Director - Post-Acute & Community Partnerships

The Director of Post-Acute & Community Partnerships is responsible for enterprise-wide post-acute performance, including strategy, governance, partner alignment, and financial outcomes under Maryland’s Total Cost of Care (TCOC) and AHEAD models.

The Director leads structured collaboration with Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNFs), Inpatient Rehabilitation Facilities (IRFs), Long-Term Acute Care Hospitals (LTACHs), and Home-Based Care partners to reduce avoidable readmissions, improve post-acute throughput, optimize episode performance, and strengthen system-wide care integration.

This role serves as the enterprise owner of post-acute performance, accountable for measurable improvements in length of stay, readmissions, and total cost of care across the system.

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·         Provides leadership and direction to post-acute network performance team, including Manager-level and professional staff responsible for execution of enterprise strategy.

·         Establishes and leads enterprise post-acute governance structures, including performance standards, escalation pathways, and partner alignment strategies to drive outcomes beyond the hospital stay.

·         Accountable for achieving measurable financial and operational outcomes, including reduction in avoidable inpatient days, readmissions, and post-acute utilization costs.

·         Establishes enterprise-wide quality and patient safety frameworks and ensures effective execution of clinical and organizational improvement initiatives through operational leadership.

·         Accountable for building and sustaining a data-driven, performance-based post-acute network model aligned to system financial sustainability and clinical quality goals.

·         Develops a preferred partner tiering strategy and leads a system-wide preferred network or collaborative.

·         Provides leadership oversight for recruitment and retention efforts for care navigation, clinical transitions, and post-acute network performance staff.

·         Serves as a strategic partner to executive clinical and operational leadership (CMO, Care Management, Service Line Leaders) to drive system-wide performance in readmissions, length of stay, and post-acute utilization.

·         Leads and contributes to the development and execution of long-range strategy for post-acute and community partnerships in collaboration with executive leadership.

·         Represents the post-acute and care transitions team at departmental, hospital and health system meetings with other leaders.

·         Ensures enterprise post-acute partnership strategy complies with federal and state regulatory requirements, including patient choice protections, anti-kickback statutes, and CMS discharge planning regulations.

·         Provides structured decision support through scenario modeling, risk analysis, and performance forecasting related to post-acute utilization and discharge disposition trends.

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• Master’s degree strongly preferred (MBA, MHA, MPH, Nursing, or related field).
• Minimum 3 years of progressive healthcare leadership experience.
• Demonstrated experience in one or more:
• Post-acute strategy
• Population health
• Care continuum operations
• Value-based payment models
• Healthcare network development
• Experience in Maryland’s TCOC or similar global budget environment strongly preferred.
• Proven ability to influence executive and external partner stakeholders.
• High ethical standards and a commitment to compliance
• Excellent organizational, time management and problem-solving skills
• Ability to function effectively as part of a multi-disciplinary team

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Requires travel between Luminis Health campuses and post-acute partner facilities.

Physical Demands – Light Duty

The physical demands and work environment that have been described are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act.

The above job description is an overview of the functions and requirements for this position.  This document is not intended to be an exhaustive list encompassing every duty and requirement of this position; your supervisor may assign other duties as deemed necessary.