Department/Unit:
Risk Management
Work Shift:
Day (United States of America)
Salary Range:
$94,957.00 - $147,183.00
The Risk Manager will represent Albany Medical Center through involvement in quality/risk oriented professional organizations, delivering presentations, publishing, and maintaining contacts with members of the business community and professional organizations. Play an integral role in special projects within the department and Center-wide.
· Manage the Occurrence Reporting System and sentinel event process.
· Facilitate assigned improvement teams in analyzing events, identifying performance problems in work processes, redesigning work processes, and implementing possible improvements
· Prepare debriefs and or root cause analysis reports, which meet regulations, as well as serve the needs of the work teams problem solving.
· Design, develop, and implement a process for monitoring of action plans.
· Manage the selection, preparation, and dissemination of occurrence/quality data and reports that apply sound statistical process control and quality assurance concepts.
· Manage events and safety occurrences within service area
· Follow sentinel event protocol
· Complete RCA process within DOH guidelines and following the departmental protocol.
· Report to DOH immediately upon completion of Root Cause Analysis
· Manage the Sentinel Event alert process.
· Oversee Culture of Safety workgroups
· Complete FMEA and comply with regulatory requirements.
· Manage the reportable event process
· Identify any and all reportable events within service area
· Report in timely manner
· Respond to any inquiry’s from the regulatory bodies within service area
· Design, develop and manage early warning system for service area
· Manage loss control strategy development for service area.
· Manage, design and develop RM educational efforts for service area.
· Manage, design and develop system review process for service areas.
· Assist with and manage the data analysis process within service area.
· Liaison with DOH, OMH, DNV and other agencies as necessary.
· Provide support and advice to members of the service area involved in sentinel events or claims/litigation.
Thank you for your interest in Albany Med Health System!
Albany Med Health System is an equal opportunity employer.
This role may require access to information considered sensitive to Albany Med Health System, its patients, affiliates, and partners, including but not limited to HIPAA Protected Health Information and other information regulated by Federal and New York State statutes. Workforce members are expected to ensure that:
Access to information is based on a “need to know” and is the minimum necessary to properly perform assigned duties. Use or disclosure shall not exceed the minimum amount of information needed to accomplish an intended purpose. Reasonable efforts, consistent with Albany Med Health System policies and standards, shall be made to ensure that information is adequately protected from unauthorized access and modification.
Albany Medical Center, northeastern New York’s only academic medical center, is one of the Capital Region’s largest private employers with more than 9,000 employees. Albany Medical Center provides the highest level of patient care across disciplines, while receiving regional, national, and international recognition for high standards in patient care, education, and biomedical research.
The 766-bed Albany Medical Center offers access to the latest medical services and technological innovations and includes one of the busiest emergency rooms and trauma centers in New York, a children’s hospital and dedicated pediatric emergency room, intensive care units for adults and children, and organ transplant services. Albany Medical College graduates more than 200 medical doctors each year, as well as PAs, CRNAs, biomedical scientists, and bioethicists. Albany Medical College operates a biomedical research enterprise and the region’s largest physician practice with more than 500 doctors.
Albany Medical Center, along with Albany Medical College, is a partner in the Albany Med Health System, the largest and only regionally governed, not-for-profit health system serving northeastern New York and western New England.
