Manager, Patient Safety and Quality

BHS Baptist Healthcare System; Elizabethtown (KY); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Tuition Assistance

Paid Time Off

Maternity/Paternity Leave

Bereavement Leave (pets)

Employee Assistance Program

Retirement with company match

Job summary

Baptist Health in Kentucky is seeking a Patient Safety and Quality Manager to provide leadership for the organization’s patient safety program and advance a culture of safety and High Reliability Organization (HRO) principles. This role collaborates with leaders, physicians, nursing, and interdisciplinary teams to reduce harm and improve outcomes.

You will lead training, proactive risk identification, performance improvement, and evidence-based patient safety practices to promote continuous

Qualifications

• Active RN license issued by the state of Kentucky.
• Bachelor's degree in nursing, healthcare administration, or related field required.
• Minimum of 3 years of clinical experience in a hospital or healthcare setting.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership for the organization’s patient safety program.
• Advance a culture of safety and High Reliability Organization (HRO) principles.
• Collaborate with leadership, physicians, nursing, and interdisciplinary teams to reduce preventable harm and improve outcomes.
• Promote continuous learning through training, proactive risk identification, performance improvement, and evidence-based practices.

Skills

RN License

Healthcare leadership

Clinical experience

Education

Bachelor's degree in nursing, healthcare administration, or related field

Master’s degree in nursing, healthcare administration, or related field

Job description

Summary Job Description: Full-time, M-F (8:00a-4:30p) Job Description: The Patient Safety and Quality Manager provides leadership for the organization’s patient safety program and serves as the primary resource for advancing a culture of safety and High Reliability Organization (HRO) principles. This position is highly collaborative with leadership, physicians, nursing, and interdisciplinary teams to reduce preventable harm, improve clinical outcomes, and promote continuous learning through training, proactive risk identification, performance improvement, and evidence-based patient safety practices.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in nursing, healthcare administration, or related filed required.
• Active RN License issued by the state of Kentucky required.
• Minimum of 3 years of clinical experience in a hospital or healthcare setting required.

Preferred Qualifications

• CPPS or CPHQ Certification
• Master’s degree in nursing, healthcare administration, or related field

Benefits

• Tuition Assistance reimbursement program
• Paid Time Off available for use upon hire
• Company paid Maternity and Paternity Leave
• Bereavement Leave (includes pets)
• Employee Assistance Program
• Retirement plans with company match

Founded in 1924 in Louisville, Kentucky, Baptist Health is a full-spectrum health system dedicated to improving the health of the communities it serves. The Baptist Health family consists of 10 hospitals, employed and independent physicians, and more than 470 points of care, including outpatient facilities, physician practices and services, urgent care clinics, outpatient diagnostic and surgery centers, home care, fitness centers, and occupational medicine and physical therapy clinics. Baptist Health’s eight owned hospitals include more than 2,300 licensed beds in Corbin, Elizabethtown, La Grange, Lexington, Louisville, Paducah, Richmond and New Albany, Indiana. Baptist Health also operates two joint venture hospitals: the 410-bed Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville in Madisonville, Kentucky with Deaconess Health System based in Evansville, Indiana, and the Baptist Health Rehabilitation Hospital, a 40-bed inpatient rehabilitation facility with Encompass Health, based in Birmingham, Alabama. Baptist Health employs more than 24,000 people in Kentucky and surrounding states. Baptist Health is the first health system in the U.S. to have all of its hospitals recognized by the American Nursing Credentialing Center with either a Magnet or Pathway to Excellence designation for nursing excellence. Baptist Health’s employed provider network, Baptist Health Medical Group, has more than 1,820 employed providers offering care in 78 specialties, including approximately 862 physicians and 958 advanced practice clinicians. Baptist Health’s physician network also includes more than 2,000 independent physicians.

EEO Statement

Baptist Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer, and seeks to employ individuals without regard to race, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, marital status, citizenship status, military status, religious or political beliefs, protected veteran status, employment status or any other protected class identified in any federal, state, or local law.

Please note that Baptist Health is a drug-free workplace and employment with Baptist Health is subject to post offer, pre-employment drug testing.

NOTICE OF NONDISCRIMATION AND ACCESSIBILITY TO SERVICES

Persons with hearing and speech impairments can contact Baptist Health facilities by using the Kentucky Relay Service, a toll-free telecommunication device for the deaf (TDD). For voice to TDD, call 800.648.6057. For TDD to voice, call 800.648.6056.