What are the responsibilities and job description for the Quality Coordinator position at SLOCUM ORTHOPEDICS, P?
- In charge of planning, designing, implementing, and maintaining a comprehensive medical practice Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) program including utilization management, risk management, and patient safety initiatives.
- Programs CQI with each individual department and educates management and directors on implementation of quality techniques with aim to create a culture of quality.
- Creates and maintains Dashboard of key metrics for internal benchmarking
- Works with outside organizations on benchmarking metrics
- Monitors medical practice efforts to ensure compliance with internal and external QI standards.
- Works with staff, management, and physicians to support patient safety work and reporting.
- Runs reports, analyzes data, prepares slides and presents on CQI initiatives, making recommendations for projects and/or process changes
- Coordinates the effort to gather data from different locations and prepare reports (e.g. run charts) for internal and external benchmarking
- Finds opportunities to implement QI methodology to improve the practice
- Monitors utilization and service quality through diagnosis-related group (DRG) review, HEDIS quality measures, payer/provider/patient satisfaction surveys, and complaints.
- Responsible for Total Joint Arthroplasty Quality reporting in coordination with local hospital QI departments
- Other duties as assigned