Senior Vice President Quality and Safety

Facility: Administrative Regional Training Cntr

Shift: Shift 1

Status: Executive

FTE: 1.000000

Bargaining Unit: ACE Associates

Exempt from Overtime: Exempt:
Yes

Work Schedule: Days

Hours: 8:00am to 4:00pm

This position is responsible for setting the strategic direction, leading and managing all functions and activities of Quality & Safety and System Verification Office activities across Catholic Health (CH), with assets greater than one billion dollars, ten thousand associates and two thousand key quality metrics. The SVP, Quality & Safety is responsible for the overall management of an experienced broad based team charged with monitoring, reporting, educating, and inspiring devotion to excelling in internal and external quality metrics for the entire enterprise with the goal of attaining and sustaining top decile performance.

The SVP, Quality & Safety serves as the CH system liaison and senior executive for all Quality and Patient Safety collaborative initiatives with the acute care hospitals, CH Service Lines, Continuing Care Division and Homecare Ministries to promote appropriate integration and alignment in an effort to improve the quality and patient safety outcomes across continuum, thereby improving the patient's overall experience.

Responsible for developing and maintaining strong collaborative relationships with all levels of Management, the CH Medical Staff and CH Governance. This position is accountable for quality related regulatory compliance for the entire enterprise. Also plays a critical role in System and Catholic Medical Partners initiatives on Population Health Management, quality improvements, clinical practice standardization, fostering a culture of safety, champion our high reliability & magnet journey, and other cross-functional initiatives.

Continuously learning about evolving best practices in the field of quality, safety, and performance improvement science. Establish a strategic framework for achieving the institution's goals with relation to medical care quality, education quality, research quality, and patient safety. Provides leadership on all quality related issues in collaboration with the Vice Presidents of Medical Affairs, Vice Presidents of Patient Care Services, and Chairs of Catholic Health.

• Master's Degree required with clinical major preferred
• Graduate of an accredited school of professional nursing
• Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) required
• RN licensure in New York State must be acquired within six (6) months of hire

• Minimum of five (5) years of relevant work experience in healthcare in a Quality and Safety Management Leadership position
• Proven track record in performance improvement
• Work experience within an academic medical center and/or progressive health system of significant size and complexity preferred
• Experience establishing, pursuing and monitoring appropriate process and outcome measures for key initiatives using a systems perspective; evaluating the processes by which clinical care and patient services are delivered; identifying areas of opportunity, setting standards for outcomes, developing appropriate systems to monitor outcomes, and overseeing the implementation of process improvements
• Experience working with informatics, metrics, and performance improvement and measurement
• Demonstrated change management skills in a complex healthcare environment
• Experience with tracking, reporting, and improving key quality and safety metrics
• Experience with Lean Six Sigma Methodologies
• CPHQ or CPH RN certification

Level III

Enterprise Guardian - Stays aware of needs and issues throughout the organization; builds and maintains good relationships with a variety of stakeholders; understands the economic and other impacts of business decisions; understands both the formal and the informal organizational structure;
Maneuvers through complex political situations effectively;
Safeguards the assets of the organization.

Strategist - Creates a long-range strategy or vision for his/her part of the organization;
Keeps customers in the forefront of department actions and decisions;
Understands industry best practices and competitive…