Vice President Patient Safety

• Senior executive responsible for evaluating, planning, and implementing patient safety programs at Ascension, proactively addressing and mitigating risks of patient safety events.
• Leads the efforts to integrate patient safety practices, including tiered safety huddles, and promotes a culture of safety across the system, including just culture, through interdisciplinary collaboration.
• Data-driven in approaching safety risks, partners with advanced analytics team and implements AI to proactively identify trends and address safety risks from the event reporting system and other sources.
• Expertise, including the ability to design and implement curricula in high reliability, process improvement, human factors engineering, efficiency, variation reduction (e.g., lean six sigma), safety event review process and root cause analysis.
• Leads the Ascension Patient Safety Organization.

• Physician (MD/DO) required prior to hire or job transfer date

• Doctor of Medicine (MD) or Doctor of Osteopathy (DO) required
• Minimum of 7 years of applicable, job-specific experience, including at least 4 years in leadership/management

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