Vice Chair for Quality & Safety / Adult Generalist Anesthesiologist

Department Overview

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The Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine is integral to the healthcare, education and research missions at OHSU. We provide clinical services at OHSU hospitals and collaborate with the VA Portland Health Care System and Hillsboro Medical Center. We specialize in providing excellent perioperative care and anesthesia services to our patients using state-of-the-art technology and pharmacologic tools with an emphasis on patient safety. Pre-operative assessment is facilitated by electronic data collecting systems and is integral to minimizing patient risk. In the operating rooms our anesthesiologists work in care teams with our fellows, residents, and nurse anesthetists as well as independently. Pre- and post-operative care is under the medical supervision of our department. We play a prominent role in the caring for patients in the cardiovascular, neurosciences, and virtual intensive care units. In the ICU our team includes anesthesiology intensivists, critical care fellows, physician assistants/nurse practitioners, and residents. The role of our team in the ICUs is comprehensive and critical to achieving the highest quality outcomes for our patients.

Function/Duties of Position

Vice Chair, Quality & Safety (0.2 FTE)This position reports to the Chair for the Department of Anesthesiology & Perioperative Medicine (APOM). The Vice Chair of Quality & Safety oversees, organizes, and implements the quality assessment and improvement missions of the department by serving as the Chair of the Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) Critical Events and Peer Review committee, reviewing and identifying root system causes of quality and safety issues within the department, identifying areas and strategies for improvement, and working with other departments within the hospital system to develop strategies for ensuring high quality care. The Vice Chair will work closely with the department’s quality improvement administrative team to maintain an active quality program that is responsive to the changing needs of the department and hospital.

 

In addition to fulfilling all the expectations for an APOM Vice Chair*, responsibilities of the Vice Chair of Quality & Safety include, but are not limited to:• Engage in departmental strategic planning efforts. Develop annual goals for quality.• Serve as CQI committee chair.• Review and triage all incident reports, lead the review process and provide feedback to involved parties.• Communicate CQI case findings and recommendations to appropriate members of APOM, OHSU Quality and Risk Management staff, Office of the Patient Advocate, and other clinical departments.• Directly guide and communicate with the APOM site-specific Directors of Quality: ICUs (NSICU, CVICU), Comprehensive Pain Center (CPC), Perioperative Medicine Clinic (PMC), Non-Operating Room Anesthesia (NORA), Centers for Health Healing (CHH) outpatient surgery center, Doernbecher Children’s Hospital (DCH), Labor and Delivery Anesthesia (L&D).• Present five minute QI update at each internal GR including quality and safety reminders / updates, compliance and safety data

• Guide clinical documentation and compliance practice as it relates to pertinent preoperative evaluation, intraoperative documentation, and post-operative evaluation in cooperation with the appropriate clinical Vice Chair, by making documentation suggestions to the Epic Anesthesia change management group.• Working within available data sources (e.g. Epic, MPOG, CMS, UHC) collaborate with leading local (e.g. APOM epidemiologist(s) and informaticist(s), DMICE, Center for Health Systems Effectiveness Department of Public Health & Preventative Medicine, OCTRI, The Pacific NW Evidence Based Practice Center) and national (e.g. AQI, collaborators from U Penn, MPOG) investigators to critically evaluate our practice and create new knowledge to Collaborate with health-system quality and safety leaders to help OHSU to consistently be in the top 10th percentile for University Healthcare Consortium (UHC) outcomes.• Collaborate with the Vice Chair for Education in guiding the work of the Director for Resident QI Curriculum and the Director of Resident QI projects to ensure each graduating APOM resident fulfills their ACGME requirements for Quality and Safety. Assist with determination of resident QI projects, assignments, project supervision and project mentoring.• Serve as QI leader on the APOM MACRA/MIPS comm