**JOB DESCRIPTION** The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai’s Affiliation with NYC H+H|Queens serving culturally diverse communities in Queens, New York, seeks a physician to join our team at Queens as the Chief Patient Safety Officer. This individual, will lead the vision, strategy, and implementation of Patient Safety activities across the facility, ensuring patients receive the highest standard of care by identifying and addressing potential risks in care delivery models. **RESPONSIBILITIES** + Creation of a robust patient safety culture + Participate in or lead root cause analysis discussions + Track & trend data/improvements for National Patient Safety goals + Support, assist and participate in system wide initiatives related to patient safety + Organize distribution of a culture of safety survey to help measure the hospital’s safety initiatives + Coordinate data collection and entry for the LeapFrog Group + Support, advise and assist in implementation of just culture to help create a foundation for balanced accountability and patient safety across the organization + Educate staff on National Patient Safety Goals, how to report safety events and the importance of reporting + Mentor and sponsor patient safety projects + Coordinate regular patient safety meetings. Collect, track, and coordinate action plans for shared patient safety concerns + Support and assist hospital in preparing, managing and completing CMS/TJC surveys related to patient safety + Share patient safety improvements regularly with front-line staff + Support leadership and participate in planning, mitigation and response to emergencies to ensure patient safety is safe guarded + Support, assist and participate in system wide initiatives related to patient safety **QUALIFICATIONS** + Medical Degree required + A valid New York State License + Plus Master’s degree (MPH, MS, MBA, MHA) preferred + Minimum of 5 years of clinical experience and administrative experience + Residency trained and Board Certified in respective specialty + Certified Professional in Patient Safety (CPPS) certification preferred + Computer skills: Use of database and report writing software. Experience with MS Office products. + Knowledgeable in patient safety, performance improvement, risk management, regulatory & accreditation, healthcare administration, data & reporting, policy and procedures, leadership, education + Superior organizational, planning, and project management skills + Strong leadership and change management skills + Desire and ability to work with multiple stakeholders including business, clinical, and IT leadership and staff + Excellent customer service and people skills + Willing to travel to NYC Health + Hospitals patient care sites within the 5 boroughs + Ability to remain positive and supportive under high stress situations Compensation range from 222K to 300K (not including bonuses / incentive compensation or benefits) **Salary Disclosure Information:** Mount Sinai Health System provides a salary range to comply with the New York City law on Salary Transparency in Job Advertisements. Actual salaries depend on a variety of factors, including experience, specialties, historical productivity, historical collections, and hospital/community need. As such, an actual salary may fall closer to one or the other end of the range, and in certain circumstances, may wind up being outside of the listed salary range. The salary range listed is for full-time employment and does not include bonuses / incentive compensation or benefits. **Please specify Job Title of interest and send CV with Cover Letter to:** **Alex Cano** **Executive Director Physician Recruitment** **Mount Sinai Health System** **Alex.cano@mountsinai.org** **ABOUT US** **Strength Through Diversity** The Mount Sinai Health System believes that diversity, equity, and inclusion are key drivers for excellence. We share a common devotion to delivering exceptional patient care. When you join us, you become a part of Mount Sinai’s unrivaled record of achievement, education, and advancement as we revolutionize medicine together. We invite you to participate actively as a part of the Mount Sinai Health System team by: + Using a lens of equity in all aspects of patient care delivery, education, and research to promote policies and practices to allow opportunities for all to thrive and reach their potential. + Serving as a role model confronting racist, sexist, or other inappropriate actions by speaking up, challenging exclusionary organizational practices, and standing side-by-side in support of colleagues who experience discrimination. + Inspiring and fostering an environment of anti-racist behaviors among and between departments and co-workers. At Mount Sinai, our leaders strive to learn, empower others, and embrace change to further advance equity and improve the well-being of staff, patients, and the organization. We expect our leaders to embrace anti-racism, create a collaborative and respectful environment, and constructively disrupt the status quo to improve the system and enhance care for our patients. We work hard to create an inclusive, welcoming and nurturing work environment where all feel they are valued, belong and are able to advance professionally. Explore more about this opportunity and how you can help us write a new chapter in our history! **"** **About the Mount Sinai Health System:** Mount Sinai Health System is one of the largest academic medical systems in the New York metro area, with 48,000 employees working across eight hospitals, more than 400 outpatient practices, more than 600 research and clinical labs, a school of nursing, and a leading school of medicine and graduate education. Mount Sinai advances health for all people, everywhere, by taking on the most complex health care challenges of our time—discovering and applying new scientific learning and knowledge; developing safer, more effective treatments; educating the next generation of medical leaders and innovators; and supporting local communities by delivering high-quality care to all who need it. Through the integration of its hospitals, labs, and schools, Mount Sinai offers comprehensive health care solutions from birth through geriatrics, leveraging innovative approaches such as artificial intelligence and informatics while keeping patients’ medical and emotional needs at the center of all treatment. The Health System includes approximately 9,000 primary and specialty care physicians and 11 free-standing joint-venture centers throughout the five boroughs of New York City, Westchester, Long Island, and Florida. Hospitals within the System are consistently ranked by Newsweek’s® “The World’s Best Smart Hospitals, Best in State Hospitals, World Best Hospitals and Best Specialty Hospitals” and by U.S. News & World Report's® “Best Hospitals” and “Best Children’s Hospitals.” The Mount Sinai Hospital is on the U.S. News & World Report® “Best Hospitals” Honor Roll for 2023-2024. For more information, visit https://www.mountsinai.org or find Mount Sinai on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. The Mount Sinai Health System is an equal opportunity employer. We comply with applicable Federal civil rights laws and does not discriminate, exclude, or treat people differently on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression. We are passionately committed to addressing racism and its effects on our faculty, staff, students, trainees, patients, visitors, and the communities we serve. Our goal is for Mount Sinai to become an anti-racist health care and learning institution that intentionally addresses structural racism.” **EOE Minorities/Women/Disabled/Veterans** **Requisition ID** : 3019007