Administrative Director, Quality and Performance Improvement (Glendale)

About the Role

Provides strategic leadership to advance organizational excellence in clinical quality, safety, and operational performance across Adventist Health hospitals, markets, and service lines. Establishes enterprise-wide structures, governance frameworks, and accountability mechanisms for evidence-based improvement, partnering with the C-suite, Board Quality Committee, and market leadership.

What You'll Do

• Lead quality and performance improvement strategy, providing executive briefings on quality performance and benchmarks
• Direct enterprise-wide programs driving performance in mortality, readmissions, length of stay, and patient experience
• Lead deployment of Lean, Six Sigma, and other performance improvement methodologies across hospitals and service lines
• Build and lead a team of Directors, Managers, and quality professionals across the system
• Represent the organization externally with regulators, payers, and national quality organizations

Requirements

• Master's degree in Health Care Administration, Nursing, Public Health, Medicine, or equivalent required
• 7 years' health care experience and 5 years' leadership experience in quality/patient safety required
• CPHQ, CPPS, Six Sigma Green Belt, or Lean Certification required within two years of hire; clinical background required