Coordinator: Outcomes - Surgical Clinical Reviewer at Shriners Children's

Shriners Children’s is an organization that respects, supports, and values each other. We are engaged in providing excellence in patient care, embracing multi-disciplinary education, and research with global impact. We foster a learning environment that values evidenced based practice, experience, innovation, and critical thinking. Our compassion, integrity, accountability, and resilience define us as leaders in pediatric specialty care for our children and their families.

All employees are eligible for medical, dental and vision coverage on their first day! In addition, upon hire all employees are eligible for a 403(b) and Roth 403 (b) Retirement Saving Plan with matching contributions of up to 6% after one year of service. Employees in a full-time or part-time status (40+ hours per pay period) will also be eligible for paid time off, life insurance, short term and long-term disability and the Flexible Spending Account (FSA) plans. Additional benefits available to full-time and part-time employees include tuition reimbursement, home & auto, hospitalization, critical illness, pet insurance and much more! Coverage is available to employees and their qualified dependents in accordance with the plans. Benefits may vary based on state law.

The Outcomes Coordinator - Surgical Clinical Reviewer will collect and submit reliable data to the American College of Surgeons National Quality Improvement Program (NSQIP). This position will work closely with the healthcare team to identify opportunities for clinical quality improvement and other special projects. This position will also be responsible for overall maintenance of the clinical outcomes program and works to collect and track important patient outcome indicators and assists with translating results into clinical care of the patient and their families. Responsible for working with all clinical departments to capture data that improves clinical care, entering clinical data into a database, tracking patient visits, auditing the data for completeness and accuracy, and assisting with streamlining clinical processes related to Outcomes data collection.

Responsible for oversight of the patient reported outcomes initiative

• train and support clinic staff in data collection
• train and support clinician providers on interpreting patient-reported outcomes results in the EMR
  
  
  

Responsible for collection and submission of reliable data to the ACS NSQIP. This is accomplished through high-quality data compilation, documentation and entry into the ACS NSQIP database of all eligible surgeries for the hospital.

• Collect clinical data on variables, including perioperative risk factors, intraoperative variables and 30 day postoperative outcomes for patients undergoing major and minor surgical procedures in both inpatient and outpatient settings
• validates and submits the data
• performs quality assessment and improvement activities
• communicates with surgical patients via a 30-day follow up letter or phone call
  
  
  

Required

• Bachelor in Healthcare required
• Clinical chart review and abstraction experience required
• Must complete the ACS NSQIP Pediatric training prior to assuming the role
  
  
  

Preferred

• MSN preferred
• 1 year OR preferred
• 1 year ICU or PACU preferred
• clinical and medical records experience preferred
• quality improvement or patient safety knowledge and experience preferred