Coordinator of Disease Specialty-Ob/Gyn and Perinatal

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About the Role

In this role, you will lead coordination efforts for a designated Ob/Gyn and perinatal disease specialty program, strengthening relationships across VUMC Affiliate Hospitals and community/outlying sites. You will help ensure VUMC meets The Joint Commission (TJC) disease-specific certification (or other accrediting body) requirements, partnering closely with the Accreditation & Standards team to maintain designation as a certified center. You will also support timely, evidence-based care for patients presenting to VUMC with acute disease and ensure consistent patient education, follow-up planning, and outcomes tracking across the care continuum.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain a disease-specific network with VUMC Affiliate Hospitals and community/outlying hospitals.
• Support compliance with TJC disease-specific certification and related accreditation standards; collaborate with Accreditation & Standards to maintain certification/designation.
• Promote timely, optimal, evidence-based care using nationally recognized guidelines and organizational standards.
• Ensure disease-specific patient education is completed and documented.
• Coordinate discharge planning support, including scheduling follow-up care and serving as a post-discharge point of contact for the designated patient population.
• Collect, coordinate, and report outcomes data for the specified population.
• Partner with Patient Care Center leadership and multidisciplinary teams to meet program goals, metrics, and performance improvement initiatives.
• Establish and maintain an obstetric and perinatal disease and/or patient population-specific network with community and outlying hospitals and referring physicians, focusing on VUMC Affiliate Hospitals.
• Assure TJC Certification/Accreditation and licensing requirements are maintained; collaborate with Leadership, Standards and Accreditations Department, and Quality and Patient Safety Leadership.
• Maintain and assist with the development of protocols consistent with current national perinatal practice guidelines and support education/training for healthcare professionals.
• Facilitate continuum of care by conducting community educational activities/lectures on prevention and reduction of neonatal and perinatal risk factors.
• Assure follow-up of patients post-discharge, acting as a liaison and tracking outcomes.
• Demonstrate professional practice behaviors including preceptor/mentoring, education, and instruction of students, nursing staff, nurses, graduate, and novice nurse practitioners.
• Participate in establishing ongoing goals and objectives for the program, executing on goals and objectives as directed by the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and PCC leadership.
• Collaborate with other regional centers in the state to offer educational programs to hospitals and EMS teams.
• Provide virtual and in-person obstetric training and neonatal resuscitation training to clinical providers across middle TN through the regional perinatal center.
• Participate in data collection and prepare reports regarding regional perinatal center activities.
• Assist in post-discharge care coordination for high-risk obstetric patients and/or patients with unexpected adverse obstetric outcomes.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent relevant experience.
• Active Tennessee-issued Registered Nurse license.
• Minimum 3 years of relevant clinical and/or care coordination experience.
• High-risk birth experience strongly preferred.

Technical Capabilities

• Compliance (Intermediate): Demonstrates knowledge of the appropriate rules and regulations and applies them in difficult, stressful, and complex situations. Able to interpret and explain rules and regulations that are ambiguous or unclear. Directs others in interpreting rules and regulations on the job and trains others in them.
• Surgical Equipment Knowledge (Intermediate): Demonstrates mastery of the equipment and related devices. Has solid knowledge of performance criteria. Able to use the equipment to accomplish advanced tasks associated with the specific devices. Easily resolves equipment problems.
• Nursing Patient Assessment & Evaluation (Advanced): Demonstrates the uppermost levels of expertise in patient assessment and evaluations in challenging and complex situations. Conducts primary care patient interviews and physical examination. Often takes a lead role in complex patient care situations. Possesses expert knowledge, training, and experience to mentor less experienced peers.
• Consulting Services (Novice): Possesses sufficient fundamental proficiency to successfully demonstrate consulting services including appropriate knowledge of core technology, products, services, and operations within field of work, in practical applications of moderate difficulty. Is aware of industry trends. Attends industry seminars and forums. Understands the connection between assignments and the missions and goals of the department.

Schedule

• Monday–Friday, traditional daytime business hours.
• Ability and willingness to travel to sites up to 100 miles from the VUMC campus (mileage reimbursement provided).

Benefits

• Affordable high-quality health plan options.
• Dental and/or vision plan.
• 403(b) retirement plan.
• Paid Time Off (flex PTO).
• Tuition reimbursement and adoption assistance (maximums applied).
• Short-term and long-term disability.
• Subsidized backup childcare.
• Inpatient nursing supplemental pay program.

About the Department

The Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at VUMC is dedicated to excellence in clinical and population women’s healthcare, training the next generation of women’s healthcare providers, and answering important clinical and biologic questions in women’s health. Our faculty consists of more than 170 physicians, midwives, and nurse practitioners in the clinical divisions of General Obstetrics and Gynecology, Maternal-Fetal Medicine (MFM), Minimally Invasive Gynecologic Surgery (MIGS), Gynecologic Oncology, Female Pelvic Medicine and Reconstructive Surgery (FPMRS), and Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility.

Focused sections and services in complex family planning, pediatric and adolescent gynecology, PCOS, maternal addiction, cardiovascular disease in pregnancy, lower genital tract diseases, transgender medicine, menopausal medicine, and community/global health complement our divisional structure. One Hundred Oaks and the Vanderbilt University Hospital serve as our main ambulatory and inpatient facilities, but we have grown to nearly 10 ambulatory sites, a birthing center, and five outreach practices.