Benefits:

401(k)

Dental insurance

Health insurance

Duties and Responsibilities

· Assist with development and launching of a state/jurisdiction capacity system that includes near-time bed capacity counts for the state’s/jurisdiction’s acute care hospitals, including critical access hospitals.

· Must be able to manage user account and security parameters for access to the web-based dashboard to coordinate daily, surge, and crisis needs.

· Help coordinate emergency department data, organized per NHSN definitions to Hospital Capacity Data Store at least twice per day on an ongoing basis. Data would include emergency department (ED) census, ED Admitted census (boarding) and ED pressure indicator by count of all patients in the ED that have a physician assigned.

· Create possible items listed below to support the states'/jurisdiction’s ongoing participation in the NHSN Connectivity Initiative, such as:

· Develop communications and training materials for onboarding identified stakeholders and hospital users.

· Provide training and onboarding services to participating hospitals and stakeholders.

· Work with the state’s/jurisdiction's hospitals to collect necessary information for dashboard development and implementation.

· Provide a common framework of data elements to include on the dashboard and in the data feed.

· Facilitate the gathering and engagement of hospitals’ technical staff to work on automated and secured data feeds perspecifications supported by the web-based application.

· Assist the state/jurisdiction to advise on shared governance model(s) for discussions and decision-making to support this work.

· Testing and validation of data feeds; and draft progress milestone for inclusion in progress report/lessons learned.

· Manages the participation and permission process/clearances (to send data to NHSN) of participating hospitals. Also provides permission to allow for use of state’s/jurisdiction’s data in conjunction with other participating entities for research and emergency planning by the state and federal health partners.

· Obtain signed commitment from acute care hospitals in the state/jurisdiction to participate in the project through an established participation agreement.

· Provide ongoing instructions and serve as key resource to assist with the scaling of the CDC NHSN Connectivity Initiative to other states/jurisdictions; and help to ensure that all terms of the CDC funding agreement are met.

· Facilitates efforts to improve clinical and service outcomes throughout the state as related to pediatric emergency care, utilizing federal/national guidance (including but not limited to the American Academy of Pediatrics, Assistant Secretary for Preparedness & Response, Centers for Disease Control, Emergency Medical Services for Children, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Institute of Medicine, Joint Commission).

· Works with Indiana Emergency Departments to assess areas of need, conduct gap analyses, communicate pediatric standards and disseminate resources as appropriate.

· Develops and facilitates bi-monthly State Pediatric Emergency Care Workgroup meetings and actively assumes project leadership responsibilities through planning, coordination of workgroup activities and development of tools, educational modules, and resources for workgroup review.