Regional Director, Clinical Informatics - Full-time / Part-time

Overview

About Us

Dominican Hospital (a member of Dignity Health) is a 222-bed facility that offers a wide range of services to residents of California's Central Coast. With 24/7 emergency care, comprehensive care in cardiac, orthopedics, oncology, women's and children's services, we continue to lead the region in medical innovation and excellence in healthcare.

Comprehensive Care

Dominican offers emergency services and is a Certified Stroke Center and Chest Pain Center. Dominican's services include the only comprehensive Cancer Center in Santa Cruz County, a Total Joint Replacement program, and advanced neurological and endoscopic services. Dominican regularly receives 'A' grades for hospital safety from Leapfrog Group, and has received national recognition for superior patient safety, cardiac care, and stroke treatment from Healthgrades, a leading provider of comprehensive information about physicians and hospitals.

As Santa Cruz County's heart attack (STEMI) receiving center, Dominican Hospital provides cutting edge cardiac care. The hospital's heart attack treatment times consistently beat the national average, and the hospital offers two cardiac catheterization labs available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Groundbreaking cardiac procedures at Dominican include the Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVR) procedure, which allows for heart valve replacement without opening a patient's chest.

Dominican Hospital has forged significant partnerships with area hospitals to bring exceptional care to Santa Cruz County. The hospital offers a level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) through a partnership with Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford. Neurosurgery at Dominican is also offered through a partnership with Stanford Health Care.

In The Community

Beyond care inside the hospital, Dominican is dedicated to the health and wellness of the Santa Cruz community.

Community programs include a Mobile Wellness Clinic, a tattoo removal program, and support groups for patients and new mothers. In addition, and in accordance with our mission, Dominican Hospital supports programs for the underserved in our community, including children and adults, students, seniors, and the homeless population. Dominican also has received several awards for environmental excellence.

ResponsibilitiesPosition Summary: Improves the quality and effectiveness of a region's overall health care program by providing leadership, coordinating and facilitating the evaluation and improvement of a wide range of programs. Collaborates with hospital and ambulatory clinic leadership at the regional level to develop effective plans. Supports system level initiatives such as major capitol projects and joint ventures. Principal Duties and Accountabilities:

• Creates the regional clinical strategy for use of technology and optimizes the use of existing clinical systems across a designated region of 3- 6 facilities and associated ambulatory clinics. Provides strategic leadership for the professional advancement and development of all informatics staff. Serves as a expert consult to facility, clinic, and regional senior leadership on the use of technology to meet the strategic and operational needs of the organization
• Provides leadership and oversight for a comprehensive informatics program, with a primary focus on clinical practice, administration, and research in support of interdisciplinary, patient focused care. Leads clinical informatics plans, data analysis programs, creation of informatics policies and procedures and serves as a champion for complex clinical projects and systems.
• Participates and oversees system design, test, implementation, documentation, validation, analysis, processes re-engineering, education, training, conversion, to ensure optimum success with ROI. Coordinates the collection and reporting of metrics defining benefits realization, and return on investment associated with Clinical Information Systems. Directs the analysis of ROI metrics post implementation.
• Promotes an environment that supports the conduct and utilization of research in practice and a spirit of inquiry. Promotes innovative approaches to solving legacy problems, including notel technical and workflow approaches. Remains current of IT industry changes and federally mandated programs especially in in EHR related field. Acts as business sponsor for new change and is a role model for effective change management strategies. This position is a role model for use of innovation in healthcare and sets appropriate targets for professional development within their staff members.

QualificationsEducation and Experience:

• Bachelor's degree or a combination of education and/or additional job related experience in lieu of the degree.
• Minimum of five (5) years of healthcare experience and minimum of five (5) years of leadership experience.

Licensure:

• In an acute care setting: Clinical licensure in one of the following: Registered Nurse, Pharmacist, Radiological Technologist, Clinical Lab Scientist, Respiratory Therapist, Occupational Therapist, Physical Therapist, or other clinical specialty requiring specific education. In an ambulatory setting: Job-related operational leadership experience.