Hospice Quality Specialist, Remote

Find Your Passion and Purpose as a Hospice Quality Specialist

Reimagine Your Career in Corporate Healthcare

As a professional, you know that what you do impacts you as much as our patients and their families, and at AccentCare, we are united in our relentless drive to reimagine care because we want to provide the service we would seek for our own families. We think it's really special to be a part of our patient's health journey and create incredible memories while providing world-class patient care.

Offer Based on Years of Experience

The Quality Improvement Specialist is responsible for monitoring, analyzing and doing in depth review of key quality metrics foundational to AccentCare's ability to deliver high quality, safe care to our patients and achieve progress on the Hospice Quality Reporting Program*. Ensures compliance with state, federal and accreditation standards. This position is a member of the quality management team and responsible for providing expertise in quality improvement, performance improvement, and change management. They promote commitment to the corporate and subsidiary standards, policies, and procedures while teaching, coaching, and providing consultation on measure development and methodology, goal setting, data analysis (including root cause and risk assessment), problem solving, corrective action, and evaluation of the effectiveness of action taken The position guides leaders through project work, facilitation, consultation, coaching, skill building/training and reporting in a complex community based healthcare environment. They work closely with team members in the Quality, Clinical Operations, and Compliance departments as collaborators, supporting root cause analysis facilitation of safety events, and coaching teams on implementing change. They promote a culture of diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging through interactions and commit to decrease systemic healthcare disparities

• Drive safe care delivery at the agency level by assisting agencies in maintaining standardized clinical and
• documentation procedures that provide for an independent, impartial, and objective system of surveys, clinical audits and reviews for use by the Operations and AccentCare managers as appropriate; determines best metrics for evaluating success and monitoring cadence for agency success.
• Teach, coach, and consult to promote adherence to applicable legal requirements, standards, organizational policies and procedures.
• Demonstrates effective strategies for agency adoption/execution for healthcare accreditation and program requirements.
• Applies project management fundamentals to drive improvement projects from identifying the problem,
• generating interventions, and coordinating methods for monitoring.

We are committed to offering comprehensive benefits and rewards to full-time employees who work over 30 hours per week and their families, including:

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Paid time off and paid holidays
• Professional development
• Company-matching 401(k)
• Flexible spending and health savings accounts

If you meet these qualifications, we want to meet you!

• Holds a license in healthcare (e.g., nurse, physician, social work)
• Certification or advanced education in Healthcare Quality or experience that demonstrates expertise in performance improvement & regulatory standards in healthcare
• Minimum 5 years of health care experience
• Minimum 2 years of Hospice or Home Health experience
• Knowledge of regulatory standards for the home health and/or Hospice industry
• Excellent knowledge base of quality/performance improvement processes and tools
• Systems knowledge and experience in identifying root causes and developing reliable and safe
• systems/processes
• Able to effectively work with and communicate with staff in all levels of the organization
• Strong project/process management skills
• Ability to create complex documents, spreadsheet analysis models, and advanced graphics
• Ability to work in a fast paced, multi-task environment with competing priorities
• Able to lead group discussions with medical clinicians, administrators, and stakeholders

• Holds a license in healthcare (e.g., nurse, physician, social work)
• Certification or advanced education in Healthcare Quality or experience that demonstrates expertise in performance improvement & regulatory standards in healthcare

At AccentCare, our care is most compassionate when we empathize and engage with everyone, and we are at our best when we value diverse perspectives, foster open dialogue, and enact change. And we are stronger when each of us is empowered to grow, be our unique selves, and feel a sense of inclusion and belonging.

AccentCare is proud of how we are building a culture and inclusive infrastructure to help elevate the voice of all our employees with a special focus on the underrepresented and marginalized. We offer equal employment opportunities regardless of a person's race, ethnicity, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin, color, creed, age, mental disability, physical disability, or any other protected classification.