Risk Management Coordinator

Catholic Health•Village of Roslyn, NY

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Catholic Health is a large health and human services agency on Long Island with over 16,000 employees, encompassing six acute care hospitals, three nursing homes, a home health service, hospice, and a network of physician practices. The organization emphasizes collaborative, compassionate care and evidence-based practices to improve patient outcomes. Catholic Health was recognized as Long Island's Top Workplace.

Requirements

General knowledge of Healthcare insurance programs.
Managing claims.
Interfacing with defense counsel and legal personnel.
Complying with risk management related standards (e.g., the Joint Commission and other accrediting and regulatory agencies).
Personnel commitment to enhancing and promoting patient safety and high reliability principles.
Strong knowledge of healthcare policy and procedure management.
Ability to articulately communicate a wide variety of legal, medical, and business subjects as they relate to risk management with tact and diplomacy.
Comfortable with multiple software applications including electronic medical records and Microsoft products.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor degree in Health Sciences preferred.
One or more years of previous experience in risk management, legal, insurance, quality or performance improvement preferred.

Responsibilities

Assists in the coordination of Risk Management meetings and educational programs, which includes scheduling, coordination, minute taking and follow-up.
Compiles Incident Report data, NYPORTS, CH Patient Safety Data and prepares reports/graphs for presentation for various committees.
Investigates and coordinates general liability reports.
Plays an active role in hospital committees like Environment of Care, Workplace violence and Safe patient handling.
Coordinates risk management, performance improvement and patient relations information as needed for administrative activities, and hospital insurers.
Maintains current knowledge of regulatory codes, legal requirements and healthcare law, i.e., CMS (COP), TJC, ISMP, NPSF, Leapfrog, IHI, regulations and other patient care related initiatives to improve outcomes.
Refers key issues and trends from risk management reporting system to the Director of Risk Management.
Supports patient safety activities with other clinical loss control disciplines, i.e., quality management, performance improvement, and infection control initiatives.
Assists in investigation of Privacy policy investigations.
Maintains department databases. Comfortable with multiple software applications including electronic medical records and Microsoft products.
Assists in Recall activities and reporting to FDA on SMDA events.
Performs other duties as assigned.