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Worker Type:

Regular

Job Highlights:

SSM Health is a Catholic, not-for-profit health system serving the comprehensive health needs of communities across the Midwest through a robust and fully integrated health care delivery system. The organization’s 40,000 team members and more than 12,800 providers are committed to providing exceptional health care services and revealing God’s healing presence to everyone they serve.
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With care delivery sites in Illinois, Missouri, Oklahoma and Wisconsin, SSM Health includes 23 hospitals, more than 300 physician offices and other outpatient and virtual care services, 13 post-acute facilities, comprehensive home care and hospice services, a pharmacy benefit company, a health insurance company and an accountable care organization. It is one of the largest employers in every community it serves.

We are hiring a Privacy manager to monitor the privacy program operations and provide input into departmental goal development.

Preferred:

• Expertise in research and third party contract management

• Expertise in legal, HIM, electronic record management and/or EPIC/EHR certification.

Job Summary:

Responsible for managing staff investigation, workforce monitoring, and training and communication activities. Oversees routine data sharing with third parties, performs risk assessments and develops work plans to manage critical risks, maintains effective privacy policies, and assists leadership in implementing strategic privacy initiatives and reporting on all elements of the system privacy program.

Job Responsibilities and Requirements:

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Provides input into the short-term goals and manages privacy program operations. Actively advances expertise and skills related to compliance with federal and state privacy laws, industry standards, and leading practices.
• Frequently serves as the subject matter expert related to privacy regulations, customer service, risk assessment and work plan development, and effective investigation management and often completes key tasks or projects requiring this expertise.
• Supports departmental staff in their day-to-day processes and protocols for intake, discovery, outcome, breach analysis, and mitigation/corrective action. Manages timely completion of issue documentation within the compliance risk repository and reports out volumes, trends, and other critical information to inform strategic direction of the privacy program.
• Oversees processes for monitoring workforce access, use, and disclosure of protected health information through automated alerts of potentially inappropriate data access and exfiltration. Provides direction on content, messaging, and delivery of HIPAA training and communication activities administered by privacy specialists. 
• Maintains portfolio of privacy policies that are current and relevant and assists in policy interpretation as needed to address privacy issues and concerns.
• Assists in implementation and management of a data privacy framework to support role-based user access and routine data sharing with business partners, affiliates, and third-party clinicians, and others with whom protected health information is shared.
• Provides guidance on record retention, release, amendment, sharing and restriction of patient information, accounting of disclosures, and other obligations under HIPAA and other regulations. 
• Oversees periodic privacy risk assessments, privacy walk-throughs, record retention rounds, and other ongoing compliance monitoring activities in coordination with the SSM Corporate Responsibility, local Human Resource offices, and operational assessment functions.
• Works effectively as a team member in a dynamic environment and promotes teamwork within and across the organization by maintaining positive relationships and utilizing effective problem solving skills.
• Coaches and mentors employees. Creates a culture of employee engagement. Organizes departments within the organization through appropriate structure and delegation of functions. Identifies succession planning needs within the organization. 
• Performs other duties as assigned.

EDUCATION

• Bachelor’s degree

EXPERIENCE

• Seven years’ experience, with four years’ leadership

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS

• Frequent lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 0-25 lbs.
• Frequent sitting, standing, walking, reaching and repetitive foot/leg and hand/arm movements.
• Frequent use of vision and depth perception for distances near (20 inches or less) and far (20 feet or more) and to identify and distinguish colors.
• Frequent use of hearing and speech to share information through oral communication. Ability to hear alarms, malfunctioning machinery, etc.
• Frequent keyboard use/data entry.
• Occasional bending, stooping, kneeling, squatting, twisting and gripping.
• Occasional lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 25-50 lbs.
• Rare climbing.

Department:

8821000033 Corp Responsibility

Work Shift:

Day Shift (United States of America)

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

40

SSM Health is an equal opportunity employer. SSM Health does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity,pregnancy, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. Click here to learn more.