National Association of Latino Healthcare Executives · 6 hours ago
Sepsis, Quality & Safety Improvement Consultant V, Clinical Quality Consulting (KFH/HP)
Los Angeles, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
5+ years expThe National Association of Latino Healthcare Executives is looking for a Sepsis, Quality & Safety Improvement Consultant V. This role involves providing consultation and education related to clinical quality and patient safety, as well as developing and implementing evidence-based guidelines to optimize patient outcomes and reduce variation in clinical practice.
Health CareHospitalMedical
Responsibilities
Promotes learning in others by communicating information and providing advice to drive projects forward; builds relationships with cross-functional stakeholders. Listens, responds to, seeks, and addresses performance feedback; provides actionable feedback to others, including upward feedback to leadership and mentors junior team members. Practices self-leadership; creates and executes plans to capitalize on strengths and improve opportunity areas; influences team members within assigned team or unit. Adapts to competing demands and new responsibilities; adapts to and learns from change, challenges, and feedback. Models team collaboration within and across teams
Conducts or oversees business-specific projects by applying deep expertise in subject area; promotes adherence to all procedures and policies. Partners internally and externally to make effective business decisions; determines and carries out processes and methodologies; solves complex problems; escalates high-priority issues or risks, as appropriate; monitors progress and results. Develops work plans to meet business priorities and deadlines; coordinates and delegates resources to accomplish organizational goals. Recognizes and capitalizes on improvement opportunities; evaluates recommendations made; influences the completion of project tasks by others
Develops and implements data collection and analyses to support quality improvement efforts by: conducting advanced statistical analysis for quality improvement evaluations, special projects, and other work for multidisciplinary review; investigating opportunities to improve the reporting and narrative summaries of improvements by integrating multiple utilization data reporting systems to develop and maintain a variety of statistical reports in a format which enables care providers to see variations in practice patterns; presenting quality improvement metric reports to demonstrate improvements and effectiveness of quality improvement programs to department and program managers; and serving as a technical expert to team members, supervisor, and key stakeholders by interpreting trends, potential errors, and other analyses, by assisting in problem resolution for data source analysis, and by advising on the application of results
Supports in-depth and advanced quality improvement and improvement risk management efforts by: researching corrective action plan for areas of improvement identified through utilization review, clinical records audit, claim denials, member satisfaction surveys, and auditing surveys for their cost effectiveness and impact on department functioning; ensuring process improvements are compliant with established internal and external regulation requirements at the local and state level; conducting complex root cause analysis, failure mode and effect analysis, and other assessments in response to significant events near misses, and good catches in order to identify areas of improvement and evaluate newly internalized processes and programs; and proactively escalating high-risk issues and trends to appropriate entity for resolutions
Investigates opportunities to develop new and improve current quality improvement performance metrics development, collection, and utilization by: researching and recommending best practices in the development of performance metrics, standards, and methods to establish improvement success; consulting with multiple stakeholders, often with competing/conflicting objectives, to ensure development of cohesive and reachable metrics are practical, meet multidisciplinary standards, and are approved at the department level; and designing the delivery of measurable results and alignment with strategic objectives by integrating metric utilization into workflows with sound methodology
Facilitates the development of quality improvement initiatives by: leveraging and implementing advanced technology, methods, and tools to develop stakeholders capabilities for process improvements; monitoring the use of data-driven improvement principles, tools, and problem-solving methods, including Lean/Six-Sigma concepts and techniques using quality improvement metrics; and synthesizes key information and works to break down issues into logical part for the creation of milestones, detailed workplans, and documentation practices in order to create a clear, logical, and realistic plan
Serves as the subject matter expert for quality improvement processes and regulations for internal and external stakeholders by: providing consultation independently on the interpretation and interaction of current policies, and how they interact with the current climate, and potential changes to regulations and legislation; serving as a technical advisor on committees, projects to drive discussions on drawing guidelines on the enforcement, development of policies or procedures of regulations and auditing processes; fostering collaborative, results oriented partnerships to ensure compliance with regulations and improve patient safety, maintain the KP safety culture, reporting accuracy, and health outcomes and provides insight to the regulation climate; developing educational programs to raise awareness for changes in regulation requirement, internal concerns, and system/database usage; and anticipating issues and weighs practical and technical considerations in addressing issues and coordinates with the appropriate stakeholders to develop resolutions
Develops stakeholder development and quality performance review processes by: developing and improving the utilization and performance reviews processes by utilizing multidisciplinary criteria and guidelines, and takes a systematic approach to quality improvement; identifying performance areas of improvement for at the program, provides feedback and coaching as needed, and develops a corrective plan; presenting performance review reports at the program level to department managers; and developing the curriculum for training and educational programs related to process improvement for quality improvement programs
Qualification
Required
