Hiring: Director, Quality & Patient Safety (BHS) Company: Beacon Health System Location: Granger, IN Job Posted Time: 2026-09-11 12:03:19 Target Skills & Keywords : Change Management, Clinical Documentation, Project Management, Regulatory Compliance, Risk Management, Root Cause Analysis, Six Sigma About the job Experience: •Minimum of seven years of progressive healthcare quality, patient safety, regulatory, accreditation, or performance improvement experience required. •Minimum of three years of leadership experience required. •Knowledge and experience in quality improvement models, such as Lean/Six Sigma, the IHI Model for Improvement, high reliability, or other comparable performance improvement strategies required. Required Skills: •Determining short- and long-term quality, patient safety, regulatory, and performance improvement objectives consistent with Beacon Health System priorities and assigned entity goals. •Developing and executing strategic quality plans for Memorial Hospital of South Bend, Beacon Children's Hospital, Memorial Epworth Hospital, Beacon Granger Hospital, and Bremen Community Hospital. •Providing leadership, guidance, and accountability for entity-based quality management, patient safety, accreditation, regulatory readiness, and performance improvement activities. •Promoting a culture of safety, continuous improvement, high reliability, and accountability across assigned hospitals and associated business entities. •Serving as the primary quality advisor to hospital presidents, executive leadership, nursing leadership, physician leaders, medical staff committees, and department directors. •Supporting system-wide standardization of quality and patient safety processes while addressing unique needs of the assigned entities, including acute care, children's hospital, inpatient behavioral health, micro-hospital, and critical access hospital environments. •Supervises, Develops, And Directs Assigned Quality Management Associates By Conducting interviews and hiring qualified candidates for open budgeted positions. •Establishing performance expectations and evaluating performance of assigned associates. Qualifications: •Bachelor's degree in nursing, healthcare administration, public health, business administration, or other healthcare-related field required. •Master's degree in nursing, healthcare administration, public health, business administration, or other healthcare-related field preferred. •Certification in Healthcare Quality (CPHQ), Patient Safety (CPPS), Lean, Six Sigma, or equivalent preferred. Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!