TRA USPI Interim Quality Director
Tenet HealthcareAbout the role
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Job Summary
The Patient Safety Director will be the functional domain thought and impact leader for safety at Tenet and interact with similar level functional leaders (e.g., Safety, Regulatory, Infection Prevention) as a team to build an integrated plan for impact. This position is responsible for building a safety agenda that bridges across the three business units (e.g., Acute Care Hospitals, USPI, and TPR), and extending vertically to up-skill and develop the facilities’ Patient Safety Officer (PSO) . In addition, he/she will ensure adherence with Patient Safety Regulations & Accreditation. Excellence in this role would be driving safety outcomes Tenet-wide while radically up-skilling and up-willing PSOs at the facilities. More specifically, this position will:
- Develop a safety agenda that solves our performance opportunities, incorporates proven practices, and distilled to a manageable clarity so that it is easier to implement, train, track, and goal against valid metrics and targets.
- Work with peer knowledge domain leaders to build an integrated and mutually reinforcing “quality-safety-regulatory-infection prevention” plan. By design this plan should overlap knowledge domains and maintain clarity of purpose with specificity.
- The position implements and supports processes which drive outcomes-based, evidence-based, cost-effective and safe practices in the multiple facilities setting (e.g., ACH, USPI, and TPR).
- Be a higher-level expert of the facility leaders in safety practices and formulation of goals and targets.
- Routinely support multiple facilities by providing them with advice, best practice tools and templates, connecting facilities with each other for enhanced knowledge sharing, and researching information on their behalf.
Collaborate with the multiple facilities’ CEO, CNO, COO, CMO, Patient Safety Officers, and DCQIs to adhere to applicable federal, state, local regulations. These include but are not limited to The Joint Commission, EMTALA, FDA reporting, etc.
Responsibilities
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