[Hiring] Physician Vice President Patient Safety @Ascension

Role Description

Senior physician leader responsible for coordinating and overseeing the development of a national comprehensive patient safety program to prevent safety events and mitigate the risk of harm across the continuum of care.

• Leads the integration of patient safety practices and promotes a culture of safety across the system.
• Exhibits strong multidisciplinary collaboration with quality, clinical, nursing, risk, legal, pharmacy, and other services to embed safety throughout our clinical processes and achieve safer care.
• Senior executive responsible for evaluating, planning, and implementing patient safety programs at Ascension, proactively addressing and mitigating risks of patient safety events.
• Leads the efforts to integrate patient safety practices, including tiered safety huddles, and promotes a culture of safety across the system, including just culture, through interdisciplinary collaboration.
• Data-driven in approaching safety risks, partners with advanced analytics team and implements AI to proactively identify trends and address safety risks from the event reporting system and other sources.
• Expertise in designing and implementing curricula in high reliability, process improvement, human factors engineering, efficiency, variation reduction (e.g., lean six sigma), safety event review process, and root cause analysis.
• Leads the Ascension Patient Safety Organization.

Qualifications

• Licensure / Certification / Registration: Physician (MD/DO) required prior to hire or job transfer date.
• Education: Doctor of Medicine (MD) or Doctor of Osteopathy (DO) required.
• Minimum of 7 years of applicable, job-specific experience, including at least 4 years in leadership/management.

Requirements

• Leadership experience of five years in safety at a health system level, and proven record of implementing successful efforts at an enterprise level.
• Excellent communicator, partners and mentors, and influences other leaders from different disciplines, promoting alignment across different cultures in a heavily matrixed organization.
• Advanced skills in evaluating data and analytics.

Benefits

• Comprehensive health coverage: medical, dental, vision, prescription coverage and HSA/FSA options.
• Financial security & retirement: employer-matched 403(b), planning and hardship resources, disability and life insurance.
• Time to recharge: pro-rated paid time off (PTO) and holidays.
• Career growth: Ascension-paid tuition (Vocare), reimbursement, ongoing professional development and online learning.
• Emotional well-being: Employee Assistance Program, counseling and peer support, spiritual care and stress management resources.
• Family support: parental leave, adoption assistance and family benefits.
• Other benefits: optional legal and pet insurance, transportation savings and more.