We are seeking a motivated and skilled Care Design and Optimization Specialist to join our team. In this role, you will collaborate, facilitate, and lead multidisciplinary teams focused on enhancing healthcare quality and efficiency. You will be responsible for designing, implementing, and sustaining best practice care standards across our health system and care continuum. Working closely with clinical, quality, ancillary, analytics, finance, and physician leaders, you will analyze data, investigate potential improvements, and monitor key metrics to ensure that our interventions positively impact quality outcomes and reduce unwarranted care variation and healthcare costs.
Key Responsibilities:
Lead and facilitate multidisciplinary teams to implement performance improvements.
Design and sustain best practices in care standards.
Analyze care variation data to support informed decision-making.
Monitor process and outcome measures, ensuring interventions align with quality improvement objectives.
Collaborate with internal stakeholders to drive healthcare quality and cost-effectiveness.
Education Requirements:
Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) required.
Master's degree in a healthcare-related field or MSN preferred.
Licensure/Certification:
Must be a Registered Nurse (RN) with current Indiana licensure.
Experience Requirements:
Minimum of two years' experience in healthcare.
Experience in quality and/or performance improvement preferred.
Public speaking experience preferred.
Additional Skills and Qualifications:
Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
If you are passionate about quality healthcare and continuous improvement, we invite you to apply to join our team in making a difference across our healthcare system.
Be your best. Be a Parkview nurse.
You wanted to help others, so you chose a career in nursing. Now choose the health system that can help you be your best - Parkview. We're the healthcare leader in northeast Indiana, with 10 hospitals, Magnet status and everything you need to launch or grow a great career in nursing. Our team, comprised of over 13,000 co-workers, is dedicated to improving the health and inspiring the well-being of individuals and families in communities throughout northeast Indiana and northwest Ohio.
Great compensation and benefits.
At Parkview, we provide a Total Rewards program that includes great compensation and benefits, a work/life balance and learning opportunities to enhance your career and personal life.
Compensation - Great compensation package, sign-on bonus (Up to $40,000 for critical needs areas), relocation bonus
Benefits - Competitive benefit discounts and plan flexibility through Signature Care PPO network, Parkview Employee Assistance Program, Parkview Workplace Wellness
Tuition Assistance - If you want to go back to school, whether for personal or professional reasons, Parkview wants to help. We offer tuition assistance to any eligible co-worker after just six months of continuous employment with Parkview.
Student Loan Payback Program - Have large student loans to pay back? As a Parkview nurse, you're eligible to receive student loan payback dollars from Parkview.
Nursing Residency Program - At Parkview we offer an environment focused on personal and professional growth, while supporting our nurses as they transition from student to professional nurse. Our Nurse Residency Program is designed to give you the confidence and skills you need to grow a successful career, providing excellent care to every person, every day.
Creative employment opportunities.
Parkview Travel Program - We understand there are many seasons in life, and your career should reflect your desire to grow when and where it's right for you. That's why our Travel RN program offers assignments lasting three to nine months, giving you the opportunity to expand your career while also providing the flexibility you desire.
Parkview RN Hotel Program - We know the thought of relocating to a new community can be a hard decision. Parkview offers lodging assistance to RNs who live over 50 mile from their Parkview hospital location - allowing you to see what it's like to be part of our team before relocating to northeast Indiana.
A culture that just feels right.
At Parkview, we are known for our quality of care, innovation and collaboration among all care team members. Our culture can be seen and felt when walking through our front door and continues into the clinical care areas and administrative offices. Our nurses and leadership display shared values, friendliness, genuine compassion and a dedication to providing excellent care to every person, every day. But this caring continues beyond our doors as well. As a mission-driven, not-for-profit health system, Parkview also gives back to the community. Each year, we sponsor numerous outreach initiatives to address the health priorities of our region. Because at Parkview, we believe in better - not just for patients, but for the entire community.