Director, Quality and Safety Outcomes - (140080)
Description
Qualifications
Primary Location: WA-Seattle
Job: Management
Organization: Quality and Safety Outcomes
Shift: Variable
Job Posting: 2014-01-17 00:00:00.0
FTE: 40 hours per week
Description
Honored as Top Hospital of the Decade by The Leapfrog Group, Virginia Mason in Seattle, WA, is internationally recognized as a preeminent organization that is focused on transforming health care. True to that vision, we spent this past decade creating and delivering a multitude of innovations. The results? Industry-changing process improvements and initiatives that have revolutionized our ability to eliminate waste, cut costs, and most importantly, improve the quality of services. Our commitment to Team Medicine and the transformation of health care is what built our reputation as a quality leader, and empowers us with the capability to provide rapid access to care through our Virginia Mason Production System.
As a key member of our leadership team, you will help to continually develop the results-driven initiatives that define our success and are transforming healthcare.
This role provides leadership and oversight to efforts to understand the quality and safety external environment and the current state of quality measures at VMMC. This role has a specific focus on understanding the multiple external surveys, the measures they use and then collaborate with clinical operations to assure top performance. This role oversees the risk registers development and PSA database improvements and the correlation to the AHRQ Patient Safety Indicators which drive the external safety measures.
- Directs formal, multi-disciplinary methodologies to produce new knowledge about external surveys and quality measures by: (a) Identifying the direction of national or regional initiatives in quality measurement and reimbursement tied to quality and position VMMC for success; (b) Improved information for clinical and business decision makers in support of continuous improvement cycles; (c) Using quality results to impact clinician and team behavior to improve patient safety and quality.
- Directs processes to monitor and accurately and effectively responds to requests for clinical measures that are linked to pay-for-performance and publicly reported measures. Identifies gaps in results and collaborates with clinical leadership to drive clinical improvement efforts.
- Effectively communicate measures of quality and safety to multiple audiences including clinicians, administration and staff including results and methodology.
- Performs all aspects of human resource management, including recruitment and retention, analyzing staff mix and deploying staff, ensuring competency of staff through development and regular evaluation, and providing disciplinary counseling
- Partners with Clinical Decision Support to insure coordination of activities and provides oversight of clinical accuracy and validity of quality reports.
- Provides oversight and guides implementation of provider specific performance metrics to support provider evaluation and improvement by establishing good working relationships with analytics, sections, guiding teams and physician leadership.
Qualifications
- A Master's degree in related field.
- Seven years in clinical role and three years progressive leadership and management experience required.
- Project management experience and knowledge of the US health care system trends and challenges, including quality initiatives, market trends, and reimbursement models such as pay for performance required.
Preferred qualifications include: clinical experience in both ambulatory and inpatient settings, seven years experience in health services research or related fields and VMPS for leaders certification.
Virginia Mason offers much more than competitive compensation and benefits. With continuing education opportunities and the added potential of relocation assistance, you will find our commitment to your well-being is both rewarding and refreshing.
There is also the lifestyle benefit that comes with finding yourself in the heart of the Pacific Northwest. Surrounded by the vibrancy and sophistication of one of the country's most livable cities, finding the perfect urban or outdoor pursuit will instinctively and pleasurably become second nature.
We are an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.
Primary Location: WA-Seattle
Job: Management
Organization: Quality and Safety Outcomes
Shift: Variable
Job Posting: 2014-01-17 00:00:00.0
FTE: 40 hours per week