The Maryland Health Care Commission’s Center for Health Care Facilities Planning and Development develops plans for the supply and distribution of health care facilities and services and regulates the supply and distribution of facilities and services through Certificate of Need and related oversight programs. The Commission is an independent regulatory agency that plans for health system needs, promotes informed decision-making and increased accountability, and works to improve access to needed health care services by providing timely and accurate information on availability, cost, and quality of services to policy makers, purchasers, providers, and the public. The Commission’s vision for Maryland is to ensure that informed consumers hold the health care system accountable and have access to affordable and appropriate health care services through programs that serve as models for the nation.

This position functions a Program Manager for the Long-Term Care Policy & Planning section within the Center Health Care Facilities Planning and Development and reports directly to the Center Chief. 

The primary purpose of the Program Manager  is to develop and update the State Health Plan chapters to include new or revised policies, standards and criteria; to promulgate these and other health care policies into regulations, consistent with Maryland’s regulatory process; and to maintain a strong familiarity with most current health care delivery and financing issues, including ongoing review of the literature on various health planning and policy issues from all perspectives including national, state-specific, and Maryland-specific.