System Vice President Quality and Safety

Tower Health; Reading (Berks County); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Tower Health is seeking a System Vice President of Quality and Safety to lead clinical quality measurement and ensure patient safety across the healthcare system. This role involves overseeing quality improvement initiatives, collaborating with departments, and driving organizational transformation. Candidates should have experience in healthcare quality leadership with responsibility for CMS submissions, and a Master's degree or relevant experience is required. This position is crucial for maintaining high standards of patient care and safety in a well-respected healthcare institution.

Qualifications

• Experience in healthcare quality leadership, specifically in acute care.
• Direct responsibility for CMS and Leapfrog submissions.
• Clinical background is a plus.
• CPHQ certification is helpful.

Responsibilities

• Lead clinical quality measurement and analysis activities.
• Oversee quality and patient safety teams at various hospitals.
• Collaborate with leadership and departments to enhance care services.
• Advance strategic priorities related to patient safety and quality.

Skills

Quality leadership

Clinical effectiveness

Patient safety

Continuous quality improvement

Regulatory compliance

Education

Master's degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Healthcare systems knowledge

CMS submissions

Job description

Job Summary

The System Vice President of Quality and Safety spearheads organizational performance and transformation, upholds excellent patient care, and impacts performance scores.

Join our team at Tower Health to lead and focus on clinical quality measurement, analysis, improvement, monitoring, and reporting. In this impactful leadership role, you will leverage your expertise to oversee quality, clinical effectiveness, and patient safety across our entire healthcare system.

• Leads and facilitates the clinical quality measurement, analysis, improvement, monitoring, and reporting activities of Tower Health
• Directs and oversees the work of the quality, clinical effectiveness, and patient safety teams at each of the Tower Health Hospitals and works closely with nursing professional development
• Works collaboratively with leadership, hospital departments, and medical staff to advance the principles of continuous quality improvement to enhance the provision of safe, timely, effective, efficient, equitable, and patient‑centered care and services
• Proactively advances strategic priorities through alignment with, but not limited to patient safety, infection prevention and control, patient experience, nursing quality (Magnet designation), regulatory and accreditation
• Through effective leadership and knowledge of current healthcare laws, regulations, standards, and best practices, creates an environment that supports and conveys a culture of continuous improvement and employee engagement to drive organizational transformation in care delivery and operations
• Brings a comprehensive, collaborative, quantitative, results‑driven approach to the work, while possessing the professional maturity and ability to build relationships and alliances with internal and external constituencies

Qualifications

• Experience in a healthcare quality leadership position in acute care with direct responsibility for CMS and Leapfrog submissions and improvements required
• Master's degree or combination of relevant education & experience may be considered in lieu of Master's degree
• Clinical background a plus
• CPHQ certification helpful

Overview

Tower Health is a regional integrated healthcare system that offers leading-edge, compassionate healthcare and wellness services to communities in Berks, Chester, Montgomery, and Philadelphia Counties. With 1,200 beds across the system, Tower Health consists of Reading Hospital in West Reading; Phoenixville Hospital in Phoenixville; Pottstown Hospital in Pottstown; and St. Christopher's Hospital for Children, a partnership of Tower Health and Drexel University in Philadelphia. For more information, please visit towerhealth.org.