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The Virginia Center for Health Innovation (VCHI) is seeking a highly motivated and experienced Senior Researcher to support the launch and operations of its newly established Research Consortium. This multi-stakeholder initiative will generate timely, policy-relevant research to inform state-level health reform strategies, especially those aimed at improving value in healthcare delivery, supporting primary care sustainability, and informing evolving state priorities.
The Senior Researcher will lead and contribute to original research projects, collaborate with state agencies, academic partners, and industry advisors, and translate evidence into actionable policy guidance for Virginia and other states. The ideal candidate will have deep experience in health policy analysis, strong quantitative and/or qualitative research skills, and a demonstrated ability to work across sectors to influence public policy.
Virginia Joy in Healthcare is a statewide, first in the nation, multi-organization partnership to better understand and address the causes of clinician burnout and impediments to well-being, particularly as they relate to the provision of primary care. The pilot is an initiative of the Virginia Task Force on Primary Care.
The Primary Care Scorecard Dashboard provides an interactive exploration of the data presented in the Primary Care Scorecard with charts and maps that reflect expenditures, workforce, primary care use, outcomes, and patient experience. All map information is also available for view consolidated by locality.
INITIATIVES
Health Value Dashboard
To keep track of how Virginia performs on delivering health value and to determine how we can facilitate action for improvement, VCHI led the development of the Virginia Health Value Dashboard.
Task Force on Primary Care
Primary care faced serious challenges before COVID, but the pandemic brought these issues to light, and in fact, made them much worse. The multi-stakeholder Task Force on Primary Care was launched to address real concerns about primary care sustainability.
Smarter Care Virginia
A first in the nation learning collaborative tackling the reduction of low-value health services with the help of 7,000 clinicians and a robust Employer Task Force.
The Virginia Task Force on Primary Care is pleased to share its completed reports for SFY’24. The primary care spend report reflects information about primary care spend and utilization, including telehealth and behavioral health in primary care. There is also a total cost of care brief and a primary care scorecard. The primary care scorecard now includes a patient experience section and an interactive dashboard coming soon. A one-page comprehensive outline provides key initiatives and recommendations for SFY ’24 and ’25.
ABOUT US
WHO WE ARE
The Virginia Center for Health Innovation (VCHI) is a nonprofit, non-partisan, multi-stakeholder public private partnership established in 2012. Since the organization’s inception, VCHI has cultivated trusted relationships with key stakeholders and helped turn competition into collaboration to design a health care system in Virginia that delivers better health for patients, better satisfaction for providers, and better value for purchasers.
WHAT WE DO
VCHI is the principal trusted convener in the Commonwealth of Virginia leading cross-sector improvement in health care value. We provide transparent and equitable access to research on and the monitoring of indicators tracking the performance of Virginia’s health care delivery system and public health system on health care value and wellbeing. We champion policy changes and improvements in Virginia’s health care data infrastructure so that those who provide, receive and purchase health care can make better informed decisions.
Our Mailing Address
P.O. Box 1248
Midlothian, VA 23113