Providing consultation and education related to clinical quality and patient safety, accreditation, regulatory and licensing (AR&L), risk management, and infection prevention and control
Evaluating, designing, developing, and implementing evidence-based guidelines, principles, and/or programs related to area of work as well as to reduce variation in clinical practice and optimize patient outcomes
Collecting, analyzing, reporting, and presenting clinical data for a variety of users including for state, federal, and local agencies
Facilitating education regarding the interpretation of compliance methods when preparing for regulatory reviews, the interpretation of regulatory requirements, and regional project goals
Monitoring, reporting, and developing mitigation plans for all occurrences which may lead to medical center liability adjusting to remove barriers and/or issues, as necessary
Supporting the medical centers continuous survey readiness program to maintain compliance with regulatory standards
Serving as a liaison with applicable government agencies, regulatory agencies, and other organizations
Promoting learning in others by communicating information and providing advice to drive projects forward
Building relationships with cross-functional stakeholders
Listening, responding to, seeking, and addressing performance feedback
Providing actionable feedback to others, including upward feedback to leadership and mentoring junior team members
Practicing self-leadership; creating and executing plans to capitalize on strengths and improve opportunity areas
Influencing team members within assigned team or unit
Adapting to competing demands and new responsibilities
Conducting or overseeing business-specific projects by applying deep expertise in subject area
Promoting adherence to all procedures and policies
Partnering internally and externally to make effective business decisions
Determining and carrying out processes and methodologies
Solving complex problems; escalating high-priority issues or risks, as appropriate
Monitoring progress and results
Developing work plans to meet business priorities and deadlines
Coordinating and delegating resources to accomplish organizational goals
Recognizing and capitalizing on improvement opportunities
Evaluating recommendations made; influencing the completion of project tasks by others
Developing and implementing data collection and analyses to support quality improvement efforts
Conducting advanced statistical analysis for quality improvement evaluations, special projects, and other work for multidisciplinary review
Investigating opportunities to improve the reporting and narrative summaries of improvements by integrating multiple utilization data reporting systems
Presenting quality improvement metric reports to demonstrate improvements and effectiveness of quality improvement programs to department and program managers
Serving as a technical expert to team members, supervisor, and key stakeholders by interpreting trends, potential errors, and other analyses
Assisting in problem resolution for data source analysis, and advising on the application of results
Supporting in-depth and advanced quality improvement and improvement risk management efforts
Researching corrective action plans for areas of improvement identified through utilization review, clinical records audit, claim denials, member satisfaction surveys, and auditing surveys
Ensuring process improvements are compliant with established internal and external regulation requirements at the local and state level
Conducting complex root cause analysis, failure mode and effect analysis, and other assessments in response to significant events near misses, and good catches
Identifying areas of improvement and evaluating newly internalized processes and programs
Proactively escalating high-risk issues and trends to appropriate entity for resolutions
Investigating opportunities to develop new and improve current quality improvement performance metrics development, collection, and utilization
Researching and recommending best practices in the development of performance metrics, standards, and methods to establish improvement success
Consulting with multiple stakeholders, often with competing/conflicting objectives, to ensure development of cohesive and reachable metrics
Designing the delivery of measurable results and alignment with strategic objectives by integrating metric utilization into workflows with sound methodology
Facilitating the development of quality improvement initiatives
Leveraging and implementing advanced technology, methods, and tools to develop stakeholders capabilities for process improvements
Monitoring the use of data-driven improvement principles, tools, and problem-solving methods, including Lean/Six-Sigma concepts and techniques
Synthesizing key information and working to break down issues into logical parts for the creation of milestones, detailed workplans, and documentation practices
Serving as the subject matter expert for quality improvement processes and regulations for internal and external stakeholders
Providing consultation independently on the interpretation and interaction of current policies
Serving as a technical advisor on committees, projects to drive discussions on drawing guidelines on the enforcement, development of policies or procedures of regulations and auditing processes
Fostering collaborative, results-oriented partnerships to ensure compliance with regulations and improve patient safety
Maintaining the KP safety culture, reporting accuracy, and health outcomes
Providing insight to the regulation climate
Developing educational programs to raise awareness for changes in regulation requirement, internal concerns, and system/database usage
Anticipating issues and weighing practical and technical considerations in addressing issues
Coordinating with the appropriate stakeholders to develop resolutions
Developing stakeholder development and quality performance review processes
Identifying performance areas of improvement for the program, providing feedback and coaching as needed, and developing a corrective plan
Presenting performance review reports at the program level to department managers
Developing the curriculum for training and educational programs related to process improvement for quality improvement programs
Company
National Association of Latino Healthcare Executives
The National Association of Latino Healthcare Executives is a hospital and healthcare organization.
11-50 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageLeadership Team
Jackie Sifuentes, MBA, LSSYB
Co-Founder La Mesa Emerging Leaders Mentorship Program for Early Careerists
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