Data Scientist - WFH

Gentiva is an industry leader in hospice, palliative, home health, and personal home care. Our place is by the side of those who need us, offering physical, spiritual and emotional support to patients and their families so they may make the most of every moment. We believe that better care for caregivers and clinicians means better care for everyone, so we offer ongoing professional training, lower nurse-to-patient ratios, and comprehensive benefits for eligible employees. Here, you’ll join gifted colleagues who make a lasting difference in people’s lives every day.

We are looking for a Data Scientist to join our team. This position will directly report to the Medical Economics Manager and is responsible for partnering with payers, providers and risk bearing entities to create a value based palliative care offering targeting patients approaching end of life. The role will be the first data scientist to join the team and will be instrumental in designing the function to drive value and differentiation in this exciting new business line.

• Brings industry leading data science tools and techniques to solve key business problems, such as:
  • Identifying patients that would benefit from our care model
  • Risk stratifying patients to align resources to needs
  • Identifying appropriate time for transitioning to next level of care
• Work with stakeholders throughout the organization to identify opportunities for leveraging data to make models that can generate business insights
• Explain models and put results in easy to interpret manner such that non-analytic person can understand
• Build predictive models and machine learning algorithms to analyze large amounts of information to discover trends and patterns

• Bachelors degree in computer science, data science, statistics, mathematics, analytics or related field, master’s degree preferred
• 2+ years of progressively complex experience in machine learning and analytics
• Experience with large healthcare analytics projects
• Preferred experience working with project management tool like Jira
• Preferred experience with web services DataBricks, Spark, Oracle Cloud, and/or Azure
• Preferred to be proficient in at least 1 version control tool like git
• Preferred experience with NLP and Computer Vision tools and libraries such as OpenCV, spaCY, Transformers, Attention models

• Comprehensive Benefits Package: Health Insurance, 401k Plan, Tuition Reimbursement, PTO
• Opportunity to participate in a Fleet Program
• Competitive Salaries
• Mileage Reimbursement
• Professional growth and development opportunities

• This is a safety-sensitive position
• Employee must meet minimum requirements to be eligible for benefits
• Where applicable, employee must meet stage specific requirements
• We are proud to be an EEO employer
• We maintain a drug-free workplace