Dakota Barr Email & Phone Number

• Facilitates and maintains improved healthcare outcomes for members by providing advocacy, collaboration, and support for members through various care management tools and resources.
• Conducts assessments and analyzes clinical data to recommend an approach to resolving care needs using internal and external programs and services.
• Utilizes a holistic approach to overcome barriers to healthcare goals and objectives.
• Identifies and escalates quality of care issues through established channels to ensure appropriate member outcomes.
• Manage and sustain large-scale, ever-evolving directories of community resources, orchestrating the collection and verification of information through strategic stakeholder collaboration, utilizing a suite of tools.
• Utilizes negotiation skills to secure appropriate options and services necessary to meet the member’s benefits and/or healthcare needs.

Lexington, Kentucky, United States

• Oversaw the Navigator program, a program designed to reduce disparities in access to health coverage by linking residents to insurance options, including Medicaid, the KY Prescription Assistance Program, and K-CHIP.
• Administered the Medication Assistance Program and through targeted marketing and partnerships with community organizations, increased community awareness and participation in program by 400%.
• Managed and motivated a team of Navigators to consistently avoid deficiencies in performance.
• Compiled necessary data to ensure Navigators were performing at adequate levels to meet contractual requirements set by the Cabinet for Health and Family Services.
• Strengthened collaboration with community partners by increasing interdepartmental and interagency communication.
• Enhanced existing resources by improving referral process within Agency and with community partners.

Lexington, Kentucky

• Assisted patients with applying for federal and state assistance programs, including Medicaid and SSI/SSDI
• Process applications for the University of Kentucky HealthCare Financial Assistance Program
• Linked patients and their families to external assistance programs, such as SNAP/WIC, local nonprofits and churches, and childcare assistance program.
• Served as a liaison between various departments, including social work, clinic staff, Revenue Management, and external nonprofits and vendors
• Utilized effective training protocols to train incoming colleagues on EHR and other hospital systems, Medical policies and standards, and other trainings as assigned
• Verified insurance and explaining benefits

Morehead, Kentucky

• Performed state-ordered audits of school immunization records.
• Worked with and increased fundraising efforts for school Youth Resource Centers.
• Organized, led, and evaluated health instruction and curriculum.
• Counseled students on career and college readiness.
• Coordinated training programs and professional development for both students and prospective staff members.

Morehead, Kentucky

• Executed the review, processing, and maintenance of meticulous records of Morehead State University publications and historical documents.
• Helped spearhead and develop the Kentucky Marriage Equality and Religious Liberty Oral History Project, a project dedicated to understanding how these concepts fit within an accurate historical context.
• Involvement grew to Lead Oral History Interviewer, which afforded me the opportunity to interview over 40 community stakeholders, including high-ranking government officials.
• Promoted the use Digital Commons, a platform that empowers academia to make and showcase their research, which not only fostered public accessibility to scholarly research but enabled the formation of partnerships with.

Morehead, Kentucky

• Recruited, trained, and led a highly dedicated group of 40+ volunteers and 16 full- and part-time staff members.
• Conducted payroll, scheduling, and other administrative services.
• Organized internal and external campaign events.
• Promoted campaign/candidate via canvassing, phonebanking, and digital marketing.
• Computed detailed statistical analysis of projected outcomes and contingencies.
• Conducted data entry and other administrative duties through NGP VAN.