Quality Officer, Neurological Institute

The Neurological Institute (NI) at Cleveland Clinic is seeking an accomplished physician leader to serve as Quality Officer. This is an exciting and rewarding leadership opportunity for a physician with a passion for advancing high-quality, safe, and reliable care for patients with neurological disease.

The NI Quality Officer will partner closely with physician leaders, nursing, operations, and enterprise stakeholders to drive optimal quality and patient outcomes across all centers and sites of the Neurological Institute. This is a critical leadership function that aligns clinical excellence with enterprise quality priorities while fostering a culture of continuous improvement and high reliability.

Role Overview
The Quality Officer is responsible for the strategic oversight, measurement, and improvement of quality performance across the Neurological Institute. There will be a significant focus on advancing outcomes related to:

• Reducing preventable readmissions
• Optimizing discharge to home and care transitions
• Improving inpatient and outpatient neurological outcomes

Key Responsibilities
Provide physician leadership for all Neurological Institute quality initiatives, ensuring alignment with enterprise quality, safety, and regulatory goals

• Lead performance improvement efforts across key quality metrics
• Establish and sustain high-reliability, multidisciplinary teams across all Neurological Institute centers and locations
• Partner with Infection Prevention, Regulatory Affairs, Nursing, Operations, and Continuous Improvement teams to ensure coordinated goal setting, measurement, and execution
• Promote the use of data, dashboards, and evidence-based practices to drive measurable and sustainable improvement
• Support accreditation, regulatory surveys, and ongoing readiness activities
• Foster a culture of accountability, transparency, and continuous learning
• Report directly to the Vice Chair Safety, Quality, and Patient Experience on quality strategy, performance, and outcomes

Qualifications

• MD or DO, board certified, with a strong clinical background in neurology, psychiatry, spine- or neuro-surgery, or physiatry
• Minimum of 5 years of patient care experience
• Demonstrated success leading multidisciplinary, cross-departmental teams
• Proven ability to design, implement, and sustain quality improvement programs
• Working knowledge of high reliability principles, patient safety science, and performance improvement methodologies
• Strong leadership, communication, and change-management skills

Ideal Candidate
The successful candidate will be a respected physician leader with a track record of achieving results through collaboration, data-driven improvement, and clinical engagement. This individual will be passionate about advancing quality, safety, and outcomes for patients while supporting clinicians and teams in delivering the highest standard of neurological care.

This dynamic position commands an attractive start-up package, salary, and benefits package including but not limited to:

• Excellent medical, dental, vision coverage
• Comprehensive disability and life insurance benefits
• Medical malpractice & tail coverage provided
• Generous time away coverage for vacation, sick time, holidays and CME meeting time
• Highly competitive retirement plans with employer contribution
• Faculty appointment as an Associate or Full Professor available through the Cleveland Clinic Learner College of Medicine

Interested parties, please include a current CV and letter of interest with your application.

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