Ready to use your nursing experience to improve care beyond a single unit or department?
ChristianaCare is seeking a Registered Nurse to join our Accreditation team as a Performance Improvement Program Manager.
This role is ideal for an RN who enjoys solving problems, improving processes, working across teams, and helping create safer, more reliable care. You’ll partner with clinical and operational leaders throughout the health system on initiatives involving quality, patient safety, accreditation, regulatory readiness, and performance improvement.
What You’ll Do
Lead and support performance improvement, quality, patient safety, and accreditation initiatives.
Partner with nursing, physicians, and operational leaders to identify opportunities for improvement and develop sustainable solutions.
Facilitate regulatory and accreditation readiness activities, including tracers, self-assessments, and follow-up action plans.
Use improvement tools such as Lean, Six Sigma, PDCA, Root Cause Analysis, FMEA, 5 Whys, and process mapping.
Develop and manage project plans, timelines, milestones, and performance measures.
Analyze clinical and operational data and communicate results through dashboards, scorecards, reports, and presentations.
Help teams implement and sustain workflow and process improvements.
Educate, coach, and support staff and leaders in performance improvement methodologies.
Collaborate across disciplines to advance a culture of continuous improvement, patient safety, and high reliability.
Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN)
Current RN license eligible to practice in the State of Delaware
Minimum of 3 years of relevant healthcare experience
Strong communication, collaboration, analytical, and problem-solving skills
Ability to organize and manage multiple initiatives and work effectively across multidisciplinary teams
Preferred:
Master’s degree in a healthcare-related field
Experience in healthcare quality, patient safety, accreditation, performance improvement, project management, or nursing leadership
Experience leading multidisciplinary teams or multiple healthcare projects
CPHQ, Lean Six Sigma, or Project Management certification
Experience with electronic health records, Excel, PowerPoint, Tableau, or similar data and reporting tools
Why ChristianaCare?
This is an opportunity to make an impact beyond a single department. You’ll collaborate across ChristianaCare to strengthen the systems, practices and culture that support safe, high-quality care and better patient outcomes.
CHRISTIANACARE OFFERS:
Full Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, etc.
Two retirement planning offerings, including 403(b) with company contributions.
Generous paid time off with annual roll-over and opportunities to cash out.
12 week paid parental leave.
Tuition assistance.
Incredible Work/Life benefits including annual membership to care.com, access to backup care services for dependents through Care@Work, retirement planning services, financial mentorship, fitness and wellness reimbursement, and great discounts through several vendors for hotels, rental cars, theme parks, shows, sporting events, movie tickets and much more!
Christiana Care Health System is an equal opportunity employer, firmly committed to prohibiting discrimination, whose staff is reflective of its community, and considers qualified applicants for open positions without regard to race, color, sex, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, genetic information, gender identity or expression, age, veteran status, disability, pregnancy, citizenship status, or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state, or local law.
Post End Date
Sep 20, 2026EEO Posting Statement
ChristianaCare offers a competitive suite of employee benefits to maximize the wellness of you and your family, including health insurance, paid time off, retirement, an employee assistance program. To learn more about our benefits for eligible positions visit https://careers.christianacare.org/benefits-compensation/
Skills Required
- Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN)
- Current Registered Nurse license eligible to practice in Delaware
- At least 3 years of relevant healthcare experience
- Strong communication, collaboration, analytical, and problem-solving skills
- Ability to organize and manage multiple initiatives and work across multidisciplinary teams
- Master's degree in a healthcare-related field
- Experience in healthcare quality, patient safety, accreditation, performance improvement, project management, or nursing leadership
- Experience leading multidisciplinary teams or multiple healthcare projects
- CPHQ, Lean Six Sigma, or Project Management certification
- Experience with electronic health records, Excel, PowerPoint, Tableau, or similar data and reporting tools
What We Do
Headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware, ChristianaCare is one of the country’s most dynamic health care organizations, centered on improving health outcomes, making high-quality care more accessible and lowering health care costs. ChristianaCare includes an extensive network of primary care and outpatient services, home health care, urgent care centers, three hospitals (1,336 beds), a freestanding emergency department, a Level I trauma center and a Level III neonatal intensive care unit, a comprehensive stroke center and regional centers of excellence in heart and vascular care, cancer care and women’s health. It also includes the pioneering Gene Editing Institute. ChristianaCare is nationally recognized as a great place to work, rated by Forbes as the 2nd best health system for diversity and inclusion, and the 29th best health system to work for in the United States, and by IDG Computerworld as one of the nation’s Best Places to Work in IT. ChristianaCare is rated by Healthgrades as one of America’s 50 Best Hospitals and continually ranked among the nation’s best by U.S. News & World Report, Newsweek and other national quality ratings. ChristianaCare is a nonprofit teaching health system with more than 260 residents and fellows. With its groundbreaking Center for Virtual Health and a focus on population health and value-based care, ChristianaCare is shaping the future of health care
