Associate Administrator, Quality

REQ20168503 Associate Administrator, Quality (USC Care Medical Group) - Clinical Ops - Full Time 8 Hour Days (Exempt) (Non-Union)

About the Role

The Associate Administrator of Quality position serves as a highly visible champion of the quality portfolio for USC Care Medical Group, inclusive of ambulatory operations and the growing clinically integrated network within Keck Community Medical Group (KCMG).

In partnership with the Chief Medical Officer, Chief Nurse Officer, and Chief of Ambulatory Operations for USC Care Medical Group, this position directs the development, implementation, and oversight of quality management strategies, policies, and programs to ensure the medical group, its divisions, and its clinic operations meets regulatory and accreditation standards.

Responsibilities

• Analyze healthcare data to identify trends, gaps, and opportunities for improving quality program performance, clinical improvement initiatives, and operational performance improvement initiatives.
• Oversee the reporting to regulatory / federal bodies, manage performance metrics, and provide leadership for quality measurement and improvement initiatives.
• Use expert knowledge to aggregate data from disparate systems and create analytics to solve healthcare problems and support decision making operationally, clinically and financially.
• Partner with leaders to develop overall strategic direction in the collection, validation, analysis and reporting of data to support the reduction of clinical error, improvement in quality of patient care and safety achieve high reliability in systems approach.
• Cross departmental boundaries through collaboration with clinicians, project managers, vendors, regulatory agencies and technical experts to ensure the strategic quality plan of the medical group and all its responsible assets, results in improved care and outcomes for our patients.

Qualifications

Preferred Skills

The annual base salary range for this position is $174,720.00 - $288,288.00. When extending an offer of employment, the University of Southern California considers factors such as (but not limited to) the scope and responsibilities of the position, the candidate’s work experience, education / training, key skills, internal peer equity, federal, state, and local laws, contractual stipulations, grant funding, as well as external market and organizational considerations.