'+Patient Safety Manager

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About this role

Lead the facility-wide patient safety program, investigating safety issues and guiding improvements to reduce medical errors and unintended patient harm. This is a full-time, day-shift role in Quality Risk Management.

What could you bring from clinical work?

• Nurses: Reviewing adverse events with interdisciplinary teams could help you investigate safety issues and lead root cause analysis.
• OTs: Your experience evaluating functional and environmental safety risks may help you lead facility-wide safety assessments.
• PTs: Improving fall prevention and safe mobility processes could help you lead initiatives focused on reducing patient harm.
• Social workers: If you've reviewed care-transition risks with interdisciplinary teams, that experience could help you investigate patient safety issues.
• SLPs: Tracking swallowing-safety outcomes and improving protocol adherence may help you identify safety trends and implement corrective actions.

Full job description from Tenet Healthcare Corporation

Job Type: Full Time

Job Shift: Days

Holiday Rotation:

Department: Quality Risk Management

The Patient Safety Manager will have primary oversight of the facility-wide patient safety program. This leadership role will direct others within the facility towards process improvements to support the reduction of medical/health care errors and other factors that contribute to unintended adverse patient outcomes. This practitioner provides leadership for safety assessments, coordinates the activities of the patient safety function or committee, educates other practitioners on the system-based cause for medical errors, consults with management and staff, and communicates literature-based ideas regarding effective patient safety strategies to others within the organization.

Responsibilities

Investigates patient safety issues within the organization; leads or facilitates Root Cause Analysis, Focused Reviews, and Intense Analysis; Ensure timely identification of trends and implementation of corrective and preventive actions. Maintains compliance with audits and monitoring as defined in action plans; Reviews and closes all Safety Events reported in the event reporting system, Verifies all Safety Events are routed to the appropriate department leaders for review; notifies Risk Management of potential risk issues; Lead initiatives focused on high reliability, zero harm, and culture of safety.

Qualifications

Education:

Required: Bachelor's degree in a patient care related field.

Experience:
Required: 5+ years of combined experience in clinical practice and progressive healthcare leadership experience
Preferred: 2 years of experience in Patient Safety, Quality, Risk Management, or healthcare operations.

Certification:
Required: CPPS Certification or eligible to take the exam within one year of employment

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Are you a results-driven leader ready to make a meaningful impact to patients, caregivers, and your community? At Doctors Medical Center of Modesto hospital, were seeking an innovative and experienced healthcare leader to drive excellence and inspire our team towards exceptional patient outcomes and operational success.

At Doctors Medical Center of Modesto, we understand that our greatest asset is our dedicated team of professionals. That’s why we offer more than a job – we provide a comprehensive benefit package that prioritizes your health, professional development, and work-life balance. The available plans and programs include:

• Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance
• 401(k) retirement savings plan with employer match
• Generous paid time off
• Career development and continuing education opportunities
• Health savings accounts, healthcare & dependent flexible spending accounts
• Employee Assistance program, Employee discount program
• Voluntary benefits include pet insurance, legal insurance, accident and critical illness insurance, long term care, elder & childcare, auto & home insurance

Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location and is determined by employment status



Doctors Medical Center (DMC), part of the Central Valley Doctors Health System, is the largest full-care hospital between Stockton and Fresno, and from the Sierras to the San Francisco Bay Area, with a 394-bed general acute care and a 67-bed inpatient psychiatric capacity. DMC is known for providing comprehensive inpatient, outpatient and emergency care. Doctors Medical Center offers a wide range of services including cardiology, neurosurgery, orthopedics, emergency and trauma services, minimally-invasive and robotic surgery, women and childrens services, medical/surgical, behavioral health, oncology and critical/intensive care. Join our team!