Want to join a team of daring managers who care without reservations or limits? Our HCA Houston Healthcare Northwest team is looking for a Patient Safety Manager. HCA Healthcare is an advanced healthcare network that has committed up to $300 million to our incredible team members over the course of three years.
HCA Houston Healthcare Northwest, 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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To perform, coordinate and supervise daily operations of the Patient Safety & Risk Management Program and be accountable for supporting the Patient Safety Director in advancing a patient safety program that promotes a culture of safety and the elimination of avoidable harm.
The Patient Safety/Risk Manager is responsible for the hospital's risk management activities, which include coordinating insurance coverage and risk financing
• Work with defense legal counsel to coordinate claim investigations
• Process claims against the facility; including the preparation of records, documents, and providing to defense attorneys any requested information as necessary while maintaining privilege of PSWP
• Notify HCI of all actual and potential claims
• Work with security on procedures to reduce the frequency and/or minimize the severity of property loss or assets
• Contract Review
• Grievance and complaint management
• Manage non-HCI cases: accept/process subpoenas, visitor events, property loss or theft, etc.
• Assist the Patient Safety Director with administering the Patient Safety Program on a day-to-day basis
• Exhibit data fluency, and the ability to manage and analyze patient safety/risk management data from a plethora of sources
• Understand and use basic statistical methods and formal analytic methods
• Effectively report, investigate, and analyze patient safety incidents, medical errors and potential risks in the facility
• Performs/coordinates Root Cause Analysis as needed
• Conduct Patient Safety/Risk Management educational programs that provide front line staff with the tools and equipment to be accountable for their role in patient safety and risk activities
• Comply with The Joint Commission's risk management standards and take steps to ascertain that risks are minimized through follow-up and actions on all regulatory / insurance survey report recommendations/deficiencies
• Review and formulate policy and organizational changes, making recommendations as necessary
• Provide a global perspective in hospital patient safety activities (a big picture view of the inter-relatedness of healthcare practices)
• Clearly articulate ideas and patient safety concepts in non-judgmental and non-confrontational ways
• Utilize leadership and team-building skills to participate in the work of patient safety and assist Patient Safety Director with change management
• Display integrity to maintain effectives and build the trust that is essential to the honesty and transparency of the Patient Safety Program
• Maintain a current, up-to-date understanding of patient safety theory, methods, standards and regulatory requirements is essential along with a commitment to lifelong learning to maintain expertise in a rapidly changing field.
• Complete the work of patient safety/risk management with the objective in mind to advance patient safety and control and minimize risks at the facility.
HCA Houston Healthcare Northwest is a 415+ bed acute care hospital that has been serving the north Houston communities for more than 40 years, providing a wide range of medical services including cardiology, maternity care, Level III NICU, pediatrics, bariatrics and neurology. We comprehensively serve our community by employing expert physicians, specialists, nurses and support staff who work together as a unified team to offer a range of diagnostic treatment and support services. From our 24-hour emergency department with Level II Trauma capabilities, to women’s services, to cardiology, we are dedicated to improving the health of our community by delivering exceptional, personalized healthcare. We are members of HCA Houston Healthcare, the most comprehensive family of hospitals in the region and part of the leading provider of healthcare in the country, HCA Healthcare. Together we are stronger, smarter and more accessible in providing the patient-centered care you need close to home.
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 cost for the delivery of charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses.
"Good people beget good people."- Dr. Thomas Frist, Sr.
HCA Healthcare Co-Founder
Unlock your potential with a leading healthcare provider dedicated to its patients, colleagues and communities. Help guide our team as a Patient Safety Manager and help us improve more lives in more ways.
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.
At its founding in 1968, Nashville-based HCA was one of the nation's first hospital companies. Today, we are the nation's leading provider of healthcare services, a company comprised of locally managed facilities that includes about 165 hospitals and 115 freestanding surgery centers in 20 states and England and employing approximately 204,000 people. Approximately four to five percent of all inpatient care delivered in the country today is provided by HCA facilities. Richard M. Bracken serves as Chairman of HCA and R. Milton Johnson is the company's President and Chief Executive Officer.
HCA is committed to the care and improvement of human life and strives to deliver high quality, cost effective healthcare in the communities we serve. Building on the foundation provided by our Mission & Values, HCA puts patients first and works to constantly improve the care we give them by implementing measures that support our caregivers, help ensure patient safety and provide the highest possible quality. Investing in our communities is important to us. HCA typically invests about $1.5 billion annually to keep our facilities modern and up-to-date technologically and to expand and add services where needed. Focusing primarily on communities where the company is a leading healthcare provider, HCA selectively adds new facilities in order to better serve our communities.
And because two HCA founders were physicians, we value highly the strong relationships we've created with local physicians. We endeavor to provide them with a wide array of services and modern facilities in order to help them deliver the best possible care.