Overview
Position Overview
Under the administrative direction of the Primary Care Office (PCO) Manager, the PCO Analyst will provide support for HPSA/MUA/P designations and National Health Service Corps site applications. The PCO Analyst will assist the PCO Manager in updating existing shortage designations by reviewing, updating, and collecting accurate provider data from local and state sources such as the state licensing organization, state Medicaid department, the state Primary Care Association, local health departments, healthcare systems, and individual provider and clinic surveys throughout Illinois. The PCO Analyst will also provide technical assistance to sites interested in becoming an approved site for federal loan repayment programs that require site application and assist the PCO Manager in reviewing new site applications and recertifications as needed. The PCO Analyst will communicate with stakeholders about incentive programs available through the Center for Rural Health to help alleviate health professional shortages in rural and underserved areas of Illinois.
Essential Functions
- Assists in collecting accurate provider data from local and state sources such as the state licensing organization, and the state Medicaid department, the state Primary Care Association, local health departments, major healthcare systems, and individual provider and clinic surveys throughout the state, and utilizing the Primary Care Office Management Information System (PCOMIS) to prepare data for upload to the federal Shortage Designation Management System (SDMS).
- Provides technical assistance to sites interested in becoming an approved site for federal loan repayment programs that require site application.
- Assists in coordinating the Health Professional Shortage Area (HPSA) and Medically Underserved Area/Population (MUA/P) application and updating process to ensure timely and accurate assessment of health care provider shortage designations in Illinois.
- Provides technical assistance to organizations and community stakeholders about the Health Professional Shortage Area (HPSA) and Medically Underserved Area/Population (MUA/P) designation process.
- Provides technical assistance to health care facility administrators statewide to recruit health care providers to work in underserved areas by communicating about incentive programs available through the Center for Rural Health.
- Collaborates with other Department programs, and with health professional organizations and educational institutions having recruitment or placement activities to promote adequate health care in rural and underserved areas of Illinois.
- Performs other duties as required or assigned which are reasonably within the scope of duties enumerated above.
About Illinois Department Public Health
In Illinois, if you have eaten at a restaurant ... required hospital or nursing home care ... vacationed at a campground or swam at a public beach or pool ... drank a glass of milk ... got married or divorced ... had a baby, the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) has touched your life in some important way.
Assuring the quality of our food, setting the standards for hospital and nursing home care, checking the safety of recreation areas, overseeing the inspection of milk producing farms and processing plants, maintaining the state's vital records and screening newborns for genetic diseases are just some of the duties of IDPH.
In fact, IDPH has 200 different programs that benefit each state resident and visitor, although its daily activities of maintaining the public's health are rarely noticed unless a breakdown in the system occurs. With the assistance of local public health agencies, these essential programs and services make up Illinois' public health system, a system that forms a frontline defense against disease through preventive measures and education. Public health has provided the foundation for remarkable gains in saving lives and reducing suffering. Today, life expectancy is 80 years for women and 74 years for men compared with fewer than 50 years at the at the beginning of the 20th century.
In the past, IDPH directed state efforts to control smallpox, cholera and typhoid, virtually eliminated polio, reduced dental decay through fluoridation of community water supplies, and corrected sanitary conditions that threatened water and food supplies.
Today, IDPH has programs to deal with persistent problems that require continued vigilance – infectious diseases, such as AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome), HIV (human immunodeficiency virus), SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) and meningococcal disease; foodborne and communicable diseases, such as E. coli 0157: H7, monkeypox, salmonella and West Nile virus; vaccine preventable diseases; lead poisoning; lack of health care in rural areas; health disparities among racial groups, breast, cervical and prostate cancer; Alzheimer's disease; and other health threats -- sexually transmitted diseases, tobacco use, violence, and other conditions associated with high-risk behaviors. In addition, IDPH has been charged with handling the state's response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the threat of bioterrorism.
IDPH, which is one of the state's oldest agencies, was first organized in 1877 with a staff of three and a two-year budget of $5,000. IDPH, now has an annual budget of $2.9 billion in state and federal funds, headquarters in Springfield and Chicago, seven regional offices located around the state, three laboratories, and 1,200 employees.
IDPH is organized into 12 offices, each of which addresses a distinct area of public health. Each office operates and supports numerous ongoing programs and is prepared to respond to extraordinary situations as they arise.
