Quality and Performance Improvement Coordinator

Job Description:

Quality and Performance Improvement Coordinator

Description

Position Summary

EMPLOYER-PAID PENSION PLAN (NEVADA PERS)
COMPETITIVE SALARY & BENEFITS PACKAGE

As an academic medical center with a rich history of providing life-saving treatment in Southern Nevada, UMC serves as the anchor hospital of the Las Vegas Medical District, offering Nevada’s highest level of care to promote successful medical outcomes for patients.

We are home to Nevada's ONLY Level I Trauma Center, Designated Pediatric Trauma Center, Burn Care Center, and Transplant Center. We are a Pathway Designated facility by ANCC, and we are on our journey to Magnet status.

***Full-time Opening(s)***

THIS POSITION MAY CLOSE WITHOUT NOTICE ONCE A SUFFICIENT NUMBER OF QUALIFIED APPLICATIONS ARE RECEIVED.

Position Summary:
Works in collaboration and partnership with hospital Clinical Quality and Performance Improvement Department, provides daily monitoring and corrective oversight for clinical quality initiatives, patient/family experience initiatives, scope of service performance improvement initiatives, cost per DRG control, and utilizing clinical research and evidence-based practice information to create, implement, and inculcates standardized clinical care pathways that are multidisciplinary in focus.

Job Requirement

Education/Experience:
Equivalent to a Bachelor's Degree in Nursing, Hospital Administration, or healthcare related field of study. A minimum of five (5) years experience in an acute healthcare setting providing quality management, performance improvement, or healthcare leadership functions at the operational level.

Licensing/Certification Requirements:
If degree is in a health science requiring a legal license to practice must possess a legal license in the State of Nevada from the proper licensing agency.

Additional and/or Preferred Position Requirements

• Licensed as a Registered Nurse
• Minimum of three (3) years’ experience collaborating with organizational team members and providing monitoring and oversight of established organizational quality, performance improvement, safety, and regulatory initiatives.
• Minimum of three (3) years experience performing ongoing regulatory readiness and survey activities in the acute care setting.
• C ertification in Healthcare Quality

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities, and Physical Requirements

Knowledge of:
quality management and performance improvement trends, techniques, and standards for acute hospitals; change management theory and techniques, group dynamics, and Healthcare Lean techniques; regulatory, safety, infection control, hazardous waste, and emergency management standards, trends, and benchmark expectations for success; identifying and implementing quality and operational improvement priorities; quality and experience data and benchmarks by clinical specialty and must be able to communicate data in an understandable way, focusing on priority areas for improvement; root cause analysis and the development and execution of improvement plans; department and hospital safety practice and procedures; patient rights; age specific patient care practices; infection control policies and practices; handling, storage, use and disposal of hazardous materials; department and hospital emergency response policies and procedures.

Skill in:
interpreting regulations and standards for others; writing reports, meeting minutes and other technical documents; analyzing statistical and other quantitative data; applying investigative and interviewing techniques; developing and executing corrective plans, pilots, standardization of clinical care delivery through evidence based clinical pathway development; developing and coordinating dynamic scope of service development, individualized performance improvement, experience priorities for each clinical area; using computers and related software applications; communicating with a wide variety of people from diverse socio-economic and ethnic backgrounds; establishing and maintaining effective working relationships with all personnel contacted in the course of duties; efficient, effective and safe use of equipment.

Physical Requirements and Working Conditions:
Mobility to work in a typical office setting and use standard office equipment, vision to read printed materials and a VDT screen, and hearing and speech to communicate effectively in-person and over the telephone. Strength and agility to exert up to 20 pounds of force occasionally and/or an eligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects. Able to walk moderate distances.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this classification.

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The University Medical Center of Southern Nevada offers a comprehensive & competitive benefits package:

• Employer Paid Pension Plan through Nevada Public Employees' Retirement System "PERS"!https://www.nvpers.org/front
  • Vestingin the pension plan after 5 years of qualifying employment!
• Health/Dental/Vision Insurance - Less than $20 per paycheck for employee-only coverage
• Consolidated Annual Leave (CAL) - CAL is used for personal leave, holidays (eleven scheduled holidays per year), doctor appointments, vacation, and sick days up to 16 consecutive scheduled work hours (short-term sick leave), etc.
• Extended Illness Bank (a/k/a Sick Bank)
• 457 Deferred Compensation Plan
• Comprehensive Group Health Insurance Plan
• Nevada has no State Income Tax
• No Social Security (FICA) Deduction

As an academic medical center with a rich history of providing life-saving treatment in Southern Nevada, UMC serves as the anchor hospital of the Las Vegas Medical District, offering Nevada’s highest level of care to promote successful medical outcomes for patients.

We are home to Nevada's ONLY Level I Trauma Center, Designated Pediatric Trauma Center, Burn Care Center, and Transplant Center. We are a Pathway Designated facility by ANCC, and we are on our journey to Magnet status.

THE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER OF SOUTHERN NEVADA IS AN AFFIRMATIVE ACTION/ EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

Closing Date/Time: Continuous

Salary:

$79,539.20 - $123,260.80 Annually