Senior Director, Enterprise Quality & Patient Safety

Children's Health; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Parental Leave

Caregiver Leave

Adoption reimbursements

Job summary

Children's Health, based in Dallas, TX, seeks a Sr Director of Quality Improvement to lead enterprise quality programs and drive evidence-based, equitable care across the system. This on-site role reports to the Senior VP of Quality and Patient Safety and collaborates with executives to advance improvement initiatives.

The ideal candidate will have extensive leadership in quality and patient safety, with strong ability to coach teams, communicate with board-level audiences, and build

Qualifications

• At least 10 years working in quality and patient safety in an acute care setting - required
• At least 7 years clinical experience in a healthcare environment - required
• At least 5 years of experience in healthcare and/or clinical leadership - required
• At least 5 years of Quality/Process Improvement within the Health Care Industry - required
• At least 5 years of experience leading multidisciplinary improvement work - required

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic leadership for enterprise-wide quality improvement and implement strategies that promote a culture of continuous improvement.
• Lead and oversee the CHST clinical performance improvement program, including collaboration with campus executives to establish annual clinical performance improvement plans aligned with The Joint Commission performance improvement standards.
• Oversee the advancement and maturation of individual hospital quality programs, including committee structures, dashboards and annual plans.
• Oversee enterprise quality outcome data capture and trending and ensure data and analysis are effectively disseminated to clinical leaders.
• Partner with physician and clinical leaders to identify improvement opportunities and oversee or support initiatives designed to address them.
• Prioritize and oversee organizational participation in regional and national collaboratives such as Solutions for Patient Safety, Institute for Healthcare Improvement and the Children's Hospital Association.
• Collaborate with physician leaders, nurses, informatics and data analytics teams to develop and implement evidence-based clinical pathways that decrease unwanted variation in practice.
• Oversee the operations of the Quality department, including fiscal and human resources.
• Partner with Health Equity leadership to track health equity quality outcomes and identify opportunities for improvement across CHST.
• Present at quality and patient safety committee meetings and prepare routine quality reports for executive leaders and/or board members.
• Participate in regulatory visits and development of corrective action plan submissions related to quality, performance improvement and infection prevention for The Joint Commission, CMS, Texas Department of Health and Human Services, FDA and other accrediting bodies.

Education

Bachelor's degree

Graduate or professional degree

Job description

Children's Health, based in Dallas, TX, seeks a Sr Director of Quality Improvement to lead enterprise quality programs and drive evidence-based, equitable care across the system. This on-site role reports to the Senior VP of Quality and Patient Safety and collaborates with executives to advance improvement initiatives.

The ideal candidate will have extensive leadership in quality and patient safety, with strong ability to coach teams, communicate with board-level audiences, and build