Quality Improvement Specialist

bannerhealth; Phoenix (AZ); On-site; USD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Banner Health in Phoenix, AZ seeks a Quality Improvement professional to support clinical performance improvement initiatives. The role emphasizes strong communication, collaboration, and change management to advance care processes and patient safety across the facility.

RN and quality experience preferred; onsite Monday–Friday, 7:30am–4:00pm, with responsibilities spanning data analysis, performance measurement, and collaborative problem solving with physicians and staff.

Qualifications

• RN license required or in process; quality improvement experience preferred.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills required.
• Experience with performance improvement initiatives is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Lead quality integration to achieve CMS and JC standards across the facility.
• Drive performance and process improvement projects with physicians and staff.
• Evaluate care transitions and promote standardized, evidence-based processes.
• Support data collection, KPI analysis, and data-driven decision making.
• Promote a patient safety culture and identify/report safety risks.

Skills

Quality Improvement

Data Analysis

Project Management

Change Management

Communication

Education

RN License

BSN preferred

Tools

Healthcare Data Systems

Job description

Primary City/State: Phoenix, Arizona

Department Name: Quality Improvement-Corp

Work Shift: Day

Job Category: Risk, Quality and Safety

The future is full of possibilities. At Banner Health, we're excited about what the future holds for health care. That's why we're changing the industry to make the experience the best it can be. If you're ready to change lives, we want to hear from you.

In this role you will support quality improvement teams and initiatives. We are looking for a professional who communicates effectively and is enthusiastic about improving care processes in the healthcare setting.

RN and quality experience preferred.

This position is onsite at BUMC Phoenix working Monday-Friday, 7:30am-4:00pm.

Within Banner Health Corporate, you will have the opportunity to apply your unique experience and expertise in support of a nationally-recognized healthcare leader. We offer stimulating and rewarding careers in a wide array of disciplines. Whether your background is in Human Resources, Finance, Information Technology, Legal, Managed Care Programs or Public Relations, you'll find many options for contributing to our award-winning patient care.

POSITION SUMMARY

This position supports high reliability in clinical performance through ongoing assessment of performance, prioritizes clinical improvement activities, facilitates performance improvement, and promotes successful implementation to achieve entity/system targets. This role requires strong communication, collaboration, teamwork, and change management skills in order to achieve desired results across the continuum of care. This role serves as a quality SME to Leaders throughout the facility.

CORE FUNCTIONS

• 1. Quality Leadership and Integration - Facilitates the integration of quality into the fabric of the organization to achieve objectives, such as Annual Initiatives, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and The Joint Commission (tJC) standards of care. Support the quality infrastructure, protect the use of privileged or confidential information, facilitate processes for engagement and interprofessional teamwork, identify and promote continuous learning opportunities to advance the organization/facility/entity and communicate effectively. Facilitates performance improvement projects with physicians, clinical leaders, and staff to identify improvement opportunities utilizing qualitative and quantitative data analysis, knowledge of health care operations and systems thinking.
• 2. Performance and Process Improvement - Serves as a subject matter expert in performance and process improvement, project management and change management methods to support operational and clinical quality initiatives. Facilitates activities related to or resulting from patient safety, harm reduction, clinical performance, peer review and compliance with regulatory and accrediting agencies. This is accomplished by utilizing performance and process improvement tools and principles, applying project management methods, and using change management principles and tools.
• 3. Population Health and Care Transitions - Evaluate and improve healthcare processes and care transitions to advance the efficient, effective, and safe care of defined populations. Foster integrated team-based clinical delivery model to population-based care. Facilitate the implementation of standardized process, that are evidence-based Population Health management strategies, when appropriate. Encourage and contribute to a holistic approach to improvement and collaborate to improve care processes and transitions back to the community. Monitor and report facility Clinical Practice performance that have been handed-off to Quality Improvement.
• 4. Health Data Analytics - Supports the organizations' analytic environment to help guide data driven decision making while facilitating meetings with departments and teams to guide quality improvement initiatives and activities. Adheres to procedures for the confidentiality and integrity of data, designing, influencing, and monitoring data collection plans for Key Performance Indicators. Collaborates with process owner(s), acquiring, and integrating data from internal and external benchmarking sources. Uses statistical and visualization methods to analyze data for administrative and clinical decision making. Provides on-going assessment of performance, analyzes clinical outcome data, and identifies performance improvement opportunities or trends. Conducts and reports to stakeholders in-depth assessment of qualitative and quantitative data.
• 5. Patient Safety - Participates in and contributes to a safe healthcare environment by promoting safe practices, nurturing a just culture, and improving processes that detect, mitigate, or prevent harm. Seves as an advocate for the patient safety culture, applying safety science principles/methods, identify and report patient safety risks/events and collaborates to analyze patient safety risks and events. They facili