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Director of Patient Safety
Methodist Hospital Westover Hills
San Antonio, TX, United States
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Category: Directors and Managers • Job ID: 4520737
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Are you passionate about the patient experience? At HCA Healthcare, we are committed to caring for patients with purpose and integrity. We care like family! Jump-start your career as a(an) Director of Patient Safety today with Methodist Hospital Westover Hills.
Job Summary and Qualifications
Seeking a Director of Patient Safety who will advance a patient safety program that promotes a culture of safety and the elimination of avoidable harm.
Essential Job Functions:
Systems Thinking and Reliable Design Expectations:
Prevent future harm by initiating and overseeing proactive evaluation and redesign of systems to improve care processes (e.g. forcing functions, checklists, error causation thinking, human factors, applied informatics, culture). Support improved outcomes by emphasizing both appropriate behaviors and robust systems that include concise accountability measures and follow-up. Improve consistent delivery of evidence-based care and reduction in preventable harm by focusing on reliability and applying the principles of reliable design. Reduce variation in care delivery. Partner with the Patient Safety Organization to explore identified variations when appropriate. Utilize alerts and best practices (e.g. Sentinel Event Alerts) to perform gap assessments and implement strong actions that will alleviate identified gaps.
Identification and Mitigation of Patient Safety Risk Expectations:
Effectively report, investigate, and analyze patient safety incidents, medical errors and potential risks in the facility. Facilitate thorough and credible serious event analysis that result in strong sustainable improvement strategies. Facilitate thorough and credible failure mode effect analysis to identify and mitigate unintended adverse patient outcomes and evaluate effectiveness of process changes. Perform Patient Safety Rounds that identify patient safety risks. Empower staff to identify and participate in resolution of patient safety concerns. Coordinate disclosure of serious events to patients and/or families in accordance with organizational policy and regulations. Assure timely reporting of Patient Safety Work Product (PSWP) to the Patient Safety Organization. Actively participate in PSO learning collaboratives. Ensure implementation of best practices, alerts, and updates to drive patient safety improvement. Safety Culture Advancement Expectations:
Champion completion of Culture of Safety Survey.
Facilitate analysis of culture of safety survey results such that data-driven action plans lead to targeted outcomes. Support and encourage harm reporting throughout the organization through a nonpunitive just event reporting system. Provide feedback that acknowledges both the value of event reporting and review of reported events. Facilitate thorough and credible review of events that address both system and individual accountability.
What qualifications you will need:
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Benefits
Methodist Hospital Westover Hills, offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:
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Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.
Methodist Hospital Westover Hills is strategically situated near the Highway 151 and Loop 1604 corridor, making it easily accessible for the growing communities of San Antonio and its western suburbs. As a full-service, acute care hospital, we pride ourselves on delivering an exceptional level of healthcare that meets the needs of our rapidly expanding population. Our state-of-the-art facility boasts advanced technology and world-class care in a beautifully designed environment-perfect for providing the high-quality patient experience that Methodist is renowned for.
Covering an impressive 225,000 square feet, our hospital features 54 beds and offers a comprehensive range of services. These include adult and pediatric emergency care, obstetrics and gynecology, cardiology, orthopedics, robot-assisted surgery, surgical oncology, general surgery, as well as pulmonology and gastroenterology. At Methodist Hospital Westover Hills, we are dedicated to your health and well-being.
HCA Healthcare has been recognized as one of the World's Most Ethical Companies by the Ethisphere Institute more than ten times. In recent years, HCA Healthcare spent an estimated $3.7 billion in costs for the delivery of charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses.
"The great hospitals will always put the patient and the patient''s family first, and the really great institutions will provide care with warmth, compassion, and dignity for the individual."- Dr. Thomas Frist, Sr.
HCA Healthcare Co-Founder
If you are looking for an opportunity that provides satisfaction and personal growth, we encourage you to apply for our Director of Patient Safety opening. We promptly review all applications. Highly qualified candidates will be contacted for interviews. Unlock the possibilities and apply today!
We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
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