Chief Quality and Safety Officer - Faculty Practice Plan

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## Chief Quality and Safety Officer - Faculty Practice Plan Apply:
On Campus/Onsite:
Washington University Medical Campus:
Full time:
Posted Today:
JR97992#
** Location
* * St. Louis, MO 63110#
** Scheduled Hours
** 40#
** Position Summary
** The Chief Quality and Safety Officer is the principal physician executive for quality, patient safety, high reliability, and performance improvement at Barnes Jewish Hospital and WashU Medicine. Working in close partnership with the Barnes-Jewish Hospital President and executive team, BJC Health Care leaders, and WashU Medicine clinical and academic leadership, the CQO develops and executes a unified quality and safety agenda that advances safe, equitable, evidence-based, and patient-centered care.
The CQO will translate the strengths of the WashU Medicine and Barnes-Jewish Hospital partnership into measurable improvement. This includes creating shared priorities, clarifying joint accountability, accelerating adoption of best practices, and ensuring that quality and safety initiatives are integrated into clinical operations, faculty practice, education, research, and strategic planning. The role has dual reporting relationships to the BJH President and the WashU Medicine Vice Chancellor for Clinical Affairs.#

** Job Description
**** Primary

Duties & Responsibilities:

** Barnes-Jewish Hospital
* Serve as the senior WashU Medicine physician partner to Barnes-Jewish Hospital executive, clinical, nursing, and operational leaders for quality, safety, and high-reliability performance.  + Co-develop and execute a single, integrated quality and patient safety strategy for Barnes-Jewish Hospital in partnership with BJC Health Care and WashU Medicine leadership.  + Establish shared priorities, governance, decision rights, and accountability across Barnes-Jewish Hospital and WashU Medicine to ensure coordinated execution and sustained results.  

+ Serve as a primary liaison to Barnes-Jewish Hospital quality and safety committees, medical staff leadership, and executive governance forums, promoting transparency, timely escalation, and alignment.  + Build strong working relationships with department chairs, division chiefs, service line leaders, nursing leaders, and hospital operations to embed quality and safety into daily clinical practice.  + Partner with Barnes-Jewish Hospital leadership in BJC system quality initiatives, helping translate system standards into local action and share successful practices across the system.  

Quality Strategy and Performance
* Collaborate with hospital leadership to position Barnes-Jewish Hospital as a national leader in quality and safety among academic medical centers through exceptional outcomes, reliable care, and disciplined performance improvement.  + Identify quality and safety priorities, standards, performance targets, and improvement plans aligned with Barnes-Jewish Hospital, BJC Health Care, and WashU Medicine strategic goals.  + Ensure accurate measurement and reporting of required federal, state, accreditation, and private quality metrics.  

+ Implement an integrated performance review process that enables hospital and faculty leaders to evaluate results, identify variation, remove barriers, and act on opportunities.  Patient Safety and High Reliability
* Lead programs to prevent harm, reduce medical errors, strengthen risk-management practices, and improve the reliability of clinical care.
* Partner with Barnes-Jewish Hospital and BJC Health Care leaders on serious safety event response, root cause analysis, corrective action, and system-level learning.
* Advance high-reliability principles and ensure that safety behaviors, leader rounding, escalation practices, and learning systems are embedded in daily operations.
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