NYC Health + Hospitals/Gotham Health is one of the largest Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) in the country, providing coordinated world-class primary and specialty care with dignity and respect for all New Yorkers, without exception. At Gotham Health, we practice a person-centered caring culture that values delivering compassionate, quality healthcare in partnership with our patients, community organizations, and staff. Gotham Health is focused on high-quality, affordable care to everyone regardless of ability to pay or immigration status. Gotham Health serves the community through a two-pronged approach: providing treatment to those who need it while at the same time emphasizing prevention. We strive to deliver services in a way that maximizes each patient's opportunity to achieve successful health outcomes, we believe in every person's right to participate in their care plans, we facilitate partnerships with other community resources to meet the needs of our patients beyond healthcare, and we celebrate and recognize the compassionate care of our committed staff. Join our team if you want to be part of our Gotham Health Family, a person-centered, fully integrated, and innovative ambulatory care network that enables all New Yorkers to live their healthiest lives.

Job Description

SUMMARY OF DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

Gotham Health, one of the largest Federally Qualified Health Centers in the nation, provides the highest quality of primary and specialty care with dignity and respect for all New Yorkers, without exception. As part of the Quality Team, the Gotham Health Data Analyst will be providing critical informatics and analytical support to our quality assurance and performance improvement initiatives. We are seeking an enthusiastic and creative team member to collaborate on ways to generate, share and communicate data to drive quality improvement and better health outcomes for our patients, and further the mission of Gotham Health and NYC Health + Hospitals.

General tasks and responsibilities will include:

• Derive meaningful insights by analyzing large, complex clinical and administrative datasets, and present findings to program managers, leadership, and administrative/clinical users.
• Interact with clinical and administrative leadership, translating quality improvement program needs into tangible, accurate and actionable data points
• Design, run and disseminate a variety of reports and analytical tools; writing and editing SQL and SAS code to adapt to end user requests as program needs evolve
• Act as lead for quality assurance data, continually helping to ensure that the data retrieved from Epic and other sources maintain a high level of rigorous validation, collaborating with end users of workflows, the Epic team, and other data analysts
• Continually identify opportunities for automation, improved efficiencies and streamlined processes
• Collaborate with IT, other Central Office departments, and local site contacts to identify and troubleshoot anomalies in the data and develop fixes or workarounds as needed.
• Serve as a core resource for the quality improvement program on all data needs, with particular emphasis on identifying and operationalizing ways to use data to drive process improvements. This will include ad-hoc analyses to explore areas of interest, and partnering with other members of the team to create tools and resources for practice sites.
• Analyses may include but are not limited to correlation, chi squared tests, student's t tests, test for trend, Wilcoxon rank-sum tests, scatter plots, line graphs, bar charts, box and whisker plots.
• Engage in evaluation and broader operational and outcome analysis efforts, as well as developing analysis plans to conduct in-depth exploration of the cost and other implications of assigned projects.
• Work closely with regional and site quality leadership teams, participating in broader healthcare analytics projects and sharing expertise in pursuit of the team's goals.

Minimum Qualifications
1. A Masters degree or advanced clinical degree from an accredited college or university and one (1) year of experience gathering and documenting business, clinical, and/or functional requirements using interviews, document analysis, workshops, surveys, site visits, business process descriptions, scenarios, business analysis, task and workflow analysis or related in a clinical, allied health, non-allied health, behavioral health, information technology, information services, business, analytics or related area; or, one (1) year of experience in a relevant clinical and/or healthcare administration role/function; or
2. A Baccalaureate degree from an accredited college or university and three (3) years of experience as described above; or
3. A satisfactory combination of education, training, and experience.
4. Specialty certification(s) issued by a national commercially available program, state, professional society, academic or technical institution in an area(s) listed above, may be credited on a month-to-month basis toward the required work experience for a total of one (1) year.

Department Preferences

KNOWLEDGEABLE IN:

• Experience with or exposure to data analysis in SQL, SAS, R, Python, Microsoft Excel
• Experience analyzing EHR-derived data is a priority.

PREFERRED SKILLS:

• Substantial experience with SQL and SAS, preferably in a healthcare context
• Demonstrate initiative, sound judgement and flexibility; possess effective time management and organizational skills; and be able to work under deadlines and on multiple projects simultaneously.

YEARS OF EXPERIENCE:

• Minimum of 1-3 years' experience post-grad

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NYC Health and Hospitals offers a competitive benefits package that includes:

• Comprehensive Health Benefits for employees hired to work 20+ hrs. per week
• Retirement Savings and Pension Plans
• Loan Forgiveness Programs for eligible employees
• Paid Holidays and Vacation in accordance with employees' Collectively bargained contracts
• College tuition discounts and professional development opportunities
• Multiple employee discounts programs

Vacancy Control Board Number

VCB #: CUM-07232021-0003