Quality, Compliance & Accreditation Specialist - 40 hours/week

KVH is an integrated healthcare delivery system that includes 24-hour emergency care, inpatient, and outpatient hospital services through KVH Hospital. Clinics and services provided include family medicine, internal medicine, a geriatric nurse practitioner program, home health and hospice, physical therapy, orthopedics, general surgery, pediatrics, women’s health, and urgent care.

Kittitas Valley Healthcare expects all employees to uphold our Vision & Mission. The KVH Vision, Mission & Guiding Principles can be found at http://www.kvhealthcare.org/mission-and-vision.

KVH puts ‘employee care’ high on the priority list, with health benefits like low cost medical, dental, and vision insurance and a robust employee wellness program. KVH offers company contribution toward your choice of medical, dental, and vision insurance coverage, including coverage available for spouses/ domestic partners, and dependent children. KVH believes that continuing education is critical to our mission and vision.  We have implemented many educational programs such as the Medical Assistant Apprenticeship program and certification pay to encourage continuing education.  We want our employees to know they are valued. One of the ways we show this is by quickly vesting employees, making them pension eligible after just one year of part-time status. To view more details about the comprehensive benefits package we offer to eligible employees visit our website -

Benefits - KV Healthcare

www.kvhealthcare.org

The Quality, Compliance & Accreditation Specialist serves as the primary support for the Compliance & Privacy Officer and the Senior Director of Quality, and assists the departments of Quality, Risk Management, Infection Prevention, Employee Health, and Compliance & Privacy with routine departmental functions. This role administers the organizational document management system, coordinates policy review workflows, supports Washington State public hospital district records retention requirements, assists with survey readiness, aggregates data, prepares meeting materials, and provides strengthened administrative and regulatory support to the Compliance & Privacy Officer.

What is required...

• At least two (2) years of experience in an administrative, HIM, quality, compliance, or regulatory support role in healthcare
• Experience with document control/policy management systems and version control workflows
• Foundational understanding of healthcare regulatory and accreditation requirements

What is preferred...

• Associate’s or Bachelor’s degree in a related field
• Experience supporting accreditation readiness (CMS, DNV, Joint Commission) or information governance
• Experience with WA public hospital district records retention requirements
• Experience conducting audits and facilitating corrective actions
• Relevant credentials such as CPHQ, CHC, RHIT/RHIA

Wage:  Wage range currently starts at $30.04/hour and goes up to $45.53/hour

Actual wage will be based on years' of applicable experience.  

FTE:  1.0 (40 hours/week); Hourly

Benefits:  This position is benefits eligible 

Union Status:  This is a non-union covered position