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Friday is deadline to apply for job at Access Health Mahoning Valley
YOUNGSTOWN
Friday is the deadline to submit applications for the position of executive director of Access Health Mahoning Valley.
Erin Bishop, Youngstown District Board of Health commissioner, reported at Monday’s board meeting that the requirements are a bachelor’s degree in business, community health, social work, nursing or related field; a master’s degree in public health, health administration, business administration or related field preferred; and experience working with community-based services.
People interested should submit resumes to Bishop, chairwoman of Access Health Mahoning Valley’s advisory board, at ebishop@ychd.com. She is overseeing operation of the agency until a new director is chosen. Its former director, William Adams, resigned May 7. His annual salary was $45,000.
Access Health Mahoning Valley, with offices in the Youngstown City and Warren City health departments, is a nonprofit agency that helps low-income, uninsured adults in Mahoning and Trumbull counties gain access to free medical care.
Access Health helps them establish a “medical home” and improves their access to care to better their overall health and reduce unnecessary emergency-room visits, thereby cutting costs.
Responsibilities of the Access Health director are coordinating the provision of health-care services for low-income, uninsured residents of the Mahoning Valley; being accountable for the day-to-day operations of the organization; overseeing the Affordable Care Act Navigator Program and grant; and serving as chief liaison with the community, partners, other organizations and funding sources.
The Navigator Program, which helps people enroll for health insurance under the ACA, is funded by a grant from the Ohio Association of Food Banks. Bishop said Access Health recently submitted a new three-year grant to OAFB for $110,000 per year.
The health board accepted a $42,500 grant from the Ohio Commission on Minority Health, reduced from $60,000 in 2014, for operation of the Youngstown Office on Minority Health. Mayor John A. McNally, president of the board of health, said the city will absorb from its general fund the difference between the OCMH grant and the $80,000 local minority-health office 2015 budget for personnel and programs.
The purpose of the minority-health office, opened as part of the Youngstown City’s Health District in 2008, is to lead the effort to reduce health-care disparities in the minority community. It is a division of the city health department.