Patient Safety and Risk Management Advisor, Day Shift, Quality & Patient Safety

White Oak Medical Center

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Adventist Healthcare seeks to hire an experienced Patient Safety and Risk Management Advisor for our Quality and Patient Safety Department who will embrace our mission to extend God’s care through the ministry of physical, mental and spiritual healing.

As a Patient Safety and Risk Management Advisor, you will:
• Coordinate and facilitate Risk Management activities, serving as a resource person to hospital staff, leadership, and medical staff, assisting in management of claims, and providing risk management support to assigned committees
• Review and analyze incident reports for assigned units to determine the severity level of patient harm and facilitates referral of the reports to the appropriate team members and leaders.
• Conduct background investigations of events with referral to medical malpractice insurers and regulatory agencies as indicated
• Assist in Quality Assurance activities throughout WOMC as they relate to the Risk Management functions, including regulatory surveys
• Coordinate/facilitate Patient Safety activities such as performing investigative and proactive activities, statistical analyses, root cause analyses, and Failure Modes and Effects Analyses, to prevent and reduce risk occurrences and coordinating the creation of plans of correction. Facilitate debriefs as delegated
• Provide on call support to staff and physicians during off hours with Risk and Patient Safety issues
• Assist with reviewing and coordinating the resolution, response to, and tracking of patient and family complaints and grievances including referral to appropriate responders, determine type of required response, and comply with WOMC guidelines and deadlines regarding the hospital patient grievance program
• Assist with educational programs for both WOMC and medical staff for recognition and prevention of malpractice, general liability, and safety issues.

Qualifications include:
• Bachelor’s degree required
• Prior experience in a hospital setting is required
• Degree in Nursing preferred
• Master's Degree in healthcare preferred
• Experience in the field of Risk Management preferred
• Current RN license with the State of Maryland preferred

Work Schedule:

Full-Time, Day Shift, Monday - Friday

*potential for on call weekends*

 

Pay Range:

$63,510.88 - $92,090.78

If the salary range is listed as $0 or if the position is Per Diem (with a fixed rate), salary discussions will take place during the screening process.

Under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), this position is classified as:

United States of America (Exempt)

At Adventist HealthCare our job is to care for you.

We do this by offering:

• Work life balance through nonrotating shifts

• Recognition and rewards for professional expertise

• Free Employee parking

• Medical, Prescription, Dental, and Vision coverage for employees and their eligible dependents effective on your date of hire

• Employer-paid Short & Long-Term Disability, Basic Life Insurance and AD&D, (short-term disability buy-up available)

• Paid Time Off

• Employer retirement contribution and match after 1-year of eligible employment with a 3-year vesting period 

• Voluntary benefits include flexible spending accounts, legal plans, and life, pet, auto, home, long term care, and critical illness & accident insurance

• Subsidized childcare at participating childcare centers

• Tuition Reimbursement

• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) support

As a faith-based organization, with over a century of caring for the communities in the Maryland area, Adventist HealthCare has earned a reputation for high-quality, compassionate care. Adventist HealthCare was the first and is the largest healthcare provider in Montgomery County.

If you want to make a difference in someone’s life every day, consider a position with a team of professionals who are doing just that, making a difference.

Join the Adventist HealthCare team today, apply now to be considered!

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