Medical Quality Control Manager

This role provides nationwide oversight of healthcare quality, compliance, performance improvement, and clinical auditing programs across detention healthcare operations.
You will help establish and maintain quality systems that promote patient safety, regulatory compliance, and consistent standards of care.
The position combines healthcare quality expertise, data analysis, auditing, accreditation readiness, and corrective action management.
You will work closely with corporate and facility leadership, healthcare teams, and government stakeholders across geographically dispersed programs.
The role offers significant scope to identify performance gaps, develop improvement strategies, and strengthen healthcare delivery through measurable quality initiatives.
You will also support accreditation activities, government inspections, audits, investigations, and enterprise-wide healthcare improvements.
With travel of up to 75%, this position is well suited to an organized quality professional who thrives in complex, highly regulated healthcare environments.

• Bachelor’s degree in Nursing, Healthcare Administration, Public Health, Health Information Management, Quality Management, or a related healthcare discipline is required; a master’s degree is preferred.

• At least 5 years of experience in healthcare quality management, accreditation, compliance, performance improvement, healthcare auditing, or healthcare operations.

• At least 3 years of experience supporting correctional healthcare, detention healthcare, hospital operations, government healthcare programs, or comparable complex healthcare environments.

• Demonstrated experience conducting healthcare audits, chart reviews, compliance assessments, quality reviews, and performance improvement initiatives.

• Experience analyzing healthcare data and translating findings into actionable performance improvement recommendations.

• Strong knowledge of healthcare quality assurance, performance improvement, patient safety, regulatory compliance, risk management, and corrective action methodologies.

• Working knowledge of detention healthcare operations, correctional healthcare practices, federal healthcare programs, NDS, PBNDS, and healthcare accreditation standards.

• Experience with accreditation standards and processes; familiarity with ACA, NCCHC, Joint Commission, or comparable frameworks is advantageous.

• Strong analytical, investigative, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to collect, interpret, analyze, trend, and present healthcare quality data.

• Excellent written, verbal, presentation, and interpersonal communication skills.

• Strong organizational, project management, documentation, and time-management capabilities.

• Ability to identify operational and clinical deficiencies and recommend practical, measurable improvement strategies.

• Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively with multidisciplinary teams and stakeholders.

• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite, including Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams, as well as healthcare reporting systems.

• Ability to exercise sound judgment, maintain confidentiality, and manage multiple priorities in a complex healthcare environment.

• Ability to obtain and maintain required government clearances, facility credentials, and contractual qualifications.

• Ability to provide proof of U.S. citizenship or legal authorization to work in the United States and consent to fingerprinting and background investigations.

• Ability to read, write, speak, and understand English proficiently.

• Preferred qualifications include an RN license, Certified Professional in Healthcare Quality (CPHQ) certification, or another relevant professional credential.

• Experience with healthcare quality dashboards, healthcare analytics, utilization management, enterprise quality programs, or multi-site healthcare quality operations is preferred.