Quality Improvement Specialist

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Banner Desert Med Ctr (1400 S Dobson Rd):
Banner Ocotillo Med Ctr (1405 S Alma School Rd) time type:
Full time posted on:
Posted Todayjob requisition :
R4429086
** Primary City/State:
** Mesa, Arizona
** Department Name:
** Quality Improvement-Corp
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** Risk, Quality and Safety Great options and opportunities. We’re certified as a Great Place To Work and are looking for professionals to help us make Banner Health the best place to work and receive care. Apply today!

In this role you will support quality improvement teams and initiatives. We are looking for a clinically trained and/or process improvement professional who communicates effectively and is enthusiastic about improving care processes in the healthcare setting.
** This position is onsite at Banner Desert working Monday-Friday, 8:00am-4:30pm.
** Within Banner Health Corporate, you will have the opportunity to apply your unique experience and expertise in support of a nationally-recognized healthcare leader. We offer stimulating and rewarding careers in a wide array of disciplines. Whether your background is in Human Resources, Finance, Information Technology, Legal, Managed Care Programs or Public Relations, you'll find many options for contributing to our award-winning patient care.

POSITION SUMMARY  This position supports high reliability in clinical performance through ongoing assessment of performance, prioritizes clinical improvement activities, facilitates performance improvement, and promotes successful implementation to achieve entity/system targets. This role requires strong communication, collaboration, teamwork, and change management skills in order to achieve desired results across the continuum of care. This role serves as a quality SME to Leaders throughout the facility.
CORE FUNCTIONS  
1. Quality Leadership and Integration - Facilitates the integration of quality into the fabric of the organization to achieve objectives, such as Annual Initiatives, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and The Joint Commission (tJC) standards of care. Support the quality infrastructure, protect the use of privileged or confidential information, facilitate processes for engagement and interprofessional teamwork, identify and promote continuous learning opportunities to advance the organization/facility/entity and communicate effectively.

Facilitates performance improvement projects with physicians, clinical leaders, and staff to identify improvement opportunities utilizing qualitative and quantitative data analysis, knowledge of health care operations and systems thinking.
2. Performance and Process Improvement – Serves as a subject matter expert in performance and process improvement, project management and change management methods to support operational and clinical quality initiatives. Facilitates activities related to or resulting from patient safety, harm reduction, clinical performance, peer review and compliance with regulatory and accrediting agencies. This is accomplished by utilizing performance and process improvement tools and principles, applying project management methods, and using change management principles and tools.
3. Population Health and Care Transitions - Evaluate and improve healthcare processes and care transitions to advance the efficient, effective, and safe care of defined populations. Foster integrated team-based clinical delivery model to population-based care.  Facilitate the implementation of standardized process, that are evidence-based Population Health management strategies, when appropriate. Encourage and contribute to a holistic approach to improvement and collaborate to improve care processes and transitions back to the community.

Monitor and report facility Clinical Practice performance that have been handed-off to Quality Improvement.
4. Health Data Analytics - Supports the organizations' analytic environment to help guide data driven decision making while facilitating meetings with departments and teams to guide quality improvement initiatives and activities. Adheres to…