Clinical Improvement Coord Full Time Days

Description

DMC Sinai-Grace Hospital is DMC’s largest hospital, offering a comprehensive heart center, cancer care, gerontology, emergency medicine, obstetrics/gynecology and cosmetic services. Sinai-Grace’s joint replacement program features a revolutionary minimally invasive knee and hip replacement surgery that attracts patients from all over the country. Sinai-Grace operates more than 21 outpatient care sites and ambulatory surgery centers throughout Wayne and Oakland Counties and is one of 10 hospitals in the nation to be awarded a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation grant to help set the standards of cardiac care for hospitals and physicians throughout the nation.

Summary:

Under limited direction and according to established company policies and/or industry practice, provides hospital-wide coordination, leadership and expertise in quality improvement programs.

Identifies opportunities for performance improvement and involves appropriate personnel.

Develops, tests and implements techniques for decision support in order to provide DMC clinicians information for the improvement of clinical, functional, operational service and cost outcomes.

Assists clinicians in understanding measurement for improvement purposes.

Coordinates staff support for medical peer reviews. Establishes and maintains contact with internal DMC resources in addition to external agencies that deal with quality improvement. Develops and implements strategies to assure hospital achieves standards of the DMC as well as external agencies such as JCAHO.

Provides technical advice and assistance to physicians, clinical and administrative management and/or staff regarding quality improvement measures, measurement methodology and appropriateness or effectiveness of various improvement techniques.

Supports activities of local committees such as LPICC, for JCAHO and other required data tracking and/or quality improvement activities, and provides expertise as needed.

Facilitates and assures the development of clinical pathways, orders sets and other tools for improving quality of care. Collaborates with physicians and other healthcare professionals across functional teams, both locally and at a system level.

Conducts special studies, prepares reports and tracks measurements as needed. Provides guidance and supervision to support staff in quality improvement.

Monitors activities for and ensures compliance with laws, government regulations, JCAHO requirements and DMC policies. As directed, implements external and internal audit recommendations.

Ensures hospital departments achieve objectives for diversity of their suppliers.

1. Bachelor's degree in Nursing, Health Services Administration, Operations Analysis, Business Administration or related field, or the equivalent combination of education and/or experience. Master's degree preferred.
2. Three years experience in healthcare, quality management and the application of continuous improvement methodologies, tools, standards and guidelines.
3. Experience providing clinical patient care in a hospital setting as a nurse, therapist, technician etc., strongly preferred.