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Emergency Management and Patient Safety Officer
Springhill Medical CenterUnited Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 17 Mar 2025
About the role
- Education Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in nursing or other healthcare related field.
- Preferred: At least 5 years of experience in the healthcare or emergency management field.
- Job Responsibilities:
- Able to conduct research and work independently.
- Understanding of performance improvement.
- Excellent communication skills and computer skills
- Provide leadership and support for department managers in performance improvement efforts.
- Coordinates focus/groups teams as needed to address identified problems or process improvement.
- Act as a liaison between clinical/nursing departments and Quality/Risk Management
- Prepare various reports, presentation and data analysis as needed
- Serve as a resource person to managers and staff by researching issues and offering necessary support to initiate change.
- Serves as a representative of Quality department at Hospital meetings as assigned
- Conduct an annual hazard vulnerability assessment (HVA)/ risk analysis to determine the facility’s risk for natural (e.g., hurricanes, floods, earthquakes), technological (e.g., nuclear power plant emergencies or hazardous materials spills), human-caused (e.g., active shooter or hostage situations), and other disasters.
- Develop and maintain emergency plans and procedures for disasters identified in the HVA/ risk analysis.
- Collaborate with the management team in the creation, development, education, training, and implementation of disaster plans that are in alignment with state and other regulatory agencies.
- Participate in the organization’s committee for general administration in planning, coordinating, maintaining, and updating disaster plans, including internal and external event response. Provide necessary project management and support for all related emergency preparedness sub-committee work. • Develop policies and procedures that facilitate compliance and program implementation. Ensure the facility meets all standards and compliance with federal regulations related to emergency management planning, such as The Joint Commission (TJC), Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), National Fire Protection Association (NFPA), Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) regulations and standards. Also ensure that the facility meets the Emergency Management criteria required by the hospital accreditation body (TJC).
- Provide warnings and emergency data to the organization, and operations and technical support to leadership before, during, and after emergencies that affect it.
- Develop relationships and collaborate with partners/ stakeholders, both internal and external to the organization, such as: other local hospital disaster coordinators, the area healthcare coalition, and emergency medical services, public health, fire, and law enforcement agencies.
- Identify and maintain contact information for community response partners and identify how your facility will be notified of an emergency/ crisis situation.
- Establish a schedule of training and exercises to practice/ test the emergency plans and participate with community partners in community or statewide exercises maintaining compliance with accrediting agencies. Document the results of these exercises in an after action report to improve the facility’s emergency operations plan and response activities. Incorporate any lessons learned into future iterations of the plans.
- Coordinate and meet with department leaders from the organization to work on corrective action plans, and improvement initiatives related to safety and emergency management programs.
- Represent the organization on various preparedness committees, such as the regional healthcare coalition.
- Work collaboratively with all levels of the organization including senior leadership to produce measurable improvements in patient safety in both process and outcome.
- Recommend and facilitate change within the organization to improve patient safety based on identified risks.
- Collaborate the development of policy and procedures affecting organizational safety. Translates safety policies, theories and strategies into action.
- In collaboration with the Director, responsible for building and implementing safety systems and the promotion of the culture of safety which are paramount foundations.
- Implement and evaluate a regularly scheduled Culture of Safety Surveys.
- Responsible for the RCA and Proactive Risk Assessment team process, including but not limited to initiating a team, creating, and communicating to the team, participation of teams, assuring standard reporting, meeting TJC Sentinel Event requirements and deadlines, ensuring team action items
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