Clinical Quality Analyst

Overview

The Clinical Quality Analyst provides unit leadership and works in partnership with nursing, the clinicians, the Quality Department, the hospital healthcare team, and the hospital/system leaders to develop a quality practice setting that supports professional nursing and quality patient care in the Acute, Post-Acute Area and in the Quality Department.

The Clinical Quality Analyst has cross-functional skills to work with other departments and leaders, must be able to work within deadlines, and have the flexibility to support special projects as needed.

Responsibilities

• Provide computer support in creating graphs for various Performance Improvement projects.
• Pull data reports from various databases such as Press Ganey, AHA Survey, Quality Net, NHSN-SAMS, OSHPD-CCORP, NCDR,Q-Centrix, IMP reporting, and the metrics utilized by these systems.
• Perform data uploads, data validation, run reports and provide data maintenance for Get with the Guidelines, and assist day to day operations within Quality 
• Coordinate and pull data for physician peer review and ongoing physician performance evaluations (OPPE), as well as assist with data for the Nursing Team, Education, Quality and the administrative group.
• Coordinate annual hospital surveys such as AHA and Leapfrog as well as provide support to day to day facility initiatives within tech Quality Department. 
• Provide computer support to the Quality & Risk Management Director as needed.
• Coordinate the collection of the Core Measures and other duties assigned 
• Provide computer support in creating graphs for various projects for the infection Control Nurse/MD.

• Provide Premier/Pathfinder data to the Infection Control Nurse as needed.
• Other Computer/Database Support to other Departments
• Provide support for the Patient Satisfaction Program.

Other Dutie and Reponsibilities:

• May assist with Infection Control projects 
• Asist with patients roundings related to Infection Control
• Help with data collection and collaborate with Infection Preventionist

Clinical Quality Analyst manages the Hospital IQR Program- quality data reporting program for inpatient hospital services implemented by CMS and utilizes facility data to aim for hospital quality improvement initiatives and strives to improve the care provided by the hospital. With the assistance of the Quality Team, the Clinical Quality Coordinator manages the facility’s process improvement projects, the facility policies, and the procedure portal, and provides daily reports of Quality Metrics to the team, with the purpose of improving the facility’s quality of care provided.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree or Higher in health or analytics-related field (informatics, epidemiology, economics, statistics, or other fields emphasizing analytics).
• 2 years of experience with Microsoft Word, Excel (pivot tables, graphs, formulas), Access, PowerPoint.
• One or more years of experience with statistical analysis software.
• Excellent oral and written communications skills.
• Demonstrable technical experience with query software for accessing and retrieving data from a T­SQL database, and spreadsheet tools for creating, analyzing and managing large data stores. Comprehends complexities of data architecture.
• Strong familiarity with Microsoft Office applications, including Microsoft Word, Excel, Access and PowerPoint. Knowledge of macros, pivot tables, query design, and other techniques for automating tasks and increasing productivity.
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision and also as a strong team member.
• Ability to prioritize, plan work and function in a fast-paced, multi-project environment and under deadline pressure to multiple stakeholders.
• Ability to work with a large variety of computer programs and databases
• Desire to make an impact in health care with a thirst for complex challenges.
• Knowledge of SPC Graphs and Data Interpretation
• Knowledge of medical/clinical terminology preferred but not mandatory.