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Posted: 03-Nov-23
Location: Birmingham, Alabama
Type: Full Time
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Internal Number: 14843
UAB Medicine is looking for our next Senior Director of Risk Management! If you are an experienced clinical risk director looking for your next opportunity, please apply!
The senior director of Risk Management is responsible for overseeing and managing UAB Medicine’s comprehensive, system-wide clinical risk management program and claims within the professional liability insurance program. This position proactively identifies, assesses, and addresses clinical risks and trends to maintain the integrity of UAB Medicine’s care delivery and organizational reputation. The senior director leads a team that works collaboratively with leaders, attorneys, clinicians, providers, and other employees and staff across the clinical enterprise. Through this collaborative effort, this position will develop action plans or system improvements that will enhance an organizational culture that supports patient safety, mitigates risks of safety events, and supports the provision of safe, high-quality patient care. The senior director of Risk Management reports to the Chief Risk Officer and is responsible for 6-8 direct reports. The ideal candidate has more than 10 years of leadership experience in health care risk management or consulting.
Lead, grow, and thrive at Alabama's No. 1 Best Hospital, as ranked by U.S. News & World Report. As Alabama’s largest single-site employer, UAB Medicine is recognized worldwide as a center for innovative education, groundbreaking research, and compassionate, patient- and family-centered care. We attract the best and brightest employees because we create opportunities for them to fully realize their potential, and we recognize that each role is vital to our mission. Whether serving patients and guests or managing technical or support functions, each of us makes a difference in the lives of those in the Birmingham community, across our state, and beyond. When you become part of UAB Medicine, you join a nationally ranked academic medical center. You are empowered to lead, learn, and innovate as you deliver world-class care and support to every patient, every family, every time. We care for you by offering industry-leading benefit packages to support the individual preferences and circumstances of our diverse staff.
Key Duties & Responsibilities
- Plan, implement, and oversee the system-wide clinical risk management program for UAB Medicine and other entities covered by the professional liability insurance program, including:
- provide support, education, and training to staff to build clinical risk awareness within the organization
- clinical risk management data reporting, aggregation, analysis, and appropriate information sharing
- analyze operational/clinical areas/trends and make recommendations to mitigate clinical risk
- provide oversight, support and response to escalation of on-call events for clinical risk management services
- identify and ensure pathways to support clinicians, providers and other clinical staff as second victims in reported incidents and claims
- ensure appropriate escalation, investigation and intervention with allegations of sexual abuse, physical abuse, neglect or other intentional patient harm occurring in the healthcare setting
- Lead clinical risk management team in regards to professional liability and patient general liability claims services and processes to support the professional liability program, including:
- managing the process of opening and closing of clinical risk management professional liability and patient general liability case files
- conducting thorough clinical risk management investigations and drafting reports, case analyses, presentation materials and other information related to them
- working collaboratively with the UAS/UAB Office of Counsel on professional liability litigation cases and settlements, including the discovery process related to such cases and settlements
- drafting of certain clinical risk management reports related to clinical risk files/claims and responding to appropriate internal and/or external requests and/or queries
- responsible for the preparation, management and disposition of clinical risk management claims pursuant to the professional liability program
- making recommendations for reserves of claims to the Claims Committee and Policy Committee, preparing information and cases analyses for the Claims Committee and Policy Committee and supporting Claims and Policy Committee meeting(s) and clinical risk management meetings
- authorizing patient billing adjustments, refunds and write offs for UAB Medicine
- Work with leadership on contract review related to the clinical risk management program
- Ensure clinical risk management team participation and involvement in appropriate UAB Medicine committees and meetings
- Performs other duties as assigned
Supervisory Responsibilities
Approximately six (6) to eight (8) direct reports
Minimum Requirements
Graduate degree in business, insurance, risk management, law, health administration or public administration and ten (10) or more years of health care experience in progressively responsible roles. Significant experience as a risk manager or risk management consultant, with experience in health care risk management preferred. Experience in health care is required. Work experience may not substitute for education requirement.
ARM, CPCU, FASHRM, DFASHRM, or CPHQ or CPHRM designation preferred