Quality Specialist Nurse (RN)

 Schedule: FT Days 8:00 am - 4:30 pm

Something special starts here. 

You can’t define it, but you know it when you see it: the difference between an average life and the good life. When your cup is full – with joy, purpose and lifelong health – it shows. At LMH Health, we are all about healthy people, healthy communities and healthy futures, and that makes us your destination for an exceptional career. From flexible, work-life harmony to competitive pay and great advancement potential, find everything you’re looking for at LMH Health.

You'll find everything you’re looking for at LMH Health:

• Join a team that cares about the community
• Tuition reimbursement to support continuing education
• Professional development and recognition
• Excellent benefits

The Quality Specialist is responsible for driving the progress of robust process improvement throughout the organization.

Works collaboratively with key stakeholders including process owners, organization leaders and physicians, which includes developing, implementing and maintaining quality and performance initiatives.

Provides organizational staff support in the development, implementation and evaluation of performance improvement to include but not limited to:

• Regulatory and Contracted Value related clinical outcomes
• Patient Safety related clinical outcomes
• Regulatory survey readiness activities
• Disease specific care certifications and/or registries and related clinical outcomes

The position is responsible for continuous collaborative learning, including (but not limited to): identifying and supporting performance improvement projects and activities throughout the organization through education, planning and project oversight.

Responsibilities

• Implementation, evaluation and continuous improvement of regulatory and contracted value related clinical outcomes, such as, CMS quality reporting programs (Inpatient, Outpatient, and Clinics), CMS incentive/penalty programs, and third party payers.
• Perform an analysis of clinical outcomes to understand root cause when results are less than expected.
• Using Lean Six Sigma tools facilitate performance improvement projects.
• Actively engage in the culture of quality, safety, high reliability, patient and staff engagement, and performance excellence.
• Participate and/or support quality metrics as needed, such as, alignment of metrics across the continuum, abstraction and/or validation.
• Develop, implement and evaluate regulatory survey readiness activities.
• Participates in all educational opportunities identified as important to this position.
• Performs other duties as needed or assigned.

Qualifications

Required:

• Current Registered Nurse license to practice in Kansas.
• Minimum 3 years in the healthcare field (ex. clinical experience or equivalent experience in nursing, public health, health administration

Preferred:

• Bachelor's degree
• Master’s degree
• Yellow Belt in Lean Six Sigma
• 1 -2 Experience in process improvement and Lean Six Sigma

Our Cultural Beliefs

Patient First. We consider the patient first in everything we do.

Better Together. We actively strive to be a diverse LMH Health team that works together to achieve excellence.

Listen/Speak Up. We embrace a diverse culture of open, respectful, well-intended communication where we listen, share, and value ideas to create equitable solutions.

Innovate! We actively explore new ideas and approach change with agility and an open mind.

Own It/Solve It. We hold ourselves accountable for our actions and we collaborate for solutions.

In Joy. We create a workplace that is both fun and meaningful.

At LMH Health, we value inclusion and diversity. We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.