QUALITY IMPROVEMENT PROJECT MANAGER

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Company: The University of Chicago Medicine
Location: Harvey, IL 60426

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Job Description:


Quality Improvement Project Manager

Location: Harvey, IL


Full Time, Day Shift

Join the hospital trusted by Chicago’s Southland, Ingalls Memorial Hospital, in this role as a Quality Improvement Project Manager in Harvey, IL.


Quality Improvement Project Manager – Job Description
The Quality Improvement Project Manager (QIPM) will design, develop and coordinate Quality Improvement (QI) and Performance Improvement (PI) initiatives in support of superior healthcare quality, safety, and operational outcomes at Ingalls Memorial Hospital. The successful QIPM will manage projects and teams that cross many disciplines, providing consultation and support to multi-disciplinary performance improvement teams and initiatives in order to accomplish measurable process improvements. Employs performance improvement methodology, tools and techniques in a clinical environment in order to achieve institutional goals. Interpreting and presenting quality and safety data, with occasional processing and analysis, is an important part of this work.

Quality Improvement Project Manager – Essential Job Functions
  • Assist in the strategic planning, development and maintenance of cascading quality plans tied to long term quality goals.
  • Identify, coordinate, and manage several related projects to advance the strategic goals of the program.
  • Designs a comprehensive approach to meet projective objectives that makes appropriate use traditional QI and PI tools. Applies novel methods to enable project success.
  • Expertly navigate relationships and problem solving during meetings with front line staff and hospital leadership. Facilitates decision making to achieve consensus on plans and next steps with stakeholder buy-in.
  • Develops coherent, actionable summaries from the input of many stakeholders generated during meetings and design sessions.
  • Identify data collection needs and Collaborate with data teams within UCM/Ingalls Health System to ensure data and analytics needs of assigned projects are satisfied and garner the most effective clinical monitors and insight to drive improvement, while allowing for efficient analytics processes.

Quality Improvement Project Manager- Required Qualifications

  • Education:     Bachelor’s degree or higher in a Health Care, Engineering, or Performance Improvement field or equivalent.
  • Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills with all levels of staff, including physicians and administrative staff.
  • Possess a minimum of 1-2 years’ experience in a healthcare performance improvement position, or other advanced position.
  • Experience facilitating large groups with many different stakeholders
  • Broad understanding of performance improvement skills and techniques.

Why Join Us:[


For nearly a century Ingalls Memorial has pioneered sophisticated clinical care and developed the area’s most convenient network of comprehensive outpatient centers, all dedicated to improve the health and wellbeing of the community. Now, partnered with UChicago Medicine, we have expanded our network of expert physicians, convenient facilities and scope of service to speed your healing process and help navigate your path to wellness. A skilled Medical Staff and talented employees dedicated to prevention, diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation of illness and injury provide a firm foundation for our reputation for quality. To accomplish this, we need employees with passion, talent and commitment… with patients and with each other. We’re in this together: working to advance medical innovation, serve the health needs of the community, and move our collective knowledge forward. If you’d like to add enriching human life to your profile, UChicago Medicine Ingalls Memorial is for you. Here at Ingalls, we’re doing work that really matters. Join us!


UChicago Medicine Ingalls Memorial is growing; discover how you can be a part of this pursuit of excellence at: Ingalls Career Opportunities


UChicago Medicine Ingalls is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, civil union status, parental status, religion, national origin, age, disability, veteran status and other legally protected characteristics.

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