Performance Improvement Clinical Specialist

SUNY Downstate; New York (NY); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University seeks a full-time Senior Staff Associate / Performance Improvement Clinical Specialist to lead performance improvement initiatives and clinical rounding. The role aligns nursing PI with quality, safety, efficiency, and patient satisfaction, using clinical expertise to set standards and drive corrective actions.

Responsibilities include investigations, data analysis, presenting findings, leading PI workgroups, coordinating PI meetings, and monitoring

Qualifications

• Must hold an active NYS RN license.
• Experience in performance improvement and patient safety.
• Ability to lead cross-functional teams and PI projects.

Responsibilities

• Conduct event investigations and focused medical record reviews with data gathering.
• Present findings in narrative, statistical, and graphic formats.
• Lead work groups on performance improvement initiatives.
• Coordinate departmental PI meetings and agendas.
• Provide clinical expertise for PI projects across hospital departments.
• Review quality measures, sepsis, patient complaints, and regulatory investigations.
• Develop corrective actions and improvement strategies; monitor outcomes.
• Assist departments with PI meetings and maintain statistics and follow-up.
• Analyze sentinel events, perform root cause analysis, and implement risk-reduction actions.

Skills

Clinical rounding

Liaison to nursing & PI

Event investigations

Data collection & analysis

Narrative and graphical presentation

Leading PI initiatives

Root cause analysis

Risk reduction strategies

Education

New York State RN license

Job description

The Department of Quality Regulatory Risk and Safety at SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University is seeking a full-time Senior Staff Associate / Performance Improvement Clinical Specialist.

The Senior Staff Associate/Performance Improvement Clinical Specialist reports to the Director of Performance Improvement (PI) and will be responsible for clinical rounding, liaison to nursing and nursing PI, addressing clinical issues, developing and leading PI initiatives to improve patient safety, quality, efficiency and satisfaction.

The successful candidate will maintain a New York State Registered Nurse License and will use their clinical experience to set the standard for continuous performance improvement. The successful candidate will also be responsible for a range of projects including but not limited to:

• Conducting event investigations and focused medical record reviews and collecting and assembling results and data
• Presenting findings in narrative, statistical and graphic formats
• Leading work groups on performance improvement initiatives
• Coordinating departmental PI and other meetings
• Provide clinical expertise for hospital and departmental performance improvement projects
• Perform medical records reviews for quality measures, sepsis, patient complaints and regulatory investigations, and identify and investigate process variation
• Develop corrective actions and improvement strategies
• Monitor and follow up on findings and present orally and in writing
• Assist clinical departments, to conduct PI meetings (agendas, minutes, statistical data, research and follow-up)
• Analyze sentinel events by investigating, producing write-ups for root cause analysis and identifying, implementing and monitoring risk reduction strategies