Position Summary: The Clinical Performance Improvement Specialist (CPIS) is responsible for providing statistical, analytical and process improvement methodology support for hospital departments, committees, services, teams, and medical staff clinical improvement initiatives with emphasis on clinical areas where experience and education as an RN is effectively applicable.  The CPIS is primarily responsible for assisting with the determination of plans and facilitating improvement efforts with evidence-based care delivery and national clinical quality improvement projects including, but not limited to: Premier’s QUEST; CMS Value-Based Purchasing; Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting Program (IQR); Hospital Outpatient Quality Reporting Program (OQR); Partnership