Title: Vice President, Quality
Location: Staten Island, NY 10314
Industry: Healthcare
Occupational Category: Allied Health
Hours: Full-time, 40 hours per week
Description: Responsible for leading the Hospitalefforts relating to Quality Care Programs.
Responsibilities: - Responsible for the overseeing the quality management function organization wide.
- Create annual quality & patient safety goals, advance quality metrics in pay for performance (QHIP) and public reporting programs (Hospital Compare), 5-star CMS program, core measure achievement, and achievement of VBP metrics for all payers
- Pursue specific quality certifications as directed.
- Oversee care management, utilization review, insurance denials and social work services.
- Administratively responsible to coordinate the Hospitalresponses to all regulatory issues, including TJC accreditation, and response to all DOH and TJC complaints, and Title 18 oversight
- In conjunction with the Chief of Medicine and the Chief Medical Officer, responsible for leading the Hospitalefforts to reduce Length of Stay, and maximizing value based purchasing.
- Oversee the operation of the Infection control program in the Hospital, including the notification of public health outbreaks, ensuring infection control precautions are standardized and monitored, and ensuring best practices to minimize risk of surgical site infections and hospital-acquired infections.
- Assist in developing evidence-based guidelines, monitors the achievement of CMS quality metrics and shared savings in the ACO.
- Administratively responsible for the HospitalPatient satisfaction program and department
- Implement programs designed to improve H-CAHPS and ambulatory CAHPS scores.
- Engage staff in improvement programs to ensure patient concerns and complaints are addressed in a timely manner, and works to create a culture to provide excellent patient experience; Perform and ensure leadership rounding.
- Responsible for related projects and for other management activities as required by the Hospital.
Educational Requirements: Experience Requirements: - At least five (5) years of experience in the delivery of health care in an inpatient and/or outpatient setting required.
- Experience required in the responsibility(ties) of the position as described.
