Executive Consultant | Quality & Patient Safety Transformation | RN Required | Health

Executive Consultant | Quality & Patient Safety Transformation | RN Required | Health System | CA - Onsite

Highly Competitive Pay | Lodging | Rental Car or Mileage | Paid Flights Home | World-Class Support

Galileo Search is partnering with a multi-site, complex health system seeking an accomplished Quality & Patient Safety Turnaround Executive to lead a critical, enterprise-wide transformation initiative.

This is a high-impact interim leadership engagement for a proven healthcare executive with deep expertise in quality, patient safety, regulatory readiness, and organizational turnaround. The organization is seeking a decisive, operationally focused leader who can rapidly assess the current state, identify systemic gaps, and implement a clear, system-wide strategy for sustainable performance improvement.

Working in direct partnership with the C-suite, this leader will realign the Quality model across the organization, eliminate inefficiencies, and instill a culture of accountability and execution.

This is a high-visibility, high-stakes assignment best suited for an executive who thrives in complexity, acts decisively in a high-stakes environment, and delivers meaningful change at scale.

Engagement Length: 6–12 Months

Location:

California (Onsite) - Confidential Search

• Lead a rapid, enterprise-wide forensic assessment of organizational structure, performance, and resource alignment, quickly surfacing root causes and critical gaps
• Deliver a clear, actionable transformation roadmap within the first weeks, establishing immediate priorities and execution focus
• Serve as a strategic advisor to executive leadership, driving bold organizational redesign across roles, reporting structures, and functional integration
• Partner across system leadership, hospital operations, and medical staff to embed a culture of continuous quality improvement and advance safe, effective, and patient-centered care and services
• Drive strategic alignment across all core quality domains, including patient safety, infection prevention, regulatory readiness, accreditation, peer review and medical staff services
• Identify and decisively eliminate redundancies, inefficiencies, and breakdowns in accountability across the enterprise
• Rebuild and strengthen performance improvement, risk, and patient safety infrastructure, ensuring rigor in RCA processes and clear ownership of metrics
• Elevate performance and readiness for CMS Conditions of Participation, accreditation standards, and external reviews, including execution of plans of correction
• Conduct a comprehensive leadership and talent assessment, making targeted recommendations to upgrade capability and drive performance
• Establish disciplined governance, executive reporting, and accountability frameworks that enable sustained execution and measurable results

Why Galileo Search should represent you:

• 20+ Years of Expertise/Experience/Specialization in Your Field, World-Class Representation & Support, Best in Industry Compensation & Travel Packages | Weekly Pay | Direct-Deposit | Optional Health Benefits & 401k | W-2 | Workers Comp | Professional Liability Insurance

Galileo Staffing Services, a division of Galileo Search, LLC., is a premier provider of interim healthcare specialists, professionals, and executives to nationwide acute care hospitals.

How will YOU benefit when working with Galileo?

• Highly competitive pay rates that are best in the industry, with weekly direct deposit
• Per diem for the housing of your choice, if not provided by the client, and for incidental expenses
• Weekly travel expense reimbursement (flights, rental car, or mileage)
• Medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and 401 (k) available
• State License expense reimbursement for endorsement
• Comprehensive professional liability insurance coverage
• Short or long-term assignments
• Local, regional, or national assignments based on availability
• World-class support before, during, and after each assignment

Highly Competitive Pay | Lodging | Rental Car or Mileage | Paid Flights Home | World-Class Support

• RN licensure required (any state)
• CPHQ certifications plus
• 10+ years of current, directly related experience in an acute care hospital environment with a track record of proven change management success
• Direct experience operating within unionized healthcare environments, with a clear understanding of labor dynamics, workforce engagement, and navigating change within collective bargaining structures
• Strong group facilitation and conflict management skills, and a demonstrated ability to unite individuals around a common vision/goal
• Knowledge of and experience with continuous process improvement methodologies and tools
• Demonstrated success deploying change management strategies and methods in support of an array of quality and patient safety initiatives
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with all levels of hospital staff
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