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Northwestern Memorial Healthcare - Lake Forest, IL
posted about 2 months ago
About the position
The Clinical Quality Leader I at Northwestern Medicine plays a crucial role in enhancing healthcare quality and patient safety. This position involves collaboration with interdisciplinary clinical groups to define, measure, and analyze quality issues, while adhering to the organization's ethical standards and compliance requirements. The leader will engage in improvement activities, utilizing various performance improvement tools, and will be responsible for data analysis and presentation to identify trends and drive quality initiatives.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with operational and medical leadership to develop and implement communication and process solutions.
- Partner with medical staff leadership to select measures for Ongoing and Focused Professional Practice Evaluation (OPPE/FPPE).
- Coordinate peer review cases for department meetings and quality committees.
- Perform medical record reviews and data analysis to identify potential quality issues.
- Lead or participate in committees and multidisciplinary improvement projects with measurable results.
- Facilitate committee meetings, including development of structure, minutes, reports, and dashboards.
- Research and develop quality measurement and improvement approaches with support from manager/mentor/peers.
- Contribute to organizational learning through publication and presentation efforts.
- Assist clinical teams in responding to quality-related queries from external constituencies.
- Ensure compliance with quality/process improvement regulatory and accreditation requirements.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree with a clinical background or a Master's Degree in a healthcare-related field.
- 2+ years of work experience in a healthcare setting, with 1+ year in quality or patient safety.
- Experience in medical record review/abstraction.
- Relevant computer skills (Excel, PowerPoint, Word, electronic medical records).
- Effective leadership, facilitation, collaboration, and communication skills.
- Strong writing and presentation skills, good organizational skills, and excellent critical thinking skills.
Nice-to-haves
- Certified Professional in Healthcare Quality (CPHQ) or Certified Professional in Patient Safety (CPPS).
Benefits
- 401(k) matching
- Loan forgiveness
- Tuition reimbursement
