Quality & Patient Safety Project Manager - Atlantic Health Overlook Medical Center

Responsible for evidence-based care and clinical excellence by using the techniques of system design, reengineering, project management, patient safety, quality improvement, outcomes measurement, and statistical analysis to increase compliance rates as measured by nationally standardized benchmarks and definitions and corporate requirements. This includes: project management, training, data management, and activities to support regulatory compliance.


Principal Accountabilities:


1. Project Management: Facilitates/assists with quality improvement projects for teams and/or departments as assigned. Engages in activities to identify potential patient safety risks and initiatives to improve patient safety.
2. Training: Provides in-service training in patient safety principles/practices, quality management, performance improvement techniques and organizational operating procedure standards. Participates in Shared Governance Councils, Hospital Quality/Patient Safety meetings providing guidance and instruction in PI Techniques
3. Data Management: Collects, compiles, analyzes and reports quality data. Monitors effectiveness and adherence with corrective action plans and reports findings to the Director of Quality and Patient Safety or designee.
4. Regulatory Compliance: Participates in activities to monitor and ensure ongoing compliance with quality and regulatory standards such Joint Commission, State Department of Health, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid, payers and other agencies. Provides support during accreditation/regulatory surveys.
5. Other related duties as assigned.

Education/Experience 
1. Bachelor's degree in Nursing or Healthcare Field required
2. Minimum 3 years of quality improvement/project management in a healthcare environment.
3. Experience in leading and facilitating project teams.
4. 3 years of clinical experience within an acute care hospital (preferred)
5. Current NJ Registered Nurse Licensure (preferred)

At Atlantic Health, our promise to our communities is; Anyone who enters one of our facilities will receive the highest quality care delivered at the right time, at the right place, and at the right cost. This commitment is also echoed in the respect, development and opportunities we give to our more than 22,000 team members. Headquarters in Morristown, New Jersey, we are one of the leading non-profit health care systems in the nation. Our facilities and sites of care include:

• Atlantic Health Morristown Medical Center, Morristown, NJ
• Atlantic Health Overlook Medical Center, Summit, NJ
• Atlantic Health Newton Medical Center, Newton, NJ
• Atlantic Health Chilton Medical Center, Pompton Plains, NJ
• Atlantic Health Hackettstown Medical Center, Hackettstown, NJ
• Atlantic Health Goryeb Children's Hospital, Morristown, NJ
• Atlantic Health CentraState Healthcare System, Freehold, NJ
• Atlantic Medical Group
• Atlantic Visiting Nurse
• Atlantic Mobile Health
• Atlantic Rehabilitation

We have more than 900 community-based healthcare providers affiliated through Atlantic Medical Group.

We have received awards and recognition for the services we have provided to our patients, team members and communities. Below are just a few of our accolades:

• Chosen for 17 years by Fortune as one of the magazine’s “100 Best Companies to Work For." 
• Atlantic Health Morristown and Atlantic Health Overlook Named by Newsweek as two of the “World’s Best Hospitals” in 2026.
• Atlantic Health Morristown and Atlantic Health Overlook ranked within the top three hospitals in New Jersey by U.S. News & World Report’s 2025-2026 Best Hospital rankings. 
• Atlantic Health scored four “A” grades by The Leapfrog Group in its Fall 2025 Hospital Safety Grades, performance measures reflecting errors, accidents, injuries and injections, as well as systems hospitals have in place to prevent harm. 
• Atlantic Health Morristown and Atlantic Health Overlook are New Jersey's only hospitals to be named among America's 50 Best hospitals by Healthgrades in 2026.
• Named by Becker's Healthcare as one of the "165 Top Places to Work in Healthcare – 2026.
• Atlantic Health Morristown, Atlantic Health Overlook, Atlantic Health Chilton and Atlantic Health Newton all Forbes Top Hospitals for 2026.
• Named by Newsweek as one of America’s Greatest Workplaces for Inclusion & Diversity 2025.
• Atlantic Health rated LEVEL 9 - 2025 CHIME Digital Health Most Wired. 

Named one of America's 50 Best Hospitals by Healthgrades, a World’s Best Hospital by Newsweek and recognized as a Best Regional Hospital in the NY Metro area by U.S. News & World Report.

Our Atlantic Neuroscience Institute is the region’s leader in neuroscience care. A