Quality Improvement Specialist Job Mesa area,Arizona USA,Healthcare

Primary City/State: Mesa, Arizona

Department Name: Quality Improvement-Corp

Work Shift: Day

Job Category: Risk, Quality and Safety

You have a place in the health care industry. If you’re looking to leverage your abilities to make a real difference - and real change in the health care industry – you belong at Banner Health.

Banner Desert Medical Center offers state-of-the-art technology in all departments, from our da Vinci surgical robots to our 3D cancer technology.

As a Quality Improvement Specialist at Banner Desert Medical Center, you will proactively identify opportunities for improvement, along with demonstrating initiative and strategic thinking rather than relying solely on direction. You will collaborate with nursing and physician leadership to analyze and interpret data, driving the development of evidence-based processes that measurably improve patient outcomes. Acute Care Clinical experience is preferred for this role.

The schedule for will be Monday
- Friday, 8AM - 4:30PM.

Within Banner Health Corporate, you will have the opportunity to apply your unique experience and expertise in support of a nationally-recognized healthcare leader. We offer stimulating and rewarding careers in a wide array of disciplines. Whether your background is in Human Resources, Finance, Information Technology, Legal, Managed Care Programs or Public Relations, you'll find many options for contributing to our award-winning patient care.

POSITION

SUMMARY

This position supports high reliability in clinical performance through ongoing assessment of performance, prioritizes clinical improvement activities, facilitates performance improvement, and promotes successful implementation to achieve entity/system targets. This role requires strong communication, collaboration, teamwork, and change management skills in order to achieve desired results across the continuum of care. This role serves as a quality SME to Leaders throughout the facility.

CORE

FUNCTIONS

Quality Leadership and Integration
- Facilitates the integration of quality into the fabric of the organization to achieve objectives, such as Annual Initiatives, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and The Joint Commission (tJC) standards of care. Support the quality infrastructure, protect the use of privileged or confidential information, facilitate processes for engagement and interprofessional teamwork, identify and promote continuous learning opportunities to advance the organization/facility/entity and communicate effectively.

Facilitates performance improvement projects with physicians, clinical leaders, and staff to identify improvement opportunities utilizing qualitative and quantitative data analysis, knowledge of health care operations and systems thinking.

Performance and Process Improvement – Serves as a subject matter expert in performance and process improvement, project management and change management methods to support operational and clinical quality initiatives. Facilitates activities related to or resulting from patient safety, harm reduction, clinical performance, peer review and compliance with regulatory and accrediting agencies. This is accomplished by utilizing performance and process improvement tools and principles, applying project management methods, and using change management principles and tools.

Population Health and Care Transitions
- Evaluate and improve healthcare processes and care transitions to advance the efficient, effective, and safe care of defined populations. Foster integrated team-based clinical delivery model to population-based care. Facilitate the implementation of standardized process, that are evidence-based Population Health management strategies, when appropriate. Encourage and contribute to a…