Director-Quality & Safety Integration Position Available In Richmond, Georgia
Tallo's Job Summary: The Director-Quality & Safety Integration at Piedmont Augusta serves as the central point of contact for Quality and Safety initiatives, facilitating communication between the hospital and PHC Quality and Safety. This role involves leading performance improvement initiatives, promoting a culture of continuous improvement, and ensuring compliance with regulatory bodies. The position requires a Bachelor's degree and five years of progressive experience in clinical quality control. Location: Augusta, Georgia. Full-time, day job. Job ID: 1898367.
Job Description
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Director-Quality & Safety Integration Description:
This position supports Piedmont Augusta
JOB PURPOSE
Serves as the central point of contact and facility liaison for Quality and Safety initiatives and the Safety Coach Program for the hospital. Facilitates communications between the hospital and PHC Quality and Safety. Represents Quality in hospital operational and quality meetings, safety huddles, accreditation surveys, regulatory investigations and for ISO Compliance. Responsible for leading and driving safety and quality performance improvement initiatives to address trends and deficiencies as identified by the Surveillance and Analysis team and set by PHC QSS. Promotes a culture of continuous improvement through use of Lean methodology, coaching, tools, data analysis, reliability, sustainability and spread. Manages and supports a portfolio of strategic projects using the PHC performance improvement model. Ensures all performance improvement activities are in compliance with regulatory and accreditation bodies.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
1. Central point of contact and liaison for the hospital for System Quality and Safety Surveillance, Analysis, Improvement Initiatives and the Safety Coach Program and or entity operations as assigned.
2. Works with the Vice President of PHC Quality and Safety to set the standards for the interaction between the entity, the system Quality & Safety Team, system support teams and external customers.
3. Supports the hospitals local QSS, Safety Huddles and is the link between the Surveillance and Analysis activities and Improvement initiatives for operational leadership.
4. Knowledgeable of hospitals strategic quality and safety goals and improvement initiatives.
5. Supports the hospital for ISO compliance, DNV Survey and regulatory Investigations.
6. Leads improvement teams in clinical and operational activities to drive performance excellence as directed PHC Quality leadership.
7. Monitors and analyzes data, identifies trends and risk related issues and reports recommendations.
8. Prepares Quality and Safety Reports for the local boards.
9. Participates in and, where appropriate, leads cross functional Quality and Safety projects.
10. Completes any duties and special assignments as requested.
11. Ensures new clinical care improvements are in place as standard work and monitors spread at the hospital.
Qualifications:
MINIMUM EDUCATION REQUIRED
Bachelors degree in in business administration, healthcare administration, health information or other related fields.
MINIMUM EXPERIENCE REQUIRED
Five (5) years of progressive work experience in clinical quality control, performance/operations improvement, project management and analysis or a closely related field, to include, three (3) years of leadership experience required.
MINIMUM LICENSURE/CERTIFICATION REQUIRED BY LAW
None.
ADDITIONAL QUALIFICATIONS
Certification in Healthcare Quality (CPHQ) and Infection Prevention preferred.
Lean, QPI preferred. Position Information
LOCATION
Augusta, Georgia
POSTED 04/15/2025 TYPE
Professional
SCHEDULE
Full-time SHIFT Day Job
JOB ID 1898367
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