Senior Data Analyst

Kaweah Health is a publicly owned, community healthcare organization that provides comprehensive health services to the greater Visalia area in central California. With more than 5,000 employees, Kaweah Health provides state-of-the-art medicine and high-quality preventive services in our acute care hospital, specialized health centers and clinics. Our eight-campus healthcare district has 613 beds and offers comprehensive health services across a broad continuum of care.

It takes a special person to work for Kaweah Health. We serve a region where the needs are great, which makes the rewards even greater. Every day, we care for people facing unique challenges and in need of healing. Throughout it all, our focus is to make a difference, and we do — in the health of our patients, our loved ones, and our community.

Benefits

Eligible for Full-Time Benefits

Work Shift

Day - 8 Hour or less Shift (United States of America)

Department

8514 Care Transformation Projects

Serves as an organizational resource in reviewing, understanding, analyzing and using data for the purpose of measuring or improving performance. Data into information, information into insight and insight into business decisions.

Position Details

NOT A REMOTE POSITION

License / Certification

Preferred: Professional certifications

Education

Preferred: BA/BS degree in a technology related field

Experience

• Required: Minimum of three years in Information Technology with experience in database management, design, data analysis, automated reporting, and ad-hoc reporting; or Five years as a development programmer/analyst utilizing database techniques. Experience extracting data from electronic medical records.
• Preferred: Experience with Soarian, Elmer, Soarian Financials, Soarian Support, eClinical Works, Cerner Millenium, and Tableau. Experience with SQL, SSAS, SSIS, SSRS, Excel, Report Writing Tools (Business Objects, Power BI, etc.), Analytical Tools (R, Python, etc.) MIDAS Health Analytics.

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities

• Must possess a high level of problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work and communicate effectively with all levels of management.
• Knowledge of business processes and their interrelationships is desirable.
• Knowledge of C#.Net, VBA, VB, OLE/ODBC preferred.
• Ability to communicate and mentor data science interns.

Department Specific Requirements

For Population Health Management, clear understanding of HEDIS measures, HRSA UDS measures and Quality Data Coding.

Essential Responsibilities

• Leads small projects, and often works on multiple complex projects.
• Ability to plan, scope and estimate work effort, producing quality deliverables on time.
• Provides notification of potential missed timelines to supervisor and/or project.
• Confirms project requirements by analyzing user requirements, conferring with others on project team.
• Determines the interrelationships between solutions and requirements and works with the team to determine best solutions.
• Analyzes current system/application capabilities for possible solutions to minimize development.
• Supports, manages, and organizes electronic data according to Kaweah’s policies and standards.
• Gathers and interprets relevant data and information.
• Develops and maintains integrated data and uses inductive reasoning supplying strong evidence for solutions/conclusions.
• Thinks analytically and is a problem solver.
• Uses proven methodologies for analyzing and presenting data.
• Performs structured data requirements analysis and data modeling in support of application development for relational and reporting databases.
• Determines changes in physical database by analyzing project requirements identifying database characteristics, such as location, amount of space, and access.
• Works collaboratively as part of a team, as well as independently under own initiative.

Addendum (Essential for Specific Dept)

IF ASSIGNED TO POPULATION HEALTH MANAGEMENT DIVISION ALSO RESPONSIBLE FOR:

• Advises Director of Population Health, Population Health Management Division, & Clinic Network Leadership in the creation, interpretation, validation and application of interactive dashboards to monitor and improve outcomes in patient care, service delivery, population health of patients and communities served and other strategic initiatives.
• Collaborates and advises ISS teams, in collaboration with Population Health Data Analytics Supervisor, in the development, editing, and validation of reports and dashboards using HealtheEDW to support Population Health Programs.
• Supports annual HRSA UDS reporting.
• Responds to queries and data analysis requests as needed for internal and external reporting.
• Supports the development of data architectures that support Population Health Program reporting requirements.
• Works collaboratively with Population Health Manager, Population Health Data Analytics Supervisor and Clinic Network Leadership teams to support delivery of required reporting needs.
• Works collaboratively with Database Administrators and Application teams to support delivery of Business and IT strategies.
• Works as a mentor/resource for the Data Analysts on the Population Health Data Team.
• Has working knowledge and understanding of HEDIS measures, quality data codes and how these affect claims processing and quality performance.

IF ASSIGNED TO QUALITY AND PATIENT SAFETY DEPARTMENT ALSO RESPONSIBLE FOR:

• Works as a mentor/resource for the Midas functional Coordinators and/or other Kaweah Health staff.

Additional Responsibilities

Demonstrates the knowledge and skills necessary to provide care and services appropriate to the population served on the assigned unit or work area.

Performs other duties as assigned.

Pay Range

$37.42 - $56.14

If you want to use your talents alongside people who face each day with courage and purpose, in an environment that empowers you to do your absolute best, this is where you belong.