Quality & Performance Improvement Specialist

Advocate Health; Hazel Crest (IL); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Advocate Health in Illinois seeks a Quality Improvement professional to provide consultation, facilitation, and data support to performance improvement teams, driving improvements with key quality priorities and metrics.

You will lead teams, guide members and providers, perform literature searches, data collection, statistical analysis, and benchmarking, and develop action plans to improve care. This role supports compliance and continuous education.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Quality or related field.
• Typically requires 5 years in health care, clinical quality improvement.
• Knowledge of medical terminology, clinical concepts, and disease management.
• Ability to analyze complex data and communicate sensitive information.
• Proficient use of Microsoft Office suite.
• Ability to create reports, graphs, and other visual presentation materials, and effectively maintain statistical data.
• Knowledge of evidence-based, best practice resources to promote efficiency and effective outcomes.
• Knowledge of improvement methodology, principles, project management, and team facilitation.
• Knowledge of healthcare rules, regulations, and standards.
• Ability to problem solve, lead multi-disciplinary teams, use conflict management, and team building skills.
• Detail oriented and able to prioritize and organize data and complex projects.
• Excellent interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide consultation, facilitation, and data support to performance improvement teams in order to drive improvement with quality priorities and metrics. Leads and facilitates performance improvement teams with process owners.
• Provides guidance and support to team members, leaders, and providers with performance improvement activity, aligned with the organization’s methodology and tools.
• Provides support to teams including literature searches, data collection, statistical data analysis and display, and benchmarking.
• Assists in the development, implementation, communication, and evaluation of action plans to achieve cost-effective, high quality care.
• Develops and provides interpretive performance improvement reports to highlight variations in clinical and non-clinical processes and outcomes for committees and leadership.
• Designs and implements clinical studies to identify variation in medical management in order to improve patient care and outcomes.
• Participates in ongoing monitoring and improvement activities to promote regulatory compliance and ISO 9001.
• Supports physician and advance practice clinician peer review efforts and ongoing professional practice evaluations.
• Participates in educational offerings to remain current with practice.

Skills

Data analysis

Team facilitation

Communication skills

Project management

Statistical analysis

Report writing

Problem solving

Literature searches

Quality improvement

Medical terminology knowledge

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Quality or related field

Tools

Microsoft Office

SQL basics

Job description

Advocate Health in Illinois seeks a Quality Improvement professional to provide consultation, facilitation, and data support to performance improvement teams, driving improvements with key quality priorities and metrics.

You will lead teams, guide members and providers, perform literature searches, data collection, statistical analysis, and benchmarking, and develop action plans to improve care. This role supports compliance and continuous education.