Community Quality & Patient Safety Specialist

Join the transformative team at City of Hope, where we're changing lives and making a real difference in the fight against cancer, diabetes, and other life-threatening illnesses. City of Hope's growing national system includes its Los Angeles campus, a network of clinical care locations across Southern California, a new cancer center in Orange County, California, and treatment facilities in Atlanta, Chicago and Phoenix. Our dedicated and compassionate employees are driven by a common mission: To deliver the cures of tomorrow to the people who need them today.

This is a hybrid role working at City of Hope Clinical Network sites including South Bay, Temecula, San Bernardino, Thousand Oaks, Antelope Valley,

On clinic days, the Specialist typically visits 2-3 clinics.

This position will support the design, implementation, evaluation, and advancement of a culture of clinical quality and patient safety within the City of Hope Community practices. The incumbent plans, supports the Patient Safety and Quality Improvement functions of the City of Hope Community practices providing the leadership necessary to achieve national best practice performance levels in quality improvement while facilitating the implementation of evidence based clinical practices.

The Specialist ensures that the quality of oncology care services rendered meets or exceeds professionally recognized national and institutional standards. Interfaces with a diverse range of clinical and administrative professionals, resolves complex policy and service issues, directs prescribed data analysis and reporting activities and ensures compliance with regulatory agency requirements.

As a successful candidate, you will:

• Implement and evaluate the plan for achieving a culture of quality and patient safety.
• Participate in developing strategies for selecting quality measures that support the provision of high-quality safe patient/family care.
• Collaborate with hospital/clinic leadership to integrate practice improvement activities into the strategic plan and quality department's priorities.
• Recommend and collaborate with cancer center leaders to determine the educational needs of community practice staff and providers.
• Work with medical center and foundation leaders and staff to create a culture of accountability and readiness related to quality initiatives.
• Support the work related to those required by regulatory agencies including Department of Health, CMS, Radiation Safety, Lab certifications and pharmacy licenses.
• Provide input to the strategic and tactical planning for the quality improvement program, including needs assessments, evaluations, root cause analysis and rapid cycle quality improvement techniques.
• Serve as a liaison among and between City of Hope National Medical Center and City of Hope Medical Foundation for the purpose of improving quality care and integration.

Your qualifications should include:

• BSN (Experience may substitute for educational requirement)
• 3 years of experience in clinical nursing and/or quality, risk, and regulatory activities.
• Ambulatory experience
• RN in California
• California Driver's License

Preferred qualifications

• Master's degree in nursing, health or business emphasis (MHA, MBA, MPH, etc).
• Oncology experience
• Epic experience

Additional Information:

Job Status: Full time, exempt

Salary range $106,558 - $170,518

City of Hope employees pay is based on the following criteria: work experience, qualifications, and work location.

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