Healthcare Regulatory Enforcement Specialist - Legal Analyst

Required Skills

• Knowledge of enforcement activity.
• Strong ability to make independent decisions based on state rules and regulations.
• Strong analytical skills, including the ability to organize and evaluate facts.
• High-level skills, knowledge, and ability to evaluate and examine survey and complaint investigation documents, in accordance with complex enforcement protocols.
• Efficiency in, or ability to learn, computer programs such as Microsoft Office Suite, Aspen, iQIES, SSIS, PC, Admin Portal, JIRA, Tableau, Oracle and Paradise.
• Strong writing skills and clear oral communication abilities.
• Ability to interpret and apply applicable state rules and regulations.
• Knowledge of principles and practices of legal writing and statutory construction.
• Methods for conducting legal research and analyzing complex regulatory issues.
• Skill in drafting clear, concise, and legally sufficient documents, including memos and formal correspondence.
• Synthesizing legal and clinical information into accurate written materials.
• Manage multiple drafting assignments simultaneously while meeting deadlines and maintaining high standards of accuracy.
• Ability to demonstrate initiative and work independently.
• Ability to work effectively with difficult individuals in a fast-paced and sometimes stressful environment.

Principal Responsibilities

• Write enforcement actions, including preparing orders for temporary suspension, conditional license, and revocation, and monitor compliance.
• Draft stipulation and consent orders, conditional license, temporary suspension, and revocation notices, determinations, and other enforcement documents for health care facilities.
• Draft Administrative Penalty Orders for body art and mortuary science providers; route all dispositive documents through the Section Manager and the Division Director's Office.
• Assist Attorney General's staff to prepare for and participate in hearings, as necessary, including but not limited to providing input and reviewing documents.
• Keep section management apprised of all developments.
• Monitor provider and practitioner compliance after completion of an enforcement action.
• Track compliance and report violations of terms of enforcement action.
• Independently evaluate state survey and complaint investigation enforcement remedies, recommend enforcement approaches to achieve compliance when appropriate, and execute within enforcement protocols for licensed providers, establishments, licensees, and registrants.
• Determine appropriate enforcement remedies by scope and severity, level of correction order, etc.
• Enter and confirm enforcement and decisions data in systems.
• Draft complex enforcement letters for continued non-compliance, uncorrected follow-up visits, Immediate correction orders, etc., as necessary.
• MDH Basic Document 2 Analyze survey and complaint investigation results and subsequent follow-up visits to ascertain when a facility may be relicensed, as appropriate.
• Review follow-up survey and follow-up complaint investigation results or similar allegation of compliance documentation to determine if it verifies compliance.
• Determine if follow-up results accomplish compliance.
• Recommend additional enforcement steps when necessary.
• Assure timelines for enforcement steps for facilities failing to comply with licensing orders.

Overview

Determine and/or make recommendations for enforcement actions, including but not limited to conditional license, license suspension, revocation, and monetary penalties in the event of non-compliance. Draft appropriate enforcement actions for non-compliance and substantiated maltreatment of HRD regulated facilities and individuals. The position is also responsible for ensuring facilities, licensees and registrants who have fallen out of compliance take the appropriate steps in response to enforcement actions to return to compliance, when appropriate.