System Vice President Quality and Safety

Reading Hospital; Reading (Berks County); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Reading Hospital is seeking a System Vice President of Quality and Safety to lead organizational performance and clinical quality improvement. This role focuses on overseeing quality, clinical effectiveness, and patient safety across Tower Health. Candidates should have experience in healthcare quality leadership, preferably in acute care, and a Master's degree. The position emphasizes collaboration with nursing and medical staff, regulatory compliance, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement, making it essential to enhance patient-centered care.

Qualifications

• Experience in a healthcare quality leadership position in acute care required.
• Master's degree or equivalent experience considered.
• Clinical background is a plus.
• CPHQ certification helpful.

Responsibilities

• Lead clinical quality measurement and improvement activities.
• Direct quality and patient safety teams at Tower Health Hospitals.
• Collaborate with leadership to enhance patient-centered care.
• Advance patient safety and regulatory compliance initiatives.
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement and engagement.

Skills

Healthcare quality leadership

Clinical quality measurement

Continuous quality improvement

Patient safety expertise

Effective leadership

Education

Master's degree or equivalent

Tools

CMS submissions

Leapfrog 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