Risk Management Specialist

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

• Investigate and assist with patient grievances, potential serious adverse events, reported professional liability incidents and general liability incidents as needed.
• Oversight of SafetyHub-Patient Safety module, event reporting system for tracking and trending potential areas of organizational risks and patient safety concerns.
• Work with area leaders, quality/patient safety and others on investigations of serious adverse events and/or significant near misses with providing guidance on apparent cause/root cause analysis ensuring use of appropriate corrective actions.
• Review medical records for care and treatment concerns that may pose liability issues with investigations.
• Assist with Risk Assessments, and risk-management education on medical/legal topics as directed.
• Attend required hospital-wide orientations, meetings, and in-services.
• Demonstrate a commitment to flexible work scheduling when necessary to ensure patient care.
• Identify and evaluate risks as a means to reduce injury to patients, staff members, and visitors within the organization.
• Work proactively and reactively to either prevent incident or to minimize the damages following an event as identified.
• Maintain and utilize the event reporting system to track and trend potential areas of risk and to identify patient safety concerns.

Qualifications

• Minimum Required Education: Bachelor’s Degree of science, healthcare related, finance, business, economics.
• Experience: Three (3) years experience in healthcare, risk/liability management, finance, insurance, or healthcare.
• Certificates, Licenses, Registrations: Certified Professional in Healthcare Management within two (2) years of hire.