PIPS Coordinator

Nemours is seeking a PIPS Coordinator to join our team!

This position is responsible for the coordination of performance improvement, continuous regulatory readiness, and patient safety activities for Nemours Children's Health, Florida which includes the Hospital, satellite locations, affiliate operations and other locations as assigned.

Responsibilities include direct participation in the collecting, organizing, compiling, documenting, and analyzing data from a variety of sources to produce reports from which opportunities for quality/safety improvement, intervention and educational activities can be identified.

This individual will participate in the collection of data from medical records, logs, databases, and error reporting systems that support performance improvement, patient safety, and regulatory readiness activities of the Hospital and the Practice.

Assists with education of staff in performance/quality improvement and patient safety concepts, processes, and tools as needed within the scope of these responsibilities.

Utilizes the quality methodology in training departments and multi-disciplinary teams.

Collaborates with Hospital, Practice, and Medical Staff leadership and key committees to develop long-range goals, objectives, and strategies for quality/safety improvement.

Facilitates teams as necessary to achieve performance improvement and continuous regulatory readiness within the organization.

Coordinates and conducts evaluation of hospital and medical staff processes via Tracer Methodology to support compliance with state, federal and other regulatory agencies' standards.

Essential Functions:

Serves as a key Quality Improvement resource to support both hospital and practice wide initiatives, as well as departmental quality improvement teams, programs, projects, and initiatives.

This support includes but is not limited to the following:

Partner with department leaders & quality improvement teams to develop and advance the following: Improvement teams' charters; implementation plans; timelines; milestones to effectively track deliverables; performance dashboards; change proposals and other relevant materials needed to support the teams.

Assist in coordination, preparation, and planning for the projects, including conducting the necessary workshops, implementation of the recommendations, follow up utilizing daily management, and coaching leaders throughout the project.

Provide subject matter expertise, education, and consultative support.

Conduct current state analysis for priority workflows based on performance gaps.

Develop respective gap closure quality improvement plans.

Guides data collection, and the preparation of progress reports and outcomes to key stakeholders

Partners with the Nursing Councils, and appropriate committees as a primary member, from Quality & Safety team, and the chair to support the objectives and priorities of the committee.

This support includes organization of committee logistics s...