National Association of Latino Healthcare Executives · 15 hours ago
Vice President, Quality & Safety – Northwest Market
Portland, OR
Full-time
Onsite
Director/ExecutiveThe National Association of Latino Healthcare Executives is seeking a Vice President for Quality & Safety in the Northwest Market. This role involves providing strategic leadership to ensure quality, safety, and regulatory compliance of healthcare programs and services, while collaborating with various leaders to enhance care delivery and improve health outcomes for members and patients.
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Responsibilities
Directs a high functioning team of quality and safety professionals who oversee quality, safety, infection prevention, and regulatory/accreditation compliance of programs and services provided to KP members and patients in all areas of the KP market care delivery system
Partners with Permanente Quality to provide overall leadership of the KP market-s quality of care program for the delivery system including its ambulatory, inpatient, dental, continuing care services as well as contracted hospitals and network providers
Partners with the Hospital Administrator(s) to provide leadership and oversight of the Hospital Quality program, ensuring that activities are in alignment with, approved, and directed by the Board of Directors (QHIC)
Drives, and when appropriate, partners with market PMG quality and / or operational leaders in the development of quality oversight programs and systems that position Kaiser Permanente as the quality leader in the marketplace through participation in relevant externally benchmarked measurement programs (e.g., HEDIS, CMS 5 Star, NCQA, Patient-Centered Medical Home, Leapfrog)
Identifies obstacles, barriers, and issues impacting the KP market-s ability to meet its quality, workplace safety, patient safety, clinical risk management and regulatory goals and objectives
Represents the KP market in strategic matters locally and nationally, relating to issues of clinical quality, service quality, safety, and risk (e.g., market quality oversight committees, KPNQC, SERCIT, Board of Directors)
Collaborates with national functions for example the Care Management Institute (CMI), the Medicare Inter-regional Program Management Organization (IRPMO), and other functional units within the KP enterprise to obtain appropriate, on-going data on quality outcomes and member and community health status improvements
Leads Quality Program Administration, (i.e., QHIC processes) including quality management oversight, health care delivery oversight, assessment, and intervention
Supports Population Health Community of Practice to develop strategic prevention plan, implement program guidelines, and develop program evaluation and monitor outcomes for members- health using HEDIS targets and outcomes
Partners with care delivery leaders by providing timely and accurate quality and regulatory advice, information, consultation and continually measures satisfaction of accountable services
Collaborates with Compliance and operations to minimize clinical risk and maximize quality outcomes
Ensures Accreditation, Regulatory Compliance and Licensing as appropriate
Directs activities to ensure that the KP market obtains and maintains full NCQA accreditation, meets CMS, state and other regulatory requirements achieving the highest award recognition. (Examples: Medicare 5-star, Joint Commission, Det Norske Veritas, American Heart Association)
Ensures effective execution of business strategies by aligning human resource strategies with business needs, by recruiting and developing a high-performance team, and by creating a climate, which builds employee commitment and reinforces performance, customer service and quality, and service outcomes
Effectively contributes to and utilizes national strategies and capabilities; promotes and implements active sharing of new learnings and innovations
Develops and implements an approach to quality and licensing/regulatory services that integrates strategy with day-to-day operations
Provides interface between Health Plan and the market Permanente Medical Group for a variety of initiatives including, but not limited to, quality and safety oversight
Drives internal initiatives that improve overall performance by addressing unreliable, poorly controlled, ineffective, inconsistent, and duplicative processes and functions
Builds and maintains responsive, motivated, and efficient departments that ensure results orientation
Qualification
Required
Strategic leadership experience in quality and safety in healthcare
Experience in regulatory/accreditation compliance
Ability to partner effectively with medical groups and health plan leaders
Experience in developing and implementing quality oversight programs
Knowledge of quality management systems and governance
Experience in continuous quality improvement processes
Ability to develop and monitor measures for safe, timely, effective, efficient, equitable, and person-centered care
Experience in leading a team of quality and safety professionals
Knowledge of HEDIS, CMS 5 Star, NCQA, and other quality measurement programs
Ability to identify obstacles and issues impacting quality and safety goals
Experience representing organizations in strategic matters related to clinical quality and safety
Ability to collaborate with national functions for quality outcomes and health status improvements
Experience in quality program administration and oversight
Knowledge of population health strategies and program evaluation
Ability to provide timely and accurate quality and regulatory advice
Experience in ensuring accreditation and regulatory compliance
Ability to recruit and develop high-performance teams
Experience in aligning human resource strategies with business needs
Ability to drive internal initiatives for performance improvement
Experience in building and maintaining efficient departments
Company
National Association of Latino Healthcare Executives
The National Association of Latino Healthcare Executives is a hospital and healthcare organization.
Founded in 2005
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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