Senior Risk Management Specialist
POSITION SUMMARY:The Senior Risk Management Specialist provides leadership in risk management by promoting the highest level of quality care to the patients, ensuring regulatory compliance and mitigating malpractice risk through loss prevention.The Senior Risk Management Specialist is responsible for participating in the development, implementation, and coordination of a highly visible, proactive institution-wide program to maximize the safety of services delivered to BMC patients. As a leader in Quality and Patient Safety, this individual serves as a departmental and organization-wide role model displaying behaviors that support a strong culture of safety. This hybrid position requires onsite presence 3 days a week and on-call coverage each month. Position: Senior Risk Management SpecialistDepartment: Risk ManagementSchedule: Full TimeESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES / DUTIES:Collaborates with QPS leadership, the Chief Quality Officer, Director of Risk Management and the Director of Patient Safety to support the Quality and Patient Safety Program by being a resource for areas such as error detection and prevention, and facilitating Root Cause Analysis (RCA) projects.Collaborates in ongoing regulatory readiness activities and functions as a member of the onsite survey management team during regulatory surveys by the Department of Public Health (DPH) and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).Demonstrates expertise in investigating and analyzing actual and potential patient/visitor safety events (near-misses) for improvement opportunities and for the potential for legal action.Activities include, but are not limited to: chart review, staff/provider interviews, policy review, best practice research, and observation activities.Coordinates risk and safety management training for providers, management, and staff to enhance awareness of their role in patient safety, risk reduction, and safety event reporting.Participates in the “on call” system to provide immediate consultation, recommendations and mitigation to hospital staff in responding to adverse events.Utilizes an electronic database for tracking patient safety events.Participates in activities to use this database to identify trends and opportunities to improve patient safety.Facilitates case management of the incident reporting system.Actively collaborates with Quality and Patient Safety staff to identify and mitigate local and organizational trends that impact patient safety and to support implementation of safer processes and systems of care.Actively collaborates with Claims Department to assist BMC efforts to minimize legal/financial liability.Interacts with wide variety of personnel throughout BMC including administration, clinicians, staff, senior management and Department Chairpersons.Actively participates in clinical case review and case learning committees.Facilitates committee operations as assigned.Demonstrates expertise in drafting reports for regulatory ag...