Details

• Department: Ascension Data Science Institute

• Schedule: Full-time, 8 hour day shift, Monday - Friday

• Location: Remote

Benefits

Paid time off (PTO)

Various health insurance options & wellness plans

Retirement benefits including employer match plans

Long-term & short-term disability

Employee assistance programs (EAP)

Parental leave & adoption assistance

Tuition reimbursement

Ways to give back to your community

*Please note, benefits and benefits eligibility can vary by position, exclusions may apply for some roles (for example: Travel, PRN, Short-Term Option, etc.). Actual compensation offer will vary based upon role, education, experience, location, and qualifications. Connect with your Talent Advisor for additional specifics.

Responsibilities

The Ascension Data Sciences Institute (ADSI) was created in July 2019 with the mission of supporting Ascension in achieving its Quadruple Aim with uniquely skilled, high-performing associates who develop analyses, models, and applications to enable Ascension in providing higher value healthcare and making strategic decisions. ADSI comprises 5 domains addressing 1) Clinical quality and patient safety; 2) Strategic Operations and Financial Analytics; 3) Actuarial and Managed Care Analytics; 4) Registry Abstraction Healthcare Solutions; and 5) Healthcare Data Intelligence. We recognize that the healthcare environment is a complex ecosystem of rapidly evolving clinical and economic practices that affect patient and provider experience and demands increasingly sophisticated and complex measurement. Our objective is for analytics and data science to play a critical and foundational role in the transformation of care delivery, quality and financial outcomes to enable our organization’s competitive advantage.

We are hiring a Lead Health Equity Analyst on the Clinical Quality team to support Ascension’s mission to identify and address health disparities. In this role, you have the opportunity to apply your analytical and statistical expertise to multiple domains of data (clinical and non-clinical) to guide Ascension in this pursuit. You will be empowered to work directly with Ascension leaders to deliver data driven insights and measurement. You will have the opportunity to use your talents to make a real difference including helping Ascension meet the commitments made in the White House Challenge to End Hunger and Build Healthy Communities. (https://about.ascension.org/news/2024/02/ascension-joins-white-house-commitment-to-end-hunger-by-2030)

Responsibilities:

• In this position, you will lead projects that assess and monitor trends in health equity, including the overall health and well-being of vulnerable populations we serve and the communities we work with.

• You will apply standard methods such as the Index of Disparity to identify and describe health disparities leveraging various internal and external datasets including Ascension’s 3 million SDOH surveys and the CDCs Social Vulnerability Index.

• You will develop visualizations including geographic profiles that enable others to engage with the data to make informed decisions and track changes over time.

• You will work independently to plan, curate data and execute outcome evaluations including reporting for grant funded programs.

• You will work closely with data engineering and management teams on data requirements for your project in addition to querying data warehouses directly.

Education:

• Bachelor’s Degree strongly preferred, Masters preferred in the areas of Health Informatics, Public Health, Healthcare Data Science, Economics, Healthcare Information Technology or similar field.

Work Experience:

• 5+ years of analytical experience preferred

• At least one year of leadership experience is preferred.

• Proficiency using SQL to query and combine datasets is required.

• Proficiency using visualization tools such as Tableau is required.

• Experience applying descriptive and inferential statistics to analyses using Python, R or similar programming languages is required.

Requirements

Education:

• High School diploma equivalency with 2 years of cumulative experience OR Associate'sdegree/Bachelor's degree with 1 year of experience OR 5 years of applicable cumulative job specificexperience required. 2 years of leadership or management experience preferred.

Additional Preferences

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Why Join Our Team

Ascension associates are key to our commitment of transforming healthcare and providing care to all, especially those most in need. Join us and help us drive impact through reimagining how we can deliver a people-centered healthcare experience and creating the solutions to do it. Explore career opportunities across our ministry locations and within our corporate headquarters.

Ascension is a leading non-profit, faith-based national health system made up of over 134,000 associates and 2,600 sites of care, including more than 140 hospitals and 40 senior living communities in 19 states.

Our Mission, Vision and Values encompass everything we do at Ascension. Every associate is empowered to give back, volunteer and make a positive impact in their community. Ascension careers are more than jobs; they are opportunities to enhance your life and the lives of the people around you.

Equal Employment Opportunity Employer

Ascension will provide equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all associates and applicants for employment regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, citizenship, gender, sexual orientation, gender identification or expression, age, disability, marital status, amnesty, genetic information, carrier status or any other legally protected status or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws.

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As a military friendly organization, Ascension promotes career flexibility and offers many benefits to help support the well-being of our military families, spouses, veterans and reservists. Our associates are empowered to apply their military experience and unique perspective to their civilian career with Ascension.

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