Vice Chair of Quality and Safety in Radiology

3 days ago


New Orleans, Louisiana, United States Ochsner Health Full time
Job Summary

We are seeking a highly experienced and innovative Radiology Quality and Safety Vice Chair to join our team at Ochsner Health. As a key member of our leadership team, you will be responsible for driving quality and safety initiatives across our radiology department, ensuring we maintain our position as a national leader in health outcomes, patient experience, and value.

Key Responsibilities
  • Collaborate with clinical staff and quality improvement leadership to develop and implement quality and safety initiatives that align with our organization's agenda.
  • Provide structured leadership to departmental professionals, fostering growth, development, communication, and innovation.
  • Participate in the development, monitoring, reporting, and improvement of activities related to respective service lines in collaboration with clinical staff, service chiefs, and administration.
  • Foster and maintain collaborative relationships with external agencies, purchasers, and stakeholders related to quality and performance initiatives.
  • Review and evaluate services affected by medical safety/regulatory issues, making recommendations for improvement, and monitoring services to ensure the implementation of recommendations and the achievement of desired results.
  • Educate leadership and medical staff about regulatory issues, new statutes/guidelines, and medical safety/PI activities.
  • Serve as a resource for medical safety, regulatory, and PI issues and participate in accreditation-related activities.
  • Lead the development of policies and procedures related to quality improvement/medical safety and participate as a stakeholder in policy crafting.
  • Develop long-range goals, annual objectives, budgets, and strategies for areas of responsibility.
  • Measure and review system performance.
  • Provide input into major capital expenses related to quality (e.g., information systems).
  • Ensure compliance with laws, government regulations, JCAHO requirements, and Ochsner policies.
  • Generate and support programs that employ imaging screening for early detection of diseases and disorders.
  • Represent the department in activities related to quality improvement, health practice, and population health management.
Qualifications
  • 10+ years of experience in an academic setting is strongly preferred with a national reputation.
  • Proven experience in implementing large-scale initiatives and behavioral change across an enterprise.
  • Experience utilizing process improvement approaches and methods to achieve desired outcomes.
  • A Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) or equivalent degree with recent clinical practice and board certification is strongly preferred. Licensed or eligible for a license in Louisiana.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
  • Known for integrity, honesty, and personal accountability.
  • Understanding and commitment to systems-thinking and system goal achievement.
  • Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
  • Demonstrated success in synthesizing and presenting complex ideas to individuals at all levels of an organization.
  • Demonstrated success utilizing metrics to evaluate and improve systems.
  • Innovative risk-taker.
  • Successful track record of delivering actionable metrics and driving results.
  • Dynamic and pioneering leader who is confident in looking ahead and able to guide others through a fast-paced changing environment.
  • Exudes confidence, ownership, and accountability for the quality and safety agenda.
  • A collaborator and consensus builder who can successfully engage with various constituencies and demonstrate decisiveness and respectful courage in gaining consensus where appropriate.
  • Demonstrates perseverance in advancing strategic and operational imperatives.
  • Advanced analytic ability to conceptualize well in unstructured, dynamic, and/or multidisciplinary environments requiring analysis, foresight, intuition, and mature judgment.
  • Communication and interpersonal skills for frequent contact with internal customers and external stakeholders to persuade and negotiate in controversial and/or sensitive situations.
  • Project management skills, including the ability to define program, project, or process objectives, identify stakeholders and their interests, plan steps, coordinate and allocate resources, and accomplish goals in a resourceful and timely manner.
  • Leadership skills, including a demonstrated willingness to pursue leadership roles with increasing levels of accountability; comfort with decision-making responsibilities; coaching, teaching, and counseling skills; and the ability to inspire and build confidence in others and forge alliances and garner support.


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