Quality Manager- Clinical Pathways

Quality Manager-Clinical Pathways

The role of the Quality Manager is to work closely with hospital leadership and teams to develop clinical improvement strategies and improve clinical performance outcomes. By leveraging data-driven decision-making, this position will help enhance clinical outcome, operational efficiencies, and patient satisfaction. Through collaboration, communication, and a commitment to learning, the Quality Manager will integrate quality into the organization's fabric to achieve its objectives. The position requires accountability, competency, innovation, collaboration, compassion, and respect to create the best possible outcomes with exceptional patient experiences.

Essential Responsibilities :

• Provides leadership for the development and implementation of a quality infrastructure to achieve quality objectives.
• Lead, develop, coach, and effectively manage the team of professionals to ensure deliverables and performance metrics are met. Develop team to accomplish results through training, development, performance management and recognition.
• Utilize performance and process improvement, project management and change management methodologies to support operational and clinical quality initiatives.
• Leverage the organizations analytic environment to help guide data driven decision making and inform quality improvement initiatives
• Cultivate a safe healthcare environment by prompting safe practices, nurturing a just culture and improving processes that detect, mitigate, or prevent harm
• Promotes a culture of continuous improvement through the coaching and mentorship guidance of best practices.
• Coach, mentor, and support process improvement teams to achieve nation-leading quality and patient safety performance.
• Lead teams / projects and utilizing quality improvement principles and methodologies.
• Establish strong team relationships building trust and open communication regarding quality and patient safety issues and results.
• Promotes a culture of continuous improvement through collaboration with providers, staff, and hospital leadership to ensure quality patient care.
• Support strategic goals and development of KPIs to contribute to the success of the organization.
• Collaborate and partner with leaders, providers, staff, Patient Safety, Performance Management and Innovation, and Operations to address quality and safety care issues.
• Communicate and network with key teams to develop process improvements in the quality and safety domains.
• Collaborate with internal teams to improve on publicly reported measures including Leapfrog, Joint Commission, CMS Hospital Star ratings and other benchmarking databases; act as a thought leader around how to leverage analytics and leverage for quality improvement initiatives.

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OU Health is an equal opportunity employer. We offer a comprehensive benefits package, including PTO, 401(k), medical and dental plans, and many more. We know that a total benefits and compensation package, designed to meet your specific needs both inside and outside of the work environment, create peace of mind for you and your family.