Health Services Advisory Group, Inc. Looking for Project Coordinator III – SCS at Tampa, FL Full Time

Health Services Advisory Group Paid Internship Program

Are you passionate about improving the quality of healthcare?

Are you ready to leverage your talents to make healthcare better for everyone?

Do you want the opportunity to give back to your community?

Do you want to have fun at work?

Then join the growing team at Health Services Advisory Group (HSAG) that is transforming the delivery of healthcare in the United States!

HSAG Overview

Since our beginning in 1979, HSAG has been committed to improving the quality of healthcare services in order to achieve the best possible patient outcomes.

We provide:

• Healthcare quality expertise to those who deliver care and those who receive care.
• Tools and resources for patients, families, and caregivers to be advocates for their own health.

We have advanced to become a multi-state Quality Innovation Network-Quality Improvement Organization (QIN-QIO), External Quality Review Organization (EQRO), and End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) Network contractor, serving approximately:

• 12 percent of our nation’s Medicare population.
• 45 percent of our nation’s Medicaid population.
• 20 percent of our nation’s dialysis population.

Requirements

Internship Program Overview

This research internship opportunity is available to Master’s or PhD level students immediately post-graduation or during the last semester prior to graduation. The one-semester internship is paid, and each intern will acquire competencies in at least one of the following core areas:

• Performs critical review and synthesis of the health care literature to support and assess federal quality programs.
• Obtains knowledge of ESRD networks, dialysis facilities, and treatment for dialysis and kidney transplant patients.

Interns will be oriented to the core competencies. Once assigned to an HSAG project, each intern will:

• Be assigned an HSAG mentor to serve as a day-to-day point of contact.
• Meet with the project team and begin participating in all project team meetings. Ability to make presentations and communicate project results to staff.
• Perform assignments and prepare work products that contribute to the overall project.

Examples of assignments include but are not limited to the following:

• Conduct literature reviews and web-based searches focused on clinical quality measurement, CMS quality payment programs, and the use of healthcare data.
• Drafting public-facing documents, both technical and non-technical.
• Synthesize and summarize information contained in legislative mandates and proposed and final rules.
• Provide content to support the creation of research papers, policy briefs and option papers.

Recommended Skills

• Clinical Works
• Content Management
• Dialysis
• Networking
• Presentations
• Kidney Transplantation