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Quality and Patient Safety Specialist
2 months ago
UTMB Health is seeking a Quality and Patient Safety Specialist to join our team. As a key member of our quality management department, you will be responsible for providing quality and patient safety consulting, analysis, and improvement facilitation for staff and leaders throughout the organization.
Key Responsibilities- Develop, implement, and improve programs to establish and maintain quality and patient safety standards of care provided to patients.
- Research, collect, and analyze internal and external data for decision making.
- Serve as a subject matter expert regarding quality and patient safety initiatives and significant event management.
- Ensure that goals are in alignment with the Health System's Patient Safety and Performance Improvement plan, strategic priorities, and regulatory and accreditation requirements.
- In collaboration with clinical staff and leadership, participate in the monitoring, reporting, and improvement activities related to clinical guidelines, healthcare quality/patient safety initiatives, accreditation, and regulatory requirements.
- Utilize systematic, data-driven methods to develop, monitor, evaluate, and improve initiatives, programs, and services to improve clinical and operational performance.
- Research and identify evidence-based process improvements and help to set standards and define best practices for assigned departments and projects.
- Actively participate in committees related to risk management, patient safety, and quality improvement, as assigned and warranted.
- Use data to assist departments in making process changes by facilitating proactive and reactive process improvement and patient safety activities regarding planning, implementation, and evaluation of the effectiveness of process changes.
- Facilitate continuous process improvement teams using the Plan Do Study Act (PDSA) or Focus Analyze Develop and Execute (FADE) methodology.
- Facilitate proactive and reactive patient safety activities, including Root Cause Analyses (RCA), Critical Incident Reviews (CIR), and Failure Mode Effects Analyses (FMEA).
- Monitor, collect, evaluate, and maintain data concerning risk and patient safety issues, including occurrence reporting through UTMB's designated reporting system.
- Frequent and ongoing rounding of assigned areas to evaluate the effectiveness of the quality and patient safety program and identify areas of opportunity for performance improvement.
- Provide formal and informal education on patient safety programs, initiatives, and incident reporting systems.
- Assist with maintaining the transparency and dissemination of Health System metrics and benchmarks.
- Execute position responsibilities that demonstrate leadership, experience, and creative approaches to managing developmental needs that contribute to enhancing patient care.
- Bachelor's Degree in a healthcare-related field.
- Minimum of three years of clinical-related experience.
- Master's Degree in Nursing, Administration, or Business.
- One year of patient safety/risk management experience.
- Specialty certification in quality or process improvement.
Salary commensurate with experience.
UTMB Health offers a comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, retirement plan, and paid time off.
