Under the general supervision of the Regional Senior Director of Quality and Safety, the Continued Quality Improvement Manager supports the Director in the development and management of quality and safety programs and initiatives across MHRH's continuum of care. Responsibilities include collecting and reporting data, analyzing metrics in collaboration with program staff, reviewing patient events, evaluating policies and processes to identify opportunities for improvement, recommending structure, process and outcome measures, facilitating core measure data collection and reporting, supporting process change and documenting and reporting results. The incumbent is also responsible to participate in incident analysis, provide staff education and training such as patient safety, support the Senior Director in regulatory compliance continued readiness initiatives, and survey management and follow-up activities.

Responsibilities:

• Continuous Quality and Performance Improvement
  • In collaboration with the Regional Senior Director of Quality, implements routine, standardized audits of medical record documentation, environment of care, and other audits as required for inpatient and outpatient care with the goal of facilitating standards compliance, quality of care monitoring and problem identification.Ensures program specific publication of important indicator dashboards in a format that facilitates clear understanding of the data to aid in management and leadership decision-making.
  • In collaboration with program staff and aligned with quality improvement goals, assists in the organization and implementation of performance improvement projects related to structure, process and outcome quality measures, justified by patient quality of care and safety needs, compliance mandates, evidenced-based practice, indicator data analysis of declining trends, staff productivity, and fiscal prudence.
  • Provides support and direction to program-based Quality Improvement Teams (QIT's). Ensures that QIT metrics are collated and presented to the Quality Council in a standardized and professional manner. Participates in committees, task forces, and work groups as assigned.
  • Provides education to all disciplines, as directed, to aid in hardwiring quality and safety initiatives into the daily practice of program staff.
  • In conjunction with the Department of Quality, Risk Management, develops and refines Midas data dictionary and recommends program specific track and trend reports.
  • In accordance with the Performance Improvement Plan, assists it the development ofstatistically sound Statit metrics and data collection methodologies to provide objective, aggregate data and Quality staff review, analysis and improvement actions.
  • Provides support to the Regional Senior Director of Quality in developing and implementing data collection strategies to achieve EMR data mining and timely CMS reporting of required Inpatient Quality Reporting Measures.
• Regulatory Reporting, Incident Analysis and Follow-up
  • Participates in the routine screening of incidents and occurrences across all program sites to determine the next appropriate level of reporting, follow up, documentation, and course of action.
  • Participates in case analysis and action planning to enhance the quality of patient care and to prevent recurrence of incidents that either resulted in patient harm or serious risk of harm.
  • Maintains dashboards to track and trend incident types, and corrective action types to determine effectiveness of interventions.
  • Documents case review findings and recommendation for corrective action via written confidential minutes to ensure accurately recording of outcomes and recommendations.
  • Maintains an open case corrective action tracking report to ensure that all recommended corrective actions have been implemented.
  • Participates in Root Cause Analyses and Failure Mode Effects Analysis committees, provides committee support as needed, conducts clinical case review, investigation and confidential staff interviews, as assigned.
• Regulatory Survey Preparation and Management - Centers for Medicare and Medicaid,Des Norte Veritas, NYS department of Health,
  • Under the direction of the Regional Senior Director, Quality & Safety, implements program-specific continued readiness initiatives by conducting staff education, tracers and rounding.
  • In collaboration with members of the Department of Quality and Safety and as directed, provides escort to surveyors on facility inspections, documents surveyor guidance, recommendations and actions, ensures document control in coordination with the Command Center, and provides support and guidance to program staff during the survey process.
  • Survey Follow-up - Tracks the completion of corrective action plans via routine deliverable meetings with program staff, maintains organized files of corrective action and measure of success documents, and facilitates report and data presentation to the WMC Quality Council, and the Board of Directors Quality Committee.
• Patient Safety
  • Participates in department specific and hospital-wide patient safety initiative with particular relevance to behavioral health and addiction service patients and staff.
  • Conducts environment of care safety rounds, ensures that findings are collated and presented to environment of care quality councils, and recommends corrective action.
  • Develops and implements risk benefit tools in accord with industry standards and evidence-based practice.
  • In accord with enterprise-wide initiatives, actively supports the implementation of a culture of safety by encouraging staff to discuss safety concerns with supervisors and report patient incidents via Midas. Foster safety culture in everyday actions by influencing staff behaviors, attitudes and understandings about the importance of patient safety.
• Performs other duties as required.

Experience:

• Thorough knowledge of quality improvement functions as they relate to inpatient and outpatient programs.
• Good knowledge of the operational processes, routines and functions of a large hospital, strong knowledge of regulatory agencies and standards, ability to develop audit tools, collect, organize and analyze data, draw conclusions and prepare reports.
• Good ability to conduct a quality review of medical records.
• Ability to maintain effective working relationships with all levels of staff in an environment that supports transparency, quality care, patient safety, and service excellence.
• Ability tocommunicate effectively both orally and in writing.
• Ability to comprehend and carry out written and oral instructions.
• Ability to effectively use multiple Microsoft Office computer applications and database software to carry out work functions (Excel and Midas experience preferred).
• Ability to read, write, speak, understand and communicate in English sufficiently to perform the essential duties of the position, sound professional judgment, tact, integrity, initiative, thoroughness, dependability, resourcefulness, and physical condition to adequately manage frequent travel between facility sites (on hospital grounds and off-site programs).

Education:

Either:

• Bachelor's Degree in a health-related discipline with three years' experience in medical record review, incident management or reporting, quality data analysis and presentation, and survey readiness

  Experience:

  or

• ABachelor's degree in a health-related discipline with seven years of supervisory or managerial experience, 2 years of which must have included responsibility for quality oversight; or
• A Master'sdegree in a health related discipline, three years of supervisory or managerial experience, one of which must have included responsibility for quality oversight. Experience in large academic medical center or health system preferred.

Licenses/Certifications:

• N/A

Other:

• If applicable, the individual performing this job may reasonably anticipate coming into contact with human blood and other potentially infectious materials. Individuals in this position are required to exercise universal precautions, use personal protective equipment and devices, and learn the policies concerning infection control.

About Us:

MidHudson Regional Hospital

MidHudson Regional Hospital in Poughkeepsie, NY, is home to the mid-Hudson Valley's most advanced healthcare services. This 243-bed facility cares for more than 10,000 inpatients annually while performing an additional 325,000 outpatient procedures each year. MidHudson Regional Hospital operates the area's only Level II trauma center, is home to the Redl Center for Cancer Care and Center for Robotic Surgery, and is a destination hospital for patients with serious illnesses and injuries.