Vice President of Quality, Behavioral Health

Vice President of Quality, Behavioral Health Position Announcement

Dr. John Q. Young, Chair and Senior Vice President of Behavioral Health and Dr. Manish Sapra, Executive Director of Northwell Health’s Behavioral Health Service Line, with the support of Northwell Executive Leadership, invites applications and nominations for the position of Vice President of Quality, Behavioral Health.

In partnership with the Chair, Department of Psychiatry, administrative and clinical hospital executives and quality teams, the Vice President of Quality will serve as the system Behavioral Health (BH) leader for quality, and, as such, will be responsible for developing and implementing a BH strategic plan for quality in alignment with Northwell’s overall quality strategy. The strategy will include oversight and monitoring, data analytics and metrics, training and execution of performance improvement methodology, process for prioritization, and ensuring all clinical quality and safety standards are met.

Quality will be addressed in multiple dimensions including efficiency, effectiveness, equity, timeliness, safety and patient and-family centered oversight of system-wide committee constructs. The Vice President of Quality will participate in clinical quality improvement and patient safety activities in alignment with corporate quality, institutional priorities, local quality departments, and Northwell institutional Departments of Psychiatry. Additionally, the new VP of Quality will assist in performance improvement and quality assurance studies.

Northwell Health is New York State's largest private employer and one of the nation's largest integrated health care systems, delivers world-class clinical care throughout the New York metropolitan area, pioneering research at the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, and is educating the next generation of medical professionals through the visionary Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell.

Northwell’s mission is to improve the mental health of the patients and communities Northwell serves through a full continuum of high-quality, comprehensive clinical services in all of Northwell’s hospitals, outpatient programs and practices. Hospital services include over 624 inpatient beds (74 SUD beds) across 7 hospitals, consult services in each of the 23 hospitals and emergency departments, a robust telepsychiatry program, partial hospitalization and intensive outpatient programs, and a full range of outpatient services (over 600K visits per year and growing) for all ages and disorders.

Northwell Health has two hospitals that specialize in behavioral health:
Zucker Hillside Hospital, a 236-bed facility in Glen Oaks, NY and South Oaks Hospital, a 202-bed facility in Amityville, NY. To improve access and facilitate earlier diagnosis and treatment, the Department prioritizes integrating behavioral health into settings where people routinely engage such as primary care (adult, pediatric and OB-GYN) and schools. BH has embedded collaborative care behavioral health specialists in 84+ primary care (adult and pediatric) practices;

and has co-located behavioral health in medical specialty settings such as oncology, transplant surgery, and obstetrics. The School Mental Program provides prevention and wellness programs and same day access to psychiatric services for over 220,000 K-12th grade students across 54 school districts. The Behavioral Health College Partnership collaborates with over 100 higher education institutions in the greater New York region to provide outpatient care as well as rapid inpatient care for college students experiencing a psychiatric crisis.

This role requires a dynamic and experienced leader with a deep understanding of behavioral health quality, a passion for driving improvement, and the ability to influence and inspire change across a large and complex organization. The VP of Quality will champion a data-driven approach to quality, leveraging analytics and best practices to optimize clinical outcomes, enhance patient experience, and…