Overview:
We are Hiring at UofL Health - Jewish Hospital!
Shift: 1st shift/Full Time
About Us
UofL Health is a fully integrated regional academic health system with eight hospitals, four medical centers, Brown Cancer Center, Eye Institute, nearly 200 physician practice locations, and more than 1,000 providers in Louisville and the surrounding counties, including southern Indiana.
Additional access to UofL Health is provided through a partnership with Carroll County Memorial Hospital.
With more than 13,000 team members – physicians, surgeons, nurses, pharmacists and other highly-skilled health care professionals, UofL Health is focused on one mission: to transform the health of communities we serve through compassionate, innovative, patient-centered care.
Our Mission
As an academic health care system, we will transform the health of the communities we serve through compassionate, innovative, patient-centered care.
Job Summary
The Risk Manager is responsible for promoting an environment of risk awareness and risk reduction, and management of general and professional practices, liability claims, and insurance renewals.
The employee actively participates in alternative dispute resolution; assists in facility loss prevention and loss control measures, analysis of trending concerns, and risk education and participates in sentinel event root causes analysis process; assists SVP, Compliance, Audit & Risk with all federal, state, and local health care regulations and standard compliance.
Responsibilities:
Under the direct supervision of the System Director of Risk Management, this position will provide overall risk management process for the UofL Health system, programs, and strategies to minimize, transfer, or eliminate risk exposures to include financial impact when risk occurs and also:
• Assists in performing a risk assessment to include analyzing current risks and identifying potential risk affection organization within the system
• Assists System Director of Risk to develop, present, and evaluate educational programs relating to risk management theory, current issues, and incident prevention
• Assists the System Director with investigation, documentation, and assessment of all actual and potential liability risk exposure for UofL Health
• Participates in investigation of sentinel events and the root cause analysis process
• Arranges interviews and deposition of employees with investigators and attorneys
• Prepares answers to interrogatories, document productions and other discovery requests for professional, general and employment practices liability claims
• Assists in resolution, including trial and alternative dispute resolution, and payment of claims
• Serves as a resource to physicians, administrators, nursing personnel and other hospital and physician practice personnel; participates in developing and interpreting appropriate risk management policies, procedures, and techniques
• Participates in various other special projects related to protecting the organization against liability claims
• Assists the SVP Compliance, Audit & Risk with all federal, state, and local health care regulations and standard compliance
• Serves on committees/subcommittees, as requested
• Maintains compliance with all company policies, procedures, and standards of conduct
• Complies with HIPAA privacy and security requirements to maintain confidentiality at all times
• Performs other duties as assigned
Qualifications:
Education:
• Bachelor’s degree in related field (required)
• Master’s degree or JD (preferred)
Experience:
• Minimum of five (5) years of process improvement, claims management, litigation and insurance, and clinical experience (preferred)
Licensure:
• Active Kentucky Registered Nurse License or compact license with privileges to work in Kentucky (preferred)
Certification:
• Certified Professional in Health Care Risk Management (CPHRM) (preferred)
•Must be obtained within one (1) year of meeting qualifications for exam (required)
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