Safety Director jobs in El Paso, TX

Introduction

Last year alone, HCA Healthcare colleagues invested over 156,000 hours impacting our communities. As a(an) Director of Patient Safety with Las Palmas Medical Center, you can be a manager in an organization that is devoted to giving!

Benefits

Las Palmas Medical Center, 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, long-term 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 employee-only coverage to full-time and part-time colleagues based on income.

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Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.

Come join our team as a(an) Director of Patient Safety. We care for our communities and employees! HCA Hope Fund in fourteen years reached a historic milestone: $50 million in help to our colleagues in need. Last year, HCA Healthcare and our colleagues donated $13.8 million dollars to charitable organizations. Apply Today!

Job Summary and Qualifications

Advance a patient safety program that promotes a culture of safety and the elimination of avoidable harm.

• 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 support improved outcomes by emphasizing both appropriate behaviors and robust systems that include concise accountability measures and follow-up.
• You will improve consistent delivery of evidence-based care and reduction in preventable harm by focusing on reliability and applying the principles of reliable design.
• You will reduce variation in care delivery. Partner with the Patient Safety Organization to explore identified variations when appropriate.
• 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 effectively report, investigate, and analyze patient safety incidents, medical errors and potential risks in the facility.
• You will facilitate thorough and credible serious event analysis that result in strong sustainable improvement strategies.
• You will facilitate thorough and credible failure mode effect analysis to identify and mitigate unintended adverse patient outcomes and evaluate effectiveness of process changes.
• You will perform Patient Safety Rounds that identify patient safety risks. Empower staff to identify and participate in resolution of patient safety concerns.
• You will coordinate disclosure of serious events to patients and/or families in accordance with organizational policy and regulations.
• You will assure timely reporting of Patient Safety Work Product (PSWP) to the Patient Safety Organization.
• You will actively participate in PSO learning collaboratives. Ensure implementation of best practices, alerts, and updates to drive patient safety improvement. Champion completion of Culture of Safety Survey.
• You will facilitate analysis of culture of safety survey results such that data-driven action plans lead to targeted outcomes.
• You will support and encourage harm reporting throughout the organization through a nonpunitive just event reporting system.
• You will provide feedback that acknowledges both the value of event reporting and review of reported events.
• You will facilitate thorough and credible review of events that address both system and individual accountability.
• You will include patient safety in new hire orientation presentation (e.g. PSO membership, reporting expectations, safety culture)
• You will provide ongoing education to leaders, clinicians and staff on the science of safety (high reliability, effective communication, sustaining awareness/alertness) and patient safety initiatives.
• You will work with facility leaders and managers to ensure thorough, credible and timely event management.
• You will join with facility leaders to identify and hardwire behavioral norms that promote a culture of safety.
• You will work with facility leaders to ensure understanding of and compliance with the National Patient Safety Goals.
• You will partner with facility leadership to establish activities that enable and sustain an open and fair environment promoting learning, safe systems, and appropriately managing behavioral choices related to patient safety (e.g. Patient Safety Rounds, Event Response, Disclosure).
• You will partner with Quality to complete the NQF Safe Practices section of the Leapfrog Hospital Survey.

What qualifications you will need:

• Bachelor’s degree required.
  
• Master’s Degree in Healthcare related strongly preferred.
• RN (Strongly preferred)
• Certification in Patient Safety (CPPS) required; If not already CPPS, must obtain certification within 12 months of hire.
• Two to five years healthcare experience in patient safety, risk, and/or quality preferred.
• Healthcare experience should be recent and within a clinical setting such as Hospital, Ambulatory Surgery Center, etc.

Las Palmas Medical Center is a 300 bed full-service hospital in El Paso. It is home to the region’s only kidney transplant center. The facility offers a range of services including emergency care with a Level III trauma center, cardiac care, women’s services, pediatric care and NICU, cancer care, and more. Las Palmas Medical Center is part of Las Palmas Del Sol Healthcare. We are a leading healthcare provider for El Paso and the surrounding region that is part of HCA Healthcare.

HCA Healthcare has been recognized as one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies® by the Ethisphere Institute more than ten times. In recent years, HCA Healthcare spent an estimated $3.7 billion in cost for the delivery of charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses.

"The great hospitals will always put the patient and the patient's family first, and the really great institutions will provide care with warmth, compassion, and dignity for the individual."- Dr. Thomas Frist, Sr.
HCA Healthcare Co-Founder

Become a manager with an organization that invests in your career while giving to the community. We are seeking distinguished applicants for our Director of Patient Safety opening. Help HCA Healthcare create healthier tomorrows for patients and communities.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.