delivery system transformation".

The Director is responsible for operationalizing the DoN program’s policy objectives and strategic approach to reviewing DoN proposals, DoN program operations, and presenting DoN practices and decisions in public forums and to individual C-suite level personnel. The Director should have experience in and/or possess an understanding of competition within the health care industry; deep understanding of population health and impact to health status and outcomes;

and the development of industry trends and innovative health delivery methods.

(These duties are a general summary and not all inclusive)

• Leadership, advising, and management of the DoN program and its staff.
• Analytical adeptnessto objectively and critically assess project proposal strength and viability from complex financial, operational and community value-based perspectives. Ability to negotiate through applicant obscurity to ensure clarity.
• Presents application recommendations to the Department of Public Health’s (DPH) regulatory body, the Public Health Council (PHC), in monthly public meetings. Prepares and delivers presentations on complex regulation changes or updated DoN Program guidelines, ensuring information is understandable, logical and compelling.
• Uses strong communication skills and diplomacy, to build relationships with relevant stakeholders and negotiate through challenging conversations to advance the mission of DPH and the DoN Program.
• Oversees reporting by facilities and entities with approved projects to ensure compliance with commitments made and to conditions of the DoN Program. Seek new sources of information, methods and models to inform approaches industry innovation and growing complexity.
• Leads BHCSQ’s efforts in completing a comprehensive review of DoN sub-regulatory guidelines, engages internal and external stakeholders in completing review, development, and release of updated guidelines for the review of DoN applications.

• Minimum of 7-10 years’ experience in health care and/or government.
• Minimum of 3-5 years of management experience.
• Advanced degree in public health, health care administration, or other related fields.
• Strong knowledge of Massachusetts health care and public policy. Able to understand and articulate a wide range of health care issues and regulation
• Ability to critically evaluate proposals in relation to the broader Massachusetts health care landscape as well as DPH and DoN…