Quality Improvement Coordinator - Ambulatory

Fort Worth, TX

Employer:	Cook Children's Health Care System
Category:	Health Care
Job Type:	Full Time
Description
Location: Rosedale Office Building Department: Ambulatory Quality & Safety Shift: First Shift (United States of America) Standard Weekly Hours: 40 Summary: This position support quality and safety designed to improve patient outcomes and reduce risk of patient harm. This position will also be called upon to assist in coaching others in methods that will improve safety and quality of care. The Quality Improvement Coordinator is the lead team member in developing regular statistical reports, data gathering and data management and ad hoc statistical reports, as related to quality projects and initiatives at CCMC. In addition, this position will be called upon to facilitate quality teams, chair groups and subgroups and will be expected to work closely with all staff hospital-wide on specific quality projects. This person works closely with Information Technology to support EMR development, audit and report quality efforts. In addition, the Quality Improvement Coordinator may support, facilitate and or lead internal and external multidisciplinary improvement projects which may include auditing and data submission for SPS, NSQIP, CHA, CHAT and other collaboratives as indicated. This position may lead the operations of these projects, support the education of staff and serve as subject matter expert regarding safety and improvement science. Qualifications: Bachelor's degree in nursing or PharmD required. Master's degree in business or a health-related field. Minimum of 3 years of experience in clinical nursing, pharmacy experience, quality improvement, education or process improvement experience is required. Must have understanding of Quality Improvement methodology and be knowledgeable in data collection and analysis. Must have excellent oral and written communication skills, organizational and interpersonal skills, ability to work with all members of the healthcare team to achieve positive outcomes. Must be able to adapt to changing healthcare environment requirements. About Us: Cook Children's Health Care System Cook Children's Health Care System offers a unique approach to caring for children because we are one of the country's leading integrated pediatric health care delivery organizations. Patients benefit from the integrated system because it allows Cook Children's to use all of its resources to treat a patient and allows for easy communication between the various companies by physicians with a focus on caring for children and adolescents. Cook Children's is an EOE/AA, Minority/Female/Disability/Veteran employer.

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Quality Improvement Coordinator - Ambulatory

Fort Worth, TX

Description