Company Description
INTERLINK Health Services was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in Hillsboro, Oregon. INTERLINK is well known as the leader in outcome-based managed care, providing access to the nation’s finest centers for cancer, bone marrow, and solid organ transplant services. INTERLINK is a stable and growing company, focused on the delivery and continued development of outcome-based cost containment products to meet the expanding healthcare market. INTERLINK’s CancerCARE Program is a national cancer management initiative, which is expected to grow exponentially in 2021. With growth comes opportunity.
This is a position may be perfect for that nursing professional with lots of transplant experience, or it could be perfect for a nurse with good communication skills, a statistical and/or analytical background that wishes to transition into the transplant network industry.
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This is a full or part time position working from the Hillsboro, OR location. INTERLINK had a nurse embedded in the TransplantCARE Quality programs for nearly 15 years, and the management team decided to refill that position. This nurse will participate in all the quality and outcome initiatives associated with INTERLINK’s national Centers of Excellence transplant network program. If you enjoy working with statistics, data, exploring transplant outcomes, creating useful displays of outcome information, and sharing that with nurses via webinars and one-on-one conversations, this is the right job for you.
There is a small, but highly effective, workgroup based from the Hillsboro office that performs many internal and external facing quality and educational programs. This nurse will be joining that group.
Core Responsibilities & Requirements
- Support the Director of Quality Programs with data expertise and provide medical prospective when requested.
- Participate in TransplantCARE Quality Assurance Program and committee meetings.
- Participate in the credentialing of transplant programs.
- Participate in the annual study and designs of INTERLINK’s Performance Narrowed transplant networks.
- Document Performance Model processes and gather any additional information needed to further perfect that model.
- Collaborate with the Director of Quality Programs, contracting, claims, CMOs and other to add a predictive cost feature to the Performance Model.
- Participate with the team who manipulates SRTR (risk adjusted) data into INTERLINK’s Performance Model which ranks transplant programs. This happens twice a year.
- Support and participate in any Medical Team online education program.
- Learn, dispense and explain INTERLINK program specific outcome data sheets to case managers when contacted.
- Participate in any INTERLINK or CancerCARE education programs to learn more about INTERLINK products.
- When nursing questions surpass your knowledge, contact the appropriate CMO or Medical Director to gather the requested information and share it with the client.
Qualifications
Job Qualifications (Knowledge, Skills and Abilities):
- Excellent relationship building skills
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Experience in multi-tasking and working in groups
- Exceptional organizational skills & ability to manage and participate in many projects
- Positive demeanor and can-do attitude
- Reliable and strong team player
- Ability to take initiative and ownership of projects
- Collect and organize data to use for internal and external purposes
Education and Experience:
- A valid RN License
- Experience using statistical methods and passion for using data-driven outcome improvement
- Experience and knowledge of the case management process.
- Ability and experience in presenting and explaining data.
Supervision:
Report to the Executive Vice President of Operations.
Benefits:
Health benefits package, 401K plan, profit sharing, paid personal time off. Position is salaried and overtime eligible. All necessary technologies will be provided.
If you are interested in joining an innovative, stable, highly respected organization, send your résumé, references and cover letter
Only qualified candidates will be contacted. For more information about INTERLINK Health Services, please visit: www.interlinkhealth.com.
Skills Required
- Valid RN license
- Experience using statistical methods
- Passion for data-driven outcome improvement
- Experience and knowledge of the case management process
- Ability and experience presenting and explaining data
- Excellent relationship-building skills
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Experience multitasking and working in groups
- Exceptional organizational skills and ability to manage and participate in multiple projects
- Ability to collect and organize data for internal and external purposes
- Ability to take initiative and ownership of projects
What We Do
INTERLINK Health Services is a privately held managed-care company that connects health plans, employers, and patients with credentialed Centers of Excellence for complex, high-cost care. Its programs cover solid-organ and bone-marrow transplantation, cancer, dialysis, and gene and cellular therapies. By combining clinical expertise, outcome data, claims support, case management, and cost-containment services, INTERLINK helps members access high-quality specialty care at the right price.
