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Join UChicago Medicine, as a Regulatory Compliance Coordinator in our Transplant Program. 

The Transplant Quality and Compliance Coordinator is responsible for monitoring and improving the quality of transplant care provided at UCM, as well as ensuring compliance with all UNOS, OPTN, CMS, and Joint Commission standards.

This is achieved through effective policy administration, careful evaluation of compliance standards, and the use of change management and performance improvement strategies. This position manages the design.

Development, coordination, and continuous improvement of all clinical quality improvement initiatives and structures systems for the Transplant Center in a manner that supports the achievement of quality goals.

The Transplant Quality and Compliance Coordinator is tasked with responding to regulatory and clinical queries, as well as ensuring continued OPTN membership and CMS Transplant Center approval. Essential functions also include management of risk and promoting patient safety as top programmatic priorities.

Essential Job Functions

• Policy and protocol creation, revision, and implementation. Maintenance of all regulatory and registry records, communications, etc. Competency creation and administration
• Oversight of data entry, maintenance, and analysis. This includes reporting through EPIC and UNet, submission of standardized and payor RFIs, and other organ-specific data collections.
• Survey preparedness, regulatory inquiry responses, assessment of adverse events, and formulation and implementation of corrective action plans.
• Quality indicator/metric construction, analysis, and presentation. This also involves chairing the Transplant QAPI committee with the Transplant Center Medical Director.
• Auditing of required transplant documentation in collaboration with data analyst(s), compliance with UNOS standards, and UCMC transplant policies
• Oversight of clinical staff in the creation and maintenance of patient education materials
• Responsible for operational consent processes and documentation within all transplant and living donor programs

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing, Health Care Administration, or Business
• 3-5 Years of experience in solid organ transplantation or organ procurement

 Position Details

• Job Type/FTE: Full-time
• Shift: Day
• Unit/Department: Transplant
• CBA Code: Non-Union 

Must comply with UCMC’s COVID-19 Vaccination requirement as a condition of employment. If you have already received the vaccination, you must provide proof as part of the pre-employment process.

This is in addition to your compliance with the Flu Vaccination requirement as well. Medical and religious exemptions will be considered consistent with applicable law. Lastly, a pre-employment physical, drug screening, and background check are also required for all employees prior to hiring.

We provide superior healthcare with compassion, always mindful that each patient is a person, an individual. To accomplish this, we need employees with passion, talent, and commitment… with patients and with each other.

We’re in this together: working to advance medical innovation, serve the health needs of the community, and move our collective knowledge forward. If you’d like to add enriching human life to your profile, The University of Chicago Medicine is for you. Here at the forefront, we’re doing work that really matters. Join us. Bring your passion.

Bring your career to the next level at a hospital that is thriving; from patient satisfaction to employee engagement, we are at the Forefront of Medicine. Take advantage of all we have to offer and #BringYourPassiontotheForefront.

The University of Chicago Medicine is growing; discover how you can be a part of this pursuit of excellence at: www.uchospitals.edu/jobs  The University of Chicago Medical Center is an equal opportunity employer. 

We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, civil union status, parental status, religion, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics.