Quality Advisor

10000 Sanford; United States; On-site; USD 43,000 - 69,000; Full time

Job summary

Sanford Health in the United States seeks a healthcare quality and infection prevention professional to collaborate with leadership to organize and coordinate system-wide approaches to improving outcomes, ensuring regulatory compliance, and achieving infection prevention goals.

The role emphasizes data analysis, process improvement, and education through sustainable changes, serving as a liaison for performance improvement across departments and management.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required; or associate’s with 5 years of relevant experience.
• If degree is in nursing, graduate from a nationally accredited nursing program preferred.
• Minimum of two years in clinical, nursing, safety, process improvement, infection prevention, accreditation or healthcare management.
• Certification in regulatory accreditation, patient safety, quality (Lean Six Sigma or CPI) or infection prevention (CIC) preferred.
• RN license in the practicing state with multistate licensure if applicable.
• Maintains required department competencies and certifications.
• Quality improvement/assurance personnel with nursing backgrounds may maintain licensure based on role.

Responsibilities

• Oversees performance improvement, regulatory compliance components and activities.
• Demonstrates problem solving, critical thinking, and team-building skills.
• Writes and teaches process improvements related to quality and safety.
• Supports data-driven decisions to improve patient outcomes and reduce risk.
• Drives process change from education through sustainability.
• Acts as liaison for performance improvement, infection prevention, reporting, and safety.
• Analyzes data, identifies opportunities, and communicates findings clearly.

Skills

Regulatory compliance

Quality improvement

Infection prevention

Data analysis

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree

Associate’s degree + 5 years experience

Nursing program preferred (CCNE/ACEN/NLN CNEA)

Tools

Lean Six Sigma

CIC / CPPS

Excel

Healthcare data systems

Job description

SUMMARY

• Work Shift: Day (United States of America)
• Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40
• Compensation: Salary Range: $31.00 - $49.50
• Union Position: No

Collaborates with leadership to organize, evaluate, assist, and coordinate planning and implementation of systematic, organization-wide approaches to improving outcomes, ensuring compliance with regulatory bodies, and/or achieving infection prevention program goals.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Supports corporate and local strategic plans that achieve high impact and significant improvements in organizational performance by providing oversight to performance improvement, regulatory compliance components and activities, and/or infection prevention and control.
• Demonstrates the ability in problem solving, critical thinking, conflict management, and team building skills in order to ensure a productive work environment and achievement of goals.
• Responsible for utilizing and teaching process improvements as it relates to quality performance, regulatory compliance, or infection prevention.
• Supports informed decision making for operational efficiencies that align with system strategies for improving patient/resident experience and outcomes and reducing patient safety and regulatory risk.
• Supports process change from education through sustainability.
• Serves as communication link and resource for performance improvement, infection prevention surveillance and reporting, healthcare regulations, and patient safety for departments and management throughout the organization.
• The responsibilities include data and project management, analytical reasoning, interpreting and evaluation of complex information, identifying patterns and essential issues, while measuring and evaluating the attainment of results.
• Knowledge of and conformance to regulatory requirements, evidence-based practices, contractual obligations, and the organizations policies is essential, along with the ability to maintain confidentiality of sensitive information.
• Understands and communicates quality and safety priorities as they relate to high reliability and value based care.
• Analyzes data to identify areas of opportunity for improvement efforts.
• Ability to write and verbally communicate in a legible and understandable manner, have strong computer skills, possess the ability to make independent and timely decisions when circumstances warrant.
• Obtains familiarity with basic process improvement tools and healthcare and medical terminology.
• Demonstrate interpersonal skills, such as interacting effectively with other health care professionals, physicians, upper-level management, regulatory agency staff, and the general public.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's degree required.
• In lieu of education, leadership may consider an Associate’s degree and 5 years of applicable experience.
• If degree is in nursing, graduate from a nationally accredited nursing program preferred, including, but not limited to, Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE), Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing (ACEN), and National League for Nursing Commission for Nursing Education Accreditation (NLN CNEA).
• Minimum of two years of experience in clinical, nursing, healthcare safety, process improvement, infection prevention, accreditation or healthcare management setting required.
• Certification in regulatory accreditation, patient safety, quality specialty (Lean Six Sigma or Certified Professional in Healthcare Quality) or Infection Prevention and Control (CIC®)equivalent preferred.
• If a licensed registered nurse (RN), currently hold an unencumbered RN license with the State Board of Nursing where the practice of nursing is occurring and/or possess multistate licensure if in a Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC) state.
• Obtains and subsequently maintains required department specific competencies and certifications.
• Quality improvement/assurance personnel with nursing backgrounds can maintain their license without seeking additional hours based on role’s responsibilities.
• Other departments may or may not require certifications as directed by department leadership.

Sanford is an EEO/AA Employer M/F/Disability/Vet.

ABOUT THE ORGANIZATION

The Sanford organization owns and manages multiple distinct brands, including Sanford Health, Marshfield Clinic, and Good Samaritan, as well as Lewis Drug, Sanford Health Equip, Solutions by Sanford, Great Shots, and Blue Rock Bar & Grill. Sanford Health, the largest rural health system in the United States, is dedicated to transforming the health care experience and providing access to world-class health care in America’s heartland. Headquartered in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, the organization has 53,000 employees and serves over 2 million patients and nearly 425,000 health plan members across the upper Midwest including South Dakota, North Dakota, Minnesota, Wyoming, Iowa, Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. The integrated nonprofit health system includes a network of 56 hospitals, 288 clinic locations, 147 senior care communities, 4,000 physicians and advanced practice providers and nearly 1,500 active clinical trials and studies. The organization’s transformational virtual care initiative brings patients closer to care with access to 78 specialties. Learn more about Sanford Health’s commitment to shaping the future of rural health care across the lifespan at sanfordhealth.org or Sanford Health News.

Good Samaritan, one of the nation’s largest nonprofit providers of senior care and services, is committed to transforming the aging experience through innovation, compassion and personalized care. As part of Sanford Health, an integrated nonprofit health system headquartered in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, Good Samaritan serves 10,000 seniors and offers access to a full continuum of care, including 94 rehabilitation and skilled nursing centers, 56 assisted living and memory care facilities, 44 independent living locations and 37 home health and hospice agencies. The senior care provider delivers services across the upper Midwest, with 70% of residents living in rural communities. Learn more about Good Samaritan’s mission and commitment to delivering high quality senior care in rural America at good-sam.com.