Vice President of Quality

HCA Houston Healthcare; Webster (TX); On-site; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

The Vice President of Quality at HCA Houston Healthcare Clear Lake leads the hospital's quality and patient safety initiatives, leveraging data from patient encounters to drive improvement and compliance with CMS, TJC, and CDC standards. You will partner with hospital leadership to develop integrated quality programs, oversee performance improvement, and promote a culture of safety across the facility and network.

This role offers visibility and impact within a large healthcare system.

Qualifications

• CPHQ must be obtained within 1 year of employment start date.
• Masters Degree, or Bachelors Degree required.
• Minimum of ten years of progressive experience in healthcare, including at least five years in management and five years in quality management.

Responsibilities

• Promote a culture that values patient care and regulatory compliance.
• Maintain appropriate reporting structure with division and strong ties to the facility.
• Lead standardization of quality improvement initiatives across the facility.
• Lead proactive patient safety activities to create high reliability facilities.
• Analyze facility quality and risk data to plan ongoing improvements.
• Report data to third parties such as Leapfrog, NCDR & STS databases.
• Coordinate clinical process improvement teams to achieve goals.
• Serve as regulatory resource for CMS, TJC, CDC and related initiatives.

Skills

CPHQ

Leadership

Quality management

Regulatory compliance

Education

Master's degree or Bachelor's degree

Job description

This position is incentive eligible.

Introduction

We are seeking a Vice President of Quality with HCA Houston Healthcare Clear Lake to promote growth and unlock possibilities. At HCA Healthcare, we are committed to the care and improvement of human life. Share your leadership skills and come make a difference with us!

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical coverage that covers many common services at no cost or for a low copay. Plans include prescription drug and behavioral health coverage as well as free telemedicine services and free AirMed medical transportation.
• Additional options for dental and vision benefits, life and disability coverage, flexible spending accounts, supplemental health protection plans (accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity), auto and home insurance, identity theft protection, legal counseling, long-term care coverage, moving assistance, pet insurance and more.
• Free counseling services and resources for emotional, physical and financial wellbeing
• 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service)
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan with 10% off HCA Healthcare stock
• Family support through fertility and family building benefits with Progyny and adoption assistance.
• Referral services for child, elder and pet care, home and auto repair, event planning and more
• Consumer discounts through Abenity and Consumer Discounts
• Retirement readiness, rollover assistance services and preferred banking partnerships
• Education assistance (tuition, student loan, certification support, dependent scholarships)
• Colleague recognition program
• Time Away From Work Program (paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence)
• Employee Health Assistance Fund that offers free employee-only coverage to full-time and part-time colleagues based on income.

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Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.

We are seeking a Vice President of Quality for our team to be an innovator. HCA Healthcare partners with Harvard Pilgrim Institute and the CDC to use our data from more than 26 million patient encounters each year to impact the industry. Come build your career with us!

Job Summary And Qualifications

The VPQ is responsible for providing an integrated framework for monitoring and evaluating quality of care. This position will be accountable to provide quality data, analysis and interpretation to senior management, hospital and medical staff/physician committees and department directors. This position will directs activities to provide both professional and technical quality and performance improvement support. The VPQ will partner and collaborates with the management team and medical staff to facilitate teamwork and the achievement of shared goals in pursuit of patient safety and quality outcomes. Additionally, the VPQ will collaborate with Quality and Patient Safety at Gulf Coast Division, as well as other division and corporate entities and external parties to ensure that strategic quality and patient safety initiatives are fully executed at the facility level.

What you will do in the role:

• Promote a culture that is positive, that values individual strengths, takes risks, and is committed to optimal patient care, and compliance with regulatory standards.
• Ability to both maintain appropriate reporting structure relationship with division as well as hold strong ties to their respective facility.
• Facilitate the growth of hospital knowledge regarding quality and high reliability, including the dissemination and implementation of "best practices" across the facility.
• Lead facility-wide standardization in targeted process improvement initiatives, and evaluate success through pre-established criteria and measurement tools. Support division-wide standardization of process improvement initiatives through facility adoption and implementation.
• Lead proactive patient safety activities to help create facilities that are high reliability organizations, as reflected in reduced errors, elimination of unsafe processes, and increased involvement of staff and physicians toward a culture of safety.
• Participate in regular analysis of facility quality and risk performance data, and plan steps based on data analysis for ongoing improvement.
• Ensure the reporting of data to approved third parties, such as Leapfrog, NCDR & STS databases, etc.
• Facilitate and/or lead clinical process improvement teams as needed to achieve quality and performance improvement goals.
• Serve as a regulatory resource regarding state and federal regulations and standards, including but not limited to CMS, TJC, and CDC. Stay current with NQF, AHRQ, Leapfrog, IHI and other quality performance initiatives.

What qualifications you will need:

• (CPHQ) Certified Professional in Healthcare Quality must be obtained within 1 year of employment start date
• Masters Degree, or Bachelors Degree
• Minimum of ten years of progressive experience in healthcare, to include minimum of five years of management of individuals, and five years of experience with quality management.

HCA Houston Healthcare Clear Lake is a 530+ bed hospital where sophisticated, world-class medicine meets the comfort, care and convenience of a community hospital. For more than 40 years, we have proudly been providing high quality, cost-effective, comprehensive healthcare to the Houston Bay Area. We opened our doors in 1972 and now employ 2,000+ staff members and 900+ physicians in a wide range of specialties. Our specialists offer more talent and experience than any other hospital in the region. We are a Level II Trauma Center and the only exclusive heart hospital south of Houston. Our accredited center provides nationally-recognized care in the prevention, diagnosis, treatment and recovery of cardiovascular diseases. HCA Houston Healthcare Clear Lake offers a variety of other services, including Woman Services, Pediatric Care, Breast Diagnostic Center, ACR-accredited Imaging Center, Wound Care Treatment Center featuring Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy, and much more. We are members of HCA Houston Healthcare, the most comprehensive family of hospitals in the region and part of the leading provider of healthcare in the country, HCA Healthcare. Together we are stronger, smarter and more accessible in providing the patient-centered care you need close to home.

HCA Healthcare has been recognized as one of the World's Most Ethical Companies® by the Ethisphere Institute more than ten times. In recent years, HCA Healthcare spent an estimated $3.7 billion in cost for the delivery of charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses.

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Join our family of over 180 hospitals and about 2,000 sites of care to drive excellence and raise the bar for our over 35 million annual patient encounters.

We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.