Director of Quality and Regulatory - Transplantation Services and VAD

Location: Tufts Medical Center; normal office setting with frequent contact with patients, medical staff, and department personnel.

Salary: $122,301.82–$155,933.24 annually.

Company

Tufts Medical Center is an academic medical center, teaching hospital, and research institution providing specialty healthcare and transplant services across New England.

What you will do

• Oversee clinical quality, patient safety, and performance improvement initiatives for the Transplant Program and VAD services.
• Identify improvement opportunities, design performance indicators, analyze outcomes, and monitor quality metrics.
• Coordinate corrective action plans resulting from surveys, root cause analyses, and other findings.
• Plan and report adverse event reviews and coordinate transplant mortality and morbidity conferences.
• Maintain current policies and guidelines for heart, kidney, liver, and VAD services.
• Support quality management data systems, Epic dashboards, QAPI reporting, and SRTR data review.

Requirements

• Master’s degree in Nursing, Healthcare Administration, Public Health, or a related health science field; or a bachelor’s degree in Nursing, Public Health, or a related field with eight years of related healthcare quality and regulatory experience.
• Strong knowledge of healthcare quality improvement processes and regulatory compliance.
• Experience with healthcare data collection, aggregation, analysis, chart reviews, and quality reporting.
• Strong leadership, management, communication, analytical, and collaboration skills.
• Ability to manage multiple projects, interpret clinical data, and present information to diverse audiences.
• Proficiency with healthcare data systems and quality management software.

Nice to have

• Quality and regulatory experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment in an academic medical center environment.
• Opportunity to collaborate with physician leadership, surgery, data and informatics, and other departments.
• Comprehensive Total Rewards package supporting health, financial security, and career growth.
• Work includes participation in planned and unplanned regulatory surveys involving The Joint Commission, DPH, CMS, UNOS, and other agencies.