Running head: LONG-TERM CARE 1 Long-Term Care 5 This assignment has two parts. Part 1: Write a 2–3 page evaluation of the quality improvement program that you have created. This should be the annual summary of the hypothetical data. Make sure your hypothetical data are credible. Part 2: As you may recall from Week 1, your Course Project was to prepare a total quality improvement program, with a focus on one high-risk area. Continuous quality improvement covers many areas. TThis assignment has two parts. Part 1: Write a 2–3 page evaluation of the quality improvement program that you have created. This should be the annual summary of the hypothetical data. Make sure your hypothetical data are credible. Part 2: As you may recall from Week 1, your Course Project was to prepare a total quality improvement program, with a focus on one high-risk area. Continuous quality improvement covers many areas. Throughout the course, you have learned about the attributes that constitute a quality improvement team and what questions this team attempts to answer. The assignments toward this project that you completed each week can now be assembled into a single instructional document. Make necessary adjustments to your document so that each segment flows smoothly into the next. Evaluate your project using the criteria given below. 1. Are the indicators and their measurements appropriate to the high-risk area? Do the indicators capture the risk? 1. Are the fictional incidents realistic and plausible? 1. Is the filled chart consistent with the fictional incident? 1. Is the plan of correction feasible? Will it prevent the occurrence of the incident in future? 1. How do you know the plan worked? What measures will you use to identify effectiveness? hroughout the course, you have learned about the attributes that constitute a quality improvement team and what questions this team attempts to answer. The assignments toward this project that you completed each week can now be assembled into a single instructional document. Make necessary adjustments to your document so that each segment flows smoothly into the next. Evaluate your project using the criteria given below. 1. Are the indicators and their measurements appropriate to the high-risk area? Do the indicators capture the risk? 1. Are the fictional incidents realistic and plausible? 1. Is the filled chart consistent with the fictional incident? 1. Is the plan of correction feasible? Will it prevent the occurrence of the incident in future? 1. How do you know the plan worked? What measures will you use to identify effectivenQuality improvement is considered to be a method for making sure that all the activities necessary to develop, design and also implement a particular product or the service is efficient and effective with respect to the Medicare facility and its performance (DIXON‐WOODS, 2011). The aspect of continuous quality improvement is considered to be the process-based and data-driven technique that is u.

1. Running head: LONG-TERM CARE 1
Long-Term Care 5
This assignment has two parts.
Part 1:
Write a 2–3 page evaluation of the quality improvement
program that you have created. This should be the annual
summary of the hypothetical data. Make sure your hypothetical
data are credible.
Part 2:
As you may recall from Week 1, your Course Project was to
prepare a total quality improvement program, with a focus on
one high-risk area. Continuous quality improvement covers
many areas. TThis assignment has two parts.
Part 1:
Write a 2–3 page evaluation of the quality improvement
program that you have created. This should be the annual
summary of the hypothetical data. Make sure your hypothetical
data are credible.
Part 2:
As you may recall from Week 1, your Course Project was to
prepare a total quality improvement program, with a focus on
one high-risk area. Continuous quality improvement covers
many areas. Throughout the course, you have learned about the
attributes that constitute a quality improvement team and what
questions this team attempts to answer. The assignments toward
this project that you completed each week can now be
assembled into a single instructional document.
Make necessary adjustments to your document so that each
segment flows smoothly into the next. Evaluate your project
using the criteria given below.
1. Are the indicators and their measurements appropriate to the
high-risk area? Do the indicators capture the risk?
1. Are the fictional incidents realistic and plausible?
1. Is the filled chart consistent with the fictional incident?

2. 1. Is the plan of correction feasible? Will it prevent the
occurrence of the incident in future?
1. How do you know the plan worked? What measures will you
use to identify effectiveness?
hroughout the course, you have learned about the attributes that
constitute a quality improvement team and what questions this
team attempts to answer. The assignments toward this project
that you completed each week can now be assembled into a
single instructional document.
Make necessary adjustments to your document so that each
segment flows smoothly into the next. Evaluate your project
using the criteria given below.
1. Are the indicators and their measurements appropriate to the
high-risk area? Do the indicators capture the risk?
1. Are the fictional incidents realistic and plausible?
1. Is the filled chart consistent with the fictional incident?
1. Is the plan of correction feasible? Will it prevent the
occurrence of the incident in future?
1. How do you know the plan worked? What measures will you
use to identify effectivenQuality improvement is considered to
be a method for making sure that all the activities necessary to
develop, design and also implement a particular product or the
service is efficient and effective with respect to the Medicare
facility and its performance (DIXON‐WOODS, 2011). The
aspect of continuous quality improvement is considered to be
the process-based and data-driven technique that is used for to
improving the quality of a particular product or the service.
Quality improvement usually operates with the certainty that
there is always room for improving processes, operations, and
all the activities so as to increase the quality.
The quality improvement team should usually have clearly
identified champions who are committed to the process of
continuous improvement (Goetsch, 2014). This particular
individual should be interested in building capacity in the
practice for ongoing implementation and improvement of the
efficient processes that will embrace growth because such

