Quality Manager (RN) - Nuvance Health

Health Quest and Western Connecticut Health Network have combined to form a new nonprofit health system. The name for the new health system will be Nuvance Health. The new health system was created to provide communities across New York’s Hudson Valley and western Connecticut with more convenient, accessible and affordable care.

Nuvance Health has a network of convenient hospital and outpatient locations — Danbury Hospital, New Milford Hospital, Norwalk Hospital and Sharon Hospital in Connecticut, and Northern Dutchess Hospital, Putnam Hospital Center and Vassar Brothers Medical Center in New York — plus multiple primary and specialty care physician practices locations, including The Heart Center, a leading provider of cardiology care. Non-acute care is offered through various affiliates,

Summary:
Plans, manages, and evaluates the implementation of all quality management activities for Western Connecticut Home Care. Manages/supervises the home care performance improvement nurses.

Responsibilities:
1. Manages the quality assurance performance improvement program for home care to include quality
management of the OASIS data & reporting; process & outcome reports; occurrence reports; home health
compare & patient satisfaction data; program quality monitoring data; utilization data, payer inquiry requests,
denial activity; development of policies & procedures. Uses data trending to initiate & sustain performance
improvement activities. Coordinates findings with billing & finance as appropriate.
2. Serves as a regulatory resource for Federal, State and Joint Commission regulations & standards. Coordinates
the regulatory surveys at the agency with the executive director.
3. Develops, monitors, and evaluates the corrective action plans for deficiencies identified through the quality
review process and survey process. Coordinates findings with billing & finance as appropriate.
4. Oversees the coding and submission of new patient admission and recertification information.
5. Evaluates the need for and plans/coordinates special classes, conferences, and meetings to improve level of staff
performance and quality of care.
6. Participates in the weekend/holiday clinical supervisor schedule.
7. Fulfills all compliance responsibilities related to the position.
8. Performs other duties as assigned.
Other information:
Requires a minimum formal education of Associate Degree and minimum of three years job-related experience.
License: Current CT RN license.
Location: Danbury-100 Saw Mill Road

Work Type: Full-Time

Standard Hours: 40.00

FTE: 1.000000

Work Schedule: Day 8

Work Shift: Monday-Friday; 8:30AM - 5PM & supervisory weekend rotation

Org Unit: 614

Department: Home Care Admin

Exempt: Yes

Grade: S12

Salary Range:

$39.2088 - $72.8280 Hourly

Working conditions:
Essential:
* Significant manual skills / motor coord & finger dexterity
* Very Heavy effort. May exert up to 50 lbs. force
* Significant exposure to dirt, odor, noise, human waste, etc.
* Significant occupational risk

EOE, including disability/vets.

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