Patient Safety Manager Clinical Quality Programs

Anticipated End Date:

2026-07-31

Position Title:

Patient Safety Manager Clinical Quality Programs

Job Description:

Location: Virtual: This role enables associates to work virtually full-time, except for required in-person training sessions, providing maximum flexibility and autonomy. This approach promotes productivity, supports work-life integration, and ensures essential face-to-face onboarding and skill development. Alternate locations may be considered if candidates reside within a commuting distance from an office.

Please note that per our policy on hybrid/virtual work, candidates not within a reasonable commuting distance from the posting location(s) will not be considered for employment, unless an accommodation is granted as required by law.

The Patient Safety Manager Clinical Quality Programs is responsible for managing staff who are implementing and executing national clinical quality program initiatives across all lines of business. Programs are focus Patient Safety, population-based clinical quality measures and clinical performance.

These initiatives are designed to identify, measure, and reduce preventable harm and improve care across the healthcare continuum.

How you'll make a difference:

• Oversees resources supporting enterprise clinical quality priorities.
• Translating clinical quality strategies into actionable workplans and measurable outcomes across multiple patient safety domains.
• Leads cross-functional collaboration across such areas as clinical, analytics, provider, care management, product, payment integrity, legal, compliance, and operational teams to ensure successful delivery of initiatives.
• Oversees provider engagement, intervention implementation, care management integration, performance monitoring, regulatory compliance, and continuous improvement activities while supporting the development of scalable programs and operational best practices.
• Hires, trains, coaches, counsels, mentors, and evaluates the performance of direct reports and clinical quality staff.

Minimum Requirements:

• Requires a bachelor's degree in nursing, healthcare administration, public health, health sciences, healthcare management, or a related healthcare field.
• A minimum of 7 total years of experience in healthcare quality improvement, managed care, healthcare operations, care management, program management, population health, or related healthcare experience.
• At least three of those years leading cross-functional healthcare initiatives, care management programs, and complex project or program implementations required.

Preferred skills, qualifications and experiences:

• Current unrestricted clinical license, Certified Case Manager (CCM), Project Management Professional (PMP), Certified Professional in Healthcare Quality (CPHQ), and/or advanced degree in a healthcare-related field or business preferred.
• Experience in specialty areas such as patient safety, may be highly preferred. Any combination of education and experience which would provide an equivalent background may be accepted.

For candidates working in person or virtually in the below location(s), the salary* range for this specific position is $116,128 to $210,864  

  

Locations: Virginia; Minnesota

In addition to your salary, Elevance Health offers benefits such as a comprehensive benefits package, incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase and 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). The salary offered for this specific position is based on a number of legitimate, non-discriminatory factors set by the Company.  The Company is fully committed to ensuring equal pay opportunities for equal work regardless of gender, race, or any other category protected by federal, state, and local pay equity laws.  

  

*The salary range is the range Elevance Health in good faith believes is the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting. This range may be modified in the future and actual compensation may vary from posting based on geographic location, work experience, education and/or skill level. Even within the range, the actual compensation will vary depending on the above factors as well as market/business considerations. No amount is considered to be wages or compe