Market Director Quality & Patient Safety - Greater Colorado/Kansas

CommonSpirit Health Mountain Region is committed to building healthier communities, advocating for those who are poor and vulnerable, and innovating how and where healing can happen—both inside our hospitals and out in the community. With locations throughout Colorado, Utah, and Kansas, we deliver the same high standard of care to our employees as we do to our patients. Our 20 hospitals, emergency and urgent care centers, home care and hospice, Flight for Life Colorado^TM , telehealth and over 240 physician practices and clinics offer endless opportunities! Here, you can grow your career and impact the people in the communities you serve.

CommonSpirit Health is one of the nation’s largest nonprofit, faith-based health systems, with a team of over 150,000 employees and 25,000 physicians and advanced practice clinicians. CommonSpirit operates more than 2,200 care sites and 140 hospitals, serving some of the most diverse communities across the nation, letting humankindness lead the way.

You have a purpose, unique talents and now is the time to embrace it, live it and put it to work. We value incredible people with incredible skills – but your commitment to a greater cause is something we value even more. This is the heartbeat of our organization and your time will be spent in a supportive, team environment with resources to help you flourish and leaders who care about your success.

The incumbent provides leadership in defining, implementing and integrating quality, safety, regulator, service and efficiency strategies into the plans, policies and organizational processes that affect the organization's operations and strategic direction in the overall management of the market. Collaborates with other leadership team members in the common goal of standardization, integration and enhancement of the continuum of services available within the market's designated clinical areas. Supports the individual care sites with onboarding of quality department staff. Supports the individual care sites within the markets' performance improvement plans, which identify opportunities for improved patient care and outcomes and reductions in harm, with the implementation of evidence based practices. Collaborates with the Regional Director of Patient Safety with the implementation of high reliability organizational processes within the market. Oversees implementation and maintenance of system, regional and market standards for quality, performance improvement peer review and regulatory compliance across the continuum.

In addition to bringing humankindness to the workplace each day, qualified candidates will need the following:

• Bachelors of Science Degree or Equivalent in a related clinical discipline
• Minimum of 5 years of healthcare experience with progressive management responsibility in an acute care setting, including leading quality. 
• Experience leading quality, safety and performance improvement initiatives across the care continuum and an integrated delivery network.
• Experience developing and implementing clinical, service and operational process improvement initiatives, both small and large scale.
• Certified Professional in Healthcare Quality (CPHQ) or Healthcare Quality and Management Certification (HCQM), or Certificate of Quality and Patient Safety (CPQPS) is required within two years of hire.

We believe in the healing power of humanity and serving the common good through our dedicated work and shared mission to celebrate humankindness. 

With more than 700 care sites across the U.S. from clinics and hospitals to home-based care and virtual care services CommonSpirit is accessible to nearly one out of every four U.S. residents. Our world needs compassion like never before. Our communities need caring and our families need protection. With our combined resources CommonSpirit is committed to building healthy communities advocating for those who are poor and vulnerable and innovating how and where healing can happen both inside our hospitals
and out in the community.

We believe investing in our employees lets them know they truly matter. Your Total Rewards package includes compensation, benefits, retirement, wellness, leave, and other programs. Designed with your well-being in mind, we offer: 

• Several Medical, Dental, & Vision options.
• Spending Accounts including a Dependent Care FSA that can include an employer contribution
• Retirement account options with a generous employer match
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Student Loan Forgiveness, and so much more!

View more on our benefits HERE.