Jacob Victory is currently the Senior Vice President of Long Term Care at the Centene Corporation, one of the nation's largest health plans with almost 20 million members in 50 states. Jacob supports Centene's subsidiary health plan, Sunshine Health, a large Florida health plan that provides government contracted, children's and Exchange-based health insurance to over one million plan members. Jacob leads Sunshine Health's Long Term Supports and Services, Medicare, and Dual Eligible health plans and is responsible for over $2.1 billion in revenues generated to support Florida's most vulnerable and medically complex population. Prior to his current role, Jacob was Chief Operating Officer of The New Jewish Home, one of New York State's leading post-acute health care systems for older adults providing short term rehabilitation, long term care, home health care, adult day health care, case management, and senior housing. Before The New Jewish Home, Jacob was Senior Vice President of Strategy, Product and Member at the Health Republic Insurance of New York, which became the nation's largest Consumer Oriented and Operated Plan (COOP) health plan, with over 215,000 members, and the largest health plan on the New York State of Health (the Exchange). Jacob was responsible for market research and strategy; product development; member experience; and operations, policy and implementation. Prior to joining Health Republic, Jacob was Vice President of Medical Operations and Program Development for Centerlight Healthcare where he was responsible for the development, implementation, and operations of clinical programs like behavioral health, palliative care, transitional care, pastoral care, volunteer services, and social work services for Centerlight's Program for All-inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) program. Jacob was also the Administrator of Centerlight PACE's diagnostic and treatment centers, leading clinical assessment units and corporate clinical initiatives tied to revenue enhancement.
Jacob has also held executive positions at the Visiting Nurse Service of New York (VNSNY), where his last position was Vice President of Performance Management Projects, focusing on implementing health care reform initiatives tied to new care delivery models and on organization-wide initiatives tasked with enhancing operational efficiencies. Jacob started his career in strategic planning holding various positions at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital and Cabrini Medical Center after completing his management residencies at the Weill-Cornell Physician Organization and Clara Maass Medical Center.
Jacob has had three health management case studies published in a graduate school textbook: Health Management Services: Cases, Readings and Commentary. In 2009, Jacob completed a year-long leadership fellowship at the CORO Leadership Center, focusing his studies on New York City’s public school system. Jacob is currently on the Board of Directors for the Home Care Association of New York State, and serves as an Advisory Board member of airNYC and Harvard Medical School's Graduate Program in Management. He was the former Board Chair of the Danza Espana/American Spanish Dance Theater. An abstract painter, Jacob has had two SoHo art exhibitions. Jacob holds a BA in English Literature, with honors, from Rutgers University, and an MPA in Health Policy and Management from NYU's Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, where he is also an Adjunct Associate Professor of Health Policy and Management.
Only open to Executive MPA students. This introductory course is designed to familiarize nursing leaders with the broader context of the health care system within which they work. It emphasizes basic concepts and ideas concerning the distribution of health and illness in society, the organization of the health care system, and the relationship of one to the other. We begin by considering the evolution of the U.S. health care system and of health policy. We then present an international perspective on the U.S. health care system with an emphasis on the Affordable Care Act, alternative government roles, current challenges and the future of the health care system. In the second part of the course, we explore divergent perspectives for analyzing health and health care: clinical, epidemiological, economic, sociological/cultural and public health. In the third part, we focus on, selected issues in HPAM: the challenge of mental health, variations in medical practice and the quality of care, health care rationing and access to care, and the implications of growing attention to social determinants of health and the growth of the medical-industrial complex for HPAM.
Class readings cover major topics in the study of health and health care delivery: the organization and financing of health care systems; cost and access to health care; health policy challenges and the Affordable Care Act; the roles of government in health systems and policy; the epidemiology of health and medical care, economic and ethical issues related to health care rationing, the social determinants of health. Along with covering these subjects, we emphasize the value of understanding diverse disciplinary perspectives, the challenges of meeting the varied (and often conflicting) needs and motivations of health care system stakeholders, and the ways in which the United States health care system differs from those of other wealthy nations.
Required for MPA Health students. This introductory course is designed to familiarize students with basic concepts and ideas concerning the distribution of health and illness in society, the organization of the health care system, and the relationship of one to the other. We begin by considering the evolution of the U.S. health care system and of health policy. We then present an international perspective on the U.S. health care system with an emphasis on the Affordable Care Act, alternative government roles, current challenges and the future of the health care system. In the second part of the course, we explore divergent perspectives for analyzing health and health care: clinical, epidemiological, economic, sociological/cultural and public health. In the third part, we focus on, selected issues in HPAM: the challenge of mental health, variations in medical practice and the quality of care, health care rationing and access to care. Finally, we conclude with a discussion of how practitioners in the field of HPAM should respond to the growing awareness of the social determinants of health and the growth of the medical-industrial complex for HPAM.
Class readings cover major topics in the study of health and health care delivery: the organization and financing of health care systems; cost and access to health care; health policy challenges and the Affordable Care Act; the roles of government in health systems and policy; the epidemiology of health and medical care, economic and ethical issues related to health care rationing, the social determinants of health. Along with covering these subjects, we emphasize the value of understanding diverse disciplinary perspectives, the challenges of meeting the varied (and often conflicting) needs and motivations of health care system stakeholders, and the ways in which the United States health care system differs from those of other wealthy nations.