Quality Coordinator​/RN

Overview

Join our South Texas Health System Clinics (formerly Valley Care Clinics) team! Providers with South Texas Health System (STHS) Clinics deliver high quality family medicine, health screenings and advanced specialized care to the people of the Rio Grande Valley. STHS Clinics is committed to delivering quality healthcare and service excellence. Our clinics are affiliated with South Texas Health Systems’ four acute care hospitals, behavioral health hospital, six freestanding emergency rooms and one joint venture hospital.

Specially trained and highly experienced, our physician group treats a wide range of conditions using advanced technologies and minimally invasive techniques.

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The Quality Coordinator RN is a registered nurse who functions in a market quality leadership role in Population Health. This role helps drive quality best practices in a collaborative effort with payers, providers, support staff, managed care, VBC leaders and administration. The Quality Coordinator RN will participate in quality improvement initiatives, develop recommendations for quality remediation plans and create tools and databases to capture relevant data for their respective region.

The QCRN will also be a leader for their local quality support team, with attention to apportioning responsibilities for quality support staff across their respective market. This role will also develop collaborative payer relationships to maximize resource utilization for patient care. Additionally, they will track quality performance on an ongoing basis with dissemination of performance metrics to key stakeholders (clinics, providers, administration) as a part of their leadership within a matrix relationship

• Responsible for driving performance across plan metrics as outlined by the respective plans
• Optimize patient outcomes and system utilization
• Focus on STARS and HEDIS performance/metrics and help with MIPS measures.
• Support quality staff competency and optimize clinic quality workflows within their region
• Other duties as assigned.

Requirements:

• Graduation from an accredited nursing education program
• Actively licensed by the worked in State to practice as a Registered Nurse
• Minimum of 5 years of associated Population Health/ Quality experience within the health care industry, preferably ambulatory based and includes experience with HEDIS/STARS and MIPS

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