Cardiovascular Programs Coordinator

The Cardiovascular Programs Coordinator provides support and organizational services to all Augusta Health Heart and Vascular Center accreditation programs and quality initiatives. Responsible for all related programmatic data collection analysis and monitoring of programmatic and clinical goals. Assists Committee Chairperson(s) and Cardiovascular Administration in assuring compliance with all accreditation standards and coordinates and maintains documentation requirements for survey. Reports to the Administrative Director of Cardiovascular Services and indirectly the Director of Quality and works as a team member with HIM QRM and Heart and Vascular staff and Committee members.
The Program Coordinator also serves as an integral part of the CV Leaderships team in ensuring that accreditation data is abstracted submitted appropriately and timely to various credentialing organizations thereby supporting the mission of Augusta Health.

Job Description:

Accreditation Manager:
Serve as point person for all accreditation surveys. This includes filling out application verifying survey dates submitting charts prepping team members and ensuring day of survey runs smoothly.
Stays abreast of all new Standard Manuals and requirements released by accrediting bodies.
Keeps up to date on mandated regulatory/publicly reported data requirements as specified by federal state payer and other agencies.
Supports CV Leadership by assisting with the maintenance and submission of various accreditation packets to multiple professional agencies in the advancement of organizational mission to include accreditations and accrediting bodies.
Coordinates and collaborates with the Cardiovascular Program Medical Director on clinical practice guidelines education policy review and cardiology case review.
Performs concurrent and retrospective chart review oversees quality initiatives and improvements related to cardiovascular patient care and associated measure compliance.
Data Manager:
Supervises data abstractions and collaborates with remote workers to improve data compliance.
Reviews 100 percent of NCDR CathPCI Afib Device and/or Chest Pain/MI patients for inclusion in the applicable Data Registries as identified by the facility.
Oversees the collection of preoperative intraoperative and 30-day postoperative follow-up data components for the program through the effective utilization of the hospital medical record systems.
Participates in NCDR educational opportunities as they related to their assigned position.
Navigate new technical systems: electronic medical records (EMR) and registry/case entry tools; use team resources to troubleshoot technical issues and applications with a focus on solutions.
Assists in training and education of new employees on content related to quality metrics and performance improvement.
Clearly communicates any data documentation needs to support accurate and high reliable data collection and reporting.
Generate reports for internal and external stakeholders highlighting areas of excellence and improvement opportunities.
Keeps Director informed of problems concerns or other issues-shows ability to recognize problem situations and refers as necessary.
Analyze clinical data to identify trends and areas for improvement in cardiology care.
Process Improvement/ Quality Manager:
Collaborate with cardiology providers and staff to develop and evaluate performance improvement plans.
Develop and implement protocols and best practices for patient care in the cardiology department.
Chair cardiovascular related process improvement teams. Delegate tasks and monitoring to various team members
Identifies streamlining and process improvement opportunities in the data collection process.
Schedules quarterly quality meeting dates and location arranges meeting rooms with appropriate audiovisual aids notifies and reminds committee members of meetings prepares PowerPoint content as well as agenda with committee chairperson and appropriate staff.
Actively participates as a team leader or member in hospital-wide cross functional quality and performance improvement activities committees and task forces.
Serves as an educational resource on the NCDR Registry for internal and external audiences.
Maintains progress on special assignments-informs supervisor of progress status and strives to meet deadlines.
Contribute to team best practices data dictionaries abstraction guidelines and other business rule documents; identify process improvement opportunities to help streamline tasks and processes.
Presents key data elements to organizational leadership CV team members and outside agencies as required during quarterly quality meetings.
Advises CV Leadership by assessing training needs of staff related to compliance with quality metrics.
Participates in medical staff peer review as needed.
Conducts Case reviews and offers SBARs and timelines as necessary.
Participates and conducts RCA and causal analysis as necessary.
Serves as a liaison between the Heart and Vascular service and local EMS organizations to promote quality cardiac care.
Participates in public events to promote the cardiovascular service line or heart health.
Professional Development:
Understands the need for continuing education-attends educational conferences as necessary to keep abreast of current trends state laws regulations and statutes.
Maintains a professional image-is always approachable and views issues objectively.
Participates in NCDR educational opportunities as they related to their assigned position.

Qualifications:

Bachelors Degree
Current BLS certification
ACLS within 6 months of employment
Current and valid Registered nurse license in the Commonwealth of Virginia or from a state that is part of a Compact agreement with Virginia
Minimum of two years of Cath Lab experience; or prior CV Quality experience

Preferred Qualifications:

Masters Degree
CPHQ certification
CPMC certification
Minimum of one year of NCDR Data Abstraction

Competencies Knowledge Skills and Abilities:

Ability to read and understand Medical Records.
Expertise in Excel and PowerPoint
Strong organizational skills.
Demonstrated presentation experience.
Demonstrates a working knowledge of medical terminology-understands and applies correct use and spelling of medical terminology.
Demonstrates an ability to utilize hospital computer system-has working knowledge of necessary Meditech modules.
Demonstrates good verbal and written communication skills-conveys questions directions and information clearly and appropriately.
Training in Medical Terminology Anatomy Physiology and understanding of the cardiovascular disease process.

Some benefits of working at Augusta Health include:

• Generous paid time off to promote work life balance
• Free onsite parking
• Shift and weekend differentials
• Tuition reimbursement
• Onsite child care

Company Information
Augusta Health is a mission-driven independent nonprofit community health system located in Fishersville Virginia in Virginias scenic Shenandoah Valley. Augusta Health offers a full continuum of inpatient and outpatient which includes Augusta Medical Center a 255 bed inpatient facility and Augusta Medical Group which is comprised of 40 practice locations and four urgent care locations.

Equal Opportunity

Augusta Health recruits hires and promotes qualified candidates for employment without regard to age color disability gender identity or expression marital status national or ethnic origin political affiliation race religion sex (including pregnancy) sexual orientation veteran or military discharge status and family medical or genetic information.

Required Experience:

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