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Are you ready to bring your clinical competencies to a world-class Medical Group known for the very highest clinical standards? Do you have a passion for the highest quality and patient satisfaction? Then please respond to this dynamic opportunity available with one of the best places to work in Southern California! We would be happy to hear from you.

The Cedars-Sinai Medical Network is committed to helping primary care and specialist physicians provide excellent care to all their patients, who benefit from convenient access to primary and specialty care physicians and seamless coordination of care between them. As a part of Cedars-Sinai, our physicians and staff are partners in quality health care from a medical center that is consistently recognized as one of the finest hospitals in the country. For the 8th consecutive year, we have been named one of the top 20 Physician Groups in Southern California by Integrated Healthcare Associates (IHA).

Why work here?

Beyond outstanding benefits, competitive salaries and health and dental insurance we take pride in hiring the best, most passionate employees. Our talented staff reflects the culturally and ethnically diverse community we serve. They are proof of our dedication to creating a dynamic, inclusive environment that fuels innovation and the gold standard of patient care we strive for.

What will you be doing in this role?

The Quality Improvement Coordinator will assess, analyze, and recommend quality and clinical performance improvement processes to assure that the highest standards of quality care can be achieved. This position will provide clinical expertise to assist with case-finding, identification of opportunities, and performance improvement activities. This position will also measure performance and identify opportunities to improve performance in value-based systems of care. As healthcare evolves with new models of service delivery, quality improvement activities will strive to ensure that care is both patient-centered and passionate about maintaining the health of our entire patient population in an efficient and effective way. This position serves as a key participant in the successful management of value-based contracts, focusing on both individual patients and population trends.

Primary Duties & Responsibilities

• Identify and prioritize clinical cases in terms of follow up/escalation of services and/or care
• Perform daily chart abstraction and present patient cases to a multi-disciplinary team with possible care suggestions if applicable and follow through with implementation
• Engage with care managers, social workers, physicians, external vendors and other collaborators to ensure continuity of care and follow-through on plan of care
• Draft correspondence to patients or external vendors on behalf of the care management team or individual physicians
• Aggregate and clinically analyze quality and value metric data in support of Medical Directors/Chairs of the specific departments as requested
• Perform in-depth analysis of individual cases as well as trend analysis across the entire population of patients as requested
• Create clinical quality and value dashboards and action reports in support of performance improvement activities
• Develop slide decks and other communication tools and make periodic presentations to share trend information with key collaborators as requested
• Lead and facilitate daily and weekly meetings discussing patient care as well as other meetings ad hoc
• Participate in Performance Improvement activities to improve care delivery, clinical outcomes, and clinical efficiency
• Support HEDIS, pay-for-performance, ACO and other clinical pay-for-performance and pay-for-value program as requested

Education

• Associate's Degree in Nursing required
• Bachelor's Degree in Nursing preferred 

• Valid CA RN License required

• Two (2) years ofpriorclinical experience in an acute or ambulatory health care setting required 
• Two (2) years of experience in support of quality improvement, process improvement or total quality measurement required