The document outlines a training plan assignment for a healthcare organization. Students are asked to develop a training plan for a role group in the organization that will be responsible for implementing new practice guidelines. This includes preparing a 2-hour workshop agenda and summarizing strategies for working with the group, expected outcomes of the training, and why the group was chosen. The document provides an overview of the assignment and its competencies, including developing strategies to engage stakeholders and advocate for their role in implementing policy changes.
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Quality Improvement Program
Colorado Technical university
Phase 1 IP
8/21/2017
When it comes to healthcare organizations wanting to increase their profitability there are many different things that they do. One of the most effective ways and most organizations introduce would be the quality improvement program. Organizations around the world have improved performance by utilizing an effective quality improvement program. With this program being used organizations can see clinical and service quality improve. Having a quality improvement program that is set in place allows organizations to obtain their goal, like increasing their probability and reducing costs. For the quality improvement program to work it has t have the basic elements that work properly in assisting the organization with their goals. Here is the list of the basic quality improvements that are in the program:
· Description of the goals of the organization, mission, and their objectives.
· Explanations and definitions of major terms and concepts.
· How the quality program is selected, monitored, and managed within the organization
· How the training will work and how the support will be for people that are taking part in the quality improvement process.
· Explanations on the quality techniques that will be used and the methodology.
· Communication plans that will be utilized and how things will be updated and communicated throughout the organization.
· The measurement will be explained along with the analysis and how it will assist with future quality improvements.
Quality Improvement Program
Literature Review
Unit 1 IP
The quality improvement program is a very important part to an organization, this is because quality improvement programs must do with the costs, trust, speed, quality, and even the value of the organization. This program has not actually spread throughout many medical center and hospitals because not many organizations in healthcare are aware of how it can be beneficial to the organization on their finical status and go beyond that to the needs of their patients and society. This makes it so that there are not many medical facilities and hospitals that have embraced the concept and idea of this quality improvement program. Within the management of healthcare facilities, they have not yet realized that there is a relation between their business management strategy, improved patient outcomes, and the achievement of optimal quality (NAVEX, 2017).
One of the major sources of financial benefits or even returns that are seen by an organization would come from them being disciplined enough to remove waste with techniques like engineering techniques. When it comes to the waste in a health care there are three major types. These types would be known as inefficienci ...
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Part One-Strategic Plan
Ryann A. Schreck
Univeirsty of Phoenix
Health Care Strtegic Mangement
HCS/589
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Organization’s Mission, Vision and Values
The New Generation General Hospital is a health care institution, which intends to be in the business of offering high quality health care services to the members of the public, in the state of California. The cost of health care in the recent years has been on the rise, making it unaffordable to many people. The main mission of this healthcare organization will be to make health care services accessible and affordable to all. In order to achieve this mission the hospital will put in place structures aimed at lowering the cost of operations, with an aim of ensuring that its services are charged prices that can be afforded by all groups of people, be either the rich or the poor. Comment by Microsoft account: Good. Decided on an appropriate health care organization for which to develop a strategic plan. If using a new organization, look ahead and be sure you can address all aspects of the project. You may need to identify data and information from a proxy (very similar) organization. If using an actual existing organization, the strategic plan should be based on a new product or new service within the organization. Then you’ll use the research and theories we are addressing in the course to make your recommendations. Okay?
Furthermore, quality health care is the key to success of any given country or region. For purposes of this organization contributing to the economic growth of the state of California its vision will be to provide high quality health services to all people from all walks of lives. The main areas of quality that the hospital will focus on will be patient safety, patient satisfaction and outcomes. More emphasis will be put on the organization quality assurance department so that it can put in place measures aimed at enhancing the quality of care offered to patients at any given time.
The main values of the hospital that will guide all the stakeholders, towards attaining its vision and mission will be, honesty, professionalism, kindness, privacy, trustworthiness and commitment. The values will be key when it comes to enhancing the quality and accessibility of the health services that will be offered by the organization to the target customers.
Strategic Planning Model
Given that this is a new health care organization, it will be using the conventional strategic planning model. This model will be suitable for the organization, given that it has adequate resources to pursue its long term goals of.
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QUALITY IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM
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Quality Improvement Program
Colorado Technical university
Phase 1 IP
8/21/2017
When it comes to healthcare organizations wanting to increase their profitability there are many different things that they do. One of the most effective ways and most organizations introduce would be the quality improvement program. Organizations around the world have improved performance by utilizing an effective quality improvement program. With this program being used organizations can see clinical and service quality improve. Having a quality improvement program that is set in place allows organizations to obtain their goal, like increasing their probability and reducing costs. For the quality improvement program to work it has t have the basic elements that work properly in assisting the organization with their goals. Here is the list of the basic quality improvements that are in the program:
· Description of the goals of the organization, mission, and their objectives.
· Explanations and definitions of major terms and concepts.
· How the quality program is selected, monitored, and managed within the organization
· How the training will work and how the support will be for people that are taking part in the quality improvement process.
· Explanations on the quality techniques that will be used and the methodology.
· Communication plans that will be utilized and how things will be updated and communicated throughout the organization.
