Overview

Dignity Health Woodland Memorial Hospital is Yolo County’s largest health care provider serving the community since 1905. Woodland Memorial Hospital is a 108-bed acute care facility offering the most comprehensive range of health care services in Yolo County including inpatient and outpatient surgical services family birth center/labor and delivery emergency services home health services palliative care inpatient mental health services sleep disorders center and cancer care services. With strong ties to our community we believe in providing compassionate high-quality health care to you and your family close to home. Woodland Memorial Hospital is part of Dignity Health one of the nation’s largest health care systems with a 22-state network. For more information please visit our website at www.dignityhealth.org/woodland.

Responsibilities

As our Director of Quality at Woodland Memorial Hospital, you'll lead ongoing quality improvement initiatives that collaborate with many healthcare professionals.

Each day you'll make data-driven decisions to ensure our patients continuously receive high-quality care resulting in positive outcomes. In this Quality leadership role, you'll analyze data and implement different strategies for performance improvements, quality outcomes, risk reduction/mitigation, patient safety, and infection control, to name a few.

To be successful in this role, you'll apply your experience operations, data analysis, and technology to build on our culture of continuous improvement. Your project management skills will ensure our teams continue moving forward with current initiatives.

Qualifications

Education and Experience:

• Bachelors degree in a healthcare-related field or five (5) years of related job or industry experience in lieu of degree.

• Minimum of five (5) years of progressive management responsibility in an acute care setting two (2) of which is related to managing an organization’s Quality Improvement Program.

• Minimum of two (2) years of clinical patient care experience or equivalent.

• Experience developing and implementing clinical service and operational process improvement initiatives both small and large scale.

Licensure:

• Certified Professional in Healthcare Quality (CPHQ) or Healthcare Quality and Management Certification (HCQM) or Certificate of Professional Healthcare Quality and Patient Safety (CPQPS) within 2 years of employment is required.

• Knowledge and expertise in specific performance improvement/CQI methodologies (e.g. Six Sigma LEAN).

• Current knowledge of accreditation and regulatory requirements for acute and ambulatory care services (e.g. state federal local regulations; Joint Commission etc.).

Pay Range

$59.53 - $86.32 /hour

We are an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.