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Job Description
Overview
CommonSpirit Health was formed by the alignment of Catholic Health Initiatives (CHI) and Dignity Health. With more than 700 care sites across the U.S. from clinics and hospitals to home-based care and virtual care services CommonSpirit is accessible to nearly one out of every four U.S. residents. Our world needs compassion like never before. Our communities need caring and our families need protection. With our combined resources CommonSpirit is committed to building healthy communities advocating for those who are poor and vulnerable and innovating how and where healing can happen both inside our hospitals and out in the community.
Responsibilities
A remote assignment is available for an experienced Abstractor
Accurate timely data abstraction for support of the CMS Hospital Inpatient and Outpatient Quality Reporting Program measures TJC Core Measures Get with the Guidelines and/or other Clinical Quality and Patient Safety measures
Keeping constantly abreast of changes in data definitions and measure specifications. Maintains current knowledge of regulatory changes pertaining to quality performance improvement activities and reporting requirements.
Apply all concepts of the nursing and other care processes such as identification of disease facilitation of healing health promotion illness presentation and patient care delivery to each task and patient review
Informs hospital staff of variances as appropriate and updates supervisor/interested parties when significant trends appear in the data. Identification of potentially non-compliant cases requiring additional review. Proactively identifying risks to success with in focus areas being measured and communicating to appropriate personnel Interaction and detailed review of abstracted data with Clinical Programs Quality Management Patient Safety etc.
Collaboration with quality improvement team members and other key stakeholders in data accuracy and improvement efforts. Serving as an expert resource for key stakeholders
Qualifications
- Licensed Registered Nurse (BSN preferred) Licensed Clinical Pharmacist or other Licensed Clinical Staff able to perform medical and/or surgical Registry Abstraction
- Demonstrated clinical experience related to a wide variety of patient populations and care delivery models
- Knowledge of clinical practices care processes and procedures
- Specialized knowledge of Medical Records and Health Information Management practices and documentation including familiarity with patient charts disease classification and coding
- Competency with extraction of information from health records organization and management of information and analysis of information
- Experience with data abstraction
- Knowledge of Joint Commission Core Measures and CMS Hospital Inpatient and Outpatient Quality Reporting Program
- Maintain current licensure
Employment Type
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