Director Quality

at  HCA Houston Healthcare Southeast

JOB SUMMARY AND QUALIFICATIONS

As the Director Quality, you are responsible for providing an integrated framework for monitoring and evaluating quality of care. You will be accountable to provide quality data, analysis and interpretation to senior management, hospital and medical staff/physician committees and department directors. You will direct activities to provide both professional and technical quality and performance improvement support.

WHAT QUALIFICATIONS YOU WILL NEED:

• RN License in the State of Texas or Multi-State Compact License (Employees with RN Compact License are required to obtain Texas RN License within 90 days of hire date) preferred
• Bachelor’s Degree required
• Certified Professional Healthcare Quality (CPHQ) must be obtained within 1 year of employment start date
• Masters Degree
• Minimum of five years of progressive experience in healthcare required
• Minimum of three years of experience within quality, risk, and/or patient safety plus previous management experience required
  HCA Houston Healthcare Southeast is a full-service 340+ bed acute care hospital in Pasadena, Texas. We have been a leader of medical care in Pasadena for more than 50 years. With board-certified physicians, registered nurses and expert technicians, the community has come to rely on us for top-quality, comprehensive and compassionate healthcare. HCA Houston Southeast is the only hospital in Pasadena with both Chest Pain Center Accreditation with Primary PCI and Resuscitation by the American College of Cardiology and full accreditation by The Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations. 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.
  “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
  Become a manager with an organization that invests in your career while giving to the community. We are seeking distinguished applicants for our Director Quality opening. Help HCA Healthcare create healthier tomorrows for patients and communities.
  We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status

• You will support facility-wide standardization in targeted process improvement initiatives, and evaluate success through pre-established criteria and measurement tools.
• You will assist with proactive patient safety activities to help create facilities that are high reliability organizations, as reflected in reduced errors, elimination of unsafe processes, and increased involvement of staff and physicians toward a culture of safety.
• You will perform regular analysis of facility quality and risk performance data, and plans steps based on data analysis for ongoing improvement.