Quality Coordinator
Perimeter Behavioral Health is one of the nation’s leading mental and behavioral healthcare providers, delivering hope and healing through compassionate, evidence-based care. Our network includes inpatient psychiatric hospitals, residential treatment centers, and outpatient programs dedicated to helping patients achieve lasting recovery.
Perimeter Behavioral Hospital of Dallas is seeking a Quality Coordinator to join our team and support patient safety, quality of care, regulatory compliance, infection prevention, patient satisfaction, and continuous performance improvement.
The Quality Coordinator works closely with the Director of Quality & Risk Management, hospital leadership, clinical teams, and non-clinical departments to identify trends and risks, analyze quality data, address concerns, and support sustainable improvements across the hospital.
Key Responsibilities
- Support the hospital's Quality/Performance Improvement and Risk Management programs in accordance with regulatory, accreditation, corporate, and hospital requirements.
- Collect, analyze, trend, and present quality and performance improvement data to leadership and committees.
- Identify performance gaps, patient safety risks, trends, and opportunities for improvement.
- Prepare quality reports, dashboards, summaries, charts, and presentations.
- Participate in quality improvement, process improvement, corrective action, and risk management initiatives.
- Assist with root cause analyses, audits, tracers, risk assessments, regulatory readiness, and follow-up monitoring.
- Coordinate quality assurance and infection prevention/control activities, including outbreak investigations and monitoring of corrective measures.
- Maintain accurate quality, risk, infection prevention, complaint, grievance, and performance improvement documentation.
- Prepare required monthly, quarterly, and annual quality reports.
- Collaborate with departments to promote patient safety, regulatory compliance, quality outcomes, and continuous improvement.
Patient Advocacy & Complaints
- Receive, document, track, and coordinate resolution of patient and family complaints and grievances.
- Ensure appropriate follow-up and documentation in accordance with hospital and regulatory requirements.
- Conduct patient rounding and engage patients and families to identify concerns and opportunities to improve the patient experience.
- Monitor patient satisfaction feedback and identify trends requiring corrective or preventive action.
- Communicate with patients, families, guardians, physicians, supervisors, and department leaders regarding concerns and resolutions.
- Escalate significant patient safety concerns, unresolved grievances, potential legal issues, and other risks to appropriate leadership.
- Maintain confidentiality of patient, family, employee, and organizational information.
Regulatory Compliance
- Support compliance with federal, state, and local regulations, Joint Commission/accreditation standards, hospital policies, and corporate requirements.
- Promote a culture of patient safety, accountability, quality improvement, and regulatory compliance.
- Maintain current knowledge through training, continuing education, and professional development.
- Perform other duties as assigned by hospital leadership.
Education & Experience
- Bachelor's degree in Healthcare Administration, Quality Management, Business Administration, Public Health, Epidemiology, or a related field preferred.
- At least 1 year of healthcare, hospital, behavioral health, quality improvement, risk management, public health, or related experience preferred.
- Experience with quality improvement, performance improvement, project management, process improvement, or healthcare operations.
- Experience collecting, analyzing, trending, and presenting data required.
Skills & Abilities
- Strong analytical, organizational, communication, problem-solving, and critical-thinking skills.
- Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively with interdisciplinary teams.
- Strong attention to detail and ability to manage multiple priorities.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office/Microsoft 365 and ability to learn electronic healthcare, quality, and reporting systems.
- Knowledge of PDSA, Lean Six Sigma, or other process-improvement methodologies is a plus.