Data Analyst - CBP (Onsite, NOT remote) Job Listing at Lexington Medical Center in West Columbia, SC (Job ID 1214845300)

Description

Center for Best Practice  
Full Time
Day Shift 
730a-4p, Mon-Fri

Consistently named best hospital, Lexington Medical Center dedicates itself to providing quality health services that meet the needs of its communities. Ranked #1 in the Columbia metro area by U.S. News & World Report, Lexington Medical Center is the only hospital named one of the Best Places to Work in South Carolina.

The 607-bed teaching hospital anchors a health care network that includes six community medical centers and employs more than 8,700 health care professionals. The network includes a cardiovascular program recognized by the American College of Cardiology as South Carolina's first HeartCARE CenterTM and an accredited Cancer Center of Excellence affiliated with MUSC Hollings Cancer Center for research and education. The network also features an occupational health center, the largest skilled nursing facility in the Carolinas, an Alzheimer's care center and nearly 80 physician practices.  Its postgraduate medical education programs include family medicine and transitional year.

Under the general direction of the Center for Best Practice and Inpatient Nursing management, advises, supports, and assist in the use of data through advance statistical analysis, data mining and data visualization techniques to measure and report on clinical effectiveness.  Provides maintenance and support of a variety of data systems to support the quality and operational initiatives. Serves as administrator for assigned systems assisting in the development of strategies, projects and goals to utilize technology in innovative ways ultimately improving efficiency.  Provides support with performance improvement initiatives.

Minimum Education: Master's Degree in Health Administration, Computer Science, Business Administration or related field
Minimum Years of Experience: None
Substitutable Education & Experience (Optional): A Master's Degree may be substituted for one of the following combinations:
A Bachelor's Degree in Healthcare Administration, Computer Science, Business Administration or related field with 2 years of related experience working in the database management.
An Associate's Degree in Health Administration, Computer Science, or Business Administration or related field with 5 years of related experience working in the database management and analysis.
Required Certifications/Licensure: None
Required Training: Experience with database querying and reporting technologies/tools;
Able to understand various data structure and common methods in data transformation;
Experience Microsoft Office Suite (especially proficient in Excel, Word, Power Point)
Must possess strong communication, analytical and problem solving skills.

• Gathers, analyzes, and interprets data to draw conclusions and/or make recommendations that support business objectives and optimize operations.
• Summarizes information in a logical format and develops communication channels that summarize findings in a clear and concise manner to senior management and key stakeholders.
• Utilizes and analyzes data in various approaches for projects including but not limited to; workflow assessments, best practice evaluations and implementation, operational efficiency evaluations, and performance reporting and action plan development.
• Ability to work as team leader on projects, responsible for planning, implementation, and integration of assigned tasks and directives.
• Identifies potential process improvements, economies of scale and productivity enhancements.
• Participates in working sessions with stakeholders to obtain necessary project information or assist in project execution.
• Works with senior leadership to design and develop reports that assist with the decision making process.
• Stays abreast of best practices regarding methods of statistical analysis, data management, and databases responsible for. Makes recommendations on system enhancements and workflow.
• Stays cognizant of current challenges and trends in assigned field and anticipates how these changes impact past, current, and future operations.
• Audit databases and data to ensure data integrity. Identify potential errors and works with appropriate parties to ensure data is validated and reliable.

• Entering data into appropriate databases to support data collection and analysis process.
• Support statistical analysis of nursing research in collaboration with clinical nurses.
• Interprets, analyses, present and distributes various data results to members of the department and other clinical and administrative team members as requested. 
• Provides data and analysis for rapidly changing requirements for internal and external reporting:  CMS including restraint reporting, Leapfrog, Nursing Quality database registry, and nursing leadership.
• Coordinates data requirements for hospital quality initiatives and provide technical expertise for members of the department and nursing leadership. 
• Maintains current knowledge of changes in reporting requirements and relevant clinical data systems and methodologies. 
• Educates, informs, and consults with customers and peers to effectively determine department/system needs and resolve problems. 
• Participates in system design. 
• Participates in working sessions with stakeholders to obtain necessary project/initiative information to or assist with execution of projects/initiatives.
• Maintains documentation to describe development, logic, corrections, and manuals for users to describe operating procedures and definitions of reporting logic. 
• Knowledgeable of the patient care environment and hospital processes.
• Performs all other duties as assigned.  

We are committed to offering quality, cost-effective benefits choices for our employees and their families:

• Day ONE medical, dental and life insurance benefits 
• Health care and dependent care flexible spending accounts (FSAs)
• Employees are eligible for enrollment into the 403(b) match plan day one.  LHI matches dollar for dollar up to 6%.
• Employer paid life insurance – equal to 1x salary
• Employee may elect supplemental life insurance with low cost premiums up to 3x salary 
• Adoption assistance
• LHI provides its full-time employees employer paid short-term disability and long-term disability coverage after 90 days of eligible employment
• Tuition reimbursement
• Student loan forgiveness

Equal Opportunity Employer
It is the policy of LMC to provide equal opportunity of employment for all individuals, and to remain compliant with applicable state and federal laws and regulations. LMC strives to provide a discrimination-free environment, and to recruit, select, on-board, and employ all employees without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, disability, national origin, veteran status, or pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions, including but not limited to, lactation. LMC endeavors to upgrade and promote employees from within the hospital where possible and consistent with the employee's desires and abilities and the hospital's needs.