Director Community Health Outreach

Dignity Health one of the nation’s largest health care systems is a 22-state network of more than 9000 physicians 63000 employees and 400 care centers including hospitals urgent and occupational care imaging and surgery centers home health and primary care clinics. Headquartered in San Francisco Dignity Health is dedicated to providing compassionate high-quality and affordable patient-centered care with special attention to the poor and underserved. For more information please visit our website at www.dignityhealth.org. You can also follow us on Twitter and Facebook.

The Director of Community Health and Outreach is responsible for leading Service Area Community Benefit partners in developing the community benefit strategy and in overseeing the coordination of community benefit initiatives. This position is responsible for coordinating, monitoring and reporting on the Community Investments and Community Grants components of Dignity Health's Community Economic Initiatives Program [CEIP]. This position is accountable for developing partnerships with corporate, social service, schools and other agencies and organizations, as well as other healthcare providers in the community to carry out a broad agenda to enhance the health status of all members of the community, including economically, ethnically and socially underserved groups. The Director of Community Health and Outreach is responsible for providing the strategic direction and program oversight to ensure that the Service Area Hospitals develop and implement area wide and/or hospital specific initiatives in support of Dignity Health's commitment to the community. The Director of Community Health and Outreach is responsible for planning, developing, coordinating and overseeing community benefit initiatives, standards, programming and reporting by working directly with the area hospitals and their boards through providing analytical and project support to local community groups and associations to assess the community's health needs and assets, developing and managing community outreach initiatives and measuring and reporting program accomplishments and results. He/She must be able to raise visibility about our community benefit efforts, and to develop new and creative programs to support activities and education that enhance wellness, patient care and service to the poor and disenfranchised throughout the service area. These efforts should include charity care and the un-reimbursed costs of government-funded insurance programs, as well as health professions education, research, efforts to build upon the community's capacity and the costs associated with community benefit operations.

1.1 Community Health Assessment: In collaboration with community partners, participate in regular assessments of Community Health assets and needs with special attention to geographical areas and population sectors with disproportionate unmet health-related needs.
1.2 Community-based Partnerships and Outreach: Collaborate with public health agencies, school systems, faith-based organizations, and other nonprofit health and social service agencies in planning the Community Health assessment, establishing priorities, implementing, monitoring, evaluating and refining programs.
1.3 Resource Allocation: Ensure that hospital/service area budgets include adequate financial resources to hire competent and effective staff to assess, plan, develop, implement, manage and report on community benefit initiatives.
1.4 Program Development: Dignity Health community benefit programs are developed in response to the health issues identified in the Community Health assessments and prioritized by a representative group of hospital/service area and community stakeholders. The Director Community Benefit is accountable to ensure that the service area's planning; finance and hospital community benefit departments collaborate to ensure successful outcomes of community benefit programs.
1.5 Performance Measurement: Develop long-term strategies with clinical and administrative objectives for community benefit initiatives that are measurable and that can serve as indicators of progress toward the achievement of desired health outcomes.
1.6 Uniform Reporting: Ensure that service area hospitals conform to a uniform method of accounting and reporting community benefit expenses.
1.7 Dissemination of Community Benefit Plan and Report: Provide oversight, direction and support for Service Area and hospital-specific community benefits plans and reports, and assure that diverse community stakeholders are aware of the report. The report may also be posted on the facility Web site for the general public.
1.8 Participate in the development of a collaborative Community Needs (and Assets) assessment every three years with Service Area's other health systems.

1.9 Ensure that each Service Area hospital, in compliance with Dignity Health policy, annually contributes to a fund through which non-profit community-based health and human service agencies apply for and receive grant funding. (Refer to Dignity Health Policies and Procedures Finance 4.40 and 4.44.)
1.10 Collaborate with hospital staff to collect information on hospital's community benefit program activities and present monthly reports to CFO, for MOR and quarterly to Dignity Health.
1.11 Work with Dignity Health Advocacy Liaisons to coordinate advocacy and activism efforts that impact the health and quality of life of disadvantaged community residents.
1.12 Provide staff support to the Sacramento Community Board as requested.
1.13 Hire, recruit, train, supervise, discipline, and evaluate the performance of assigned staff. Encourages and uses positive human resource practices throughout the department, including: mentoring, using performance management techniques - setting objectives, providing feedback, evaluating results, defining roles and responsibilities with direct reports, training and developing staff, using coaching/counseling to improve or sustain performance and making effective hiring, promotion, transfer, scheduling, disciplinary, and termination decisions.

This position is a hybrid role with travel needed to facilities within Sacramento and Woodland, Ca.

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor's degree required in health administration, business administration, public health, social services or related clinical field
• A minimum of 5 years experience in Community Health work and experience in community-based health planning and programming