Director of Patient Safety

Description

This position is incentive eligible.

Introduction

Managers thrive with us! HCA Healthcare is one of the nation’s leading providers of healthcare services, comprising of over 180 hospitals and about 2,000 sites of care in 21 states and the United Kingdom. We are looking for a Director of Patient Safety for our Medical City Plano team where excellence creates excellence.

Benefits

Medical City Plano, offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:

• Comprehensive medical coverage that covers many common services at no cost or for a low copay. Plans include prescription drug and behavioral health coverage as well as free telemedicine services and free Air Med medical transportation.

• Additional options for dental and vision benefits, life and disability coverage, flexible spending accounts, supplemental health protection plans (accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity), auto and home insurance, identity theft protection, legal counseling, long-term care coverage, moving assistance, pet insurance and more.

• Free counseling services and resources for emotional, physical and financial wellbeing

• 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service)

• Employee Stock Purchase Plan with 10% off HCA Healthcare stock

• Family support through fertility and family building benefits with Progyny and adoption assistance.

• Referral services for child, elder and pet care, home and auto repair, event planning and more

• Consumer discounts through Abenity and Consumer Discounts

• Retirement readiness, rollover assistance services and preferred banking partnerships

• Education assistance (tuition, student loan, certification support, dependent scholarships)

• Colleague recognition program

• Time Away From Work Program (paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence)

• Employee Health Assistance Fund that offers free employee-only coverage to full-time and part-time colleagues based on income.

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Note:

Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.

HCA Healthcare has expanded our influence across the healthcare industry by investing $3.5 billion in capital improvements in recent years. Do you want to be an influencer in healthcare? Apply for our Director of Patient Safety role today!

Job Summary and Qualifications

• You will provide management and general operational oversight for Patient Safety and Risk Management and operate as the Patient Safety Officer.

• You will establish a structure for promoting a patient safety culture, emphasizing risk reduction within the organization while analyzing trends of events to determine process improvements necessary to ensure alignment of patient safety strategies with MCP’s mission, vision, values and goals.

• You will recognize and address patient safety/risk exposures affecting quality of care and outcomes by evaluating near misses, occurrence reports, clinical surveillance and regulatory/legislative standards.

• You will be responsible for coordinating those systems necessary for identification, evaluation, monitoring, education and/or elimination of professional and general liability exposures.

• You will be a strategic thinker with strong analytical and business skills required to manage multiple projects/programs.

• You will lead process re-design, organization design, change management, communication activities, and conduct training/mentoring of others as related to building the Improvement skill set.

• You will facilitate goal driven teams and engage individuals in activities that align with advancing the business plan.

• You will manage physician quality and performance improvement programs and coordinate medical staff peer review data and indicators for the hospital.

What qualifications you will need:

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in healthcare or related field required.

• Master’s degree preferred.

Licensure/Certification/Registration:

• Texas State RN license or compact license is accepted (as applicable).

• CPHRM or CPPS required.

Experience:

• Minimum 5 years’ experience in healthcare improvement (patient safety, risk…