Director, Strategy & Clinical Model Planning

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The Director, Strategy & Clinical Model Planning serves as the primary strategy, planning, and execution partner to the clinical innovation and model development function, supporting the evaluation and redesign of clinical delivery models across LHC, Amedisys, and H&CCD. The role builds the operating backbone required to ensure care models are patient‑centered, operationally sound, compliant, scalable, and financially sustainable. It also supports enterprise coordination by enabling consistent communication and alignment between H&CCD and the LHC/Amedisys organizations.

The position directly supports enterprise leadership by translating clinical model redesign into actionable plans that strengthen operational readiness and advance affordability and strategic outcomes. This role is critical to driving integrated, high‑performing clinical models that enhance quality, efficiency, and the overall patient experience.

• Clinical Model Assessment & Redesign Support
  • Drive structured reviews of existing care models across Home Health, Hospice, Palliative, Care Transitions, and emerging service lines
  • Build comparative analyses, benchmark summaries, and scenario models to inform redesign decisions
  • Ensure redesigned models meet standards for clinical effectiveness, regulatory compliance, operational feasibility, scalability, and financial sustainability
• Strategy, Planning & Portfolio Management
  • Translate enterprise strategic priorities into actionable clinical model workplans aligned to integration timelines across organizations
  • Maintain a consolidated clinical model portfolio, mapping interdependencies, milestones, risks, constraints, and critical decision points
  • Lead governance routines with defined inputs and outputs that support timely escalation, prioritization, and decision‑making
• Operational Readiness & Implementation Enablement
  • Partner with Operations, Quality, Compliance, Finance, and HR to assess readiness for piloting or scaling updated clinical models
  • Develop standard work, playbooks, training content, and adoption metrics to enable consistent, repeatable implementation
  • Ensure teams have the tools, workflows, staffing models, and change‑management supports needed to deploy redesigned models effectively
• Clinical Liaison & Enterprise Integration
  • Serve as a connective link between the clinical innovation function and operational leadership across integrated organizations
  • Facilitate cross‑enterprise alignment on operating practices, data standards, compliance expectations, and patient‑experience principles
  • Represent clinical model strategy across enterprise forums, leadership councils, and cross‑functional work streams to ensure alignment and clarity
• Analytics, Insights & Performance Measurement
  • Quantify the impact of clinical model changes on affordability, quality, patient experience, throughput, and operational efficiency
  • Produce dashboards, scorecards, and insight packs that inform executive decision‑making and track enterprise progress
  • Conduct rapid root‑cause analyses when model performance varies and recommend targeted interventions
• Executive Communication & Leadership Support
  • Prepare executive‑ready materials including decision memos, model options, briefing books, integration updates, and external‑facing summaries
  • Support leadership in preparing for enterprise forums, governance discussions, and cross‑functional strategy engagements

You’ll be rewarded and recognized for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear direction on what it takes to succeed in your role as well as provide development for other roles you may be interested in.

• 8+ years in strategy, clinical operations,…