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Happy New Year, HRD! We hope you had a good holiday season and were able to get some rest and celebrate with your loved ones. Here’s to another year protecting and supporting Minnesotans!
Join the 37th Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Day event: This year’s event will be focusing on the theme of Building Black Wealth and will feature Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyman, editor of The Black Agenda: Bold Solutions for a Broken System, as well as local Black performance artists, businesses, and organizations. The event will be held at the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts in St. Paul from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Monday, January 16. The event is free and there’s also a free pass for Metro Transit to help you get there. More information is available on the MDH Intranet post about the event.
Jira Timesheet Reminder: We’re off on Monday in observance of MLK, Jr, Day. Make sure you put 8 hours on your Jira timesheet for the holiday using code M206 Out of Office so that the Budget team can match everything up!
Tell us about 2022: Before we get too far into 2023, let’s take a moment to look back on all that we’ve accomplished in 2022 – because it was a lot. We’ll be sharing some of our achievements in the January 27 edition of Have You HRD?, and we want to hear about your successes. Did you complete an important project? Hit a milestone work anniversary? Learn something new that has been instrumental in your work? You can send your contributions to the Health.HRDCommunications@state.mn.us mailbox, or leave them in the HRD Feedback Box if you’d prefer to be anonymous.
We’ve got several announcements from the last few weeks to share.
- On the Federal Licensing, Certification, and Registration (LCR) team, Kelly Siegel, Monica Garcia, and Kia Moua have been promoted to Health Program Representative Seniors! They all have extensive experience with providers and state/federal statutes and regulations. Great job, ladies!
- We have two new SharePoint Site Managers for HRD this week. Becky Haberle will be supporting the federal team, and Celeste Marin will be managing the Sharepoint pages and documents related to our legislative and rulemaking work. We can’t wait to see what great things you come up with.
- Our two new Agency Policy Specialists joined us over the holidays. Jill Freudenwald comes to us from the Health Licensing Board and has a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science and a Master’s degree in Legislative Affairs, as well as 20+ years of policy and legislative experience. Celeste Marin is a paralegal who has worked in several other state agencies, and enjoys figuring out how to break down silos and procedural barriers to ensure quick, efficient work that will carry organizations forward. They’re currently preparing for this year’s legislative session, and we look forward to having their support!
Thanks to Shellae Dietrich and Lindsey Krueger for sharing the news about these promotions and introducing new staff! If you have something to celebrate, please send a note to Health.HRDCommunications@state.mn.us and we’ll put it in the next issue of Have You HRD?
The 2023 legislative session has began! Currently, we have a historic trifecta with the democrats having the majority of the House, Senate, and control of the Governor’s Office. This is the first trifecta control of Minnesota’s state government since 2013. If you are interested in reviewing any of MDH’s 2023 legislative materials, you can do so here.
A big thank you to Lynn Knight and Kim Tyson for helping with bill tracking for this session. They will be working closely with Lindsey, Jill, and Celeste to keep the division well organized and on top of the workload.
If you were not able to join the December HRD Town Hall, you can view the slides here or listen to the recording on the MDH HRD Stream channel. See slides 12 and 13 for information regarding the legislative topic. Please know that proposals do change and adjust throughout session, more updates will be provided as session unfolds.
Have a question from a legislator about a program you work in? Or a new idea they would like to put into law that impacts our work? The best response in these situations is to politely respond in a neutral way and let them know you appreciate their contact. Within this response be sure to indicate the division’s legislative staff will be glad to work with them and provide them with Lindsey Krueger and Jill Freudenwald’s names and email addresses in your response.
Legislative session brings fast and furious work with quick timelines and turnarounds. There may be times when our division director’s office, executive managers, and/or subject matter experts are pulled away for a legislative task or hearing and may have to reschedule a meeting or have a delayed email response. Thank you for your understanding and support of this very important work, which helps ensure we have policy we can implement and operationalize.
Finally, fun question for you: Do you know what Minnesota’s state soil is? To find this answer and other Minnesota State Symbols designated by law click here.
Hey there HRD! Erik Holmberg here, bringing you another data edition. This month I’d like to discuss something new that I have only recently started to explore: the programming language R.
R (yes, it is simply called “R”) is a programming language that is extremely versatile and popular in the computer programming and quantitative analysis worlds. Before I talk about R, I should probably cover what exactly I mean when I say, “computer programming.”
Computer programming is the process of writing code in a specific way, to instruct the computer to perform particular functions. There are many different languages (notation styles) that one can write computer programming with, and R is one of the most popular. It is open-source, which means that all software is 100% free and community-built. The very people who use R, are the same people create additional R content.
So with all of that technical jargon aside, what exactly does R do & why am I reading about it? Well, R can do almost anything that any other programming language can do.
The HRD data team is interested in using R for several functions. The first reason is that we want to automate repetitive processes that are currently done manually. One such example is a monthly data pull that I put together for an external partner about some assisted living data. Once the R script (collection of lines of code) is written and put together, then the data team can run the script once per month. This should save ~30-60 minutes per month of time, in addition to having the process documentation built in.
The documentation is important because it allows for anyone to go in and see exactly what was done, without needing to ask the person who did the analysis. This helps for knowledge transfer and consistency of business operations during staff absences/departures.
The other reason we want to use R is to perform more complex analyses and operations, which can encompass a whole host of different tasks. Adding different analyses will allow HRD to gain further insights into a whole range of points and empower us to do our work better, faster, and smarter.
If you have any requests for data, please reach out and I’ll get working on it. If you have any questions about this or anything else, feel free to reach out!
Contact Info: erik.holmberg@state.mn.us
This week, we have the following positions available, and more are coming soon. Please share them with anyone that you think would help make HRD a better place to work!
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Survey and Review Unit Supervisor (Federal Operations), Job ID: 61787: The Licensing and Certification Program in the Health Regulation Division is looking for a health professional that will be part of a team to plan, organize, direct and implement policies, procedures and activities for evaluation of licensed and certified health care providers and suppliers. This position will supervise a unit of surveyors responsible for the evaluation of health care provider organizations to ensure regulation compliance and the provision of quality care. This position will supervise staff in the Duluth area. Closes January 13, 2023.
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Executive Regional Operations Manager (State Operations), Job ID: 62033: The Regional Operations Executive Manager will act as the State subject matter expert (SME) related to health regulations. As part of the executive team, this position provides strategic input into the overall direction of the division based on State requirements. This role manages State regulatory requirements that include the preparation of services associated with evaluations and other work related to achieving the organization’s mission and long-term goals in supporting Minnesotans. Closes January 26, 2023.
These positions are open to internal and external candidates. If you would like to apply, please follow the steps below:
- Sign into Employee Self Service
- On My Homepage, click on Careers and enter the Job Opening ID in the Search Jobs box and click Search.
- Click on the job title to view the job posting.
- Click Apply for This Job in the top right-hand corner.
We don’t have any new people this week, but we’ve had a bunch of people join us over the holidays! Send them a message to say hello if you have a moment.
- Consuelo Chillman, Federal Operations (Evaluation)
- Jill Freudenwald, Policy, Rules, and Reconsiderations (Rules)
- Carley Harvey, Federal Operations (Rapid Response)
- Angelo Kokovi, Federal Operations (Rapid Response)
- Heather Lien, Federal Operations (Evaluation)
- Celeste Marin, Policy, Rules, and Reconsiderations (Rules)
- Kassie Marking, Federal Operations (Evaluation)
- Lanisha Pojanowski, Federal Operations (Evaluation)
- Connie Schneiderhan, Federal Operations (Evaluation)
- Mae Spartz, Federal Operations (Rapid Response)
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