Director Patient Safety - Houston, United States - HCA Houston Healthcare West

HCA Houston Healthcare West

Verified Company

Houston, United States

2 weeks ago

Posted by:

Mark Lane

beBee recruiter

Description

This position is incentive eligible.

Introduction:

Want to join a team of daring managers who care without reservations or limits? Our HCA Houston Healthcare West team is looking for a Director Patient Safety.

HCA Healthcare is an advanced healthcare network that has committed up to $300 million to our incredible team members over the course of three years.

Benefits:

HCA Houston Healthcare West, offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues.

The available plans and programs include:

Comprehensive medical coverage that covers many common services at no cost or for a low copay. Plans include prescription drug and behavioral health coverage as well as free telemedicine services and free AirMed medical transportation.
Additional options for dental and vision benefits, life and disability coverage, flexible spending accounts, supplemental health protection plans (accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity), auto and home insurance, identity theft protection, legal counseling, longterm care coverage, moving assistance, pet insurance and more.
Free counseling services and resources for emotional, physical and financial wellbeing
401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service)
Employee Stock Purchase Plan with 10% off HCA Healthcare stock
Family support through fertility and family building benefits with Progyny and adoption assistance.
Referral services for child, elder and pet care, home and auto repair, event planning and more
Consumer discounts through Abenity and Consumer Discounts
Retirement readiness, rollover assistance services and preferred banking partnerships
Education assistance (tuition, student loan, certification support, dependent scholarships)
Colleague recognition program
Time Away From Work Program (paid time off, paid family leave, long

- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence)

Employee Health Assistance Fund that offers free employeeonly coverage to fulltime and parttime colleagues based on income.

Learn more about Employee Benefits

_ Note:
Eligibility for benefits may vary by location._

What You Will Do In This Role:

You will prevent future harm by initiating and overseeing proactive evaluation and redesign of systems to improve care processes (e.g. forcing functions, checklists, error causation thinking, human factors, applied informatics, culture).
You will utilize alerts and best practices (e.g. Sentinel Event Alerts) to perform gap assessments and implement strong actions that will alleviate identified gaps.
You will facilitate thorough and credible serious event analysis that result in strong sustainable improvement strategies.
You will work with defense legal counsel to coordinate the investigation, processing and defense of claims against the facility; records, collects, documents, maintains, and provides to defense attorneys any requested information and documents necessary.

What Qualifications You Will Need:

Bachelor's Degree in Healthcare related field required
Master's degree preferred
Certification in Patient Safety (CPPS) required; If not already CPPS, must obtain certification within first year of hire.
Team STEPPS Master Trainer required; If not already a Master Trainer, must obtain certification within first year of hire.
Clinical background required.
Minimum three years healthcare experience in patient safety, risk, and/or quality required.
Healthcare experience should be recent and within a clinical setting such as Hospital, Ambulatory Surgery Center, etc.

This role requires you to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19 based on local, state and /or federal law or regulations (unless a medical or religious exemption is approved).

HCA Houston Healthcare West is a
full-service, 300+ bed hospital that has been offering exceptional care to the West Houston communities for over 30 years.

We proudly provide Houston residents with exceptional healthcare, including a vast-array of medical services from board-certified doctors and nationally accredited departments.

We are recognized as a
Certified Primary Stroke Center by the Joint Commission and under an affiliation agreement with The Woman's Hospital of Texas, we are able to bring our community _The Woman's Hospital of Texas at West Houston_, a three-story cardiac and critical care tower.

The Sugar Land Cancer Center and the Sugar Land Diagnostic Center, departments with HCA Houston Healthcare West, provide additional services to meet the needs of our community.

We are members of HCA Houston Healthcare, the most comprehensive family of hospitals in the region and part of the leading provider of healthcare in the country, HCA Healthcare.

Together we are stronger, smarter and more accessible in providing the patient-centered care you need close to home.

HCA Healthcare has been recognized as one of the World's Most Ethical Companies b