Health Partners, Inc

Quality Improvement Specialist

Health Partners, Inc • $75K — $121K *
Healthcare
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in healthcare, science, business, engineering, or related field, or a clinical background with relevant certification or experience.
  • 5+ years of acute care, healthcare, process improvement, safety, or quality management experience.
  • Proficient in complex statistical analysis and problem solving.
  • Strong program and project management abilities.
  • Excellent interpersonal and written communication skills.

Responsibilities

  • Support continuous improvement initiatives across departments and leadership.
  • Educate and facilitate the organization's quality management systems and improvement tools.
  • Assess performance and analyze clinical outcome data to identify improvement opportunities.
  • Conduct data analysis for informed administrative and clinical decision-making.
  • Facilitate prioritization of improvement activities with leadership.
  • Initiate and oversee performance improvement projects in collaboration with project leads.
  • Guide and support teams in coordinating activities to enhance clinical and operational outcomes.

Benefits

  • Up to $7,500 Relocation Assistance.
  • 90 Days Temporary Housing Provided.
  • Shift Differential, Annual Increases, and Paid Time Off.
  • Medical, vision, dental insurance, and 401k with employer match.
  • FHP Tuition Assistance and Student Loan Forgiveness.
  • Onsite Gym, Wellness Programs, and Discount programs.
Full Job Description
Overview

Qualified applicants must reside in the local area or have confirmed plans to relocate prior to their start date.

Pay & Benefits:
  • Compensation: $36.44 to $58.30 hourly wage based on experience and education
  • Relocation Assistance: up to $7,500 Relocation Assistance
  • Temporary Housing: 90 Days Temporary Housing Provided
  • Additional Pay: Shift Differential, Annual Increases, Paid Time Off
  • Benefits: medical, vision, dental, 401k with employer match
  • Education Benefits: FHP Tuition Assistance, Student Loan Forgiveness
  • Other Benefits: Onsite Gym, Wellness Programs, Discount programs
  • Shifts Available: Full Time, Exempt

Responsibilities

  • Supports staff, departments, and leaders in continuous improvement activities and projects to include rapid improvement and improving flow events, value stream mapping, standard work, process improvement projects, and support to Quality Team.
  • Educates and facilitates organization quality management system and programs, improvement activities, and tools.
  • Provides ongoing assessment of performance, analyzes clinical outcome data, and identifies performance improvement opportunities or trends. Conducts high level assessments, gathers information and collaborates with the appropriate process owner(s) to identify opportunities for improvement.
  • Analyzes data for administrative and clinical decision making.
  • Facilitates prioritization of improvement activities with system and facility leadership.
  • Initiates and oversees performance improvement projects in collaboration with project lead.
  • Serves as a resource and/or facilitates improvement teams to plan, implement, and coordinate entity activities to maximize clinical and operational outcomes.
  • Participates on improvement teams, guiding them on the system defined improvement process.
  • Serves as a resource for assessment of clinical performance and performance improvement methodologies throughout the facility and system.


Qualifications

  • Requires Bachelor's degree in healthcare, science, business, engineering or related field OR a clinical background with current license/certification or equivalent experience.
  • Requires a proficiency level typically attained with five (5) years acute care, healthcare, process improvement, safety or quality management experience.
  • Requires ability to perform complex statistical analysis and highly developed problem solving skills. Requires the ability to manage programs and projects. Requires demonstrated excellence in interpersonal and written communication skills.

Prferred Qualifications
  • Registered Nurse (RN) license preferred. Certified Professional in Healthcare Quality (CPHQ) certification is preferred.
  • Experience with process improvement, regulatory/accreditation programs, data management, and analysis including graphic development and presentations is highly desirable.
  • Additional related education and/or experience preferred.

About Health Partners, Inc

HealthPartners is a non-profit, integrated healthcare provider and health insurance company based in Bloomington, Minnesota, United States. It operates 30 clinics and seven hospitals in Minnesota and western Wisconsin, serving over 1.8 million medical and dental health plan members nationwide. HealthPartners employs more than 26,000 people, including 1,700 physicians and advanced practice clinicians.
Learn more about Health Partners, Inc
Size
26,000 employees
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Founded
1957

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