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Description

Penn Medicine is dedicated to our tripartite mission of providing the highest level of care to patients, conducting innovative research, and educating future leaders in the field of medicine. Working for this leading academic medical center means collaboration with top clinical, technical and business professionals across all disciplines.

Today at Penn Medicine, someone will make a breakthrough. Someone will heal a heart, deliver hopeful news, and give comfort and reassurance. Our employees shape our future each day. Are you living your life's work?

The Quality, Safety, Specialist plays a role in supporting the development, implementation, management and sustainment of an organization wide system of quality and safety. Work with members of the Quality and Safety teams and organizational cross-functional teams, the Quality & Patient Safety Specialist will support activities to strengthen the culture of safety with the goal of improving the reliability of a complex system. Staff in this role are responsible for support a portfolio of system-level quality/process improvement projects from project scope and design, process redesign, implementation testing, performance metric management and sustainment plans.

Responsibilities:

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Creates and executes all aspects of project plans by leading, facilitating and managing multi-disciplinary quality and patient safety improvement projects with progressive independence; over sees and manages project management and logistics such as project timelines, agenda development, minutes and documents, slide decks and preparation of reports on project status and activities to various audiences; provides supportive management oversight for organization wide advancement of the culture of safety with progressive independence.

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Has a working knowledge of patient safety science, IHI model for improvement, lean or other improvement methodologies and tools. Demonstrates progressively independent project management skills.

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Performs risk surveys and assessments of various departments, services and systems.

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Participates in activities to use the incident reporting database to identify trends and opportunities to improve patient safety. Participates in RCA’s, ACA’s and FMEA and facilitates follow-up action plans which may be required

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Participates in development, implementation and evaluation of programming to promote Penn Medicine’s Princeton Health’s Culture of Safety.

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Uses clinical practice experience and knowledge of clinical workflow when leading interdisciplinary teams engaged in complex clinical quality and patient safety improvement work. Ensures national practice standards are incorporated into project work plans

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Ensures effective data management for assigned quality improvement projects. Has knowledge of measurement framework, and participates in the design, development and implementation of data collection tools. Oversees and conducts data analytics and data integrity.

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Provide support to multidisciplinary teams in the development, implementation and evaluation of quality care initiatives for specific patient populations

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Develops and maintains, positive, collaborative, supportive working relationships with the medical staff, nurses, administration, clinicians, staff, senior management and Department Chairpersons on quality improvement and patient safety science, including culture of safety and principles of high reliability

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Helps to ensure compliance with various codes, laws, rules and regulations concerning patient care, including those mandated by state, federal agencies and compliance with the Joint Commission risk management standards

Actively participates in Joint Commission readiness preparation and surveys and other surveys as guided by the department leadership

Maintain awareness of legislative and regulatory activities related to quality and patient safety

Helps ensure that quality and patient safety policies and procedures are communicated to employees

Assists clinical chairs and department chiefs to design quality, patient safety and/or risk management programs specific to their individual areas

Periodically reports on quality and patient safety matters and prepares reports for department and committees

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Performs duties in accordance with Penn Medicine and entity values, policies, and procedures

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Other duties as assigned to support the unit, department, entity, and health system organization

Qualifications:

+ BSN

+ 5 years of Clinical Experience, combined with experience in Performance Improvement and/or patient safety initiatives.

+ Knowledge of health care date analysis using data sources such as Epic, Midas, Vizient, etc.

We believe that the best care for our patients starts with the best care for our employees. Our employee benefits programs help our employees get healthy and stay healthy. We offer a comprehensive compensation and benefits program that includes one of the finest prepaid tuition assistance programs in the region. Penn Medicine employees are actively engaged and committed to our mission. Together we will continue to make medical advances that help people live longer, healthier lives.

Live Your Life's Work

We are an Equal Opportunity employer. Candidates are considered for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, marital status, familial status, genetic information, domestic or sexual violence victim status, citizenship status, military status, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable law.

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