DIRECTOR, HOSPITAL PHARMACY SERVICES: MEDICATION MANAGEMENT & SAFETY – 6 HOSPITAL SYS
Job Description
About Caritas Christi (CCHC): Established in 1985, Caritas Christi Health Care (CCHC) is the second largest health care system in New England, employs 12,000+ and serves more than 1 million patients annually. The system is a $1 billion comprehensive, integrated health care delivery network consisting of six hospitals, a 400-physician group practice, health sciences college, clinical laboratory network, community-based human service agency for women and children, and centers for hospice and home care. Caritas Christi’s six geographically diverse acute care hospitals provide community-based medicine and tertiary care to patients throughout Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Rhode Island.
Today at CCHC there is a renewed sense of purpose, direction and transformation as we unite and integrate all member entities. The transformation will accelerate with clinical, administrative and operational integration to facilitate the sharing of resources, leadership and best practice standards. This exciting new chapter in the system’s history is marked by a profound and significant financial turnaround in FY ‘05 and solidifies our commitment to mission, vision and values. Continued forward movement will enhance CCHC’s emergence as one of the region’s premiere value driven health care delivery systems, dedicated to the delivery of an exceptional patient experience.
Job Description: Reporting to the Director of Pharmacy Services for Caritas Christi, this role is responsible for formulating policy and instituting models that promote medication safety in all aspects of the medication management process. This role is responsible for coordinating reporting, system and process evaluation, formulation of recommendations and initiatives, intervention strategies, and monitoring of activities related to medication safety. This individual serves as a liaison to facility pharmacy, nursing, and the medical staff leadership personnel.
Some responsibilities include (but are not limited to): - Analyze facility reporting systems to determine their effectiveness in terms of adverse drug event capture, timeliness of reporting, and usefulness of information captured. - Formulate recommendations for modifications in the reporting system - Identify best practices for medication safety. - Analyze current practices that contribute to medication errors and take proactive steps for prevention. - Provide project management and overall facilitation for prioritizing and advocating patient safety initiatives related to the design and implementation of systems and processes that support medication safety. - Review medication safety bulletins, alerts, or publications on a monthly basis and conduct an assessment of the medication management systems and process to determine where opportunities for improvement exist. - Evaluate systems and process change recommendations on a system wide level to determine where medication safety risks exist and opportunities for improvement are needed. - Develop and perform a system wide analysis of adverse drug events based on data reported from each facility. - Formulate educational sessions for nurses, pharmacists, physicians, and allied health professionals based on reports in the literature, responses to corrective action plans, and recommendations from committee activities. - Develop, reviews, refines, and implements a medication safety plan for Caritas Christi. - Establish a system wide working forum on medication safety. Develop and facilitate the implementation of meetings, selection of membership, agenda planning, minutes, follow-up, tracking, and timeliness across all Caritas Christi facilities. Experience and Qualifications: - A Baccalaureate degree in Pharmacy or Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) degree is required with an in depth background in clinical pharmacy practice and systems design and analysis - A Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) degree or Masters Degree in Hospital Pharmacy is preferred. - An active license as a registered pharmacist in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (or eligibility through reciprocity) is required. - A minimum of 7 to 10 years of experience in a hospital pharmacy setting. Must possess solid experience in the development of programs focused on achieving positive outcomes in the use of medications. - A minimum of 3 to 5 years of experience in hospital pharmacy management or supervision of a pharmacy program is preferred. A strong background in clinical pharmacy practice coupled with pharmacy operations responsibilities. - A general or specialized pharmacy residency is preferred. Experience in an integrated health system is preferred. - Demonstrates a thorough knowledge of rules, regulations, policies, and laws pertaining to the preparation, storage, procurement use, and disposal of medications in the practice of Pharmacy for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. - Possesses substantial knowledge in project management, performance improvement, risk management principles, patient safety theory, and planning is required. - Possesses a data driven mindset and must understand and use basic statistical methods and formal analytic methods. Must be able to work with a plethora of disconnected data from which decisions must be made.
Confidential Contact: leaders@caritaschristi.org
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