Risk

Senior Clinical Risk Manager

Seeking a Clinical Risk Manager with a clinical background and experience conducting root cause analyses (RCAs) for adverse events, partner with Patient Safety and Quality teams, and conduct root cause analyses from a systems perspective to identify opportunities for process improvement. The individual will partner with Patient Safety and Quality teams to identify system-level improvement opportunities. RN experience is preferred but not required.

The Senior Clinical Risk Manager supports Denver Health's system-wide risk management program by identifying, investigating, and mitigating clinical and operational risks across all care settings. This role leads investigation and reporting of significant health events, collaborates with clinical and operational leaders to reduce harm, and ensures compliance with regulatory and insurance requirements. The position develops and maintains risk reduction strategies, policies, and educational programs, analyzes trends, and provides critical guidance regarding potentially compensable events and patient safety concerns.

Essential Functions:

• Provide support across all Denver Health entities to address clinical, operational, and legal concerns.
• Serve as subject matter expert and trusted advisor, delivering guidance on navigating time-sensitive complex matters such as patient disclosures, informed consent, custody arrangements/decision making, patient care management issues, patient safety concerns, crisis management, risk mitigation, and liability exposure.
• Independently investigate and determine if significant occurrences meet elements for a state reportable event to CDPHE and/or meet the Joint Commission criteria for a sentinel event or near miss.
• Under the quality management privilege and at the direction of in-house legal counsel, conduct early investigations into all potentially compensable events to evaluate standard of care (professional standards, statutes, regulations, hospital and department policies and guidelines) and liability exposure, and help facilitate individual claim reporting for professional liability insurance to ensure appropriate coverage.
• Conduct various types of risk assessments to identify, evaluate and propose risk reduction strategies. Assess high-harm events and claims trend data to reduce economic impact and improve patient outcomes.
• Design and deliver system-wide presentations and education on clinical risk management, documentation best practices, patient disclosures, statutory and regulatory compliance, legal interactions, risk mitigation, and patient safety topics.
• Lead or partner with others on system-wide committees and initiatives that strengthen risk prevention and patient safety and mitigate institutional risk.
• Develop, draft, edit, and review policies and procedures, and participate in system or department-wide implementation and education.