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Quality and Patient Safety Program Manager

St. Luke's Sugar Land Hospital

#BLS #ACLS #Patient Safety #Critical Care #PALS #ICU #Acute Care #Respiratory Therapy #Emergency Department

Quick overview

Administer a full range of respiratory care modalities for neonatal, pediatric, adult, and geriatric patients across various hospital units. Responsibilities include managing mechanical ventilation, performing diagnostic procedures, and collaborating with multi-disciplinary teams to implement care plans.

Requirements summary

Requires a minimum of two years of acute care experience, including one year in critical care, and completion of an AMA approved respiratory therapy program. Must hold a California State license as a Respiratory Care Practitioner and certifications in BLS, ACLS, and PALS.

professional certificatePatient AssessmentCritical CareInfection ControlClinical EducationMedical Gas AdministrationBlood Gas AnalysisEmergency CareMechanical VentilationAirway MaintenanceCardiopulmonary ResuscitationPulse OximetryArterial Punctures

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Where You’ll Work St.
Luke's Health–Sugar Land Hospital is a 100 bed facility serving residents of Fort Bend County and Southwest Houston.
Our Family Birthing Center provides exceptional care in a spa-like setting, creating a VIP (Very Important Pregnancy) experience for growing families.
Since opening in 2008, our dedicated team of physicians, nurses and support staff has proudly delivered expert, compassionate care to our community.
Our services range from heart care and neuroscience to robotic surgery.
Job Summary and Responsibilities The primary function of the Quality/Patient Safety Program Manager is to support, coordinate, and facilitate the quality management (QM), patient safety (PS) and regulatory performance improvement (PI) activities for the hospital and medical staff.
This role also serves as a resource to employees, management, nursing directors, senior management, councils, physicians and teams on quality management activities and will handle patient sensitive and confidential hospital information.
Assists in the design, planning, implementation and coordination of Quality Management, Patient Safety and Performance Improvement activities for assigned hospital and medical staff departments, committees, divisions, service lines and functions.
Proactively coordinates and facilitates performance improvement teams to support key initiatives, including but not limited to, activities focused on clinical quality improvement, patient safety and risk reduction, patient experience, efficiency, FMEAS, root cause analyses and medical staff improvement (e.g. case review for peer review, OPPE, FPPE).
Participates in an integral role to ensure compliance with CMS HIQRP/HOQRP, TJC, Leapfrog, etc., data collection and reporting of process and outcome measures.
Facilitates development and implementation of data collection tools and processes including the ability to: identify data elements needed to complete appropriate measurement, perform data collection and abstraction per specifications, and validate data prior to submission or preview reports prior to publication.
Facilitates meetings, presents data and reports, identifies key findings and assists with action plans and implementation.
Maintains current knowledge of accreditation and licensing requirements and must be a resource to staff on these regulations in order to improve management of outcomes and ensure compliance.

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