Frankfort Regional Medical Center
Director Patient Safety and Risk
Frankfort Regional Medical Center, Frankfort, Kentucky, United States, 40601
IntroductionWe are seeking a Director of Patient Safety & Risk with Frankfort Regional Medical Center to promote growth and unlock possibilities. At HCA Healthcare, we are committed to the care and improvement of human life. Share your leadership skills and come make a difference with us!
Job Summary and QualificationsThe Patient Safety & Risk Director leads and collaborates in the implementation of the hospital-based patient safety program with the goal of eliminating preventable patient harm while also establishing and sustaining a culture of safety.
What qualifications you will need:
Bachelor's Degree in a healthcare related field required, Master's Degree preferred
Current Licensure as a Registered Nurse (RN) in the state of practice or compact state preferred
Certified Professional Patient Safety (CPPS) must be obtained within 1 year of employment start date
3-5 years of healthcare experience in patient safety, risk, and/or quality highly preferred
Clinical background highly preferred
What you will do in this role:
Improve consistent delivery of evidence-based care and reduction in preventable harm by focusing on reliability and applying the principles of reliable design.
Reduce variation in care delivery through partnership with the Patient Safety Organization (PSO) to explore identified variations when appropriate.
Effectively report, investigate, and analyze patient safety incidents, medical errors, and potential risks in the facility.
Facilitate thorough and credible serious event analysis that result in strong sustainable improvement strategies.
Facilitate thorough and credible failure mode effect analysis to identify and mitigate unintended adverse patient outcomes and evaluate effectiveness of process changes.
Facilitate analysis of culture of safety survey results such that data-driven action plans lead to targeted outcomes.
Support and encourage harm reporting throughout the organization through a nonpunitive, just event reporting system.
Develop and/or provide input into organizational policies and procedures related to patient safety and/or risk management.
Include patient safety in new hire orientation presentation (e.g. PSO membership, reporting expectations, safety culture)
Provide ongoing education to leaders, medical staff, and staff on the science of safety (high reliability, effective communication, sustaining awareness/alertness) and patient safety initiatives.
Work with facility leaders and managers to ensure thorough, credible and timely event management.
Partner with facility leadership to establish activities that enable and sustain an open and fair environment promoting learning, safe systems, and appropriately managing behavioral choices related to patient safety.
Participate in clinical and non-clinical committees to report applicable patient safety data, analyses, and information and to provide patient safety and risk management guidance and input.
Oversee the complaint and grievance process including investigation and resolution. Ensure strict compliance to related CMS Conditions of Participation.
Oversee the management and use of event information to benchmark and track progress to zero avoidable harm.
Present informative and actionable patient safety reports to appropriate committees to include high level presentations to Leadership, Medical Executive Committee and Board of Trustees.
Implement and ensure ongoing systems to comply with requirements of the Safe Medical Device Act (SMDA) and tracks and/or reports recalls and/or issues associated with the safety of medical devices and products. Work collaboratively with all other hospital departments who have responsibility for SMDA tracking and/or reporting.
Work with defense legal counsel to coordinate the investigation, processing and defense of claims against the facility.
Support improved outcomes by emphasizing appropriate behaviors and robust systems that include concise accountability measures and follow-up.
Frankfort Regional Medical Center
has provided quality healthcare services for over 40 years. We give patient's access to trained physicians and advanced technology. Our 170+ bed hospital is one of the region's leading acute care facilities in Central Kentucky. Frankfort Regional has built an excellent reputation for outstanding subspecialty services. In addition, we have an exceptional network of quality primary care physicians in both family practice and internal medicine. We are consistently named as one of the Best Places to Work in Kentucky.
At Frankfort Regional Medical Center, our care like family culture extends to our patients, our people and our community. We are committed to each other because when we join together, our patients are cared for in the safest and most compassionate way.
HCA Healthcare has been recognized as one of the World's Most Ethical Companies by the Ethisphere Institute more than ten times. In recent years, HCA Healthcare spent an estimated $3.7 billion in cost for the delivery of charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
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Job Summary and QualificationsThe Patient Safety & Risk Director leads and collaborates in the implementation of the hospital-based patient safety program with the goal of eliminating preventable patient harm while also establishing and sustaining a culture of safety.
What qualifications you will need:
Bachelor's Degree in a healthcare related field required, Master's Degree preferred
Current Licensure as a Registered Nurse (RN) in the state of practice or compact state preferred
Certified Professional Patient Safety (CPPS) must be obtained within 1 year of employment start date
3-5 years of healthcare experience in patient safety, risk, and/or quality highly preferred
Clinical background highly preferred
What you will do in this role:
Improve consistent delivery of evidence-based care and reduction in preventable harm by focusing on reliability and applying the principles of reliable design.
Reduce variation in care delivery through partnership with the Patient Safety Organization (PSO) to explore identified variations when appropriate.
Effectively report, investigate, and analyze patient safety incidents, medical errors, and potential risks in the facility.
Facilitate thorough and credible serious event analysis that result in strong sustainable improvement strategies.
Facilitate thorough and credible failure mode effect analysis to identify and mitigate unintended adverse patient outcomes and evaluate effectiveness of process changes.
Facilitate analysis of culture of safety survey results such that data-driven action plans lead to targeted outcomes.
Support and encourage harm reporting throughout the organization through a nonpunitive, just event reporting system.
Develop and/or provide input into organizational policies and procedures related to patient safety and/or risk management.
Include patient safety in new hire orientation presentation (e.g. PSO membership, reporting expectations, safety culture)
Provide ongoing education to leaders, medical staff, and staff on the science of safety (high reliability, effective communication, sustaining awareness/alertness) and patient safety initiatives.
Work with facility leaders and managers to ensure thorough, credible and timely event management.
Partner with facility leadership to establish activities that enable and sustain an open and fair environment promoting learning, safe systems, and appropriately managing behavioral choices related to patient safety.
Participate in clinical and non-clinical committees to report applicable patient safety data, analyses, and information and to provide patient safety and risk management guidance and input.
Oversee the complaint and grievance process including investigation and resolution. Ensure strict compliance to related CMS Conditions of Participation.
Oversee the management and use of event information to benchmark and track progress to zero avoidable harm.
Present informative and actionable patient safety reports to appropriate committees to include high level presentations to Leadership, Medical Executive Committee and Board of Trustees.
Implement and ensure ongoing systems to comply with requirements of the Safe Medical Device Act (SMDA) and tracks and/or reports recalls and/or issues associated with the safety of medical devices and products. Work collaboratively with all other hospital departments who have responsibility for SMDA tracking and/or reporting.
Work with defense legal counsel to coordinate the investigation, processing and defense of claims against the facility.
Support improved outcomes by emphasizing appropriate behaviors and robust systems that include concise accountability measures and follow-up.
Frankfort Regional Medical Center
has provided quality healthcare services for over 40 years. We give patient's access to trained physicians and advanced technology. Our 170+ bed hospital is one of the region's leading acute care facilities in Central Kentucky. Frankfort Regional has built an excellent reputation for outstanding subspecialty services. In addition, we have an exceptional network of quality primary care physicians in both family practice and internal medicine. We are consistently named as one of the Best Places to Work in Kentucky.
At Frankfort Regional Medical Center, our care like family culture extends to our patients, our people and our community. We are committed to each other because when we join together, our patients are cared for in the safest and most compassionate way.
HCA Healthcare has been recognized as one of the World's Most Ethical Companies by the Ethisphere Institute more than ten times. In recent years, HCA Healthcare spent an estimated $3.7 billion in cost for the delivery of charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
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