Director of Quality

City/State

Norfolk VA

Work Shift

First (Days)

Overview:

The Director of Quality and Patient Safety serves as the facility-based quality leader for Sentara Leigh Hospital providing strategic oversight for quality outcomes accreditation regulatory readiness patient safety and performance improvement. This leader partners closely with hospital executives medical staff physician leaders nursing leadership Infection Prevention and Risk Management to advance quality outcomes across a leading 274-bed acute care hospital recognized for nursing excellence stroke care orthopedic and spine services heart and vascular care and maternity services. The Director is responsible for quality improvement programs event review and root cause analysis medical staff peer review accreditation support and advancing organizational goals related to patient safety quality performance and CMS measures. Sentara Leigh Hospital is known for its commitment to innovation clinical excellence and delivering high-quality patient-centered care throughout the Hampton Roads region.

Education

• Bachelors Degree (Required)
• Masters Degree (Preferred)

Certification

• Active Registered Nurse license in VA (Required)

Location

• Onsite: Sentara Norfolk General Hospital Norfolk VA

Experience

• Minimum of 5 years of leadership experience required.
• Minimum of 5 years of clinical management and nursing leadership experience required.
• 3 years hospital quality leadership experience strongly preferred.
• Experience leading quality improvement accreditation regulatory readiness and patient safety initiatives.
• Experience with quality event review root cause analysis peer review and performance improvement programs.
• Knowledge of CMS requirements quality reporting and healthcare regulatory standards.
• Demonstrated ability to build relationships with physicians nursing leaders executives and multidisciplinary teams.
• Experience leading mentoring and developing quality professionals.

We provide market-competitive compensation packages inclusive of base pay incentives and benefits. The base pay range for full-time employment is $146702.40 - $228966.40 annually. Additional compensation may be available for this role such as shift differentials on-call pay shift premiums extra-shift incentives or bonus opportunities. Compensation within the range may vary based on qualifications experience location market conditions and business needs. Note: If an annual salary is posted it is based on a full-time colleague working 2080 hours annually. Sentara offers a comprehensive benefits package including medical dental vision life and disability insurance; 401(k)/403(b) with employer match; paid time off (vacation sick time and holidays); paid parental and military leave; educational assistance or student loan repayment; and voluntary benefits.

Benefits: Caring For Your Family and Your Career

Medical Dental Vision plans

Adoption Fertility and Surrogacy Reimbursement up to $10000

Paid Time Off and Sick Leave

Paid Parental & Family Caregiver Leave

Emergency Backup Care

Long-Term Short-Term Disability and Critical Illness plans

Life Insurance

401k/403B with Employer Match

Tuition Assistance $5250/year and discounted educational opportunities through Guild Education

Student Debt Pay Down $10000

Pet Insurance
Legal Resources Plan
Colleagues have the opportunity to earn an annual discretionary bonus ifestablished system and employee eligibility criteria is met.

Sentara Leigh Hospital located in Norfolk VA is a 274-bed acute care facility that opened in 1903 and relocated to its present site in 1977. Our hospital completed a renovation in 2016 including two new patient towers a beautiful atrium and a multi-story parking garage. Sentara Leigh Hospital includes a dedicated Orthopedic Hospital providing patients access to a full continuum of orthopedic care from the preoperative phase and surgery to rehabilitation and home care services. Along with being a recognized accredited Primary Stroke Center and Magnet hospital for nursing excellence we also specialize in orthopedic and spine care heart vascular maternity care and general surgery. We are also home to the regions only 24-hour hyperbaric oxygen program that helps speed up the healing of carbon monoxide poisoning wounds that wont heal infections in which tissues are starved for oxygen airborne chemical exposures and scuba diving accidents.

Sentara Health is an equal opportunity employer and prides itself on the diversity and inclusiveness of its close to an almost 30000-member workforce. Diversity inclusion and belonging is a guiding principle of the organization to ensure its workforce reflects the communities it serves.

In support of our mission to improve health every day this is a tobacco-free environment.

For positions that are available as remote work Sentara Health employs associates in the following states:

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