3. methods may include seeking out best practices, gathering and
reflecting on data and also engaging voices and perspectives of
individuals involved in all aspects of the activities under
scrutiny. The role of the quality improvement team is to ensure
that the team functions effectively and fulfills its charter for the
organization.
· Clinical leadership is an individual who has the authority to
test and implement change and to problem solve issues that
arise in this process (Tricco, 2012).
· Technical expertise is an individual who has strong skills and
knowledge of the quality improvement process. A quality
improvement team may need several forms of technical
expertise, including technical expertise in quality improvement
processes, health information technology systems required to
support the proposed change, and specifics of the area of care
affected.
· Project sponsorship is an individual has executive authority
and serves as the link to the quality improvement team and the
organization’s senior management. Although this person does
not participate on a daily basis with the team, he or she may
join periodically and stays apprised of its progress (Ryan,
2011).
The quality improvement team acknowledges the commitment of
long-term care leaders so as to improve the quality, identify the
diverse challenges and also provides further suggestions and the
guidance on how to achieve future success (Goetsch, 2014). The
long-term care is considered to be a high-risk area in the
medical facilities because of the aspect that long-term care
involves a variety of services that are designed so as to meet a
particular person's health or the personal care needs during a
short or long period of time. These services assist people to live
as independently and safely as possible when they can no longer
perform everyday activities on their own. This aspect imposes
diverse risks to the hospital because of the possibility of finance
losses as a result of long-term care towards the patients.
Medical facilities involvement with the long-term care usually

4. has a diverse risk of losing some finances through a provision
of salaries to medical staff and the amount of food consumed
during the stay. A large number of patients who stays in the
hospital usually have significant expenses to the Medicare
facilities that will have to spend more so as to accommodate
them (Goetsch, 2014). Financial risks have a greater risk to the
patients because the more time spent in Medicare will increase
the possibility of paying more for the services offered.
Conversely, this type of risk affects the medical care
professionals in that, most of their time will be spent in the
healthcare facility and may lead to job redundancy.
Long-term care of patients will result in poor services risks as a
large number of patients in the Medicare facility usually impose
this type of risks. Overcrowding in the hospital leads to poor
quality services production since the health care professionals
will have a lot of work to do in trying to attend to all the
patients at one time (Tricco, 2012). Reduced or inadequate
services are a risk to the Medicare facility as it may lead to
loose of credibility and public confidence.
Long-term care of diverse patients in the Medicare facility may
lead to medication error risks because of the large period of
time stayed in the hospital. In medication error risks, it takes
small mistake for someone to miss a decimal point and you
could have a life-threatening mistake. Medication error risks
will ruin the Medicare reputation and hence fewer clients. This
type of risk affects the health of the patient because a small
mistake in medicine prescription may lead to death (Kamdar,
2013).
A Table to Present This Information
Type of risk
Nature
Medicare facility
Medical care professionals
Patients
Financial risk
Long term care

5. High costs
High cost
High costs
Poor services risks
Long term care
Lose credibility
Poor reputation
Prolonged illness
Medication error risk
Long term care
Poor reputation
Poor reputation
Death
References
DIXON‐WOODS, M. A. (2011). Explaining Michigan:
developing an ex post theory of a quality improvement program.
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Goetsch, D. L. (2014). Quality management for organizational
excellence.
Kamdar, B. B. (2013). The effect of a quality improvement
intervention on perceived sleep quality and cognition in a
medical ICU. Critical care medicine.
Ryan, T. P. (2011). Statistical methods for quality improvement.
Tricco, A. C. (2012). Effectiveness of quality improvement
strategies on the management of diabetes: a systematic review
and meta-analysis.