Executive Consultant | Quality & Patient Safety Transformation | RN Required | Health System | CA

Executive Consultant | Quality & Patient Safety Transformation | RN Required | Health System | CA Highly Competitive Pay | Lodging | Rental Car or Mileage | Paid Flights Home | World-Class Support Galileo Search is partnering with a multi-site, complex health system seeking an accomplished Quality & Patient Safety Turnaround Executive to lead a critical, enterprise-wide transformation initiative. This is a high-impact interim leadership engagement for a proven healthcare executive with deep expertise in quality, patient safety, regulatory readiness, and organizational turnaround. The organization is seeking a decisive, operationally focused leader who can rapidly assess the current state, identify systemic gaps, and implement a clear, system-wide strategy for sustainable performance improvement. Working in direct partnership with the C-suite, this leader will realign the Quality model across the organization, eliminate inefficiencies, and instill a culture of accountability and execution. This is a high-visibility, high-stakes assignment best suited for an executive who thrives in complexity, acts decisively in a high-stakes environment, and delivers meaningful change at scale. Engagement Length: 6–12 Months Location: California - Confidential Search - Please forward your resume for consideration. ABOUT THIS OUTSTANDING INTERIM OPPORTUNITY

• Lead a rapid, enterprise-wide forensic assessment of organizational structure, performance, and resource alignment, quickly surfacing root causes and critical gaps
• Deliver a clear, actionable transformation roadmap within the first weeks, establishing immediate priorities and execution focus
• Serve as a strategic advisor to executive leadership, driving bold organizational redesign across roles, reporting structures, and functional integration
• Partner across system leadership, hospital operations, and medical staff to embed a culture of continuous quality improvement and advance safe, effective, and patient-centered care and services
• Drive strategic alignment across all core quality domains, including patient safety, infection prevention, regulatory readiness, accreditation, peer review and medical staff services
• Identify and decisively eliminate redundancies, inefficiencies, and breakdowns in accountability across the enterprise
• Rebuild and strengthen performance improvement, risk, and patient safety infrastructure, ensuring rigor in RCA processes and clear ownership of metrics
• Elevate performance and readiness for CMS Conditions of Participation, accreditation standards, and external reviews, including execution of plans of correction
• Conduct a comprehensive leadership and talent assessment, making targeted recommendations to upgrade capability and drive performance
• Establish disciplined governance, executive reporting, and accountability frameworks that enable sustained execution and measurable results

EXPERIENCE | EDUCATION | LICENSURE | CERTIFICATIONS

• RN licensure required (any state)
• CPHQ certifications plus
• 10+ years of current, directly related experience in an acute care hospital environment with a track record of proven change management success
• Direct experience operating within unionized healthcare environments, with a clear understanding of labor dynamics, workforce engagement, and navigating change within collective bargaining structures
• Strong group facilitation and conflict management skills, and a demonstrated ability to unite individuals around a common vision/goal
• Knowledge of and experience with continuous process improvement methodologies and tools
• Demonstrated success deploying change management strategies and methods in support of an array of quality and patient safety initiatives
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with all levels of hospital staff
• Available to travel to the client site and work a full-time schedule, M - F, or as needed

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