Description

Your passion belongs at UNC Health. Join more than 56,000 teammates working together to improve the health and well-being of the communities we serve across North Carolina.

Job Summary

The Hospital Quality Leader leads system-wide healthcare quality programs by translating enterprise strategy into clear workplans, metrics, and deliverables, while ensuring alignment across hospitals and managed entities. Serves as the program manager for the health system’s mortality reduction efforts as well as the Hospital Mortality Improvement Collaborative, in partnership with the Program Chair and Director of HQM. This role is expected to drive execution, monitor performance, and address variation, risks, and barriers within the mortality reduction program, as well as charter improvement initiatives and serve as the system project coordinator for all system-wide improvement efforts. The quality leader oversees program governance, data integrity, reporting, and adherence to improvement plan scopes and timelines while fostering cross-entity collaboration to standardize best practices and accelerate improvement. This role will serve as a partner to entity leaders by providing data driven insights, help with local strategy development, and develop Vizient and dashboard expertise. Ensures alignment with external quality frameworks, staying up to date with best practices and industry advancements, and integrates related initiatives to deliver sustainable, measurable outcomes across the health system.

Description

Your passion belongs at UNC Health. Join more than 56,000 teammates working together to improve the health and well-being of the communities we serve across North Carolina.

Job Summary





The Hospital Quality Leader leads system-wide healthcare quality programs by translating enterprise strategy into clear workplans, metrics, and deliverables, while ensuring alignment across hospitals and managed entities. Serves as the program manager for the health system’s mortality reduction efforts as well as the Hospital Mortality Improvement Collaborative, in partnership with the Program Chair and Director of HQM. This role is expected to drive execution, monitor performance, and address variation, risks, and barriers within the mortality reduction program, as well as charter improvement initiatives and serve as the system project coordinator for all system-wide improvement efforts. The quality leader oversees program governance, data integrity, reporting, and adherence to improvement plan scopes and timelines while fostering cross-entity collaboration to standardize best practices and accelerate improvement. This role will serve as a partner to entity leaders by providing data driven insights, help with local strategy development, and develop Vizient and dashboard expertise. Ensures alignment with external quality frameworks, staying up to date with best practices and industry advancements, and integrates related initiatives to deliver sustainable, measurable outcomes across the health system.

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Education Requirements

- If non-clinical:
- Bachelor's degree or higher in Business Administration,



Science or Health Care-related field.
- Master’s degree preferred.

Licensure/Certification Requirements

- If clinical: clinical education required (degree or certification or license acceptable, RN, PT, OT, SLP, NP, PA, RRT, LCSW)

Qualified Experience Requirements

- If non-clinical: If Master’s degree: five (5) years of relevant experience (eg – healthcare, business, consulting, strategy, project management, quality, performance improvement, design and implementation) –OR– If Bachelor’s degree: seven (7) years of relevant experience (eg – healthcare, business, consulting, strategy, project management, quality, performance improvement, design and implementation). Previous healthcare experience required.
- If clinical:
- Clinical

Experience:
Two (2) years of experience in a healthcare managerial role, or healthcare educator role –OR– Four (4) years of experience in a clinical setting – for example: inpatient, outpatient, home health or hospice. AND
- Professional

Experience:
If Master’s degree: three (3) years of relevant experience (eg – healthcare, business, consulting, strategy, project management, quality, performance improvement, design and implementation) –OR– If Bachelor’s degree: five (5) years of relevant experience (eg – healthcare, business, consulting, strategy, project management, quality, performance improvement, design and implementation). Clinical leadership and healthcare experience required.

Knowledge/Skills/and Abilities Requirements

- Proven ability to lead complex project initiatives in a clinical and/or business environment
- Excellent analytical and communication skills, including faci

📌 Hospital Quality Leader (Raleigh)
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