Quality Improvement Specialist Physician Enterprise

Job Description

Salary: 23.92-35.88 CHS

There is no greater satisfaction than doing work that helps people when they need it the most. Whether you work with patients or support the people who do, at Catholic Health you will be part of a team that believes a career is a calling and knows healthcare serves a higher purpose. Catholic Health, like many healthcare systems in the world, is working to keep patients, long term care residents, staff and community safe. They were the first in the sate of New York to establish a COVID-only facility to bring the highest level of care to patients.

Catholic Health is a four-hospital system on five campuses with a combined 1,100 beds and medical staff of over 1,500. Catholic Health leads the region in quality, patient safety and patient experience, and has the only Magnet-designated hospital in the region. With state-of-the-art stroke care, neuro and vascular services and nationally recognized for cardiac, orthopedic and bariatric services. Catholic Health has a rapidly growning employmed medical group of over 175 physicians.

If you are a talented individual with a desire to learn, grow, contribute and want to love the work you do alongside a team that understands healthcare serves a higher purpose - Catholic Health is for you!

Summary:

The Quality Improvement Specialist supports the Manager of Value-Based & Quality Initiatives and is responsible for facilitating quality initiatives and the implementation of this work into our clinical settings. The Quality Improvement Specialist is responsible to assist in implementing change management strategies and providing data related to compliance, patient outcomes and quality of care. This position will directly support the engagement related to care gaps, health maintenance initiatives, value-based programs and wellness visits.

Responsibilities:

EDUCATION

• Associates degree required
• Bachelor's degree in healthcare related field, preferred

EXPERIENCE

• Minimum of (2) years of experience in healthcare required
• One (1) year experience in a primary care physician office required
• Quality improvement or process improvement experience, preferred

KNOWLEDGE, SKILL AND ABILITY

• Ability to use an electronic medical record (EMR) and comfortable with compiling data
• Microsoft Office suite proficiency
• Ability to access and comprehend payer driven data and quality portals
• Effective verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to teach, motivate and engage others
• Capacity to work effectively in a interdisciplinary team
• Excellent organizational skills and able to prioritize competing priorities and deadlines
• Understands and applies performance improvement methods to support practices in meeting quality goals
• Ability to handle protected health information (PHI) in a manner consistent with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA)

WORKING CONDITIONS:

• Occasional travel between sites may be required
• Exposed to unpleasant elements (accidents, injuries and illness)
• Possible subject to varying and unpredictable situations in a physician office setting
• Subject to many interruptions
• Occasionally subjected to irregular hours
• Ability to multitask in a fast paced environment