CLINICAL QUALITY ANALYST MANAGER

University of Washington Medical Center•Seattle, WA

11d•Hybrid

About The Position

Harborview Medical Center Quality Improvement has an outstanding opportunity for a CLINICAL QUALITY ANALYST MANAGER. This role provides leadership for key HMC quality initiatives and directly oversees HMC’s team of Clinical Quality Analysts. The manager works independently and proactively collaborates with clinical, operational, and leadership partners to advance HMC's strategic plan for quality, with an emphasis on advancing key HMC quality initiatives identified by leadership.

Requirements

BA or BS in Nursing or equivalent medical field, with 3+ years of clinical experience.
3 years of recent experience with quality improvement and/or patient safety activities in a large hospital setting, with direct experience facilitating hospital quality metric reporting.
Data analytics proficiency, leveraging Epic reporting functionalities and data visualization platforms (e.g., PowerBI).
Demonstrated ability to coordinate information gathering and dissemination within a complex administrative system.
Demonstrated ability to prepare and formally present information effectively to clinical, operational, and leadership stakeholders.
Demonstrated ability to collaboratively facilitate multidisciplinary workgroups.
Ability to work effectively and efficiently with complex data collection and data registry collection systems, and ability to analyze data/care processes for identification of opportunities for improvement.
Understanding of data validity, chart abstraction and coding issues within the electronic medical record.
Highly self-directed and creative.

Responsibilities

Manages intake and triage of data and report requests.
Supports timely HMC data submission for programs including Hospital Outpatient Quality Reporting (OQR), Inpatient Quality Reporting (IQR) and Inpatient Psychiatric Facility Reporting (IPF).
Leads HMC efforts to report annually on CMS eCQMs.
Monitors benchmarking (e.g., Vizient, US News, WSHA, Leapfrog) performance trends, communicating findings with clinical leadership.
Maintains current knowledge of related internal/external data requirements and data definitions for all assigned data elements and serves as an institutional resource related to selected internal/external data requirements.
Provides direct analyst support to quality committees.
Supports quality improvement functions, collaborating with clinical and operational partners to plan and implement improvement initiatives, and to objectively analyze outcomes.
Networks and coordinates with other team members focused on quality and safety efforts.
Independently abstracts and analyzes clinical care from complex medical record system as requested.