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Employment Type:

Full time

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Description:

The ED Quality Improvement Specialist effectively leads quality and safety improvement efforts to implement evidence-based care models to improve patient outcomes. Scope includes Mount Carmel owned but not affiliated facilities.

Responsibilities

• Responsibility includes multi-site locations and requires travel to each of the facilities – on-site time 60% or more weekly.

• Assists in scheduled/unannounced surveys by regulatory agencies.

• Facilitates process / system improvement across departments and/or multiple service areas.

• Serves as a role model to demonstrate openness to new ways of thinking.

• Serves as a QI liaison with external agencies (CMS, ODH, TJC, etc) as well as Trinity Health System.

• Provides consultation for practical application of performance improvement.

• Manages medical staff dynamics to facilitate effective discussions and participation in quality improvement, service excellence and patient safety.

• Works with diverse groups, settings and varied kinds of complexities.

• Develops and/or assists in conducting educational programs or in-services related to quality /process improvement as needed or requested by the organization.

• Serves as project manager as needed for organizational endeavors.

• Provides, as requested, consulting services to non-MCHS owned health care entities for purposes of building targeted relationships.

Requirements/Qualifications

• Education: Baccalaureate Degree in Nursing required

• Masters in Nursing preferred.

• Licensure / Certification: Registered Nurse

• Experience: Emergency Department experience required. Minimum of five (5) years recent hospital practice. Clinical and management experience preferred

• Knowledge of quality management methodologies, performance improvement principles and designs.

Discovering opportunities, support and excellence – all while making a real difference in patients’ lives – begins at Mount Carmel. Find a new beginning and advance your career with us.

Mount Carmel and all its affiliates are proud to be equal opportunity employers. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, religion, sexual orientation or physical ability.

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

Trinity Health is one of the largest not-for-profit, Catholic healthcare systems in the nation. Built on the foundation of our Mission and Core Values, we integrate diversity, equity, and inclusion in all that we do. Our colleagues have different lived experiences, customs, abilities, and talents. Together, we become our best selves. A diverse and inclusive workforce provides the most accessible and equitable care for those we serve. Trinity Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other status protected by law.

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

Trinity Health is a family of 115,000 colleagues and nearly 26,000 physicians and clinicians across 25 states. Because we serve diverse populations, our colleagues are trained to recognize the cultural beliefs, values, traditions, language preferences, and health practices of the communities that we serve and to apply that knowledge to produce positive health outcomes. We also recognize that each of us has a different way of thinking and perceiving our world and that these differences often lead to innovative solutions.

Our dedication to diversity includes a unified workforce (through training and education, recruitment, retention, and development), commitment and accountability, communication, community partnerships, and supplier diversity.

EOE including disability/veteran