Patient Safety​/Risk Manager

NYU Langone Hospital—Suffolk is a 306-bed medical center, providing care to residents of eastern Long Island. The hospital facility is home to the Knapp Cardiac Care Center—an advanced heart disease diagnostic and treatment facility—as well as a modern ambulatory surgical pavilion with specialized services including women's imaging, a sleep laboratory, and bariatric surgery. Our Provisional Level 2 Trauma Center delivers comprehensive and specialized care for patients with traumatic injuries.

The Stroke Center at NYU Langone Hospital—Suffolk is designated by the New York State Department of Health as a Primary Stroke Center, with expert neurologists available to provide treatment 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Additionally, NYU Langone Hospital—Suffolk has multiple outpatient sites, including an outpatient wound care center, a hemodialysis center, and various primary care and specialty offices.

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We have an exciting opportunity to join our team as a Patient Safety/Risk Manager
- Full Time Days
- Patient Safety Risk Management - - Monday
- Friday 9.

In this role, the successful candidate Responsible for assisting the development or maintenance of patient safety and risk management initiatives via investigation of adverse events, and implementation and monitoring of institution wide Patient Safety/Risk Management program, projects, policies and procedures in accordance with the NYS medical malpractice prevention program (PHL) applicable NYS 405 regulations, Federal Laws and JCAHO requirements. Reports to the Assistant Director and Senior Director Patient Safety Risk Management

• Performs other duties as assigned.
• Coordinates aspects of the Hospital Risk Management Program. This includes, but is not limited to, the following areas:
  Development, implementation and monitoring of Risk Management projects, policies and procedures.
• Provides consultations/assistance to medical and administrative staff on legal issues and hospital policy.
• Ensures compliance with legal and regulatory requirements, including but not limited to those regarding:
  Coordinating service of legal documents:
  Review of all Hospitals incident/occurrence reports, QA referrals, and select patient complaints. NYS Department of Health/Office of Health Systems Management Patient Complaint and Article 28 (NYPORTS) process: NYS Office of Mental Health (OMH) reporting requirements:
  Reporting requirements of the NYS Commission of Quality of Care (CQC) for the mentally disabled.
• Collaborate with other departments to design methods to achieve optimal patient safety initiatives via review and trending of patient safety data.
• Coordinates adverse event review process; including root case analysis for defined events.
• Assists Regulatory Affairs as warranted with DOH on-site surveys, OPMC and OPD inquiries.
• Coordinates hospital wide Failure Mode Effect Analysis (FMEA) as required annually.
• Maintains files on Risk Management data for internal and external use.
• Identifies issues for Quality Assessment and Improvement referral.
• Coordinates with other clinical and administrative departments regarding risk management issues;
  Available to provide direction and coordinate counsel to physician, nursing and administrative staff regarding medical-legal issues. Monitors Risk Management cases and issues. Participates in special projects and performs other related duties.
• Reviews electronically reported events on a daily basis; investigates events that led to real or potential patient harm. Identifies trends in reported event types and address these trends with the particular…