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As an integral part of the Quality and Outcomes Management Department the functions of the Quality & Outcomes Manager, include direction, management and supervision of staff responsible for reporting and presenting, quality information both internally and externally. Vital components to this position are the identification of opportunities to improve, organizational performance and outcomes implementing actions to minimize variation. As the manager of clinical quality, manages the reporting, data collection, analysis, tracking and trending of data reporting to the applicable Medical Staff and Administrative Committees and performance improvement teams.

The Manager of Quality and Outcomes Management is responsible for supporting the design and implementation of evidence based clinical processes with high reliability throughout Keck Medical Center. The Manager oversees the Department's use of clinical databases and healthcare analytics to provide data support for quality and performance improvement initiatives. The Manager coordinates the Department's resources to ensure meaningful, reliable information is collected, analyzed and reported in a manner that provides transparency in key metric performance and clarity in identifying improvement opportunities. This position assumes operational management oversight for clinical quality improvement and can champion high reliability concepts to achieve strategic goals. The Manager is responsible for leading continuous process improvement projects that will achieve better healthcare value and quality, and improve operational, financial and clinical efficiencies. The Manager serves as an internal consultant to management, staff and physicians in the areas of process and outcome improvement, organizational development, change management, performance monitoring, statistical analyses and communication of process improvement. The Manager provides expertise in successfully applying process improvement methodologies such as Lean management. He/she serves as a project designer, facilitator, and technical expert for teams working on major, complex performance improvement initiatives. The Director acts as a change agent to foster and support a process improvement culture throughout the organization. The Manager leads the Department in the absence of the Associate Administrator

Essential Duties:

  • Utilizes effective critical thinking skills, organization, prioritization, planning, personnel management, operational efficiency, decision-making, and teaching.
  • Oversight for case reviews of staff both concurrently and retrospectively to briefly and effectively summarizes all of the important information. Quality controls data to ensure accuracy and reliability
  • Works closely with the Medical Staff coordinating the accuracy and timely abstraction, data entry, analysis and submission of data of staff—trained in data collection and abstraction of quality initiatives
  • Ensures reports utilizing internal or external benchmarks for data display are completed by staff.
  • Helps facilitate team processes for hospital Quality Action teams as applicable.
  • Utilizes statistical principles as needed to compose accurate meaningful reports and to support the validity
  • of the data. Assists with audits, data retrieval and analyses for all applicable Medical Staff services.
  • Promotes effective communication and working relationship inter and intra departmentally.
  • Acts as a liaison and resource with hospital and Quality staff providing education on Quality Initiatives.
  • Certification and continued education maintained in Quality and Performance Improvement
  • Performs other duties as assigned

Required Qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree in nursing or a related field
  • Equivalent experience in a related field (phys assistance, pre-med, etc).
  • 5 years Requires at least five years or more in a Supervisory position and acute care setting with progressively increasing responsibilities in an acute care setting.
  • Requires critical thinking skills and organization in prioritizing a workload of multiple tasks.
  • Requires knowledge of data entry, data analysis, and other performance improvement methodologies.
  • Familiar with Microsoft Office products.
  • Current knowledge of accreditation and regulatory requirements for acute and ambulatory care services (e.g. state, federal, local regulations; Joint Commission, etc.).

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Master's degree in nursing or a related field
  • Ph.D. or equivalent doctorate
  • Certified Professional in Healthcare Quality - CPHQ (NAHQ) If no certification upon hire, one must be obtained within one year of hire.
  • Lean six sigma certification, I

Required Licenses/Certifications:

  • Fire Life Safety Training (LA City) If no card upon hire, one must be obtained within 30 days of hire and maintained by renewal before expiration date. (Required within LA City only)
  • Registered Nurse - RN (CA Board of Registered Nursing)

The annual base salary range for this position is $110,240.00 - $181,896.00. When extending an offer of employment, the University of Southern California considers factors such as (but not limited to) the scope and responsibilities of the position, the candidate’s work experience, education/training, key skills, internal peer equity, federal, state, and local laws, contractual stipulations, grant funding, as well as external market and organizational considerations.

USC is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or any other characteristic protected by law or USC policy. USC will consider for employment all qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring ordinance. We provide reasonable accommodations to applicants and employees with disabilities. Applicants with questions about access or requiring a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process should contact USC Human Resources by phone at (213) 821-8100, or by email at uschr@usc.edu. Inquiries will be treated as confidential to the extent permitted by law.

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