Patient Safety & High Reliability Lead

CommonSpirit Health; Colorado Springs (CO); On-site; USD 60,595,000 - 199,705,000; Full time

Job summary

CommonSpirit Health seeks a Patient Safety Program Manager to lead the entity-specific Patient Safety and HRO program in Colorado Springs, developing data-driven, preventive strategies to reduce patient care errors and adverse outcomes.

Role involves facilitating adverse events analysis, training staff, and guiding standard investigations (Root Cause Analysis, FMEA) with leadership to advance high reliability and just culture.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree required.
• Five years of experience in a clinical healthcare environment.
• Experience with safety/risk/quality management and education.

Responsibilities

• Develops and coordinates a standardized, transparent, data-driven, proactive and preventive Patient Safety Program for the entity and in collaboration with the operating group.
• Provides leadership in the development, training and implementation of standard processes for investigation of patient safety issues using event analysis methodology to conduct clinical incident reviews (Critical Event Analysis, Root Cause Analysis, FMEA) of adverse patient events and/or near miss events.
• Designs and implements educational presentations that facilitate understanding and implementation of patient safety and HRO standards in the organization, guiding the provision of patient safety education and mentoring to front-line staff.
• Identifies potential areas for continuous quality improvement regarding patient safety, risk reduction or identified trends and reports to appropriate committees and leadership for resolution.
• Coordinates the development and maintenance of adverse events data collection, analysis, categorization, and reporting to clinical leadership, quality committees, patient safety huddle, staff meetings and other committees as appropriate.
• Maintains knowledge and ability to guide, provide instruction, and provide leadership regarding High Reliability concepts and Just Culture algorithms.

Skills

Program management

Patient safety

HRO methodologies

Data analysis

Process improvement

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Master's Degree

Job description

CommonSpirit Health seeks a Patient Safety Program Manager to lead the entity-specific Patient Safety and HRO program in Colorado Springs, developing data-driven, preventive strategies to reduce patient care errors and adverse outcomes.

Role involves facilitating adverse events analysis, training staff, and guiding standard investigations (Root Cause Analysis, FMEA) with leadership to advance high reliability and just culture.