Our Mission

To improve the health of the communities we serve through contemporary, innovative, quality healthcare solutions.

Schedule: Full Time (40 hours per week)

What You’ll Do

The Ambulatory & Rural Health Project Manager supports Freeman Health System’s ambulatory, rural, and community-based care initiatives by serving as an embedded project management, integration, and execution resource across multiple transformation and performance improvement efforts. This role is designed to support both system-owned ambulatory practices and rural health sites, integrating clinical operations, access, quality, and performance improvement activities with broader enterprise transformation initiatives. The position operates as part of enterprise implementation teams and works alongside external consultants and internal stakeholders while remaining accountable to Freeman leadership for execution readiness, adoption, and sustained performance improvement.

Responsibilities:
Serve as an embedded project management resource across multiple ambulatory and rural health initiatives.
Support implementation teams for enterprise initiatives, acquisitions, service expansions, and operational changes impacting ambulatory clinics, rural health sites, and community-based services.
Translate operational, access, and care delivery recommendations into executable implementation plans, timelines, and milestones.
Validate assumptions and recommendations using Freeman operational data, site-specific realities, and community needs.
Ensure initiatives align with ambulatory and rural care standards, access goals, quality outcomes, and enterprise strategy.
Support future-state ambulatory and rural workflows, care models, staffing approaches, and site operations.
Partner with ambulatory operations, rural health leadership, providers, IT, revenue cycle, quality, and performance improvement teams to support implementation readiness.
Identify implementation risks, workforce constraints, site-specific dependencies, and change management considerations; support mitigation planning.
Support go-live planning, operational transitions, and early stabilization following implementations.
Track baseline performance, improvement targets, and initiative-level KPIs related to access, throughput, productivity, quality, patient experience, and financial sustainability.
Maintain dashboards, workplans, and executive reporting for ambulatory and rural health initiatives.
Act as a coordination point between ambulatory sites, rural health locations, consultants, and enterprise operational teams.
Prepare executive and governance updates, decision-support materials, and implementation status reporting.

Requirements:

Bachelor’s degree in Healthcare Administration, Business, Nursing, or related field.
7+ years of experience in ambulatory care, rural health operations, healthcare transformation, or project management.
Experience supporting multi-site ambulatory or rural health initiatives in complex healthcare environments.
Strong understanding of ambulatory and rural care operations, access models, staffing constraints, and community-based care delivery.
Proven ability to operate effectively in matrixed, multidisciplinary healthcare environments.

Freeman Perks and Programs

• For eligible full time and part time employees Freeman offers a wide variety of career opportunities, a great work culture and generous benefits, most starting day one!

• Health, vision, dental insurance

• Retirement with employer match

• Wellness program with discounts to Health Insurance or Cash Bonus with Participation

• Milestone payments with longevity of employment

• Paid Time Off (PTO)

• Extended Sick pay

• Learning Center designated only for Freeman Family members

• Payroll deduction at different locations such as The Daily Grind, Freeman Gift Shop, Cafeteria, etc.