Vice President Patient Safety

Ascension

2d • Remote

About The Position

Senior physician leader responsible for coordinating and overseeing the development of a national comprehensive patient safety program to prevent safety events and mitigate the risk of harm across the continuum of care. Leads the integration of patient safety practices, and promotes a culture of safety across the system. Exhibits strong multidisciplinary collaboration with quality, clinical, nursing, risk, legal, pharmacy, and other services to embed safety throughout our clinical processes and achieve safer care.
Senior executive responsible for evaluating, planning, and implementing patient safety programs at Ascension, proactively addressing and mitigating risks of patient safety events.
Leads the efforts to integrate patient safety practices, including tiered safety huddles, and promotes a culture of safety across the system, including just culture, through interdisciplinary collaboration.
Data-driven in approaching safety risks, partners with advanced analytics team and implements AI to proactively identify trends and address safety risks from the event reporting system and other sources.
Expertise, including the ability to design and implement curricula in high reliability, process improvement, human factors engineering, efficiency, variation reduction (e.g., lean six sigma), safety event review process and root cause analysis.
Leads the Ascension Patient Safety Organization.

Requirements

• Physician (MD/DO) required prior to hire or job transfer date
• Doctor of Medicine (MD) or Doctor of Osteopathy (DO) required
• Minimum of 7 years of applicable, job-specific experience, including at least 4 years in leadership/management

Nice To Haves

• Leadership experience of five years in safety at a health system level, and proven record of implementing successful efforts at an enterprise level.
• Excellent communicator, partners and mentors, and influences other leaders from different disciplines, promoting alignment across different cultures in a heavily matrixed organization.
• Advanced skills in evaluating data and analytics.

Responsibilities

• Coordinating and overseeing the development of a national comprehensive patient safety program
• Preventing safety events and mitigating the risk of harm across the continuum of care
• Leading the integration of patient safety practices
• Promoting a culture of safety across the system
• Exhibiting strong multidisciplinary collaboration with quality, clinical, nursing, risk, legal, pharmacy, and other services to embed safety throughout our clinical processes and achieve safer care
• Evaluating, planning, and implementing patient safety programs at Ascension
• Proactively addressing and mitigating risks of patient safety events
• Leading the efforts to integrate patient safety practices, including tiered safety huddles
• Promoting a culture of safety across the system, including just culture, through interdisciplinary collaboration
• Partnering with advanced analytics team and implements AI to proactively identify trends and address safety risks from the event reporting system and other sources
• Designing and implementing curricula in high reliability, process improvement, human factors engineering, efficiency, variation reduction (e.g., lean six sigma), safety event review process and root cause analysis
• Leading the Ascension Patient Safety Organization

Benefits

• Comprehensive health coverage: medical, dental, vision, prescription coverage and HSA/FSA options
• Financial security & retirement: employer-matched 403(b), planning and hardship resources, disability and life insurance
• Time to recharge: pro-rated paid time off (PTO) and holidays
• Career growth: Ascension-paid tuition (Vocare), reimbursement, ongoing professional development and online learning
• Emotional well-being: Employee Assistance Program, counseling and peer support, spiritual care and stress management resources
• Family support: parental leave, adoption assistance and family benefits
• Other benefits: optional legal and pet insurance, transportation savings and more

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Executive
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees