Quality Program Manager

SSM Health • St. Louis, MO

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

Join a mission-driven team where you'll lead quality improvement initiatives, drive regulatory excellence, and use data to improve patient outcomes. This role offers the opportunity to collaborate with clinical and operational leaders, influence system-wide performance, and champion a culture of continuous improvement, patient safety, and high-quality care. This role will be a mix of meetings, (prep, lead and attend) along with preparing data, pulling reports from external and internal sources, preparing reports, patient level chart reviews, educate individuals and teams.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent years of experience and education
• Three years’ experience
• Frequent lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 0-25 lbs.
• Frequent sitting, standing, walking, reaching and repetitive foot/leg and hand/arm movements.
• Frequent use of vision and depth perception for distances near (20 inches or less) and far (20 feet or more) and to identify and distinguish colors.
• Frequent use of hearing and speech to share information through oral communication. Ability to hear alarms, malfunctioning machinery, etc.
• Frequent keyboard use/data entry.
• Occasional bending, stooping, kneeling, squatting, twisting and gripping.
• Occasional lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 25-50 lbs.
• Rare climbing.

Nice To Haves

• Team player
• professional
• proactive
• curious
• learner

Responsibilities

• Leads quality improvement initiatives using clinical data to standardize care, reduce variation, and improve clinical outcomes.
• Implements and refines quality initiatives aligned with executive direction, KPIs, and external benchmarking.
• Develops and aligns quality strategies across programs while supporting system and regional priorities.
• Prepares and presents updates and analysis on external quality ratings and ranking programs relevant to the organization.
• Builds collaborative relationships with providers, teams, and executive leaders; provides education, shares best practices, and supports adoption of improvements.
• Serves as a clinical and systems resource, supporting executive leaders and facilitating Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement (QAPI) and external quality reporting as applicable.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Benefits

• Paid Parental Leave: we offer eligible team members one week of paid parental leave for newborns or newly adopted children (pro-rated based on FTE).
• Flexible Payment Options: our voluntary benefit offered through DailyPay offers eligible hourly team members instant access to their earned, unpaid base pay (fees may apply) before payday.
• Upfront Tuition Coverage: we provide upfront tuition coverage through FlexPath Funded for eligible team members.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level