Clinical Quality Improvement Specialist

Vergence - Indianapolis, IN, United States

Pay: $55.00/hour

• Assist with development and launching of a capacity system that includes near-time bed capacity counts for acute care hospitals, including critical access hospitals.
• Must be able to manage user account and security parameters for access to the web-based dashboard to coordinate daily, surge, and crisis needs.
• Help coordinate emergency department data, organized per NHSN definitions to Hospital Capacity Data Store at least twice per day on an ongoing basis. Data would include emergency department (ED) census, ED Admitted census (boarding) and ED pressure indicator by count of all patients in the ED that have a physician assigned.
• Create possible items listed below to support ongoing participation in the NHSN Connectivity Initiative, such as:
• Develop communications and training materials for onboarding identified stakeholders and hospital users.
• Provide training and onboarding services to participating hospitals and stakeholders.
• Work with hospitals to collect necessary information for dashboard development and implementation.
• Provide a common framework of data elements to include on the dashboard and in the data feed.
• Facilitate the gathering and engagement of hospitals’ technical staff to work on automated and secured data feeds per specifications supported by the web-based application.
• Assist to advise on shared governance model(s) for discussions and decision-making to support this work.
• Testing and validation of data feeds; and draft progress milestone for inclusion in progress report/lessons learned.
• Manage the participation and permission process/clearances (to send data to NHSN) of participating hospitals. Also provide permission to allow for use of data in conjunction with other participating entities for research and emergency planning by the state and federal health partners.
• Obtain signed commitment from acute care hospitals in to participate in the project through an established participation agreement.
• Provide ongoing instructions and serve as key resource to assist with the scaling of the NHSN Connectivity Initiative and help to ensure that all terms of the CDC funding agreement are met.
• Facilitate efforts to improve clinical and service outcomes throughout the state as related to pediatric emergency care, utilizing federal/national guidance (including but not limited to the American Academy of Pediatrics, Assistant Secretary for Preparedness & Response, Centers for Disease Control, Emergency Medical Services for Children, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Institute of Medicine, Joint Commission).
• Work with Indiana Emergency Departments to assess areas of need, conduct gap analyses, communicate pediatric standards and disseminate resources as appropriate.
• Develop and facilitate bi-monthly Pediatric Emergency Care Workgroup meetings and actively assume project leadership responsibilities through planning, coordination of work group activities and development of tools, educational modules and resources for work group review.
• Participate as a team member on hospital site visits conducted throughout the state, to assess compliance with pediatric emergency care requirements and regulations using defined checklists; provides verbal and written assessment of hospital strengths/weaknesses; outlines recommendations and other key subject matter expertise as appropriate; shares applicable resources and technical guidance with hospitals as needed.
• Develop documents annually to promote quality improvement practices as related to pediatric emergency care documents, and development of a quality improvement plan.
• Engage in and demonstrate self-development in clinical and professional knowledge base in the areas of pediatric emergency management, quality improvement processes, communication, and awareness of trends in the healthcare environment.
• Utilize data to identify trends, draw appropriate conclusions and make recommendations; develop data reports for decision-makers to support conclusions and recommendations; reports should communicate any limitations of the analyses.
• Facilitate efforts to improve clinical and service outcomes…