Executive Director Quality - PCSTMC

Description

Proudly serving the community since 1973, Providence Cedars-Sinai Tarzana Medical Center has provided excellent and compassionate care to the San Fernando Valley. In addition to heart, vascular, orthopedic, cancer and women’s services, we house the largest Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) in the area and our emergency department has been designated by the Los Angeles County Department of Health as a STEMI and stroke receiving center.

Calling All Esteemed Leaders! Are you a clinical quality leader who is passionate about improving patient safety, quality outcomes, care experience, and regulatory excellence? Do you thrive in highly collaborative healthcare environments where strategic leadership, data-driven improvement, and clinical excellence work together to advance patient care across a region? If so, we invite you to explore this leadership opportunity with Providence.

The Executive Director Quality serves as a key Ministry and Regional Executive and provides leadership and coordinates ministry and region-wide efforts directed at delivering cost effective, efficient, high quality, and safe care in Southern California for their service area. The position reports to the Regional Chief Quality Officer (CQO) Southern California with dotted line reporting to ministry Chief Medical Officer (CMO).

The Executive Director Quality will provide strategic clinical leadership and form a strong linkage between ministry clinical and operational leadership with direct oversight for quality, performance improvement, analytics, clinical risk, patient safety and regulatory compliance, peer review, infection prevention, care experience and patient grievances and complaints. In collaboration with the CQO and Regional Director Infection Prevention, provides direct ministry leadership and direction in the development and ongoing monitoring of the Providence St.

Joseph Health Quality Strategic Plan (QSP).

The Executive Director Quality will serve as the hands-on leader and clinical quality expert. The Executive Director Quality will lead, facilitate and oversee activities designed to support sustainability of improvements to clinical quality, patient safety, clinical risk, infection prevention and care experience, while using data effectively. This leader will also be expected to make meaningful contributions to quality and safety initiatives for the entire region in collaboration with the CQO.

In addition, the Executive Director Quality will be a resource for current and emerging regulatory and compliance issues, patient safety program (HRO), root cause analysis, failure modes and effects analysis, and future quality-related initiatives based on regional and national networking and benchmarking of evidence-based changes for all local and service area organizations in the respective service area.

• Knows, understands, incorporates and demonstrates the Providence St. Joseph Health Mission, Vision and Core Values in leadership behaviors, practices and decisions. Inspires physicians and others to reflect the mission, vision, and core values.

• Champions the continuous improvement of patient care to advance safety and quality outcomes, satisfaction, and efficiency initiatives across their service area and region.

• Acts as clinical dyad for their service area in the Southern California region.

• Develops and implements strategies to ensure cost effective, efficient care delivery for optimal quality, safety, and experience outcomes.

• Works with local ministry leadership to develop a cost effective structure and develop required services and governance to redesign care and improve clinical outcomes.

• Creates a compelling vision for clinical excellence and value that helps position…