· The measurement will be explained along with the analysis and how it will assist with future quality improvements.
Quality Improvement Program
Literature Review
Unit 1 IP
The quality improvement program is a very important part to an organization, this is because quality improvement programs must do with the costs, trust, speed, quality, and even the value of the organization. This program has not actually spread throughout many medical center and hospitals because not many organizations in healthcare are aware of how it can be beneficial to the organization on their finical status and go beyond that to the needs of their patients and society. This makes it so that there are not many medical facilities and hospitals that have embraced the concept and idea of this quality improvement program. Within the management of healthcare facilities, they have not yet realized that there is a relation between their business management strategy, improved patient outcomes, and the achievement of optimal quality (NAVEX, 2017).
One of the major sources of financial benefits or even returns that are seen by an organization would come from them being disciplined enough to remove waste with techniques like engineering techniques. When it comes to the waste in a health care there are three major types. These types would be known as inefficienci ...
Running head: PART ONE-STRATEGIC PLAN 1
PART ONE-STRATEGIC PLAN 8
Part One-Strategic Plan
Ryann A. Schreck
Univeirsty of Phoenix
Health Care Strtegic Mangement
HCS/589
Dr. Cheryl McGee Comment by Microsoft account: Dr. Sherry McGe or Dr. Sheryl McGee. Thanks.
See more comments inside.
August 24, 2015
Organization’s Mission, Vision and Values
The New Generation General Hospital is a health care institution, which intends to be in the business of offering high quality health care services to the members of the public, in the state of California. The cost of health care in the recent years has been on the rise, making it unaffordable to many people. The main mission of this healthcare organization will be to make health care services accessible and affordable to all. In order to achieve this mission the hospital will put in place structures aimed at lowering the cost of operations, with an aim of ensuring that its services are charged prices that can be afforded by all groups of people, be either the rich or the poor. Comment by Microsoft account: Good. Decided on an appropriate health care organization for which to develop a strategic plan. If using a new organization, look ahead and be sure you can address all aspects of the project. You may need to identify data and information from a proxy (very similar) organization. If using an actual existing organization, the strategic plan should be based on a new product or new service within the organization. Then you’ll use the research and theories we are addressing in the course to make your recommendations. Okay?
Furthermore, quality health care is the key to success of any given country or region. For purposes of this organization contributing to the economic growth of the state of California its vision will be to provide high quality health services to all people from all walks of lives. The main areas of quality that the hospital will focus on will be patient safety, patient satisfaction and outcomes. More emphasis will be put on the organization quality assurance department so that it can put in place measures aimed at enhancing the quality of care offered to patients at any given time.
The main values of the hospital that will guide all the stakeholders, towards attaining its vision and mission will be, honesty, professionalism, kindness, privacy, trustworthiness and commitment. The values will be key when it comes to enhancing the quality and accessibility of the health services that will be offered by the organization to the target customers.
Strategic Planning Model
Given that this is a new health care organization, it will be using the conventional strategic planning model. This model will be suitable for the organization, given that it has adequate resources to pursue its long term goals of.
How to Improve Healthcare Reporting Management System.pptxFlutter Agency
Here in this article, you will see the tips about the healthcare reporting management system. Read these top 8 tips to improve the Healthcare Reporting Management System.
On April 18, 2016, The United States Supreme Court denied a petiti.docxvannagoforth
On April 18, 2016, The United States Supreme Court denied a petition for certiorari (refused to review the lower court’s ruling) in the case of Authors Guild v. Google, Inc., 804 F. 3d 202 - Court of Appeals, 2nd Circuit 2015.
Tell me what you would do if you were the Supreme Court.
That case let stand the ruling of the Court of Appeals, which can be found at the following website:
https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=2220742578695593916&q=Authors+Guild+v.+Google+Inc&hl=en&as_sdt=4000006
Please write a 500-word summary of fair use as this court decision says it.
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Plan
What is your plan for evaluation of the strategies using performance improvement data and tracers? What tracers will you use? Include necessary detail to deliver key points and requirements, such as specific data collection methods, timeframes for evaluation, and intended re-evaluation.
Tracer method is a unique technique used by the healthcare organizations, to obtain a real time picture of quality performance from point of entry to discharge. A key part of The Joint Commission’s on-site survey process is the tracer methodology (The Joint Commission, 2017).. Some traditional tracer tools can be used for quality and safety improvement. The focus of these tools is on ….. and the plan for the evaluation of this initiative for fall prevention will use tracers in the following manner….
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To evaluate the identified measure is the 30 day readmission rate for patients, data twill be racked by system tracers which will be completed monthly by the Assistant Director of Nursing.
Plan Evaluation
How effective and sustainable is your plan? In other words, evaluate the effectiveness and the ease of use, timeliness, and efficiency of your plan for the progress and success of your initiative.
The plan to prevent falls is effective and sustainable with the involvement and collaboration of all team members by implementing the following strategies… The initiative will be evaluated by the following methods, post implementation…….
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Every three months this data will be compiled and analyzed to determine what actions were effective and ineffective. The complete study will take place over a one year period with the desired result of an 15% or below hospital readmission rate.
