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Encompass Health · 19 hours ago

Quality & Risk Director

Loganville, GA

Full-time

Onsite

Director/Executive

Encompass Health is the nation's leader in in-patient rehabilitation care, seeking a Quality/Risk Director to oversee a hospital-wide quality management program. The role involves collaborating with stakeholders to enhance patient care services and ensuring compliance with various regulatory standards.

Responsibilities

Ensure compliance with regulatory agencies, accrediting bodies, corporate and hospital policies, and procedures. Develop, implement, and maintain quality assessment and improvement programs

Assess compliance with federal, state, and industry regulatory and accreditation standards, facilitating processes to remediate and/or maintain compliance

Provide organizational education related to regulations and standards and coordinate local, state, federal, and accreditation surveys

Use a variety of applications (including, but not limited to, PatCom, UDS, ORYX, and Press Ganey) to identify improvement opportunities, generate reports, research issues, identify resources, and access external databases

Ensure the update and maintenance of hospital plans, including the Provision of Care/Scope of Services, Leadership, Information Management, Utilization Review, Infection Control, and Patient Safety plans

Oversee risk management activities, including completion of incident reports, notice of potential claims, corrective action planning, and incident reporting to the Corporate Risk Manager

Coordinate the review, development, and implementation of hospital policies

Communicate and collaborate with other departments to coordinate care and promptly resolve patient concerns or complaints

Celebrate the accomplishments and successes of our dedicated employees along the way

Qualification

Quality ManagementRisk ManagementRegulatory CompliancePerformance ImprovementHealthcare DegreeLeadershipConflict ResolutionCommunication

Required

Experience in Quality and/or Risk Management, including primary responsibility for performance improvement activities, regulatory compliance, conflict solution, leadership, and risk management activities