Performance Improvement Accreditation Manager RN - Beth Israel Lahey Health
Milton, MA
About the Job
Job Type: Regular
Time Type: Full time
Work Shift: Day (United States of America)
FLSA Status: Non-Exempt
When you join the growing BILH team, you're not just taking a job, you’re making a difference in people’s lives.
Under the direction of the Director, Health Care Quality and Patient Safety, the Manager, Clinical Quality Performance Improvement and Accreditation is responsible for the ongoing design, development, and implementation of the hospital’s Quality Assessment Performance Improvement (QAPI) and Patient Care Assessment (PCA) plans. The manager is also responsible for hospital regulatory and accreditation activities, including but not limited to the Joint Commission, The Department of Public Health etc. as well as federal/commercial payer Value Based Purchasing/Pay for Performance and Penalty programs.
Following the principles of high reliability, this individual will identify, evaluate, make recommendations and work closely with other departmental, hospital and hospital system leaders for the implementation of performance improvement (PI) efforts that mitigate actual and potential harm in the delivery of care to patients as well as optimizing hospital performance with external reputational and reimbursement programs. The Manager, Clinical Quality Performance Improvement and Accreditation will work with clinical and non-clinical staff to support, educate, mentor and guide hospital wide and departmental specific strategies relating to PI and Accreditation.
As assigned by the Director, Health Care Quality and Patient Safety, the manager works closely with medical leadership and other healthcare quality department staff to develop, monitor and support medical staff focused and ongoing physician performance evaluation processes.
Job Description:
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
· Coordinates the Hospital-wide Performance Improvement Program.
· Oversees hospital and system wide key performance improvement initiatives.
· Facilitates the medical staff components of the program in conjunction with the Director, Healthcare Quality and Patient Safety
· Assists in facilitating quality improvement teams assuring the implementation of strong quality improvement strategies using proven quality methods, tools/techniques.
· Plans and actively participate/leads Performance Improvement and Accreditation activities within established hospital committee structure.
· Consults with and assists key stakeholders in establishing and implementing best practices based on research and data analysis
· Promotes, plans, designs, coordinates and evaluated training and educational activities for all staff in relation to PI and accreditation activities.
· Monitors and takes action to ensure hospital-wide compliance with regulatory and accrediting agencies (i.e. Joint Commission, CMS, and DPH etc.) to ensure ongoing survey readiness.
· Facilitates and coordinates hospital-wide data collection, measurement, trending and dissemination of information regarding regulatory standards and compliance.
· Informs all management levels regarding current developments and changes in regulatory standards.
· Initiates, coordinates and supports necessary changes or action plans and hospital-wide and department-specific performance improvement projects to support regulatory agency standards.
· Collaborates with and assures the integrity and confidential treatment of medical staff credentialing, performance improvement and peer review functions.
· Maintains industry knowledge on quality and performance excellence and innovation as well as accreditation standards and regulations.
· Collaborates with key stakeholders to enhance patient experience and staff engagement
· Provides project guidance to operational project leaders and sponsors. Analyzes projects and provides recommendations to senior management and /or department leaders to assess organizational potential and strategic alignment. Participates in organizational Committees as assigned
· Collaborates with others to develop and execute redesign and performance improvement models. Identifies strengths and weakness of teams and learning opportunities for individuals and teams.
· Facilitates the documentation of process flows (current/future state). Designs data collection methods and data analyses to support team efforts.
· Participates with leadership to distinguish areas for performance improvement and facilitates system design to implement best practices aimed at enhancing quality and patient safety.
· Identifies and documents strategies, objectives, timetables, expected outcomes and measures.
· Provides ongoing project management and ensures that plans are implemented and kept on schedule and budget, ensuring follow-through by key players, and sustaining momentum needed to drive projects to completion. Mentors team leaders and teams.
· Complies with BID-Milton's Code of Conduct, and performance standards relating to service excellence.
· Attends appropriate and mandatory in-service and continuing education training program(s) for hospital staff, commensurate with job responsibilities. Completes all mandatory requirements within defined timeframe for completion.
· Employee maintains competencies (position specific and hospital-wide) required for the specific patient population served.
· Performs all duties in accordance with safety and other laws, rules, and regulations set forth by appropriate regulatory and government agencies and in accordance with established department and hospital policies and procedures.
As a health care organization, we have a responsibility to do everything in our power to care for and protect our patients, our colleagues and our communities. Beth Israel Lahey Health requires that all staff be vaccinated against influenza (flu) and COVID-19 as a condition of employment. Learn more (https://www.bilh.org/newsroom/bilh-to-require-covid-19-influenza-vaccines-for-all-clinicians-staff-by-oct-31) about this requirement.
More than 35,000 people working together. Nurses, doctors, technicians, therapists, researchers, teachers and more, making a difference in patients' lives. Your skill and compassion can make us even stronger.
Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled
Time Type: Full time
Work Shift: Day (United States of America)
FLSA Status: Non-Exempt
When you join the growing BILH team, you're not just taking a job, you’re making a difference in people’s lives.
Under the direction of the Director, Health Care Quality and Patient Safety, the Manager, Clinical Quality Performance Improvement and Accreditation is responsible for the ongoing design, development, and implementation of the hospital’s Quality Assessment Performance Improvement (QAPI) and Patient Care Assessment (PCA) plans. The manager is also responsible for hospital regulatory and accreditation activities, including but not limited to the Joint Commission, The Department of Public Health etc. as well as federal/commercial payer Value Based Purchasing/Pay for Performance and Penalty programs.
Following the principles of high reliability, this individual will identify, evaluate, make recommendations and work closely with other departmental, hospital and hospital system leaders for the implementation of performance improvement (PI) efforts that mitigate actual and potential harm in the delivery of care to patients as well as optimizing hospital performance with external reputational and reimbursement programs. The Manager, Clinical Quality Performance Improvement and Accreditation will work with clinical and non-clinical staff to support, educate, mentor and guide hospital wide and departmental specific strategies relating to PI and Accreditation.
As assigned by the Director, Health Care Quality and Patient Safety, the manager works closely with medical leadership and other healthcare quality department staff to develop, monitor and support medical staff focused and ongoing physician performance evaluation processes.
Job Description:
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
· Coordinates the Hospital-wide Performance Improvement Program.
· Oversees hospital and system wide key performance improvement initiatives.
· Facilitates the medical staff components of the program in conjunction with the Director, Healthcare Quality and Patient Safety
· Assists in facilitating quality improvement teams assuring the implementation of strong quality improvement strategies using proven quality methods, tools/techniques.
· Plans and actively participate/leads Performance Improvement and Accreditation activities within established hospital committee structure.
· Consults with and assists key stakeholders in establishing and implementing best practices based on research and data analysis
· Promotes, plans, designs, coordinates and evaluated training and educational activities for all staff in relation to PI and accreditation activities.
· Monitors and takes action to ensure hospital-wide compliance with regulatory and accrediting agencies (i.e. Joint Commission, CMS, and DPH etc.) to ensure ongoing survey readiness.
· Facilitates and coordinates hospital-wide data collection, measurement, trending and dissemination of information regarding regulatory standards and compliance.
· Informs all management levels regarding current developments and changes in regulatory standards.
· Initiates, coordinates and supports necessary changes or action plans and hospital-wide and department-specific performance improvement projects to support regulatory agency standards.
· Collaborates with and assures the integrity and confidential treatment of medical staff credentialing, performance improvement and peer review functions.
· Maintains industry knowledge on quality and performance excellence and innovation as well as accreditation standards and regulations.
· Collaborates with key stakeholders to enhance patient experience and staff engagement
· Provides project guidance to operational project leaders and sponsors. Analyzes projects and provides recommendations to senior management and /or department leaders to assess organizational potential and strategic alignment. Participates in organizational Committees as assigned
· Collaborates with others to develop and execute redesign and performance improvement models. Identifies strengths and weakness of teams and learning opportunities for individuals and teams.
· Facilitates the documentation of process flows (current/future state). Designs data collection methods and data analyses to support team efforts.
· Participates with leadership to distinguish areas for performance improvement and facilitates system design to implement best practices aimed at enhancing quality and patient safety.
· Identifies and documents strategies, objectives, timetables, expected outcomes and measures.
· Provides ongoing project management and ensures that plans are implemented and kept on schedule and budget, ensuring follow-through by key players, and sustaining momentum needed to drive projects to completion. Mentors team leaders and teams.
· Complies with BID-Milton's Code of Conduct, and performance standards relating to service excellence.
· Attends appropriate and mandatory in-service and continuing education training program(s) for hospital staff, commensurate with job responsibilities. Completes all mandatory requirements within defined timeframe for completion.
· Employee maintains competencies (position specific and hospital-wide) required for the specific patient population served.
· Performs all duties in accordance with safety and other laws, rules, and regulations set forth by appropriate regulatory and government agencies and in accordance with established department and hospital policies and procedures.
As a health care organization, we have a responsibility to do everything in our power to care for and protect our patients, our colleagues and our communities. Beth Israel Lahey Health requires that all staff be vaccinated against influenza (flu) and COVID-19 as a condition of employment. Learn more (https://www.bilh.org/newsroom/bilh-to-require-covid-19-influenza-vaccines-for-all-clinicians-staff-by-oct-31) about this requirement.
More than 35,000 people working together. Nurses, doctors, technicians, therapists, researchers, teachers and more, making a difference in patients' lives. Your skill and compassion can make us even stronger.
Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled
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