Risk Manager - Full Time Days

Risk Manager Full Time

Bring your passion to Texas Health so we are Better Together

Work location: Texas Health Plano

Work hours: Full Time 40 Hours Monday Friday Days

Risk Management Department highlights:

Dynamic team who work independently and collaboratively

Press Ganey High Reliability approach to Patient Safety and Risk Management

Work closely with hospital managers executive team and peers across the system

Opportunity for educational and career growth

Heres What You Need

• Bachelors Degree in Nursing or related healthcare field required
  3 years clinical experience required
• 3 years risk management quality management legal or patient safety preferred
• Other appropriate clinical licensure for discipline upon hire required
• CPHR Certified Professional in Healthcare Risk Management upon hire preferred
• Ability to analyze interpret and manage information

What You Will Do

• Utilizes the reliability learning tool (including actual events near misses and general safety concerns) and recognizes and addresses patient safety/risk exposures affecting the quality of care and outcomes. Makes medical staff quality review referrals as appropriate. Utilizes statistical and other methods to aggregate analyze and prepare data reports for presentation
• Facilitates the Risk Management Program including identification analysis planning and implementation focusing on events which resulted or could have resulted in adverse risk or a compromise to patient or environmental safety. Actively engages in the Patient Safety Program developing effective medical error reduction strategies and tools. Works in collaboration with hospital departments and committees to implement identified needs for improvement. Serves as risk management representative for committees within the Continuous Quality/Patient Safety and Risk Management programs.
• Participates in THR claims management process by investigating and identifying events that may lead to potentially compensable events claims or lawsuits. Provides THR Litigation with information necessary to make claims determination and assess liability. Assists outside attorneys in defense of lawsuits against the hospital.
• Coordinates and facilitates activities of the Risk Management Committee. Responsible for identification and analysis of possible cases summary preparation and presentation at committee. Serves as liaison between medical staff leaders and risk management department.
• Responsible for facilitating closure when possible to patient/visitor/family/physician complaints of a clinical nature (or other) as appropriate. Skillful in negotiations to achieve desired results by conflict resolution as necessary.
• Provides advice and mentoring to hospital directors and staff in effective patient safety and risk management activities including reliability learning management plans of action policy and procedure development regulatory compliance risk management reporting and patient safety standards. Conducts and coordinates risk audits/surveys on a routine basis. Provides risk management/patient safety education to new employees and others as required.
• Review unusual or sentinel events identified by risk identification system. Collect documents and provide summaries on risk management cases which include lawsuits potential compensable events claims and investigations. Conducts Root Cause Analysis/Failure Mode Analysis in order to provide opportunities for improvement and meet regulatory requirements.

Additional perks of being a Texas Health Risk Manager

• Benefits include 401k PTO medical dental Paid Parental Leave flex spending tuition reimbursement student Loan forgiveness as well as several other benefits.
• Delivery of high quality of patient care through nursing education nursing research and innovations in nursing practice.
• Strong Unit Based Council (UBC)
• A supportive team environment with outstanding opportunities for growth.
  

Since 1991 Texas Health Plano has served the communities of Plano Frisco Carrollton Addison Richardson and McKinney. Were a 386bed fullservice hospital serving North Texas with incredible care and amazing people.We specialize in emergency medicine and trauma cardiology neurosurgery and spine advanced orthopedics womens services adult and adolescent behavioral health an adult intensive care unit and state of the art and technologically advanced surgical services. Plus were a Level II Trauma Facility the only health care facility in Collin County to have achieved both the Level IV NICU and Level IV Maternal facility designation and have a DNVcertified Comprehensive Stroke Program.

Texas Health Plano is a fourtime Magnetdesignated hospital the only AACN Beacon Gold adult intensive care unit in the DFW area accredited by the Joint Commission in Hip and Knee Replacement and a Primary Heart Attack Center. We offer topnotch benefits including an onsite childcare center created for working parents.You belong here.

If youre ready to join us in our mission to improve the health of our community then lets show the world how were even better together!

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