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Suburban Hospital · 3 days ago

Executive Director of Patient Safety and Quality

Washington, DC

Full-time

Onsite

Director/Executive

$160K/yr - $190K/yr

10+ years exp

Suburban Hospital is focused on enhancing patient safety and quality of care. The Executive Director of Patient Safety and Quality will partner with leadership to eliminate preventable harm and improve patient outcomes while ensuring compliance with regulatory standards.

Health CareHospital

Hiring Manager

Kevin Bellas MBA

Responsibilities

In collaboration with the JHHS VP of Safety and Quality, system and entity leaders, recommends strategic objectives for improving quality processes and outcomes, safety, equity and value that align with the national leader strategy and JHM strategic plan

Develops comprehensive strategic and tactical plans to achieve JHM, JHHS and Armstrong Institute goals and priorities

Partners to ensure a reliable, timely and streamlined safety and quality reporting system to provide clinical and administrative leadership with the information necessary to monitor performance

Partners to establish appropriate indicators, ensure that they are monitored, and assess for continuous improvement

Supports entity leaders to ensure that all external regulatory requirements are met or exceeded

Serves as liaison for quality and safety performance and initiatives with federal/state regulatory agencies, clinicians, leadership and external experts

Identifies, leads and supports interdisciplinary efforts in clinical transformation to eliminate preventable harm, improve patient outcomes and experience, reduce waste and ensure equity across the continuum of care

Initiatives, oversees and integrates comprehensive safety and quality programs

Establishes strong linkages with key stakeholders for patient safety and quality across the health system

Qualification

Patient safety leadershipHealthcare quality improvementHealthcare regulation knowledgeManagement experienceNational certification in patient safetyHealthcare delivery experienceMaster's degreeInterdisciplinary collaborationPerformance improvementPublic reporting

Required

Master's degree in healthcare, business administration or related field

5 years of management experience

10 years of relevant healthcare experience

Experience leading patient safety and quality

Knowledge and experience in healthcare delivery, patient safety, healthcare quality, performance improvement, healthcare regulation, pay for performance, and public reporting

Demonstrated ability to lead to impact patient safety and quality outcomes

Employees who are clinical are required to have a license in the State of Maryland as a Registered Nurse (RN), Pharmacist, a Medical Doctor (MD), a Doctor of Osteopathy (DO), or a Physician Assistant (PA), for example

National certification in patient safety and/or healthcare quality