Quality Patient Safety Program Manager
About The Position
The primary function of the Quality/Patient Safety Program Manager is to support, coordinate, and facilitate the quality management (QM), patient safety (PS) and regulatory performance improvement (PI) activities for the hospital and medical staff. This role also serves as a resource to employees, management, nursing directors, senior management, councils, physicians and teams on quality management activities and will handle patient sensitive and confidential hospital information. Assists in the design, planning, implementation and coordination of QM, PS and PI activities for assigned hospital and medical staff departments, committees, divisions, service lines and functions. Proactively coordinates and facilitates performance improvement teams to support key initiatives, including but not limited to, activities focused on clinical quality improvement, patient safety and risk reduction, patient experience, efficiency, FMEAS, and root cause analyses and medical staff improvement (e.g. peer review, OPPE, FPPE). Clinical performance improvement, including case review for peer review. Participates in an integral role to ensure compliance with CMS HIQRP/HOQRP, TJC, Leapfrog, etc., data collection and reporting of process and outcome measures. Facilitates development and implementation of data collection tools and processes including the ability to: identify data elements needed to complete appropriate measurement, perform data collection and abstraction per specifications, and validate data prior to submission or preview reports prior to publication. Facilitates meetings, presents data and reports, identifies key findings and assists with action plans and implementation. Maintains current knowledge of accreditation and licensing requirements and must be a resource to staff on these regulations in order to improve management of outcomes and ensure compliance. Assists with regulatory readiness and survey preparation activities including mock survey tracers. The successful candidate will be familiar with improvement methods, tools and techniques (e.g. PDSA, Tests of Change, Six Sigma, LEAN) and the ability to create and support an environment that meets the quality goals of the organization, along with Root cause analysis, data reporting and familiarity with regulatory/accredidation requirements.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or five (5) years of related job or industry experience in lieu of degree.
- One (1) year healthcare-related quality management/performance improvement experience (e.g., chart audits, PI team member, etc.) and three (3) years clinical experience in an acute care setting.
- Current state license in a clinical field in state of practice.
- Certified Professional in Healthcare Quality (CPHQ), or Healthcare Quality and Management Certification (HCQM), or Certificate of Professional Healthcare Quality and Patient Safety (CPQPS) within 2 years of employment is required.
- familiar with improvement methods, tools and techniques (e.g. PDSA, Tests of Change, Six Sigma, LEAN)
- Root cause analysis, data reporting and familiarity with regulatory/accredidation requirements.
Responsibilities
- design, planning, implementation and coordination of QM, PS and PI activities
- coordinates and facilitates performance improvement teams
- ensure compliance with CMS HIQRP/HOQRP, TJC, Leapfrog, etc., data collection and reporting of process and outcome measures
- Facilitates meetings, presents data and reports, identifies key findings and assists with action plans and implementation.
- Maintains current knowledge of accreditation and licensing requirements
- Assists with regulatory readiness and survey preparation activities including mock survey tracers.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Industry
Water Transportation
Number of Employees
5,001-10,000 employees
