Director, Program Implementation, Health Care Quality

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The American Heart Association has an excellent opportunity for a Director, Program Implementation in our Quality Improvement Department!

This position can be home-based. Western States territory preferred.

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Responsible for managing the Quality Improvement team and implementing quality improvement initiatives in defined markets. Responsible for overseeing achievement of program goals within the Quality & Systems Improvement Portfolio, such as Stroke, Heart Failure, CAD, Resuscitation, Atrial Fibrillation, including Systems of Care regional and state initiatives. Responsible for ensuring team education, implementation, and achievement of program goals while adhering to national policies and procedures.

• Collaborate with the assigned region staff to ensure account management achieves Quality Improvement and Customer Consultation program goals. Oversee engagement with clients at hospitals, healthcare systems, or EMS organizations to implement and deliver program services, including active data collection, decision support tools, and best practice sharing.
• Manage a team who are working in defined territories and assist those staff to identify, cultivate, and maintain key market stakeholder relationships as part of contract management of accounts. Oversee staff development in relationship-building and account management assessments.
• Motivate, coach, and direct team to achieve goals, ensure hospital outcomes improve, and achieve levels of compliance to nationally published treatment guidelines as outlined in the Association’s mission priorities.
• Develop and implement comprehensive territory/state plans in collaboration with assigned region staff to achieve organizational goals, generate revenue, and reduce health disparities. Ensure the team executes on plans and achieves goals.
• Consult with appropriate hospital teams with respect to compliance issues and strategies to facilitate progress in program participation.
• Oversee customer relationship management tools, including the use of Microsoft Dynamics, PMT, IRP, and all other Health IT systems. Utilize these data sources to produce regular progress reports for Region staff at both the market level and the Region executive level.
• Oversee necessary pre-work activities required to launch future QI initiatives.
• Maintain existing Systems of Care activities to support the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association impact goal.
• Interact with appropriate regional staff and volunteers to leverage opportunities and provide seamless customer relationship management.

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent work experience.
• Minimum three (3) years of experience.
• Minimum three (3) years of supervisory experience.
• Experience in either an acute care hospital working directly on clinical quality or process improvement projects, OR a national cardiac or stroke clinical quality improvement program that incorporates data capture within a process improvement framework, or a combination of the two.
• Project Management experience.
• Comprehensive knowledge or clinical experience in one or more areas such as Cardiac Arrest, Stroke,…