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Posted: 11-Mar-22
Location: San Francisco, California
Type: Full-time
Salary: Open
Internal Number: 65159BR
The Director of Hospital Epidemiology and Infection Prevention (HEIP) is responsible for directing all infection prevention activities of UCSF Health and its licensed facilities. Under the general direction of the Vice President for Quality and Patient Safety, and in partnership with the HEIP Medical Directors, the Director provides expertise, strategic direction, leadership, planning, organization, and general management for all aspects of HEIP at UCSF Health. This includes but is not limited to:
- Developing, directing, and managing activities related to the institutional Infection Prevention program for adult and pediatric populations at Parnassus, Mount Zion, Mission Bay, Oakland, Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute, and Ambulatory Services
- Ensuring accurate and timely reporting of all mandated legal, regulatory, and institutional infection-related surveillance data
- Directing activities for institutional compliance with The Joint Commission (TJC) accreditation Infection Prevention and associated standards for the hospital and laboratory programs and other certifications, California Department of Public Health (CDPH) reporting regulations, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Conditions of Participation (CoP) for Hospitals, Transplant Services, and ESRD
- Managing the departmental personnel and assets within a ~$4.2 million budget
- Executing collaboratively with the Departments of Quality, Regulatory Affairs, Risk Management, Patient Relations, Nursing, Facilities and Design & Construction, Safety and Campus to assure alignment of regulatory, quality, risk, and patient safety initiatives
- Ensuring institutional infection prevention-related readiness for epidemic and pandemic responses
- Developing partnership with and Interfacing with all levels of the organization
- Publicly representing HEIP in institutional and public forums
- Liaison to the local Department of Public Health and the state Healthcare Associated Infections program
- Recruiting and developing highly-skilled, diverse, and engaged team members
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