Department/Unit:
Quality Management
Work Shift:
Day (United States of America)
Salary Range:
$94,957.00 - $147,183.00
The Accreditation Specialist is responsible for chart review/abstraction and closed record review as well as audit activity to promote patient safety and continuous compliance with accrediting organizations and CMS. This role will be responsible for assisting the department or division head in overall administration of work unit/department and requires a demonstrated high degree of knowledge, competence, and administrative support skills, and the ability to operate with considerable independence.
JOB FUNCTIONS- Independently gathers and summarizes information for reporting and other purposes.
- Pursues continued education of standards, regulations, and requirements as put forth by the DNV, CMS, New York State, DOH, OSHA, and other regulatory bodies.
- Educates self and has the ability to use the audit system proficiently.
- Works with departmental leadership and other applicable stakeholders to resolve questions and issues.
- Independently gathers and summarizes information for reporting and other purposes.
- Meets all accreditation and CMS regulations for chart review.
- Ability to use data analytics and databases to enter raw data, organize data, run reports, and help make interpretation of the data.
- Uses proper protocols to access, view, and distribute personal health information necessary to do the job.
- Performs chart audits on current inpatients and can perform tracers in patient care areas.
- Coordinates and supports logistics during survey preparation, survey activity, and deficiency corrective action.
- Copies, faxes and scans as needed to communicate for the department.
- Establishes, maintains, and revises record keeping systems.
- Meets all accreditation/CMS regulations for chart review protocols and assist department to do the same.
- Greets, identifies and directs internal/external staff/inquiries in person or by telephone, and follows up as needed. Provides information and identifies solutions to address issues that arise and refers to appropriate person/authority as needed.
- Available to all personnel who ask questions/make requests in a timely manner.
- Assists users to obtain access to and training for the audit system.
- Works with various programmatic groups to develop and implement strategies to improve Leapfrog measures.
- Leads Accreditation presentations and other Accreditation Department led meetings, as necessary.
- Proactively identifies and examines opportunities for improvement within the organization.
- Leads departmental Environment of Care Rounds through appropriate patient care areas including hospital and clinical settings.
- Escalates barriers identified if unable to help mitigate via chain of command within the department in a timely manner.
- Assists with the oversight of the department intranet website content.
- Additional duties as assigned.
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