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Join Cleveland Clinic Avon Hospital and experience world-class healthcare at its best. Avon Hospital provides state-of-the-art healthcare to all its patients. Cleveland Clinic Avon Hospital is a proud Magnet Hospital awarded by the American Nurses Credentialing Center. This designation is the highest honor an organization can receive for professional nursing practice.

This role supports regulatory compliance for the laboratories. You will perform necessary audits and ongoing monitoring to ensure compliant practices. When you join our team, you will be part of a supportive caregiver family that will be united in shared values and purpose to fulfill our promise of being the best place to receive care and the best place to work in healthcare.

This is a hybrid role and this person will work 2 days per week remote, and 3 days per week traveling to Avon, Amherst, and Sandusky.

A caregiver in this position works Days, from 8:00am-4:30pm.

A caregiver who excels in this role will:

• Ensure standardized quality practices in areas of responsibility.

• Collect, review, and summarize performance of quality metrics to ensure operational standardization and regulatory compliance.

• Ensure personnel qualification documentation is current and complete.

• Maintain instrument/equipment and competency tracking tool and ensure compliance.

• Monitor and coordinate proficiency testing survey program and ensure compliance.

• Assist with all non-confirming events to include complaints, grievances, and other incidents.

• Ensure proper follow up, documentation of corrective actions and subsequent monitoring to ensure resolution.

• Review and evaluate regulatory compliance gaps and implement process improvements.

• Act as a quality and compliance educator and consultant to operational staff.

• Coordinate management review meetings led by the Laboratory Director and/or Medical Director(s).

• Ensure proficiency testing performed in compliance with Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA) regulations i.e. analyze proficiency survey sample in the same manner as a patient specimen, no communication with other CLIA laboratories, complete record retention and accurate documentation and timely result reporting.

• Ensure that the staff maintain their competency to perform test procedures and report test results promptly, accurately, and proficiently.

Minimum qualifications for the ideal future caregiver include:

• Bachelor's degree in a chemical, physical, biological, or clinical laboratory science or medical technology from a four-year college or university.

• Education outside of the United States requires diploma/transcripts translated into English and proof of foreign equivalency from by an HHS approved agency or nationally recognized organization such as NACES (National Association Credential Evaluation Services, Inc) or AICE (Association of International Credential Evaluators, Inc).

• If the required clinical laboratory training and experience occurred at an outside the Cleveland Clinic Health System, verification of dates and laboratory discipline experience and training which may require a signed, official letter from the facility or organization.

• Three years of clinical laboratory training or experience, or both, in non-waived testing.

Preferred qualifications for the ideal future caregiver include:

• Previous leadership experience.

• Additional experience in quality assurance or quality auditing.

• Strong laboratory analytical testing experience.

• Compliance and accreditation experience.

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Physical Requirements:

• Typical physical demands include ability to sit, stand or walk extensively.

• May be required to stand and/or walk for long periods of time.

• May be driving distances throughout central and northern Ohio.

• Light lifting may be required.

• May be exposed to hazardous chemicals, biohazards, radioactive materials, communicable diseases, body fluids, etc.

Personal Protective Equipment:

• Follows Standard Precautions using personal protective equipment as required.

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