VP for Clinical Effectiveness and Patient SafetyPosted: November 15, 2009
Leads in developing a culture of continuous improvement in clinical effectiveness and patient safety. * Identifies opportunities and strategies for performance improvement and leads and/or supports their implementation. * Provides overall direction to ensure clinical services are provided in accordance with approved standards. * Proactively initiates and sustains activities related to clinical guidelines, protocol-driven care, evidence based medicine patient care services and health care quality/safety. * Provides an environment of quality that is data driven and develops systems to review objectively measure outcomes of care. * facilitates quality management programs clinical areas through the development and implementation of effective clinical protocols and guidelines, other decision tools, and review of the outcomes. Help represent medical staff viewpoints to administration and relay administrative views to medical staff in matters of clinical effectiveness and patient safety. * Champions physician acceptance and involvement in the creation and implementation of computerized physician order entry (CPOE). Makes use of clinical decision support systems to access quality data. Provides strategic leadership by focusing teams and organization units on visions and distinctive strategies that result in excellent short and long-term performance in clinical outcomes. Integrate evidence-based medicine practices wherever possible, building this into new and new patient care delivery systems (CPOE). * Provides on-going counsel and advice to the Chief of Staff and Vice Chief of Staff of the medical staff on quality and patient safety matters. * Work closely with the Chief Nursing Officer, the Patient Care Council, the Director of Perioperative Services, the Director of Inpatient Services and the Service Line Medical Directors to foster teamwork and to achieve effective care outcomes and develop new initiatives to improve clinical quality. Reporting * Reports to CEO Education and Experience Education: * Medical education and training at institutions of high repute; Board Certification in a clinical discipline is required. * Additional education and coursework in management and business would enhance candidacy. An MBA or equivalent business experience preferred. Experience: * At least 10 years of clinical practice, with a reputation as an excellent physician. * Demonstrable leadership role and achievement in a complex healthcare delivery system. * Experience in fiscal accountability and budgeting. * Knowledge and experience of quality infrastructure is needed, including how to develop and implement decision tools, clinical protocols and guidelines, care management programs, and outcome measurement assessments. * Needs working knowledge of information technology, including statistical analysis, clinical epidemiology, and medical informatics; understanding of best practices and how to successfully introduce information technology into clinical practice. Expectations: In the first eighteen months to two years, significant progress should be demonstrated in the following areas: * Trust will have increased between hospital administration and the medical staff and there will be a stronger sense of collaboration and partnership in the area of patient safety * Conduct a patient safety assessment at GBMC * Conduct and implement patient safety directives as prioritized by the Council on Clinical Effectiveness and Patient Safety * Collaborate with the Johns Hopkins Quality and Safety Research Group at the Center for Innovations in Quality Patient Care * Conduct research in the area of patient safety * Present GBMC quality and patient safety research at national and international quality and patient safety meetings Please refer to job code 922737 when responding to this ad.
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