Vice President, Clinical Quality – Safety

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⛰️ Colorado – Remote

⛰️ Colorado – Remote

💵 $275k - $382k / year

⏰ Full Time

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👔 Vice President

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DaVita Kidney Care

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1994

🏥 Healthcare

⚕️ Healthcare Insurance

💰 Post-IPO Debt on 2021-02

Healthcare • Healthcare Insurance

DaVita Kidney Care is a leading healthcare company that provides dialysis and related treatments for patients with kidney disease. Committed to improving the quality of life for its patients, DaVita focuses on offering integrated kidney care and supporting its diverse team of healthcare professionals, including nurses, dietitians, social workers, and patient care technicians. The company emphasizes a strong culture, career development, and comprehensive benefits to create an inclusive and supportive work environment for its employees.

📋 Description

• Serve as the physician executive for DaVita's AHRQ-certified Patient Safety Organization • Provide physician leadership to dialysis quality improvement and national patient safety initiatives • Review adverse events and safety signals and guide clinical risk interventions • Educate senior executives, operations, and quality leaders on patient safety findings • Lead infection prevention, including bloodstream infection reduction, tuberculosis and hepatitis B prevention and surveillance, and employee health matters • Lead immunization initiatives and identify emerging population health opportunities in vaccines • Lead medication management and clinical protocol development and revision, focusing on anemia management and bone mineral disease • Co-chair the Pharmacology and Therapeutics Committee and oversee formulary exception review and utilization interpretation • Interpret studies and provide clinical expertise on anemia therapies, bone mineral disease treatments, and additional pharmacotherapy topics • Evaluate novel therapeutics and partner with research and development colleagues on protocol design • Partner with laboratory leadership on test utilization, result interpretation standards, reference ranges, and clinical workflow integration • Lead evaluation and safe deployment of dialysis machines and devices with biomedical engineering colleagues • Guide enterprise decisions on new equipment, assays, and therapies • Develop clinical relationships with academic medical centers and nephrology training programs • Represent DaVita in national forums and professional society meetings • Contribute to enterprise priorities including fluid management, dialysis adequacy, and physician communication on new modalities • Identify emerging clinical risks, quality opportunities, and innovations shaping kidney care strategy

🎯 Requirements

• M.D., D.O., or MBBS degree • Board certification in Nephrology • Active, unrestricted medical license • Qualification as a licensed or certified medical professional appropriately qualified in the relevant area of care, as required for patient safety organization physician designation • Minimum 10 years of post-training experience as a practicing nephrologist • Experience as a dialysis medical director • Demonstrated leadership in patient safety, quality improvement, event review, or clinical risk management • Working knowledge of anemia management, bone mineral disease, and dialysis pharmacotherapy • Experience developing or governing clinical protocols • Ability to partner effectively with non-physician business and operational leaders • Ability to interpret complex clinical data, evaluate strength of evidence, and translate findings into clinical recommendations • Credible and confident communication across executive, clinical, regulatory, and external audiences • Travel approximately 25 to 30 percent • Preferred: publication record in patient safety, anemia, bone mineral disease, or dialysis outcomes; experience evaluating devices or diagnostics; experience partnering with academic medical centers

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage • 401(k) match • Paid time off • PTO cash out • Family resources • EAP counseling sessions • Headspace® access • Backup child and elder care • Maternity/paternity leave • Professional development programs • On-demand virtual leadership and development courses through StarLearning • Clinical practice up to 8 hours per week may continue, carved out from DaVita employment • Travel-related facility visits, national clinical meetings, academic partner engagements, and professional society meetings