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Quality Director Patient Safety Officer

MultiCare Health System
paid time off
United States, Washington, Tacoma
603 South J Street (Show on map)
Mar 17, 2025

Where Kids and Families are Always First

MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital is the state-designated Level II Pediatric Trauma Center and the only pediatric hospital in Washington's South Sound Region dedicated to a comprehensive network of health services for children and adolescents. Our vision is to be the highest quality and safest place for children to receive care, where every child has a medical home and is supported by nationally recognized services and experience.

Mary Bridge Children's multi-disciplinary approach to care includes pediatric experts for emergency services, inpatient care, and outpatient specialty clinics, all specializing in kids and their unique needs. We're continually recognized as a 'Top Children's Hospital' by The Leapfrog Group, an independent hospital rating organization.

FTE: 1.0, Shift: Day, Schedule: Mon-Fri

Position Summary

The Director Quality and Patient Safety Officer provides leadership to implement and improve the facility quality management system, the Patient Safety Program and improvement plans that are driven by patient safety and clinical quality performance, system objectives, and required clinical results.

Responsibilities

  • Adapts system strategies and plans to meet the needs of the facility (s)
  • Participates with the facility executive team and the Quality Management department leadership team to ensure collaboration and alignment
  • Coordinates and improves the facility QSSC(s) to increase efficiency, effectiveness and value. Integrates the quality management domains at the facility level to include accreditation and regulatory readiness, infection prevention, clinical quality, patient and family engagement and patient safety elements
  • Serves as facility Patient Safety Officer, providing expertise and oversees the implementation of the patient safety program including the High Reliability Organization program and coordinates the Event Management Process(es)
  • Develops, implements and monitors the facility Performance Improvement Portfolio, ensuring the application of ID-PDSA and contemporary PI tools

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in nursing or health related field, required
  • Master's degree in health-related field, strongly recommended
  • Current Washington state license in area of clinical expertise
  • Specialty certification desired, such as CPHQ
  • Training and demonstrated use of PI tools
  • Minimum five (5) years of management or quality program management experience in a hospital or health care setting

Why Mary Bridge Children's?

  • Mission-driven:Partnering for healing and a healthy future for the patients and communities we serve
  • Award-winning:Named 'Top Children's Hospital' for five years by the Leapfrog Group; physicians consistently named on 'Top Doctors' lists by Seattle Magazine, Seattle Met and the Tacoma News Tribune
  • Growing: New pediatric hospital facility and medical office building opening in 2026
  • Leading research:MultiCare Institute for Research & Innovation partners with our pediatric providers, offering ground-breaking research and clinical trials
  • Employee-centric:MultiCare is consistently ranked among "America's Best Employers by State" by Forbes
  • Lifestyle:Live and work in the Pacific Northwest surrounded by breathtaking mountain, forest and water views
  • Explore our services atmarybridge.org

Pay and Benefit Expectations

We provide a comprehensive benefits package, including competitive salary, medical, dental and retirement benefits and paid time off. As required by various pay transparency laws, we share a competitive range of compensation for candidates hired into each position. The pay scale is $153,130.00 - $212,576.00 USD. However, pay is influenced by factors specific to applicants, including but not limited to: skill set, level of experience, and certification(s) and/or education. If this position is associated with a union contract, pay will be reflective of the appropriate step on the pay scale to which the applicant's years of experience align.

Associated benefit information can be viewed here.

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