Quality Improvement Specialist
Quality Improvement Specialist
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Job Description
Position Highlights:
- Location: Winston Salem North Carolina
- Full Time
What We Offer:
- Day 1 Health Coverage:Choose from either copay or HSAeligible health insurance options with coverage starting on your first day of work.
- Generous PTO:Accrual starts at up to 25 days/year to be used for vacations sickness holidays and personal matters.
- Parental Benefits:Six weeks paid birthingmother maternity leave & four weeks paid parental leave for nonbirthing parents.
- Retirement:Up to 7 employerpaid retirement contributions
- Education Reimbursement:We invest in your professional growth offering up to $2500 per year towards a bachelors degree and up to $5000 per year towards a graduate degree.
Job Summary:
Performs tasks key to the clinical transformation. Performs quality improvement efforts to improve quality of care reduce cost of care enhance patient experience of care and improve provider satisfaction. Responsible for designing a datadriven strategic approach to continuous quality improvement (CQI) based on identification of gaps in care perceived ability to measurably improve with resources available potential to impact multiple settings/ease of replication or spread.
What Youll Need:
- Bachelors degree in health related field or industrial engineering.
- Masters degree preferred or equivalent work experience.
- Four years experience in health care setting with minimum of three years experience in quality improvement process improvement change management ETC
- Certification in Health Care Quality (CPHQ) Six Sigma or other health quality certification preferred.
What Youll Do:
- Evaluates performance through assessment of workflow efficiency competency of staff utilization of resources safety and compliance.
- Develops and facilitates implementation of improvement plans following the IHI Model for Improvement and LEAN.
- Works closely with select departments to identify and prioritize opportunities for improvement
- Analyzes data for patterns and trends in care delivery; discovers root causes for specific patient care trends and for critical event analysis (i.e. Root Cause Analysis Failure Modes and Effects Analysis). Translates data into actionable information (using data to drive change).
- Disseminates/displays data using common performance improvement tools (e.g. run charts histograms). Maintains trended reports and summaries of key findings.
- Translates findings and outcomes and recommend strategies for early intervention and health/disease management new programs workflow and operational improvement activities. Assists in facilitating changes and improvements based on the data.
- Assures all staff have the education and resource material needed to facilitate the change.
- Ensures administration staff and providers are aware of performance in relation to the desired performance level and the evidence base for the measure. Disseminates information via corporate meetings flyers email SharePoint and in personalized office training classes.
- Collaborates with select teams to increase the number of practices/providers with NCQA recognition for PatientCentered Medical Home (PCMH) Diabetes Heart and Stroke and others. Ensures those already recognized maintain their recognition status.
- Assures that improvement activities are documented and reported within the organization and externally as appropriate.
- Highlights results and accomplishments of QI initiatives.
- Demonstrates problem solving leadership conflict management and team building skills in order to ensure a productive work environment and achievement of goals.
- Aligns efforts with other departments to increase the likelihood of achieving our common goals.
- Collaborates with leadership and staff to create policies and procedures that ensure excellent quality care and minimize harm to the patient.
- Attends meetings conferences and trainings related to continuous improvement.
Required Experience:
Unclear Seniority
Employment Type
Full-Time
