The Corporate Director of Quality and Patient Safety is responsible for overseeing Centra’s quality and patient safety program, the daily operations of Quality and Safety department, and promotion of safety culture, high reliability concepts, and performance excellence. They are responsible for the accurate, timely submission of CMS required quality reporting as well as reporting to other external agencies such as Leapfrog, Anthem QHIP, etc. The Director works collaboratively and in partnership with the medical staff, executive team, clinical and nursing leadership, and other stakeholders to ensure the highest levels of quality care, and patient safety. A key aspect of this role is to maintain active participation with our Patient Safety Organization, ensuring compliance to all requirements as demonstrated in our Patient Safety Evaluation System. The leader ensures compliance with our safety event response process including incident review, safety event investigations, reporting, and follow-up monitoring. Provides support and training for safety culture and quality improvement tools and techniques. This position supports the dissemination of accurate, meaningful quality and patient safety data across the enterprise to drive unit, division, and organization level performance. Facilitates and actively participates in process improvement activities to address performance gaps.

Qualifications/Education/Licensure:
Required: Bachelor’s degree in Nursing
Preferred: Master’s Degree in Healthcare Administration, Public Health, or Nursing Leadership
Hold a current, active license as a registered nurse in Virginia or hold a current multistate licensure privilege as a registered nurse.

When recruiting and retaining talent at Centra, our hiring needs are based on matching a candidates job qualifications with our job requirements and department needs without regard to race, color, age, religion or belief, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. Centra is an Equal Opportunity Employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind.

COVID Vaccination Requirement
Consistent with long-standing practices requiring health care workers to be vaccinated against serious infectious diseases for the safety of patients and staff, Centra will require COVID-19 vaccinations for all new and current employees and those who work in Centra facilities as a condition of their employment. If hired to work at Centra, you will be required to provide proof of vaccination or be willing to receive the vaccination. Medical and religions exemptions may be requested.