Region Director Phys Enterprise Ambulatory Quality

We believe in the healing power of humanity and serving the common good through our dedicated work and shared mission to celebrate humankindness. 

With more than 700 care sites across the U.S. from clinics and hospitals to home-based care and virtual care services CommonSpirit is accessible to nearly one out of every four U.S. residents. Our world needs compassion like never before. Our communities need caring and our families need protection. With our combined resources CommonSpirit is committed to building healthy communities advocating for those who are poor and vulnerable and innovating how and where healing can happen both inside our hospitals and out in the community.

You have a purpose, unique talents and now is the time to embrace it, live it and put it to work. We value incredible people with incredible skills – but your commitment to a greater cause is something we value even more. This is the heartbeat of our organization and your time will be spent in a supportive, team environment with resources to help you flourish and leaders who care about your success.

The Region Director, Physician Enterprise - Ambulatory Quality reports to the System SVP of PE Region or their designee with a dotted line report to the System SVP of Ambulatory Quality. The Physician Enterprise Region Director of Ambulatory Quality provides effective leadership and direction from an ambulatory quality and patient safety perspective within clinic practices across the Region. This role collaborates with the System Vice President of Ambulatory Quality, market Physician Enterprise Senior Vice President(s), Population Health quality leadership, System Vice President of Clinical Standards and Variation Reduction, Clinical Quality & Risk Liaison, Region Vice President of Quality and Patient Safety and other leadership team members in the common goal of standardization, integration and enhancement of clinic-based services available within designated geographic area(s). This role designs and oversees the Region's Ambulatory Quality Structure, Performance Improvement approach, Patient Safety and Infection Prevention activities, and deployment of national initiatives to achieve highly reliable processes, outstanding clinical outcomes and improvements to population health across the care continuum. In addition to the primary responsibilities of this role, this position role is also expected to support other existing market responsibilities, ensuring alignment of ambulatory quality initiatives with market-specific needs and priorities including being a resource to employees and management, councils, physicians and teams on quality management activities and will handle patient sensitive and confidential clinic information.

Ideal candidate will have a background in nursing and be located within the region for travel purposes. 

In addition to bringing humankindness to the workplace each day, qualified candidates will need the following:

• 5 years progressive clinical leadership experience in healthcare required.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in healthcare quality in a leadership role required.
• Minimum of 2 years of experience in ambulatory quality required.
• Bachelors of Science Degree or Equivalent in a related clinical discipline required
• Master’s degree preferred.
• Certification as a Certified Professional in Healthcare Quality (CPHQ) is required within two years of employment.
• Experience in a matrix management environment involving integration of multiple entities is strongly desired.

Physical Requirements
Sedentary work - prolonged periods of sitting and exert up to 10 lbs. force occasionally