Director, Risk Management, Hartford Region

Director Of Risk Management, Hartford Region

The Director of Risk Management, Hartford Region will lead and oversee the operations of risk management services in the inpatient acute care and hospital-based outpatient settings within the Hartford Region of Hartford HealthCare. The Director serves as liaison in partnering with regional leaders of inpatient, outpatient and other defined practice areas of healthcare delivery to ensure consistent, professional and proactive outcomes that demonstrate commitment to high reliability safety behaviors, risk reduction, regulatory responsiveness, compliance and safe patient outcomes.

Key Accountabilities :

• In collaboration with the System Leader of Risk Management, the Director will oversee and supervise clinical risk manager(s) in the delivery of risk management services in all acute care and hospital-based outpatient settings in the Hartford Region
• Improve safe practices and patient outcomes through regulatory readiness, risk identification, mitigation and avoidance
• Mitigate potential risks and liabilities and align with HHC initiatives of safety, process and care improvement
• Monitor patient, visitor and staff incidents for trends, analyzes data to identify areas of potential liability
• Provide consultation with management teams of site activities to ensure fully informed and prepared develop and implement corrective action plans and ongoing monitoring
• Identify potential areas of compliance vulnerability and risk, develop and implement corrective action plans for resolution of problematic issues, and provide general guidance to avoid or deal with similar situations in the future
• Provide reports of risk operations / progress and mitigation efforts and escalate potential significant inspection findings / compliance risks / impact to senior management
• Facilitate and / or participate in HHC's Incident Response Team meetings to respond to major risk / patient safety events and provide risk and regulatory guidance
• Analyze risk assessment findings and survey results to assist in developing recommendations, strategies and action plans for improvement opportunities to mitigate risk potential
• Draft policies and guidelines which are in compliance with statutory regulatory mandates and current best practice and aim to protect HHC in areas of clinical risk exposure and other exposure
• Conduct risk management educational programs
• Provide risk management advice as appropriate

Qualifications

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