We are searching for a Specialist in Quality Improvement with the Outpatient Fetal Center at The Pavilion for Women location– someone who works well in a fast-paced setting. In this position, you will work as part of the Quality & Outcomes Management (Q&OM) Team to achieve high quality, cost-effective health care throughout the Texas Children's Hospital System and maintain the necessary accreditation status for the organization (JCAHO, HCFA, NCQA, and other agencies, as needed).
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Qualifications Bachelor\'s degree in Nursing, Pharmacy, Social Sciences (Social Work), Respiratory Therapy, Health Information Management, or Business Administration
2 years of clinical and/or quality experience
Certifications/Licenses: preferred CPHQ - Cert-Cert Prof Healthcare Qual RN - Lic-Registered Nurses or other clinical discipline
Responsibilities Produces reports for quality improvement, guidelines, utilization, and outcomes, error-free and on time.
Educates medical staff departments, administrative staff, and ancillary service departments regarding the tools of performance improvement, methods for measurement, analysis, and reporting to meet the standards of the JCAHO, HCFA, NCQA or other regulatory agencies.
Provides medical staff and departmental staff teams with consulting and analysis services to support initiatives intended to achieve breakthrough or incremental process improvement in patient care, as measured by at least one improvement, worthy of storyboard, per area of responsibility per year.
Produces guidelines and measures for medical management in a timely, efficient manner
Provides Ongoing Professional Practice Evaluations, Focused Professional Practice Evaluations for areas of responsibility as defined by Joint Commission standards on time and error free.
Provides opportunities and strategies for improvement of System entities and services as evidenced by at least two (2) improvements resulting from recommendations made.
Participates in and coordinates committees
Attends performance improvement, medical management and other System committees as scheduled.
Prepares reports on Q&OM activities as needed for informing clinical, operations, and financial stakeholders, on time and error-free.
About Texas Children’s Texas Children’s Pavilion for Women is a comprehensive obstetrics/gynecology facility and one of a select few hospitals nationwide that provides women, mothers and babies with a full continuum of high-quality, expert health care. Offering a full spectrum of maternal and fetal medicine services, including an array of fetal diagnostic procedures and highly specialized fetal surgeries, the Pavilion for Women is connected to Texas Children’s Hospital via a two-story circular sky bridge to enhance patient care by providing physicians, staff and patient families with rapid access to other pediatric subspecialists. Three private OB/GYN practices, The Family Fertility Center, The Menopause Center and The Women’s Place – Center for Reproductive Psychiatry are all housed here. Additionally, we also recently opened a community-based OB/GYN practice in Pearland.
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