Quality Improvement Coordinator
Company: Ardent Health Services
Location: Tyler
Posted on: January 27, 2023
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Job Description:
Job Description Overview
Join UT Health East Texas as a Full Time, Day Shift, Quality
Improvement Coordinator!! Advancing Healthcare Together - The
Future of Healthcare is in East TexasWhy UT Health - East Texas?
Our People. Our people truly are our greatest strength. They make a
massive difference in the amazing care we provide every day. We
work closely together to create a positive experience for our
patients and each other. Our Purpose. We will build on your
experience and provide meaningful and purposeful career growth for
your future. You will have the opportunity every day to make a
difference in someone's life and change the course of healthcare.
Our Place. Tyler, Texas is a small town with a huge heart where you
will have the privilege of caring for your neighbors. Everybody is
somebody here. Representing the very best in healthcare, UT Health
East Texas is comprised of 10 hospitals and more than 50 clinics
across east Texas. With nearly 7,500 employees and over 1,000
licensed in-patient beds, UT Health East Texas provides healthcare
services to thousands of patients annually through our hospitals,
clinics, Level 1 trauma facility, air emergency fleet and EMS
service in a metropolitan service area of a quarter-million people.
Our UT Health Physicians Managed Group is seeking an experienced
Quality Improvement Coordinator. We are looking for your
experience, knowledge and patient care skills in our Quality
Department where you will be responsible for: POSITION SUMMARY:The
Quality Improvement Coordinator will be responsible for identifying
quality gaps, risk adjustment gaps and outreach needs for members
managed within Medicare advantage plans as well as the UTHET
population at large. Individuals within this job classification are
accountable for contributing to the assessment, implementation, and
documentation of quality activities in accordance with UTHET
standards to deliver efficient, effective, and quality patient
care. Performs as a team member to support and enhance the
system-wide quality improvement program. Provides positive staff
support and education and acts as a resource to clinical staff and
administration. Provides support and assists in the implementation
of tools, guidelines, and best practices to improve efficiency,
quality of care, and patient outcomes. Promotes and supports the
implementation and monitoring of system policies and guidelines,
and other state and federal laws or regulations. The Quality
Improvement Coordinator will work with a multi-disciplinary
healthcare team to assist in facilitation of meeting quality
metrics, risk adjustment activities and other assignments for a
designated panel of managed care patients. Shall perform as a team
member to support and enhance the system-wide quality improvement
program. Responsible for collecting and organizing data to build
and maintain patient registries to identify gaps in care and lead
to better healthcare outcomes for patients. Expected to lead the
employed and embedded QI care partners in the collection of quality
data, audits and conduct outreach as necessary. Will be proficient
in use of EMR, payer platforms and population management tools.
Will be knowledgeable of workplace health and safety guidelines
(CDC), physician office practice, preventive health maintenance,
national evidence-based guidelines, patient safety, and case
management. Promotes and supports the implementation and monitoring
of system policies and guidelines and other state and federal laws
or regulations.
Responsibilities
DUTIES, ACCOUNTABILITIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
Qualifications
BEHAVIORAL STANDARDS:Service
With 30 hospitals and hundreds of clinics, Ardent Health Services
is a premier provider of health care services, delivered with
compassion for patients and their families and with respect for
employees, physicians and other health professionals. Nearly half
of our facilities have been recognized among healthcare's best
places to work. -
Our hospitals and health systems include; Hillcrest Health System
in Oklahoma, UT Health East Texas, BSA Health System, and Seton
Medical Center Harker Heights in Texas, Lovelace Health System in
New Mexico, University of Kansas Health System St. Francis Campus
in Kansas, Portneuf Medical Center in Idaho, as well as Hackensack
Meridian Health at Pascack Valley, and Hackensack Meridian Health
Mountainside hospitals in New Jersey.
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Keywords: Ardent Health Services, Tyler , Quality Improvement Coordinator, Other , Tyler, Texas
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