Senior Vice President, Quality and Safety

Overview

Senior Vice President, Quality and Safety

The opportunity at Catholic Health, an integrated health system in Buffalo, New York, for an accomplished nurse leader to serve as its Senior Vice President, Quality and Safety. Reporting directly to the Executive Vice President, Chief Nursing Officer, the SVP Quality and Safety is responsible for the overall management of an experienced broad-based team charged with monitoring, reporting, educating and inspiring devotion to excelling in internal and external quality metrics for the entire enterprise with the goal of attaining and sustaining top decile performance.

The SVP serves as the system liaison and senior executive for all Quality and Patient Safety collaborative initiatives with the acute care hospitals, service lines, continuing care division and homecare ministries to promote integration and alignment to improve quality and safety outcomes across the continuum and the patient experience.

The SVP will provide leadership and guidance for the executive leaders’ education and development and lead the efforts for quality improvement education, training and coaching of all Catholic Health staff. The SVP will establish a strategic framework for achieving the institution’s goals related to medical care quality, education quality, research quality and patient safety. Additionally, the SVP will play a critical role in system and Catholic Medical Partners initiatives regarding population health management, quality improvement, clinical practice standardization.

The SVP will foster a culture of safety, champion high reliability and the magnet journey, along with other cross functional activities.

• Provide leadership for quality and safety strategy across the enterprise and ensure alignment with organizational goals.
• Lead and develop education, training and coaching for all Catholic Health staff in quality improvement.
• Establish and monitor strategic framework for measuring medical care quality, education quality, research quality and patient safety.
• Promote integration and collaboration with acute care hospitals, service lines, continuing care division and homecare ministries.
• Foster a culture of safety, high reliability and patient safety initiatives; champion cross-functional activities.
• Lead systemwide quality improvement initiatives, including population health management and clinical practice standardization.
• Track, report and improve key quality and safety metrics using a system perspective and data informatics.

• A master’s degree with clinical major required.
• Current registration with the New York State Education Department as a Registered Professional Nurse or ability to quickly obtain will be required.
• Minimum of 10 years of progressive quality and safety management experience in an acute care setting.
• Experience in an academic medical center and/or progressive health system of significant size and complexity preferred.
• Experience establishing and monitoring process and outcome measures for key initiatives using a systems perspective; evaluating clinical care and patient services processes.
• Experience working with informatics, metrics, and performance improvement.
• Demonstrated change management skills in a complex environment.
• Inspirational leadership with ability to articulate a compelling vision and drive performance aligned with Catholic Health mission.
• Experience tracking, reporting, and improving key quality and safety metrics.
• Experience with Lean Six Sigma methodologies.

Catholic Health (the System), based in Buffalo, New York, is one of upstate New York’s leading and largest integrated health care systems. The System serves a population of approximately 1.5M people in Erie County, New York, and neighboring counties, with more than 9,000 employees and a 1,600-member medical staff. The organization provides a comprehensive network of high quality care across multiple facilities and services.

Buffalo, New York, located on the eastern side of Lake Erie near Niagara Falls and the Canadian border, is the second-largest city in New York State. It offers a mix of urban and suburban living with a reputation for community and affordability.

Compensation Range: The base salary range for this position is $275,000 to $300,000 annually. In addition, the role may include other benefits such as health insurance, retirement benefits, and bonuses. Final compensation is based on factors including scope of role, experience, education, achievements, internal equity, budget, and Fair Market Value evaluation.

Nominations are greatly appreciated and may be sent to:

Rachael Burns, Vice President
Ellen Lockhart, MD, Principal
Heather Van Hecke, Consultant
Physician and Leadership Solutions - Executive Search
AMN Healthcare
Email:
Heath

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