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A Brief Overview
The Accreditation and Regulatory Program Coordinator manages Children's survey readiness leading to surveys and coordination of activities during regulatory agency visits for the purpose of enhancing the triennial review process for all organization-wide and department-level surveys, inspections, and agency investigations. The Accreditation Program Coordinator interprets internal/external business challenges and recommends best practices to improve products, processes, or services. This role may lead functional teams or projects with moderate resource requirements, risk, and/or complexity. Leads others to solve complex problems and helps to identify innovative solutions. The Accreditation Program Coordinator works independently, with guidance in only the most complex situations, and impacts the achievement of customer, operational, project, and/or service objectives. This role communicates difficult concepts and negotiates with others to adopt a different point of view.

Essential Functions

Lead continuous readiness efforts and serve as an organizational resource and leader in accreditation and regulation

Maintains up-to-date knowledge of TJC/CMS regulations for all applicable programs (Hospital, Home Care, Transplant, End Stage Renal Disease, etc.)
Ensures timely and appropriate communication of all new and updated regulatory requirements to provide guidance to the organization and clinical and non-clinical departments
Facilitates the development and implementation of newly adopted clinical and non-clinical policies and procedures through active collaboration with the originating departments; facilitates the revision of current policies by providing direction in meeting and maintaining compliance with regulatory requirements
Assists the organization with regulatory compliance and provides direction to designated department leaders, monitors compliance with regulatory requirements at all levels of implementation
Maintenance and support of the centralized survey tracer and audit database which provides tools to assist with a consistent assessment of organizational and departmental compliance with regulatory requirements
Leads in the internal mock survey program, which includes planning, development of tools, training, conducting mock surveys, reporting findings, and follow-up as needed
Works with leadership to plan, facilitate, participate, and follow up on findings of consultative surveys which include scheduling, contracting, and billing
Performs walking rounds regularly to mentor leaders and staff and reinforce expected practices related to TJC, CMS, state law and regulation, and organizational policy/procedure
Works with the Marketing Department to maintain and refresh the TJC resources available to staff on the internal intranet site.
Maintains a collaborative relationship with the Organization's Hospital Associations Accreditation/Regulatory Forum
Serve as liaison with contracted consulting agency

Manage all ongoing application requirements, plan, and coordinate accreditation and/or regulatory surveys, and oversee corrective action plans

Leads annual intracycle monitoring, report findings and develop action plans, while monitoring metrics as required
Oversee TJC website and communicate to appropriate audiences. Maintains necessary documents
Leads survey preparations and serves as a leader during an actual survey by escorting and organizing other survey escorts/scribes
Oversees and provides training to command center staff during a survey

Education Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree In Nursing, Business, Healthcare Administration, Healthcare Information Management, or a related field from an accredited college or university Required and
Master's Degree Preferred

Experience Qualifications

Minimum 3 years of experience in the healthcare-related industry Required and
Minimum 3 years of experience with health care compliance and regulatory activities Preferred and
Two years of project management experience and/or leadership experience Preferred

Skills and Abilities

Leadership skills
Knowledge of deemed status accrediting organization standards and regulatory compliance issues
Experience applying quality management/performance improvement and customer service approaches
Demonstrated capabilities with Microsoft-based software applications including Word, Excel, Teams, PowerPoint, Outlook
Understanding standards & regulations related to clinical documentation with the ability to read and assess documentation for compliance, quality and safety; also ability to read medical records to assess response with regulatory compliance reviews such as TJC, CMS, and accrediting/regulatory programs.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Project manage large organizational-wide initiatives
Problem solve & make decisions
Interpret legal and regulatory documents
Critical thinking for assess appropriate documentation sharing and communication with surveyors

Licenses and Certifications

RN - Registered Nurse - State Licensure and/or Compact State Licensure If filled by a nurse - current and valid Nebraska RN license/RN compact license. Required and
Health Services\BCLS - Basic Life Support If filled by a nurse - current and valid Basic Life Support (BLS) required if filled by a nurse. Through the American Heart Association Required and
HACP - Healthcare Accreditation Certification Program or equivalent within 3 years of hire. Required

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