Entry-Level Consulting Analyst â€" Huron Healthcare
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Description: Huron Consulting is currently seeking to employ Entry-Level Consulting Analyst â€" Huron Healthcare right now, this vacancy will be delegated in Illinois. Further informations about this vacancy opportunity please read the description below. Job Description:
What are we looking for?
Candidates with strong problem solving and analytical skills
Indiv! iduals who represent themselves with confidence and professionalism
Strong leaders with excellent verbal and written communication skills
People who have the ability to work cooperatively with our clients and in a team environment
Employees who can adapt to a constantly changing environment
Those who are absolutely committed to doing the best they can for our clients
We want people who love to be challenged every day, who would get bored going to the same cube, day-in and day-out, and who want the variety of working with different clients and with different teams. We want people who are willing to travel every week to our client sites to impact our clients’ operations and improve their results. And most importantly, we are looking for people who want to make a difference by helping hospitals improve their financial performance so they can continue to provide the best services to their communities.
What will the Huron Healthcare practice o! f Huron Consulting Group provide you?
Provide you with res! ponsibility that is rarely matched by a competitor
Give you the ability to become subject matter experts early in your career
Give you ownership for an workstream and hold you accountable for delivering results
Provide you with opportunities to interact directly with clients and Huron Healthcare leadership
Recognize you for being instrumental to the success of our practice
Provide you with the opportunity to work with an incredibly bright, highly diverse and talented group of people
Support a work hard / play hard culture that emphasizes passion for our work, getting results, teamwork, respecting the individual and integrity
Offer a competitive compensation and benefits package that includes medical/dental/vision/life & disability, 401(k), work/life programs, employee stock purchase plan and generous paid time off
Job Requirements:
Necessary Requirements
- Unrestricted permanent US work authorization
- Underg! raduate degree required across all disciplines
- Cumulative GPA of 3.0 or above
- Strong computer skills including Microsoft Office, specifically Excel, Access, PowerPoint, and Word
- Willingness to travel up to 100% and live in an approved living locations listed onour website
Performance Solutions
Revenue Cycle
Huron Healthcare’s Revenue Cycle solution, RevenueAscent, is behind the revenue cycle success of the nation’s highest-performing hospitals and healthcare systems. With unparalleled results at more than 100 organizations, our track record of success is significantly greater than any other in the industry. Our methods and tools are constantly evolving to set new standards as the healthcare industry changes. As a result, our clients benefit from a solution that includes leading practices that have been developed, tested, and ! refined through hundreds of successful engagements. Finally, we partner! with clients to implement our solution, working side by side with hospital staff to coach and train them for success. This fosters a fundamental change in the work culture, which ensures that results are not only sustainable but continue to improve long after the engagement is concluded.
Non-Labor
Huron Healthcare’s comprehensive approach to non-labor cost reductions stands apart in several key respects. First, our scope is broader, going beyond the standard supply chain focus to encompass every expense except labor, bad debt, and interest. Second, our team is larger and has more depth and more direct experience. The Huron Healthcare non-labor team is the largest in the industry, and is comprised of approximately 100 professionals, with many years of experience. As a result, we are also able to bring more subject matter expertise to every engagement and ensure that our team includes experts in each of the aspects of hospital operations that we touch as part ! of an engagement. Our team consists of nurses, pharmacists, architects, lab technicians, dieticians, and professionals in all areas including supply chain, information technology, telecommunications, facilities, compensation, and benefits, among others.
Workforce (Labor and Human Resources)
Huron Healthcare’s comprehensive approach to labor, compensation, benefits, and HR management costs is unique to the industry. Our solution delivers results very rapidly, typically after just six months. We bring a team of experienced content experts who work on-site, side by side with hospital managers and staff. And we work collaboratively, focusing on implementation. This approach ensures sustainability and builds a culture of continuous improvement. To maintain or improve quality levels, recruiting, and retention, we conduct a comprehensive review of existing operating performance across the organization and within the human resource function. We work with department m! anagers, physician leaders, and senior management to implement custom s! olutions and tools, achieving optimum results at lower costs.
Clinical Solutions
Clinical Operations
Our Clinical Operations solution enables our clients to achieve the highest levels of clinical excellence. The solution drives rapid, sustainable improvements in care quality, patient satisfaction and financial performance and lays the foundation required for clients to continuously improve in the evolving healthcare environment. Clinical Operations comprehensive solution rapidly improves the efficiency of key care and resource management processes in outpatient, emergency, peri-operative and inpatient settings. This creates a dramatic and substantial improvement, including improved consistency and quality of care, reduced lengths of stay and costs per case, decreased variability and care delays, and increased patient satisfaction and revenue. Our solution includes unmatched reporting capabilities that link with and optimize existing information technol! ogy to ensure that performance can be monitored, improved and continuously sustained.
Physician Services
Huron Healthcare’s practice management solution is strategically designed to enable hospitals and physicians to thrive in today’s financially challenging, regulated, and competitive environment. We achieve this by focusing on physician alignment strategies and buy-in, operational and financial performance, and practice infrastructure and management effectiveness. We are set apart by the depth and breadth of our experience. Our team is comprised of seasoned practice management executives and physicians with deep experience in leading and managing a wide array of physician practices. We use proven, data-driven methods and processes to drive change and implement a shared responsibility governance structure that fosters a culture of mutual trust.
Clinical Documentation Improvement
Huron Healthcare’s Clinical Documentation Improvement solution ! significantly improves clinical documentation, ensuring that it fully a! nd accurately reflects the severity of illness, complexity of care, and resources consumed. Improved physician documentation results in greater coding specificity, improved case mix index and appropriate reimbursement for utilized resources. Our professionals are experts in the All Patient Refined-DRG and MS-DRG systems and in the tools, strategies, systems and skills needed to achieve the most accurate documentation and coding. We work collaboratively to design a comprehensive clinical documentation program, transfer the knowledge needed to achieve organizational goals, and provide follow-up services to ensure sustainability.
Opportunity Assessment
The team is responsible for conducting opportunity assessments, which represent an integral component of the sales cycle. During an assessment, the potential financial, operational and performance improvement opportunities are identified, quantified and articulated to prospective clients. The ultimate goal of the op! portunity assessment process is to sell an implementation engagement. Assessments may vary in scope across the Performance and Clinical Solutions or may be “stand-alone†(including only one solution). The assessment process begins with the prospect being identified and is followed by intensive data gathering, data analysis, logistics planning and onsite visits. It concludes with a presentation of the findings and delivery of a business proposal to the prospect’s executives.
Huron Consulting Group is an equal opportunity employer. We recruit, employ, compensate, transfer, promote and train without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, marital status, pregnancy, disability, sexual orientation, veteran status, age, FMLA status or any other basis protected by law.
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This vacancy will be opened on: Wed, 28 Aug 2013 09:38:35 GMT
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