Job Information
Catholic Health Initiatives Quality Coordinator in Council Bluffs, Iowa
Overview
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.
Responsibilities
$7,500 Sign on Bonus Available
Monday-Friday; no weekends or holidays
Assists in the design, planning, implementation and coordination of Quality Management, Patient Safety and Performance Improvement 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, root cause analyses and medical staff improvement (e.g. case review for peer review, OPPE, FPPE).
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.
Qualifications
Licensed Registered Nurse, Licensed Clinical Pharmacist, or other Licensed Clinical Staff and three (3) years clinical experience in an acute care setting
Current state license in a clinical field in state of practice.
Must be able to perform case reviews for medical staff peer review and medical and/or surgical Registry Abstraction
One (1) year healthcare‐related quality management/performance improvement experience (e.g., chart audit, PI team member, etc.)
Pay Range
$30.47 - $44.19 /hour
We are an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.