Senior Quality Program Manager - Administrative Services

Providence; Seattle, Northern (WA, KY); Hybrid; USD 105,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

Providence Swedish is seeking a Senior Quality Program Manager to advance standardized care delivery, reliability, and high-value care across the system. You will lead cross-functional quality programs, shape strategic goals, and sustain a robust quality management framework in collaboration with clinical and operational leaders.

Join a mission-driven team at Swedish Health Services and help translate regulatory standards and national metrics into actionable improvement initiatives, with a focus

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a clinical healthcare field with at least 5 years of healthcare quality experience.
• CPHQ, PMP, Lean, Six Sigma or equivalent quality improvement certification on hire.
• Experience interpreting regulatory standards and national quality metrics.

Responsibilities

• Lead design, implementation and sustainment of prioritized quality goals.
• Manage complex cross-functional quality programs.
• Collaborate with clinical and operational leadership to advance reliability and patient safety.

Education

Clinical healthcare degree

Master's degree in Healthcare Admin / Public Health / Nursing / Business

Tools

Electronic Health Record (EHR)

Job description

Description

The Senior Quality Program Manager (QPM) facilitates quality improvement programs to standardize care delivery, increase reliability, promote high value care and support an effective quality management system at Swedish. Under the direction of Quality Division leadership and in collaboration with operational and clinical leadership, the Senior QPM leads the design, implementation, and sustainment of prioritized quality goals by managing complex, cross-functional quality programs at a campus or health system level.

Providence caregivers are not simply valued - they're invaluable. Join our team at Swedish Health Services DBA Swedish Medical Group and thrive in our culture of patient-focused, whole-person care built on understanding, commitment, and mutual respect. Your voice matters here, because we know that to inspire and retain the best people, we must empower them.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Nursing, Lab Technologist, Physical Therapist, Pharmacist, RHIA or other clinical healthcare education.
• Upon hire: CPHQ, PMP, Lean, Six Sigma, or other related process improvement or quality
• 5 years Healthcare.
• 5 years If bachelor's degree is in an unrelated field, an additional 5 years of industry experience is required.
• Interpreting regulatory standards, clinical guidelines, national quality metrics, and health services research.
• Expert work experience in quality management, patient safety, systems thinking, change management.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's Degree in Healthcare administration, public health, nursing, business or related subject.
• Electronic Health Record.
• ISO 9001.

Why Join Providence Swedish?

Our best-in-class benefits are uniquely designed to support you and your family in staying well, growing professionally, and achieving financial security. We take care of you, so you can focus on delivering our mission of improving the health and wellbeing of each patient we serve.

About Providence

At Providence, our strength lies in Our Promise of "Know me, care for me, ease my way." Working at our family of organizations means that regardless of your role, we’ll walk alongside you in your career, supporting you so you can support others. We provide best-in-class benefits and we foster an inclusive workplace where diversity is valued, and everyone is essential, heard and respected. Together, our 120,000 caregivers (all employees) serve in over 50 hospitals, over 1,000 clinics and a full range of health and social services across Alaska, California, Montana, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas and Washington. As a comprehensive health care organization, we are serving more people, advancing best practices and continuing our more than 100-year tradition of serving the poor and vulnerable.

Providence offers a comprehensive benefits package including a retirement 401(k) Savings Plan with employer matching, health care benefits (medical, dental, vision), life insurance, disability insurance, time off benefits (paid parental leave, vacations, holidays, health issues), voluntary benefits, well-being resources and much more. Learn more at providence.jobs/benefits.
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About the Team

Providence Swedish is the largest not-for-profit health care system in the greater Puget Sound area. It is comprised of eight hospital campuses (Ballard, Edmonds, Everett, Centralia, Cherry Hill (Seattle), First Hill (Seattle), Issaquah and Olympia); emergency rooms and specialty centers in Redmond (East King County) and the Mill Creek area in Everett; and Providence Swedish Medical Group, a network of 190+ primary care and specialty care locations throughout the Puget Sound. Whether through physician clinics, education, research and innovation or other outreach, we’re dedicated to improving the wellbeing of rural and urban communities by expanding access to quality health care for all.

Providence is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to the principle that every workforce member has the right to work in surroundings that are free from all forms of unlawful discrimination and harassment on the basis of race, color, gender, disability, veteran, military status, religion, age, creed, national origin, sexual identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, genetic information, or any other basis prohibited by local, state, or federal law. We believe diversity makes us stronger, so we are dedicated to shaping an inclusive workforce, learning from each other, and creating equal opportunities for advancement.

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Pay Range: $50.32 - $79.45

Job Schedule: Full time

Job Shift: Day

Career Track: Business Professional

Department: 3908 ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES WA

Address: WA Seattle 1730 Minor Ave

Work Location: Swedish Metropolitan Park East-Seattle

Workplace Type: Hybrid