Experience the HCA Healthcare difference where colleagues are trusted, valued members of our healthcare team. Grow your career with an organization committed to delivering respectful, compassionate care, and where the unique and intrinsic worth of each individual is recognized. Submit your application for the opportunity below: Quality Manager
Job Summary and Qualifications
Under the general supervision of the Director of Quality Management, QM Manager assumes responsibility with daily operational direction of Quality Management functions. Responsibilities are aligned with the missions and values of the hospital.
In conjunction with the QM Director, this position is accountable for the development, management and coordination of the hospital-wide Quality Improvement Program.
What you will do in this role:
- Supportive of the ethics and compliance programs set forth by HCA demonstrated by:
- Upholds code of conduct.
- Adheres to dealing appropriately and fairly with employee misconduct.
- Enforces all ethics and compliance policies as they pertain to his/her area.
- Provides and assures ethics and compliance education as requested by the ECO and/or corporate initiative.
- Sets an example to all staff in their daily activities.
- Adheres to policies on appropriate access.
- Respects patients and healthcare confidentiality
- If an ethics and compliance issue is identified, takes appropriate action to correct and/or report any violation that he/she is aware of in the department or the facility.
- Supports physician partnership development between physician and quality management services.
- Assumes leadership role to enhance financial strength of HCA Houston Medical Center.
- Works with director to ensure the provision of adequate human resources, information, physical and financial resources are in place, in order to in support of their identified performance and safety improvement initiatives.
- Ensures the participation of staff in performance activities and activities to improve patient safety.
- Educates hospital staff on evidence based practice initiatives.
- Develops and recommends protocol and guidelines for evidence based practice initiatives.
- Oversees, analyzes, and trends data related to throughput of targeted patient populations.
- Provides data to outside agencies as required and/or other applicable hospital leaders to initiate change as appropriate, in order to improve processes and outcomes.
- Represents the hospital at local, regional, or other applicable levels related to best practices for patients.
- Assures compliance with all TJC and other applicable regulatory agency guidelines.
- Demonstrates effective communication skills, interpersonal relationships, and team building skills.
- Assists with other duties as assigned within scope and practice of licensure.
What qualifications you will need:
- Bachelors Degree required
- 3 years experience required in acute care setting
Benefits
HCA Houston Healthcare Medical Center, offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:
- Comprehensive benefits for medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, behavioral health and telemedicine services
- Wellbeing support, including free counseling and referral services
- Time away from work programs for paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence
- Savings and retirement resources, including a 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service), Employee Stock Purchase Plan, flexible spending accounts, preferred banking partnerships, retirement readiness tools, rollover support and financial wellbeing counseling
- Education support through tuition assistance, student loan assistance, certification support, dependent scholarships and a partnership with Galen College of Nursing
- Additional benefits for fertility and family building, adoption assistance, life insurance, supplemental health protection plans, auto and home insurance, legal counseling, identity theft protection and consumer discounts
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Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.
HCA Houston Healthcare Medical Center is a 445+ bed acute care hospital located in the heart of central Houston, adjacent to the Medical Center and Museum District, and provides quality care for the greater Houston area. Established in 1975, our hospital has been serving Houston for more than 40 years. We provide a wide range of medical services, including cardiology, bariatrics, orthopedics, neurology, emergency care and more. Our comprehensive medical specialties are here to offer individualized care to every individual that walks through our doors. We also offer 24/7 emergency services and two intensive care units: surgical intensive care unit (SICU) and medical intensive care unit (MICU). We are an accredited Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Accreditation and Quality Improvement Program (MBSAQIP) Center and an accredited Chest Pain Center with Primary PCI. We are members of HCA Houston Healthcare, the most comprehensive family of hospitals in the region and part of the leading provider of healthcare in the country, HCA Healthcare. Together we are stronger, smarter and more accessible in providing the patient-centered care you need close to home.
HCA Healthcare has been recognized as one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies® by the Ethisphere Institute more than ten times. In recent years, HCA Healthcare spent an estimated $3.7 billion in cost for the delivery of charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses.
"There is so much good to do in the world and so many different ways to do it."- Dr. Thomas Frist, Sr.
HCA Healthcare Co-Founder
If you find this opportunity compelling, we encourage you to apply for our Quality Manager opening. We promptly review all applications. Highly qualified candidates will be directly contacted by a member of our team. We are interviewing - apply today!
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