Quality Performance Improvement Coordinator - Sharp Tri City Medical Center - Day Shift - Full Time

300 Sharp HealthCare; United States; Presencial; USD 81 000 - 107 000; Tempo integral

Resumo da oferta

Sharp HealthCare is seeking a Quality - Performance Improvement professional to monitor hospital quality activities and ensure accreditation compliance. You will collect, submit and report data on patient populations for CMS, The Joint Commission, and other regulators.

You will mentor staff, develop analytic reports, and work with nursing informatics to optimize clinical workflows, improving patient safety and care quality across the organization.

Qualificações

• Bachelor's in Nursing or Master’s in healthcare related field required.
• 5 years healthcare quality experience or 2 years clinical coding plus 2 years improvement experience.
• Experience handling sensitive information and confidentiality.

Responsabilidades

• Monitor quality activities per accreditation and regulatory requirements.
• Prepare dashboards and graphs to track organizational metrics for quality improvement.
• Collaborate with nursing informatics to understand clinical workflow and improve outcomes.
• Mentor staff to ensure quality outcomes and minimize variability.
• Participate in committees and communicate findings to leadership.

Conhecimentos

Regulatory knowledge

Data analysis

Communication skills

Team collaboration

EMR systems literacy

Formação académica

Bachelor's Degree in Nursing

Master's in healthcare field

Ferramentas

Cerner

Word

Excel

PowerPoint

Outlook

Descrição da oferta de emprego

Hours: Shift Start Time: 8 AM Shift End Time: 4:30 PM AWS Hours Requirement: 8/40 - 8 Hour Shift Additional Shift Information: Weekend Requirements: No Weekends On-Call Required: No

Hourly Pay Range (Minimum - Midpoint - Maximum): $59.000 - $68.430 - $77.850 The stated pay scale reflects the range that Sharp reasonably expects to pay for this position. The actual pay rate and pay grade for this position will be dependent on a variety of factors, including an applicant’s years of experience, unique skills and abilities, education, alignment with similar internal candidates, marketplace factors, other requirements for the position, and employer business practices.

What You Will Do

This position is responsible for monitoring all quality activities of the hospital in accordance with accreditation, regulatory and other requirements. This position is responsible for timely/accurate collecting, submitting and reporting process and outcome data on patient populations as determined by hospital and departmental leadership. Some of which may include mandated clinical projects by CMS, The Joint Commission or other regulatory agencies. This position acts as a mentor and coaches staff to ensure quality outcomes and limit variability in performance. This position prepares dashboards and graphs to track and trend organizational metrics for quality improvement and internal/external reporting. This individual meets with quality leaders on a regular basis and participates in committees as assigned to improve practice and patient care. Analyzes information and identifies key issues that meet the criteria and measures set forth from the Quality Assurance/Performance Improvement and Clinical Quality Committees. This position requires collaboration with nursing informatics and department educators to understand clinical workflow to improve outcomes/patient safety. The individual should have comprehensive and advanced clinical knowledge, data analysis and performance improvement experience as well as strong organizational skills.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Nursing Graduate of an accredited school of nursing Or Master's Degree in a Healthcare related field.
• 5 Years of healthcare quality experienceOr 2 Years of healthcare/clinical coding with 2 years of healthcare performance improvement experience.
• Experience working with sensitive information and maintaining confidentiality.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in information systems or management.
• Master's Degree in information systems or management.

Other Qualification Requirements

• Certified Professional in Healthcare Quality (CPHQ) required or must obtain within 24 months from hire date, required.

Essential Functions

The position characteristics reflect the most important duties, responsibilities and competencies considered necessary to perform the essential functions of the job in a fully competent manner. They should not be considered as a detailed description of all the work requirements of the position. The characteristics of the position and standards of performance may be changed by TCMC with or without prior notice based on the needs of the organization. Maintains a safe, clean working environment, including unit based safety and infection control requirements. Retrospective/Concurrent Medical Record review/abstraction and vendor oversite. Inter-Rater Reliability of abstracted measures. Identify gaps and drive performance improvement with both eCQMs/CQMs. Analyzes reports, identifies and communicates important findings, enters results into appropriate database. Thoroughly understands organization quality improvement initiatives as they relate to our regulatory reporting and reimbursement. Communicates effectively with targeted staff and physicians to implement changes in documentation, clinical practice and behavior as indicated by results of medical record reviews. Monitor need for updates in accordance with regulatory, accreditation changes and facility needs. Develops and presents meaningful reports with analytical summary for departments, committees and staff. Performs ad hoc audits, special studies, or other quality analysis activities and collaborates with organizational leaders to present analytical summary. Applies, understands and follows Regulatory Reporting standards/guidelines, Hospital Rules and Regulations, Hospital Policies and Procedures, Title 22; Joint Commission Standards, Medicare Conditions of Participation. Participates in other initiatives and programs and performs other duties as assigned by the Department Leader. Responsible to maintain confidentiality of sensitive information. Evaluates and presents information in a professional manner.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

Understanding of regulatory requirements, performance improvement methodology, required. Ability to facilitate clinical groups to review performance improvement data and develop/implement specific actions resulting from the review of information. Proven ability in organizing, analyzing, and synthesizing quantitative and qualitative data, required. Ability to understand and apply Hospital Rules and Regulations, Hospital Policies and Procedures; Title 22; Joint Commission Standards; and Medicare Conditions of Participation, required. Excellent oral and written communication and interpersonal skills, required. Demonstrated knowledge of clinical applications, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, required. Proficiency in electronic medical record systems, required. “Cerner” electronic medical record system knowledge, preferred. Strong computer database skills, preferred. Ability to work effectively in a team environment, required. Knowledge of regulatory and accreditation standards, required. Ability to manage databases and retrieve, analyze, summarize, and present information effectively, required.

Sharp HealthCare is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, status as a protected veteran, among other things, or status as a qualified individual with disability or any other protected class

Sharp HealthCare is a not-for-profit health care system based in San Diego, California, with four acute care hospitals, three specialty hospitals, three medical groups and a health plan. We provide medical services in virtually all fields of medicine, including primary care, heart care, cancer, orthopedics, women’s health, rehabilitation, robotic surgery and bariatric surgery. Sharp sets the community standard for exceptional care. Sharp Grossmont Hospital and Sharp Memorial Hospital have received prestigious Magnet recognition by the American Nurses Credentialing Center for excellence in nursing practices and quality patient care. At the heart of our organization are more than 18,000 affiliated physicians, nurses, staff and volunteers who are on a journey to make health care better for our patients and their families. It’s what we call The Sharp Experience – treating each person with dignity, compassion and respect, and using our clinical excellence and advanced technology to deliver the highest-quality patient care. We are dedicated to transforming the health care experience by making Sharp the best place to work, the best place to practice medicine and the best place to receive care in San Diego.