OhioHealth ยท 3 weeks ago
Director of Quality and Patient Safety
Mansfield, OH
Full-time
Onsite
Director/ExecutiveOhioHealth is a health system that believes in empowering individuals to take charge of their health. The Director of Quality and Patient Safety is responsible for leading initiatives that improve clinical quality and patient safety across multiple sites, collaborating with various stakeholders to align resources and achieve top decile performance in patient care.
Health Care
Responsibilities
Responsible for overall operations of clinical quality, patient safety, clinical standardization, accreditation, and other clinical excellence initiatives for assigned portfolio
Develops and implements initiatives and supplies resources that support the OH Strategic Plan, Quality Assessment and Performance Improvement and the OH Patient Safety Plan
Facilitates strategic planning and goal deployment, and engagement of physicians, clinicians and administrative staff in process improvement programs that raise the standard of patient care and safety
Leads or contributes to system quality and safety initiatives
Supports core competencies of people development, results driver, and culture builder
Oversight of Local QAPS teams and processesProvides leadership and prioritization of appropriate work and operations of clinical quality, patient safety, clinical standardization, accreditation, and other clinical excellence initiatives for assigned areas of the business, which may span a broad geographic region
Providing vision, direction, and resource support of related initiatives with the goal of helping each OH site to improve the standard of patient care to achieve top decile performance
Develops the manager(s) to be key contact for day-to-day operations
Identifies and implements efficiencies amongst the regional sites
Collaboration with local leadership teamsDevelops and maintain relationships with physician quality leaders, hospital executives and clinical-administrative leaders to optimally facilitate all quality, patient safety and clinical standardization initiatives
Acts as coach and thought partner to caresite and system leaders
Maintains reporting relationships with local leadership teams on a regular basis including leadership team meetings, attends key medical staff meetings and compiles data and reports for key hospital meetings
May involve attending and reporting out at Governance Council, Board meetings, MECs, etc
System Quality and Patient Safety RoleWorks under the direction of System Quality and local leadership in the prioritization of work in each area of the work
Leads and/or engages in system work teams focused on the balanced scorecard or other defined priority work
Encourages and includes care site participation in system teams
Develops and implements communication and change management strategies that keep all levels of the organization senior executives, physician leadership and associates informed and engaged in patient safety, clinical quality, and error reduction programs
Works with system analytics to supports the analysis and communication of patient safety event and quality indicator data and uses this information to evaluate the success of patient safety and clinical quality programs
Makes recommendations to senior leadership to enhance or refine priorities and processes
May contribute to updates relating to scorecard support or other operationally driven clinical data opportunities
Development and EducationAssists in development and support of the personal and professional development of QPS managers and associates
Leads education and training in problem solving methodology and provides continuous feedback to the local teams
Qualification
Required
Master's Degree (Required)
RN - Registered Nurse - Ohio Board of Nursing
Advanced degree in a healthcare-related field (Master's or above), or advanced degree in business with prior experience leading a healthcare Quality team
In depth knowledge of hospital systems including but not limited to practices, operations, and support services
Experience with and knowledge of continuous improvement philosophies and tools, including Lean management systems, coaching and improvement katas
Expertise in error prevention training, root cause analysis, apparent cause analysis and common cause analysis, process improvement methodologies, project management methodologies
Understanding of the application of clinical quality data, decision support systems, event reporting/tracking systems
Strong background in change management
Established skills in strategy development and work prioritization, leadership, facilitation, negotiation, consensus building, organization, time management, team building, and conflict identification and resolution
Excellent teaching and presentation skills
Outstanding listening, interpersonal relationship building, and problem-solving skills
Able to prioritize and manage multiple projects simultaneously with demonstrated ability to complete projects successfully on time and within budget
Experience working in complex matrix organizations, building trusting relationships, influencing, and aligning diverse stakeholders to achieve a common vision
Ability to engage physicians, peers, and other members of the healthcare team in supporting quality initiatives
Understands administrative concepts, organizational behavior, legal and ethical matters, healthcare economics, health and public policy, consumer health issues and outcomes measures
Company
OhioHealth
The largest integrated healthcare delivery network in central Ohio.
Founded in 1891
10001+ employees
H1B Sponsorship
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2023 (5)
2022 (1)
2021 (8)
2020 (9)
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
unknownKey Investors
Parkinson's Foundation
2024-10-14Acquired
2023-07-25Grant
Leadership Team
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Lora Montgomery
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