We are Hiring at Jewish Hospital Transplant Clinic
Location: 200 Abraham Flexner Way Louisville, KY 40202
Shift Options: Full Time, First Shift
About Us
UofL Health is a fully integrated regional academic health system with seven hospitals, four medical centers, nearly 200 physician practice locations, more than 700 providers, the Frazier Rehabilitation Institute and the Brown Cancer Center.
With more than 13,000 team members—physicians, surgeons, nurses, pharmacists and other highly skilled health care professionals—UofL Health is focused on one mission: delivering patient-centered care to each and every patient each and every day.
Our Mission
As an academic health care system, we will transform the health of the communities we serve through compassionate, innovative, patient-centered care.
Responsible for the coordination of the care and management of the transplant recipient. Must be able to function with considerable independence in the management of the transplant patient. Responsible for promoting the health and safety of the transplant recipient by ensuring the ongoing communication and collaboration providers and other multidisciplinary team members. Responsible for promoting the health and safety of the transplant recipient by ensuring the ongoing communication and collaboration providers and other multidisciplinary team members.
• Leads performance improvement (Pl) initiatives consistent with organizational and service line priorities and goals
• Coordinates clinical collaborative efforts to drive change in clinical practice and outcomes
• Participates in implementation of patient safety initiatives and promote National Patient Safety Goals either separately or concurrently with other projects
• Partners with Risk Management to perform failure mode effects analyses in identifying high risk processes and systems to proactively promote safe care
• Integrates knowledge of external standards, including state and federal regulations pertaining to quality and safety
• Researches literature or acceptable standards and guidelines to assist in development of practice guidelines (standing orders, policy/procedures, clinical pathways, protocols, etc)
• Monitors quality performance, keenly identifying variation in the use of evidence based practice and to determine the need for peer review
• Implements EBP, tools, tactics and techniques to improve clinical, operational and service excellence and help share best practices
• Supports systems and standardization, while recognizing the individuality of each service line
• Conducts medical record mortality reviews using Institutes for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) based criteria; looking for common causes and trends
• Conducts medical record reviews and interventions for concurrent and retrospective hospital acquired conditions (HAC) and patient safety indicators (PSI)
• Partners with Medical Staff Office in process of medical staff quality management programs, including peer review & Ongoing Professional Practice Evaluation (OPPE) and Focused Professional Practice Review (FPPE) quality information
• Performs concurrent or retrospective medical record review for quality concerns; establishes timelines and exercises discretion and judgment when identifying concerns for review to improve processes
• Supports several service line medical staff departments in performance improvement initiatives
• Recommends areas for quality review; assist to identify high volume, high risk procedures across hospital and outpatient areas
• Formulates appropriate review criteria and presents for physician review and approval
• Prepares data reports for medical staff quality initiatives utilizing current concepts in quality improvement methodologies
• Assists in integrating data abstraction, quality monitoring, and reporting activities which support medical staff quality improvement activities compliance with service line required accrediting bodies
• Assists physicians with quality assessment reviews, prepare data and present reports to medical staff; collects data through chart reviews, performs data analysis, and presents information in an effective format to designated staff
• Evaluates potential standards of care that may need to be reviewed by medical staff including patient/ family grievances, team complaints, inpatient mortality, surgical/ procedural complications, clinic operations, and blood utilization
• Monitors reports for patterns and trends and act upon these appropriately
• Provides service line-specific studies that require concurrent review, collection of data, and assistance in analyzing and sharing data
• Conducts quality-related audits for select third party vendors providers to facilitate ongoing education and improvement to assigned populations
• Applies quality improvement study design and implementation including selection of valid and reliable indicators, coordination of monitoring and evaluation activities, and medical record reviews
• Analyzes data and prepare concise, accurate and meaningful quality management reports in accordance with quality management principles
• Evaluates compliance with core measures including retrospective chart abstraction, outlier identification, dissemination of results and assistance in accompanying action plan
• Partners with clinical informatics in providing consultation on core measures, quality and safety measures related to efficient and effective retrieval of data within the electronic health records
• Works in parallel with clinical Informatics to ensure that clinical care-related changes are also carried over into the Electronic EMR environment
• Compiles QA data, prepares reports, and gives statistical analysis of QA information
• Assists Nurse Managers to lead monthly Program Quality Management meeting
• Develops standard operating procedures for Program manual, data management and quality assurance, monitoring and storage of data; ensures timely review of new/revised procedures
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