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As the Senior Project Manager for Patient Experience Improvement, you will play a critical role in advancing UCLA Health’s commitment to delivering exceptional care and service. In this position, you will lead the implementation, coordination, and monitoring of enterprise-wide initiatives designed to enhance patient satisfaction, streamline care delivery, and improve overall experience across our health system.
Key Responsibilities:
Lead Patient Experience Projects: Manage complex, multi-faceted projects focused on improving patient interactions, communication, and service quality across ambulatory settings.
Develop and Execute Project Plans: Establish clear scope, timelines, and deliverables for initiatives and experience-driven workflow improvements.
Collaborate Across Departments: Facilitate communication and alignment between clinical teams, administrative staff, and operational leaders to ensure patient-centered strategies are integrated.
Monitor and Report Outcomes: Track progress against defined goals, analyze patient experience metrics (e.g., CG-CAHPS, Press Ganey scores), and provide actionable insights to leadership.
Implement Best Practices: Incorporate evidence-based approaches and industry standards to optimize patient engagement and satisfaction.
Support Change Management: Guide teams through process improvements, ensuring adoption of new tools and protocols that enhance the patient journey.
Organize Team Projects and Stakeholder Meetings: Coordinate patient experience improvement meetings and stakeholder groups, prepare agendas, and document action items to drive accountability.
Salary Range: $70,900 - $145,200 Annual
Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience required.
MPH, MHA, MBA, or other related Master’s degree preferred.
Minimum 5 years of healthcare administrative and/or project management experience.
Experience leading, facilitating, and implementing new programs and/or projects.
Demonstrated skills in data analysis and presentation.
Intermediate to advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office applications, database management, and analytical tools.
Strong organizational skills in priority setting, follow-through, and meeting deadlines.
Excellent interpersonal skills to enhance communication and collaboration with staff, colleagues, and administrative personnel.
Ability to work effectively in an interdisciplinary team including physicians, nurses, and administrative staff.
Ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
Skill in navigating complex organizations and ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements.
Ability to define goals objectively and measure outcomes.
Demonstrated diplomacy, discretion, tact, and sound judgment with strict confidentiality.
Ability to develop, implement, and evaluate methods and systems to improve efficiency.
Strong project management skills with proven ability to deliver objectives within timeframes, including experience in project outcome reporting using industry standards.
At UCLA Health, you can help heal humankind, one patient at a time by improving health, alleviating suffering and delivering acts of kindness. As you do, you’ll achieve great things in your life and your career. We’re a world-class health organization with four hospitals consistently recognized among the nation’s very best as well as an internationally-renowned medical school, primary and specialty care clinics and much more. Within our dynamic, innovative and growing organization, you’ll find exceptional opportunities to make the most of your abilities in a supportive, empowering and inclusive environment. If you embrace our values of Integrity, Compassion, Respect, Teamwork, Excellence and Discovery we invite you to see all you can accomplish at UCLA Health.