Quality Assurance Coordinator

As a Quality Assurance Coordinator, you would be crucial to our mission because you'll help our Surgery Center maintain compliance and improve quality. On any given day, you could develop plans to improve efficiency or help educate the medical teams to ensure quality.

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What would you do as a Quality Assurance Coordinator?

The Quality Assurance Coordinator is responsible for ensuring regulatory compliance, quality improvement, and patient care standards of the Ambulatory Surgery Center (ASC). You can expect to regularly:

• Ensure the ASC’s compliance with all applicable standards and regulations;
• Manage documentation to ensure continual regulatory, license, and accreditation compliance for staff and facility;
• Review ROSC policies and procedures, and develop and implement systems and processes to improve operational efficiency and ensure ongoing compliance with state and federal regulations;
• Develop timelines and action plans to assure readiness and a system of checks and balances to assess compliance for any survey (accreditation or regulatory);
• Organize emergency drills as required to ensure ASC’s compliance with regulatory standards;
• Act as the liaison during surveyor visits;
• Monitor and report on incidents/adverse events, develop corrective action plans with ASC leadership, and evaluate processes so future adverse events may be avoided;
• Educate nursing and medical teams on Quality Assurance and compliance related tasks and goals, and ensure staff understand the importance of their compliance;
• Identify areas for improvement for educating staff on operations, procedures, processes and patient care;
• Coordinate the annual training day for ASC staff, educating on Quality Assurance, compliance, and best practices for medical staff;
• Gather and compile information for Leapfrog survey and educate staff on needed improvements or process changes;
• Ensure completion of new employee requirements and competencies in learning management system;
• Organize and assist with internal training programs, including curriculum for the Surgical Technologist training program and OR Circulator training.
• Develop orientation programs, didactic presentations, and clinical mentoring for novice to expert clinical staff that promotes continuity, quality care, best practices, and the integration of the performance improvement philosophy;
• Provide reports as needed to leadership, state and federal authorities;
• Represent the ASC at the monthly community IHCC meetings.
• Attend organization meetings as required.

Requirements

• Certifications
• High School Diploma/GED;
• Knowledge of:
• State, Federal, and regulatory organization compliance requirements in a medical setting;
• Experience
• Two years in an ASC, hospital, or clinic setting;
• Monitoring and ensuring regulatory compliance for an ASC, hospital, or clinic;
• Preparing and presenting information to groups in a professional environment;
• Communicating effectively with various levels of employees, including senior leaders, physicians, external entities and patients;
• Analyzing problems, recommending solutions and implementing process improvements;
• Using computer applications including Microsoft Office.

Preferred Qualifications - How can you set yourself apart from other applicants?

• Bachelor's degree in Nursing (BSN);
• Active Nevada RN License;
• Experience using the electronic medical records system, Epic;
• Current BLS, ACLS, PALS certifications.

This position operates in a clinical environment. Exposure to communicable diseases, biohazards, toxic substances, and similar conditions is possible. The noise level is usually moderate.

Benefits

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