Manager Quality-Patient Safety

CHI St. Alexius Health Dickinson, part of CommonSpirit Heath, a national nonprofit health system based in Englewood, Colorado. The faith-based system operates in 18 states and includes 103 hospitals. Additional services offered within the system are: long-term care, assisted and residential living communities, community health services organizations, home health agencies, and numerous outpatient facilities.

As a Quality Improvement Manager, you will be solely responsible for administering and managing the facility's quality improvement and risk management programs.

Daily, you will oversee quality initiatives, monitor performance, and drive continuous improvement for patient safety. You will also manage risk identification, assessment, mitigation, and reporting, ensuring regulatory compliance and minimizing liabilities, fostering a culture of safety and excellence.

Success in this role requires a deep understanding of healthcare quality and risk management, strong analytical and leadership skills, an unwavering commitment to patient safety, and the ability to implement robust programs.

• Assists in the design, planning, implementation and coordination of Quality Management, Patient Safety and Performance Improvement activities for the assigned hospital(s) 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.
• Participates in an integral role to ensure compliance with CMS HIQRP/HOQRP, TJC, Leapfrog, etc., data collection and reporting of process and outcome measures.
• 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. Provides consultation and assists physicians, ancillary and nursing departments with regulatory compliance issues. Supports implementation of regulatory initiatives.
• Oversees the events reporting process, root cause analysis, and event investigation/review. Supports and encourages harm reporting throughout the organization through a non-punitive just event reporting system. Participates in system office initiatives and programs to mitigate risks identified at other hospitals, resulting in reduced costs, adverse patient outcomes and ultimately safer patient practices/care. Prepares and presents informative and actionable patient safety reports (to include patient's story of harm) to appropriate committees to include high level presentations to leadership, Medical Executive Committee and The Board.

Required

• Bachelors Other in a healthcare-related field or five (5) years of related job or industry experience in lieu of degree., upon hire and
• Minimum of three (3) years of progressive management responsibility in an acute care setting and
• One (1) of which is related to managing an organization’s Quality Improvement Program including quality improvement methodology and data analysis and
• Minimum of three (3) years of risk management, patient safety and/or other related professional experience and
• Experience developing and implementing clinical, service and operational process improvement initiatives and
• Minimum of two (2) years of clinical, patient care experience or equivalent
• Registered Nurse: ND, upon hire or
  • Registered Nurse Practitioner: ND, upon hire or
  • Dietitian: ND, upon hire or
  • Pharmacist: ND, upon hire or
  • Physical Therapist: ND, upon hire or
  • Occupational Therapist: ND, upon hire or
  • Speech Language Pathologist: ND, upon hire or
  • Medical Radiographer: ND, upon hire or
  • Respiratory Care Practitioner: ND, upon hire or
  • Social Worker: ND, upon hire or
  • Doctor of Medicine: ND, upon hire or
  • Doctor Osteopathic Medicine: ND, upon hire and
  • Certified Professional in Healthcare Quality, within 24 - months or
  • Healthcare Quality Mgmt, within 24 - months or
  • Cert Prof Healthcare Qual, within 24 - months