Hybrid Quality Improvement Specialist bei Shepherd Center
Shepherd Center · Atlanta, Vereinigte Staaten Von Amerika · Hybrid
- Professional
- Optionales Büro in Atlanta
About Shepherd Center
With five decades of experience, Shepherd Center provides world-class clinical care, research, and family support for people experiencing the most complex conditions, including spinal cord and brain injuries, multi-trauma, traumatic amputations, stroke, multiple sclerosis, and pain. An elite center ranked by U.S. News as one of the nation’s top hospitals for rehabilitation, Shepherd Center is also recognized as both Spinal Cord Injury and Traumatic Brain Injury Model Systems. Shepherd is the only rehabilitation facility in the nation with an intensive care unit on-site, allowing us to care for the most complex patients and begin the rehabilitation process sooner. Shepherd Center treats thousands of patients annually with unmatched expertise and unwavering compassion to help them begin again.
Shepherd Center's culture is one of hope, humor, and hard work. You will enjoy career growth, strong relationships with co-workers, strong support from leadership, and fun activities that have kept over 12% of staff members working at Shepherd for more than 20 years.
The Internal Improvement Consultant performs various duties to best serve the needs of interdepartmental, cross functional, and organizational aspects within the Quality and Outcome Management department.
Assists in the development and employment of effective methods of data requests, data collection, process assessment and measurement, and data analysis to gauge effective needs of improvement efforts.
Involved in the promotion of organization transformation from current state to "high reliability" through the use of Continuous Quality Improvement tools/methods.
Works with Senior Improvement Consultants to apply Lean/Six Sigma strategies to analyze trends of performance throughout the organization for Clinical and Operational processes.
Assists the Director of Quality and Outcome Management and Senior Improvement Consultants to provide education to the team members on FOCUS/PDSA and works toward gaining commitment in the use of consensus decision making.
Facilitates and supports functions related to Performance Measurement and Improvement for Joint Commission, Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF), and the Center for Medicaid and Medicare Systems (CMS), for the Shepherd Center as well as other regulatory standards.
Desired Qualifications:
Degree in Industrial Engineering, Public Health, Health Administration, Psychology, or related field/clinical degree - Master’s preferred
Knowledge of Quality Improvement Methodology in Healthcare
Skilled in: MS Office, Tableau, Statistical Software (SPSS, SAS, R) highly desired
Experience with Literature Reviews, Project Planning, Improvement Methodology, and Stakeholder Coaching
Ideal candidates would have at least a basic certificate in Quality Improvement from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) or similar
Experience with quality improvement publications in peer review journals preferred
Understanding of clinical settings ideally within neuromedicine or in rehabilitation ideal
