| Carondelet�s St. Joseph�s Hospital (located at 350 N. Wilmot Rd, Tucson, AZ 85711) provides a full range of comprehensive inpatient and outpatient services. Established in 1961, St. Joseph�s Hospital is a premiere medical campus serving Tucson and the Southwest. St. Joseph�s is home to the Carondelet Neurological Institute and the Carondelet Joint Replacement Center. Here you�ll find one of the region�s most comfortable labor and delivery units as well as high-quality care and customer service in programs such as cardiology, orthopedics, oncology, wound care, stroke, diabetes, emergency medicine and rehabilitation. The 486-bed facility is an accredited Chest Pain Center, has been recognized by the American Heart and Stroke Association with a Get with the Guidelines Award for stroke care, and has nationally-certified Cardiac and Pulmonary Rehabilitation Programs.
Why Carondelet�
When you join Carondelet�s Community Built on Care, our family of nurses, doctors, staff and healthcare specialists are dedicated to providing expert, compassionate care for all the families of Southern Arizona and the surrounding communities. We�ve been caring for you and your loved ones for more than 135 years � right here, in this great community of ours. So this is our home too. Caring, nurturing and helping heal friends, loved ones and neighbors of Southern Arizona is our passion, and we�re honored to have the opportunity to serve you. From emergency services and heart care to orthopedics, advanced stroke treatment and more, we�re focused on providing you with expert care combined with a healthy dose of attentiveness and kindness. Carondelet Health Network. A community built on care.
POSITION SUMMARY:
Provide leadership and consultative services related to performance improvement such as study design, data collection, analysis and presentation. Facilitate management involvement in the development, implementation, evaluation, and improvement of the quality management program, activities, and services to integrate the program with the operative mission of Carondelet Health Network. Serve in a leadership role in facilitating performance improvement initiatives with designated organizational divisions and business units. Demonstrate leadership skills in the administration of programs that focus on improved outcomes of patient care, healthcare delivery systems and the professional staff peer review process. Provide support for the vision and direction of assigned areas.
POSITION DUTIES:
| Provide leadership and consultation services to departments within the organization to achieve quality compliance with regulatory, accreditation, and organizational bodies. | | Seek management involvement in the development of a planning approach that supports healthcare quality and patient safety. | | Work with quality director in design, maintenance, distribution and incorporation of reports into Quality Dashboards, while also identifying new report development. | | Perform chart review, data abstraction, inter rater reliability, and data submission for assigned CMS Core Measures. Work directly with staff, physicians and other providers to facilitate appropriate care, education and documentation related to Core Measures.
Identify real time noncompliance with CMS Core Measures and develop and implement appropriate actions to ensure immediate and long term compliance. | | Involve management to establish specific quality-related goals to measure the organization�s processes and outcomes. | | Represent quality (performance measurement and analysis) on internal/Network committees and task forces as needed. | | Facilitate discussions with stakeholders of existing data, reports, and analyses while assessing unmet needs and potential enhancements. | | Exhibit skill in health information fundamentals to include application of basic statistical processes, data analysis, reporting, and computer use. | | Provide development, implementation, support, and evaluation of a variety of departmental and institutional databases to support clinical excellence. |
Qualifications:
| Education
| Required: Bachelors degree in nursing or other health care related field
Preferred: Masters (MS, MA) in Nursing or other health care related field | |
Licensure | Required: Arizona Professional Nursing license
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Certificates | Required:
Preferred: Certified Professional in Healthcare Quality (CPHQ) | |
Experience | Required: Minimum five (5) years acute care clinical experience and 1 year leadership.
Preferred: 5 years related experience, including quality and educational related methodology and theory, 3 years leadership experience, 7 years acute care clinical experience. | |
Skills | Required: Demonstrated application in successful team building, systems thinking, complex problem solving, negotiating and influencing, change and conflict management, data analysis, coaching and mentoring, strategic planning, and business strategy development; Strong presentation skills; Effective written and verbal communication skills, and a proven ability to earn trust and build relationships with employees, management, and other health care staff.
| | Knowledge | Required: Quality improvement process, performance improvement tools and techniques, to include understanding and demonstrated application of statistical techniques used in data analysis and display; knowledge of varied regulatory, accreditation, and licensing standards
Preferred: | |
Technology | Required: Applied computer experience in word processing, use of databases (Outlook, PowerPoint, Excel, Visio) to organize, store, retrieve, and communicate data into meaningful information; awareness of current use of technology in related fields.
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Other | Required: Reliable transportation and flexibility to travel to assigned sites
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Job: Non-Clinical/Administrative Primary Location: Tucson, Arizona Facility: Carondelet St. Joseph's Hospital Job Type: Full-time Shift Type: Days
Employment practices will not be influenced or affected by an applicant�s or employee�s race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status or any other legally protected status. Tenet will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities unless doing so would result in an undue hardship. |
