Patient Safety Program Manager DV

Responsibilities

• Provides consultative services to local and network leaders, physicians and staff to reduce the risk of harm to patients and improve clinical outcomes.
• Facilitates prioritization of improvement activities and shares knowledge as subject matter expert.
• Develops and implements innovative strategies to improve patient safety, quality of work, quality of care, and clinical quality outcomes.
• Agile in providing and prioritizing project management by leading either pro-active or reactive activities related to Quality and Safety.
• Identifies opportunities for improvement in process, structure and /or outcome and determines the appropriate process improvement methodology.
• Uses improvement data and/or methods such as RCAs, FMEAs, process walks, flow diagramming, PDSA, DMAIC, and A3s to determine causation and subsequently implement and track process Improvements projects.
• Leads multi-disciplinary project teams to ensure active participation of Quality and appropriate department personnel.
• Conducts periodic project status meetings and provides periodic status reports.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's in clinical care discipline or Engineering Required
• Masters Preferred
• 3 years clinical or healthcare related experience and/or one (1) year quality/performance improvement. Required
• 5 years clinical or healthcare related experience and/or (3) years quality/performance improvement. Preferred