Quality Improvement Specialist

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BUMC Phoenix (1111 E McDowell Rd) time type:
Full time posted on:
Posted Todayjob requisition :
R4430776
** Primary City/State:
** Phoenix, Arizona
** Department Name:
** Quality Improvement-Corp
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** Risk, Quality and Safety Becker’s Healthcare recently honored Banner as one of 150 top places to work in health care for 2025, we are proud to offer our team members many career and lifestyle choices throughout our network of facilities. At Banner Health, we’re excited about what the future holds for health care. That’s why we’re changing the industry to make the experience the best it can be.

If you’re ready to change lives, we want to hear from  this role you will support quality improvement teams and initiatives. We are looking for a professional who communicates effectively and is enthusiastic about improving care processes in the healthcare setting.

RN and quality experience preferred.
** This position is onsite at BUMC Phoenix working Monday-Friday, 8:00am-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  
1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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 holistic approach to improvement and collaborate to improve care processes and transitions back to the community.

Monitor and report facility Clinical Practice performance that have been handed-off to Quality Improvement.
4. Health Data Analytics - Supports the organizations' analytic environment…