Stroke Coordinator - Medicine - Quality Assurance

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Stroke Coordinator

Quality Assurance

The Stroke Coordinator works under the direction of Quality Assurance and in collaboration with the Chair of the Division of Neurology-Clinical in managing, planning, development, and overseeing the Stroke Program for Cook County Health (CCH). The Stroke Coordinator has excellent organizational skills, is attentive to detail, and works well with patients, nurses, physicians, and hospital staff. The Stroke Coordinator is responsible for ensuring Stroke Program compliance with Joint Commission requirements for Primary Stroke Center Certification and works with others to ensure compliance with Joint Commission Primary Stroke Center Performance Measures and other Joint Commission requirements.

Represents the Stroke Program in Leadership conferences, collecting, analyzing and presenting daily stroke data, and partnering with Nursing to ensure training and competency of all front-line nurses is completed annually. The Stroke Coordinator develops Stroke Program policies, protocols, guidelines, clinical pathways, and care sets.

• Assists in development of all Program policies, protocols, guidelines, pathways and care sets; monitors for compliance; maintains currency and accuracy
• Works closely with Quality Assurance to maintain Performance Measure data collection, report generation and analysis as well as accurate submissions to the Joint Commission
• Maintains a stroke registry in real-time to include patient diagnoses, performance measures, treatments and outcomes and timeliness of stroke team, radiology, lab responses
• Remains current of and compliance with all Joint Commission Primary, Thrombectomy-Capable and Comprehensive Stroke Center requirements
• Responsible for collection, analysis, accuracy and reporting of stroke patient data through maintenance of a computerized stroke registry; develops benchmarks and comparisons to national standards
• Develops and initiates action plans necessary to meet performance standards
• Meets with each hospitalized stroke patient for purposes of stroke education and accuracy of stroke registry data collection
• Responsible for the development, organization, and maintenance for all the Program’s professional educational activities and training of staff for system-wide stroke education, including annual nursing dysphagia screening and neurologic check competencies
• Maintains records of all system stroke-related educational activities; maintains records of all stroke-related activities of Stroke Team members; serves as an educational resource and leader for the hospital’s nursing and medical staff on all stroke related quality issues
• Maintains schedule of Stroke Team Assignments; maintains organizational chart, list of personnel, list of resources
• Participates in outpatient clinics providing stroke-related care
• Fosters and builds collaborative relationships with internal and external stakeholders to facilitate a productive, collaborative, multidisciplinary working environment in which excellence of stroke care is the objective; coordinates stroke-related activities of all hospital departments
• Engages with staff throughout CCH clinics to facilitate care of stroke patients, optimize resource utilization, and supports system-wide training coordination to ensure Stroke readiness
• Engages and participates in stroke-related research efforts
• Participates in local, regional, national and international stroke associations, agencies and groups; attends local and national stroke-related meetings
• Maintains constructive working relationships with membership of local hospital stroke programs
• Serves as resource for and liaison to community organizations interested in stroke
• Partners with interdepartmental nursing…