Clinical Quality Compliance Consultant

Position Highlights:

• Location: Lexington 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:

Under supervision works to strengthen Wake Forest Baptist Healths systemwide quality outcomes reporting and improvement activities. Works with leadership to comply with an increasing number of external reporting mandates and improvement initiatives including data collection data entry and analysis of quality data. In addition responsible for data display and interpretation and the reporting of this data to a wide range of clinical and administrative leaders. Extensive daily interaction with Directors and staff in the Performance Excellence division is a key component of this role. Participates in a variety of programs and improvement activities across multiple academic and operational departments.

What Youll Need:

• Graduation from an accredited School of Nursing with a Bachelors degree in Healthcare of a Business related field; or ten years nursing experience in an academic medical center and three years of clinical quality review related work experience required
• Current license to practice as a Registered Nurse (RN) in the State of North Carolina.
• Certified Professional in Healthcare Quality preferred.

What Youll Do:

• Facilitates compliance with evolving quality measures including TJC Oryx Reporting of Core Measures Leapfrog CMSs National Hospital Quality Measures and National Quality Forum quality measurement and reporting requirements and other benchmarking reporting requirements.
• Develops both measurement and improvement strategies for assigned performance measures and programs.
• Oversees clinical review in area of responsibility to ensure complete and accurate data collection and data entry for assigned performance measures and programs/projects within established timeframes.
• Works with Quality Department leadership to investigate quality concerns or issues arising from external payer reviews external clinical benchmarking efforts (NSQIP UHC Leapfrog TJC etc.) or tracking of surveillance of major outcome measures (e.g. mortality readmission and reoperation rates).
• Provides concise clinical quality review findings develop recommendations for corrective actions and/or improvement opportunities to leadership as warranted and track the impact of implemented changes.
• Works with assigned team and quality leaders across the medical center to strengthen clinical documentation and coding to ensure that all DRG related and CPT related coding accurately reflects the patients complexity and clinical course. Monitors review process for all hospital acquired conditions and publicly reported conditions to ensure accuracy of information provided to regulatory reporting agencies.
• Works with Quality Assessment Director and Performance Excellence division leaders to manage specified quality and safety related projects as determined by leadership including developing project timelines agendas reports and presentations to various audiences as appropriate.
• Establishes effective and collaborative working relationships with members of the hospital community clinical departments administrative departments and quality and safety staff across Wake Forest Baptist Health.
• Keeps current with data abstraction specifications emerging trends in hospital quality and reporting initiatives and integrates key concepts into work.
• Performs other duties as assigned.