Job Description

Where Youll Work

Dignity Health Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital is a 104-bed not-for-profit hospital located in Grass Valley California. The hospital has been providing compassionate and quality health care to residents and visitors of western Nevada County since 1958. As an affiliate of the nationally recognized Dignity Health system we ensure our patients receive the highest standard of health care and have access to important regional resources throughout the system including the Dignity Health Heart & Vascular Institute the Dignity Health Neurological Institute of Northern California and the Dignity Health Cancer Institute of Greater Sacramento. With 765 employees 101 active medical staff and 21 Emergency Department beds Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital continually implements and upgrades its technology and recruits employees who understand the vital importance of kindness and compassion in the healing process.

Job Summary and Responsibilities

The primary function of the Quality/Patient Safety Program Manager is to support coordinate and facilitate the quality management (QM) patient safety (PS) and regulatory performance improvement (PI) activities for the hospital and medical staff. This role also serves as a resource to employees management nursing directors senior management councils physicians and teams on quality management activities and will handle patient sensitive and confidential hospital information.

• Assists in the design planning implementation and coordination of Quality Management Patient Safety and Performance Improvement activities for assigned hospital and medical staff departments committees divisions service lines and functions. Proactively coordinates and facilitates performance improvement teams to support key initiatives including but not limited to activities focused on clinical quality improvement patient safety and risk reduction patient experience efficiency FMEAS root cause analyses and medical staff improvement (e.g. case review for peer review OPPE FPPE)

Job Requirements

Required:

• Licensed Registered Nurse Licensed Clinical Pharmacist or other Licensed Clinical Staff
• (3) years clinical experience in an acute care setting
• Must be able to perform case reviews for medical staff peer review and medical and/or surgical Registry Abstraction
• One (1) year healthcare-related quality management/performance improvement experience (e.g. chart audit PI team member etc.)
• Certified Professional in Healthcare Quality (CPHQ) or Healthcare Quality and Management Certification (HCQM) or Certificate of Professional Healthcare Quality and Patient Safety (CPQPS) within 2 years of employment is required

Required Experience:

Manager

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