Patient Safety Director

TriStar Health; Nashville (TN); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive medical coverage

401(k) Plan with matching

Education assistance

Employee health resources

Tuition assistance

Employee recognition program

Job summary

TriStar Skyline Medical Center is seeking a Director of Patient Safety to advance a program that promotes a culture of safety and the elimination of avoidable harm.

You will lead proactive system redesign, emphasize reliable processes, and partner with facility leadership to sustain a learning environment. This role requires clinical background, CPPS certification, and leadership experience.

Join a 350+ bed facility in Nashville area and help drive zero harm initiatives across patient care.

Qualifications

• CPPS certification required or must be obtained within 12 months of hire.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Healthcare field required; Master’s Degree preferred.
• Clinical background required.
• 5 years of leadership experience preferred.
• Knowledge of patient safety analysis techniques/methods required.
• Current licensure as an RN in Tennessee or compact state strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Prevent future harm by initiating and overseeing proactive evaluation and redesign of systems to improve care processes.
• Support improved outcomes by emphasizing both appropriate behaviors and robust systems with accountability measures.
• Improve consistent delivery of evidence-based care and reduction in preventable harm by focusing on reliability and design.

Skills

CPPS Certification

Leadership

Clinical background

Healthcare quality improvement

Patient safety analysis

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Healthcare related field

Master’s Degree preferred

Job description

This position is incentive eligible.

Introduction

Last year alone, HCA Healthcare colleagues invested over 156,000 hours impacting our communities. As a Patient Safety Director with TriStar Skyline Medical Center, you can be a manager in an organization that is devoted to giving!

Benefits

TriStar Skyline Medical Center offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:

• Comprehensive medical coverage that covers many common services at no cost or for a low copay. Plans include prescription drug and behavioral health coverage as well as free telemedicine services and free AirMed medical transportation.
• Additional options for dental and vision benefits, life and disability coverage, flexible spending accounts, supplemental health protection plans (accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity), auto and home insurance, identity theft protection, legal counseling, long-term care coverage, moving assistance, pet insurance and more.
• Free counseling services and resources for emotional, physical and financial wellbeing
  
• 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service)
  
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan with 10% off HCA Healthcare stock
  
• Family support through fertility and family building benefits with Progyny and adoption assistance.
  
• Referral services for child, elder and pet care, home and auto repair, event planning and more
  
• Consumer discounts through Abenity and Consumer Discounts
  
• Retirement readiness, rollover assistance services and preferred banking partnerships
  
• Education assistance (tuition, student loan, certification support, dependent scholarships)
  
• Colleague recognition program
  
• Time Away From Work Program (paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence)
  
• Employee Health Assistance Fund that offers free employee-only coverage to full-time and part-time colleagues based on income.

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Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.

Come join our team as a Patient Safety Director. We care for our communities and employees! HCA Hope Fund in fourteen years reached a historic milestone: 50 million in help to our colleagues in need. Last year, HCA Healthcare and our colleagues donated 13.8 million dollars to charitable organizations.

Job Summary and Qualifications

The Director of Patient Safety is responsible for advancing a patient safety program that promotes a culture of safety and the elimination of avoidable harm.

What you will do in this role:

• Prevent future harm by initiating and overseeing proactive evaluation and redesign of systems to improve care processes.
• Support improved outcomes by emphasizing both appropriate behaviors and robust systems that include concise accountability measures and follow-up.
• Improve consistent delivery of evidence-based care and reduction in preventable harm by focusing on reliability and applying the principles of reliable design.
• Reduce variation in care delivery. Partner with the Patient Safety Organization to explore identified variations when appropriate.
• Utilize alerts and best practices to perform gap assessments and implement strong actions that will alleviate identified gaps.
• Effectively report, investigate, and analyze patient safety incidents, medical errors and potential risks in the facility.
• Facilitate thorough and credible serious event analysis that result in strong sustainable improvement strategies.
• Facilitate thorough and credible failure mode effect analysis to identify and mitigate unintended adverse patient outcomes and evaluate effectiveness of process changes.
• Perform Patient Safety Rounds that identify patient safety risks. Empower staff to identify and participate in resolution of patient safety concerns.
• Coordinate disclosure of serious events to patients and/or families in accordance with organizational policy and regulations.
• Assure timely reporting of Patient Safety Work Product (PSWP) to the Patient Safety Organization.
• Actively participate in PSO learning collaboratives. Ensure implementation of best practices, alerts, and updates to drive patient safety improvement.
• Champion completion of Culture of Safety Survey.
• Facilitate analysis of culture of safety survey results such that data‑driven action plans lead to targeted outcomes.
• Provide feedback that acknowledges both the value of event reporting and review of reported events.
• Provide ongoing education to leaders, clinicians, and staff on the science of safety and patient safety initiatives.
• Work with facility leaders to ensure understanding of and compliance with the National Patient Safety Goals.
• Partner with facility leadership to establish activities that enable and sustain an open and fair environment promoting learning, safe systems, and appropriately managing behavioral choices related to patient safety.
• Engage patients/families when appropriate in the patient safety program.
• Oversee the management and use of event information to benchmark and track progress to zero avoidable harm.
• Provide analysis and identifying trends from reports to track progress of improvement strategies. Spread and sustain improvement.
• Present informative and actionable patient safety reports to appropriate committees to include high level presentations to Leadership, Medical Executive Committee and Board of Trustees.
• Work with defense legal counsel to coordinate the investigation, processing and defense of claims against the facility; records, collects, documents, maintains, and provides to defense attorneys any requested information and documents necessary manage facility claims while maintaining privilege of PSWP.
• Work with security on procedures to reduce the frequency and/or minimize the severity of property loss or assets.

What qualifications you will need:

• Certification in Patient Safety (CPPS) required or must be obtained within 12 months of hire.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Healthcare related field required; Master’s Degree preferred.
• Clinical background required.
• 3-5 years of healthcare experience in patient safety, risk, and/or quality preferred. Healthcare experience should be recent and within a clinical setting such as Hospital, Ambulatory Surgery Center, etc.
• 5 years of related leadership experience strongly preferred.
• Knowledge of and experience with patient safety analysis techniques/methods required.
• Current licensure as a Registered Nurse (RN) in the state of Tennessee or compact state strongly preferred.

TriStar Skyline Medical Center is a 350+ bed facility. We are Tennessees first comprehensive stroke center, a state designated Level 1 Trauma Center and a national leader in neuroscience. In addition, we are equipped with 3 helipads, new ICU and Medical/Surgical floors, and burn care services. We offer a CARF accredited Inpatient Rehabilitation program, an Accredited Chest Pain Center with PCI and serves the North Nashville community as a leading provider of emergency heart care.

HCA Healthcare has been recognized as one of the Worlds Most Ethical Companies® by the Ethisphere Institute more than ten times. In recent years, HCA Healthcare spent an estimated 3.7 billion in cost for the delivery of charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses.

"The great hospitals will always put the patient and the patients family first, and the really great institutions will provide care with warmth, compassion, and dignity for the individual."
- Dr. Thomas Frist, Sr.
HCA Healthcare Co-Founder

Become a manager with an organization that invests in your career while giving to the community. We are seeking distinguished applicants for our Patient Safety Director opening. Help HCA Healthcare create healthier tomorrows for patients and communities.

We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.