Quality Improvement Director - Healthcare leads and directs process and overall quality improvement activities that produce better patient care and more efficient operations. Develops programs to review and evaluate patient care and outcomes. Being a Quality Improvement Director - Healthcare implements a strategy and plans for a quality improvement function within the facility in collaboration with the administrative and clinical leaders of the hospital. Tracks and presents results of improvement efforts and ongoing measures of clinical processes to management. Additionally, Quality Improvement Director - Healthcare requires a bachelor's degree. Typically reports to top management. The Quality Improvement Director - Healthcare typically manages through subordinate managers and professionals in larger groups of moderate complexity. Provides input to strategic decisions that affect the functional area of responsibility. May give input into developing the budget. Capable of resolving escalated issues arising from operations and requiring coordination with other departments. To be a Quality Improvement Director - Healthcare typically requires 3+ years of managerial experience. (Copyright 2024 Salary.com)
About Us:
At Sinai Chicago, we take health care personally. Excellence in health care is about more than just medicine, technology, tests and treatments, it is about really caring for people with dignity and respect. That’s what we do. We are dedicated to providing the best care to meet the needs of people, for our community, for our patients and for you. Position Purpose: The Director of Quality and Performance Improvement is the system leader accountable for driving continuous improvement, reducing care variation, elevating quality and clinical excellence, and care transformation. This includes minimizing financial risk related to pay-for-performance programs, ensuring the best outcomes to strengthen the Sinai Health System brand, developing and leading strategies for implementation, evaluation, and sustainment that support the elimination of risk and harm to patients, improvement in the quality and experience of care delivery and transformation. This position works to eliminate preventable harm, attain unsurpassed clinical and patient-reported outcomes, and build hospital-wide participation through transparency, collaboration, and mutual learning. Working in partnership with senior administrative and medical staff leadership, this position oversees the institutional approach to care transformation and leads a comprehensive quality/performance improvement program.
Position Purpose:
The Director of Quality and Performance Improvement is the system leader accountable for driving continuous improvement, reducing care variation, elevating quality and clinical excellence, and care transformation. This includes minimizing financial risk related to pay-for-performance programs, ensuring the best outcomes to strengthen the Sinai Health System brand, developing and leading strategies for implementation, evaluation, and sustainment that support the elimination of risk and harm to patients, improvement in the quality and experience of care delivery and transformation. This position works to eliminate preventable harm, attain unsurpassed clinical and patient-reported outcomes, and build hospital-wide participation through transparency, collaboration, and mutual learning. Working in partnership with senior administrative and medical staff leadership, this position oversees the institutional approach to care transformation and leads a comprehensive quality/performance improvement program.
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Category 1 - Job usually involves contact with patients or patient’s specimens. Exposure to blood, body fluids, non-intact skin or tissue specimens, is possible
Category 2 - Job may expose incumbent occasionally or in emergency situations to blood, body fluids, non-intact skin or tissue specimens sinaichicago.org
Category 3 (X) - Job does not involve exposure to blood, body fluids, non-intact skin or tissue specimens. Incumbent does not perform or help in emergency medical care or first aid as a part of his/her job.
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Sinai Health System’s goal is to provide you with the most comprehensive benefit package possible while balancing our fiscal commitments and obligations. Sinai Health Systems currently offers its employees the option to participate in a full range of benefits, including a health care program which includes medical, dental, vision and prescription coverage. Along with Employer Paid Life and Accidental Death & Dismemberment (AD&D), Supplemental Life, Short-Term and Long-Term Disability, Health Savings Account (HSA) and Flexible Spending Account (FSA), Employee Assistance Program and Student Loan Assistance. Participation in some programs requires that employees be regularly scheduled to work a minimum number of hours and/or to have fulfilled a waiting period after they begin employment with Sinai Health Systems. Registry (per diem) Caregivers are caregivers who work less than 1,000 hours in a calendar year. Registry caregivers are employees of Sinai Health System but are typically on an as needed basis. These caregivers may be called upon to cover full-time or part-time caregivers during PTO events or sick leave as well as to provide supplemental coverage. Registry Caregivers are not eligible for Sinai’s benefit programs with the exception for Sick-C, PPO Medical Plan, Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and non-match eligible contribution to the Sinai Health System Consolidated 403(b) retirement savings plan.