Director Quality & Performance Improvement

City of Hope

Duarte, CA

Job posting number: #7360196 (Ref:10035061)

Posted: June 12, 2026

Job Description

Join the transformative team at City of Hope, where we're changing lives and making a real difference in the fight against cancer, diabetes, and other life-threatening illnesses. City of Hope’s growing national system includes its Los Angeles campus, a network of clinical care locations across Southern California, a new cancer center in Orange County, California, and treatment facilities in Atlanta, Chicago and Phoenix. Our dedicated and compassionate employees are driven by a common mission: To deliver the cures of tomorrow to the people who need them today.

Under the strategic leadership of the Vice President of Quality and Patient Safety, the Director of Quality and Performance Improvement leads hospital-wide initiatives that ensure high-quality, safe, and effective patient care. This leader drives clinical quality, peer review, and performance improvement programs while partnering with physicians, nursing, and administrative teams to foster a culture of safety, accountability, and continuous improvement across the organization. [

As a successful candidate, you will:

  • Lead the hospital’s clinical quality program, ensuring alignment with organizational goals.

  • Monitor and improve key hospital quality indicators such as mortality, readmissions, and patient safety outcomes

  • Partner with physician and nursing leadership to implement evidence-based care practices

  • Oversee quality data collection, validation, and reporting to regulatory agencies

  • Direct medical staff peer review processes

  • Lead performance improvement initiatives using methodologies such as PDSA, Lean, Six Sigma

  • Develop and present quality dashboards, scorecards, and insights to executive leadership

  • Collaborate with risk and patient safety teams to support a culture of transparency and safety

  • Serve as a strategic advisor to senior leadership and drive organization-wide quality initiatives

Your qualifications should include:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Nursing, Healthcare Administration, Public Health, or related field (RN required)

  • 5+ years of progressive leadership experience in hospital quality, performance improvement, or clinical operations

  • Expertise in peer review, OPPE/FPPE, and hospital regulatory compliance

  • Strong knowledge of quality metrics, data analytics, and performance improvement methodologies

  • Advanced analytical, communication, and leadership skills

  • Proven ability to influence physicians and senior stakeholders

  • Master’s degree (MHA, MPH, MSN, MBA, or related) preferred

  • Certification CPHQ or Six Sigma preferred

Additional Information:

Job Status: Full time, exempt

Salary range $ 153,091 - 255,667

City of Hope employees’ pay is based on the following criteria: work experience, qualifications, and work location.

City of Hope is an equal opportunity employer.

To learn more about our Comprehensive Benefits, please CLICK HERE.

Salary / Pay Rate Information:
Pay Rate: $73.60 - $122.91 / hour

The estimated pay scale represents the typical [salary/hourly] range City of Hope reasonably expects to pay for this position, with offers determined based on several factors which may include, but not be limited to, the candidate’s experience, expertise, skills, education, job scope, training, internal equity, geography/market, etc. This pay scale is subject to change from time to time.



City of Hope is a community of people characterized by our diversity of thought, background and approach, but tied together by our commitment to care for and cure those with cancer and other life-threatening diseases. The innovation that our diversity produces in the areas of research, treatment, philanthropy and education has made us national leaders in this fight. Our unique and diverse workforce provides us the ability to understand our patients' needs, deliver compassionate care and continue the quest for a cure for life-threatening diseases. At City of Hope, diversity and inclusion is a core value at the heart of our mission. We strive to create an inclusive workplace environment that engages all of our employees and provides them with opportunities to develop and grow, both personally and professionally. Each day brings an opportunity to strengthen our work, leverage our different perspectives and improve our patients’ experiences by learning from others. Diversity and inclusion is about much more than policies and campaigns. It is an integral part of who we are as an institution, how we operate and how we see our future.


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Job posting number:#7360196 (Ref:10035061)
Application Deadline:Open Until Filled
Employer Location:City of Hope
Duarte,California
United States
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