Director, Clinical Risk Management and Patient Safety in Jersey CIty, New Jersey at RWJBarnabas Health

Job Title: Director

Location: Jersey City Medical Center

Department Name: Risk Management

Req #: 0000271898

Status: Salaried

Shift: Day

Pay Range: $127,500.00 - $165,800.00 per year

Pay Transparency:

The above reflects the anticipated annual salary range for this position if hired to work in New Jersey.

The compensation offered to the candidate selected for the position will depend on several factors, including the candidate's educational background, skills and professional experience.

A Typical Day

• Responsible for the organization's clinical risk management and patient safety programs
• Functions as the hospital liaison with litigation claims, supporting providers and staff and assisting legal counsel as needed
• Works with insurance brokers, insurance clinical complaints and attorneys as assigned
• Implements the processes of High Reliable Organizations to facilitate timely and comprehensive review of events for Serious Safety Events Committee (SEC)
• Facilitates thorough review and summaries of clinical chart reviews to for Department of Health Patient Safety Reporting System, the Serious Safety Event Committee (SEC), Medical Staff Peer Review and for the RCA Process
• Oversees the process of Amendment requests and Privacy matters
• Implements and leads the hospital s Patient Safety Committee in compliance with the organization s HRO journey and with regulatory requirements
• Supports implementation of processes to promote patient safety and harm reduction at Jersey City Medical Center consistent with DNV, CMS, New Jersey Department of Health and other regulatory agencies
• Collaborates and participates with Patient Experience in review of complaints and grievances
• Applies professional and technical management skills and techniques to prevent and/or control the avoidable loss of any resource
• Ensures compliance with all applicable policies, laws and regulations
• Reviews hospital incident reports, follows up as necessary to ensure review as needed for increasing patient safety
• Ensures investigation of all risks involving actual or potential injury to patients, visitors and employees
• Ensures collection of all information necessary to prepare for the defense claim in collaboration of corporate services
• Oversees timely reporting of claims and potentially compensable events to the organization s leadership and to corporate services
• Daily clinical risk surveillance via Incident Reports
• Participates in maintaining electronic incident reporting system
• Completes clinical EMR chart reviews on clinical cases for DOH reporting, SEC Committee Reviews, RCA analysis, and Medical Staff Peer Review
• Prepares immediate summaries for Step 1 of RCA three-step model
• Participates in Root Cause Analysis interviews with Quality as needed
• Prepare RCA Summaries for Step 3 in RCA process, for NJDOH reporting
• Maintains SEC rate graphs and event data
• Collaborates with Director of Quality for Medical Staff peer review
• Collaborates with RWJBH attorneys for clinical case summaries, incident reports, deposition coordination and directs the coordinator of Risk Management as needed for compliance to requests
• Directs loss control/loss prevention activities in collaboration with corporate services to meet the needs of the Hospital

To Be Considered

Required

• Bachelors degree in nursing or healthcare required
• Minimum of five years of experience in healthcare risk management
• Working knowledge of DNV, CMS and NJ DOH regulations
• Excellent writing, communications and organization skills
• Ability to work with excel, Microsoft word, electronic programs, and data analysis

Preferred

• Masters degree preferred
• RN preferred with current licensure
• Certification in Health Risk Management preferred

Other Duties: Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.