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Job Title
Requisition #: 25067-34246
Manager Patient Safety
Location: Advocate South Suburban Hospital

Advocate South Suburban Hospital is a 289-bed, not-for-profit, acute-care facility,
providing a wide range of comprehensive inpatient, outpatient, diagnostic and
ambulatory medical services. The not-for-profit facility also provides free screenings
and a variety of other outreach services throughout the community.

The hospital is part of Advocate Health Care, based in Oak Brook, Ill., the largest fully
integrated health care delivery system in metropolitan Chicago and the state of Illinois.

Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in Nursing or Allied Health, Masters Degree preferred
• Minimum 4 years experience related to process improvement
• Minimum 4 years experience working within healthcare system
• Minimum 2 years management or educational experience
• Minimum 4 years Clinical experience

Job Description:

The manager of patient safety has been created to provide leadership in the advancement of patient safety across Advocate South Suburban Hospital. Investigate critical events, errors, near misses and other safety issues that arise.

1. Together with the leaders of Risk Management and Performance Improvement, participates in the Critical Event Review Team to analyze all potential critical events and determine the appropriate level of investigation.
2. Leads Root Cause Analysis following the occurrence of sentinel events.
3. Independently conducts Apparent Cause Analyses on critical events, including chart review, and interview of associates and physicians, that allows a determination of the cause of the event.
4. Assists leaders in the investigation of Red Rule violations, and in determining the appropriate course of action.
5. Completes Common Cause Analysis as needed to identify trends in event type.
6. Completes all related documentation from Root and Apparent Cause Analysis.
7. Reviews the lessons learned from errors occurring at other Advocate sites, and determine which provide valuable lessons to the medical center.

Position Type: Full Time-Permanent/Day Shift

E-mail resumes to OBSC-MgtSelect@advocatehealth.com - please include Requisition in your subject line.

Posted on: July 19, 2010