Are you passionate about proactive risk management and patient safety? Join our team as a Risk Manager and play a key role in identifying, mitigating, and preventing risks across our outpatient offices. This dynamic role offers the opportunity to travel throughout the DMV region, collaborate with healthcare professionals, and implement best practices to enhance patient care. If you thrive in a fast-paced environment and are ready to make a meaningful impact, we invite you to apply today!
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The Risk Manager Outpatient Services serves under the direction of the Associate Vice President of Enterprise Risk Management (“AVP ERM”) to implement and monitor an integrated, proactive outpatient risk management program per the Enterprise Risk Management Plan. This includes frequent traveling to all VHC Health outpatient offices throughout the DMV to provide system-wide risk identification, investigation, mitigation, grievances management and risk reduction activities. This role is critical to deliver collaborative, data-driven risk management and risk mitigation support. Identifies and tracks outpatient risk through trend analysis of incidents, leading investigations of adverse events, conducting risk assessments, creating risk registers, prioritizing risk, developing risk mitigation plans, developing risk reduction strategies, and implementing best practices. The Manager will verify whether the outpatient office requirements under CMS are met or need to be augmented. Promotes culture of safety and provides unique outpatient practice guidance to staff and physicians, and serves as a liaison on issues such as consent, patient-family concerns, de-escalation of workplace aggression and outpatient policy and procedure development. Maintains current and accurate knowledge of regulations, laws and standards pertaining to the healthcare setting, including, but not limited to, FDA, TJC and CMS Medicare Conditions of Participation. Knowledge of and abides by the American Society for Healthcare Risk Management (ASHRM) Healthcare Risk Management Code of Professional Conduct. Reports to external agencies, as applicable.
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Hospital Information: VHC Health is a 453-bed not-for-profit Hospital and teaching facility that has been delivering high quality care to the Washington, DC metropolitan area for over 75 years. Recent accomplishments include the opening of our massive Outpatient Pavilion and VHC becoming the Washington Commanders Football provider for women's health as of 2023. VHC Health is a designated Level II Trauma Center and a recognized Magnet Facility by the American Nurses Credentialing Center. At VHC Health, we are always striving to provide continued excellence and growth for our employees as well as top notch care for our patients and that is made clear with our recent accomplishments!
Pay & Benefits: Commensurate with experience. Team members are eligible to receive benefits on the first day of the month following the date of hire, with 30 days to apply for benefits of choice.