Medical Director for the Heart Institute Quality and Patient Safety

Job description

Medical Director for the Heart Institute Quality and Patient Safety ( Job Number: 38477 ) Description: University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus Department: Pediatrics - Cardiology: Job Title: Medical Director for the Heart Institute Quality and Patient Safety Position #: 00660708 – Requisition #:38477 Job Summary: Provide overall leadership of quality improvement and patient safety initiatives in the Heart Institute, including counseling of team members regarding patient safety, and providing direction to the quality improvement Program Manager. Key Responsibilities: - Will partner with the H.I. Leadership Team, H.I. Medical Directors, and CHCO Quality, Clinical Effectiveness, Patient Safety, and Process Improvement teams to set annual and strategic goals for quality and patient safety, implement initiatives to achieve these goals, create and use tools for tracking and monitoring outcomes/performance, develop and institute and in evaluate patient outcomes as appropriate. - Partners with Nursing and H.I. Clinical leadership teams in the development of program specific educational tools and in training of staff to optimize patient care and outcomes. - Will partner with the Dire...