Use of Tracers
Individual tracers make the most sense to utilize for this proposal because these tracers are designed to “trace” the care experiences that a patient had during hospitalization. For example: in case of fall prevention, these tracers help to track the patient’s experience regarding safety, satisfaction of personal needs, hygiene, compliance of staff during care….. System tracers can be utilized as well, for example….
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System tracers provide information by tracking where in an organizational process breakdowns occur or exist and are a valuable tool in identifying where changes needs to occur. ...
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Prepare an 8–10-page data analysis and quality improvement initiative proposal based on a health issue of professional interest to you. The audience for your analysis and proposal is the nursing staff and the interprofessional team who will implement the initiative.
"A basic principle of quality measurement is: If you can't measure it, you can't improve it" (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, 2013).
Health care providers are on an endless quest to improve both care quality and patient safety. This unwavering commitment requires hospitals and care givers to increase their attention and adherence to treatment protocols to improve patient outcomes. Health informatics, along with new and improved technologies and procedures, are at the core of virtually all quality improvement initiatives. The data gathered by providers, along with process improvement models and recognized quality benchmarks, are all part of a collaborative, continuing effort. As such, it is essential that professional nurses are able to correctly interpret, and effectively communicate information revealed on dashboards that display critical care metrics.
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Reflect on QI initiatives focused on measuring and improving patient outcomes with which you are familiar.
How important is the role of nurses in QI initiatives?
What quality improvement initiatives have made the biggest difference? Why?
When a QI initiative does not succeed as planned, what steps are taken to improve or revise the effort?
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In this assessment, you will propose a quality improvement (QI) initiative proposal based on a health issue of professional interest to you. The QI initiative proposal will be based on an analysis of dashboard metrics from a health care facility. You have one of two options:
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Analyze data from the health care facility to identify.
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Goals for Stevens District Hospital
Kevin Hawkins
University of Phoenix
Financialor Economic Goal: Increasing the market share
Stevens District Hospital’s mission is providing high quality care, a wide range of services and exceptional care services. However, attaining this would need a provision of quality care and increasing the range of services so that the hospital can compete favorably with the contenders (Pronovost, & Vohr, 2010). Besides that, the hospital needs to provide exceptional services which would then make it a destination for all the physicians and patients seeking to receive top-notch treatment and optimum working environment respectively. With such objectives, increment of the market share is not only possible but also inevitable.
Measurement of the goal.
Growth in the market share is measured by the use of patient visit statistics. Stevens District Hospital’s visit stats shall be compared with industry data in order to get the percentage of visits to the hospitals out of the total visits. Besides that, the health insurance data shall be invaluable in assessing % change of visits to the hospital. In general, measurement of the market share shall be done by the use of patient visit data.
Milestones that need to be achieved for progress is increasing the use of EMR and a 5% growth in the number of patient visits to the new care center within a year.
In order to achieve the 5% growth in the market share, it is important to first attain an increased amount of visits of patients from 96103 zip code by 5% by the end of the year. This goal shall be measured by the use of the percentage change in the number of visits to the hospital quarterly. The term chosen for the measurement is three months in order to determine whether the goals are being met (Mills & Spencer, 2005). When the hospital has determined whether or not the goals are being met, it can then put in place control strategies to ensure that the plan is implemented in every bit.
Legal or Regulatory Goal: Accommodating Patient Scheduling Requests Due To Changes To The Affordable Care Act.
The changes in the affordable care act has increased the number of patients in the hospital with many of them seeking primary care physician’s services. Due to the shortage of physicians, Stevens District Hospital is unable to counter such a surge in the number of patients. This goal will be in line with Stevens District Hospital’s mission which is to provide exceptional care, provide comprehensive treatment as well as the provision of high quality care. Adjusting and increasing the number of physicians so as to adjust to the changes brought about by affordable care act amendment will also ensure that the physicians have a good working environment that would foster provision of quality care (Pronovost, & Vohr, 2010). It will definitely make Stevens District Hospital’s the destination for both the physicians and the patients.
This goal is going to be measured by the number.
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ECG management consultants. (2007). The Strategic Imperative of Adapting the Hospital’s Management Structure. Insight, 1-6. http://www.healthleadersmedia.com/content/86219.pdf
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The author points out that many hospitals are struggling with how to execute strategic plans effectively in their organizational structure. These institutions lack efficient decision-making processes, accountability for the performance of key strategies and the recognition of the importance of hospital strategies to propel them to new business. The key challenge in provider-based organizations is their inability to focus their strategies on the provision of high-quality patient care services. Hospitals should stop focusing on performance-driven traditional strategies and instead align their strategies to focus on a service line.
To ensure that such procedures are executed efficiently, it is important that their organizational structures are informed by the care service strategy. The organizational structure should ensure that the strategy is encompassed in their strategic plan, organizational control structure, management responsibilities and physician leadership. In today’s world, patients are seeking more care on their heart conditions, cancer or other illnesses or injuries rather than on traditional hospital departments such as nursing, physical therapy or radiology. By focusing on patient care functions along these service lines, hospitals can optimize performance. The organizational structure should also be streamlined to support key strategies. Laying a strong foundation for the organization structure is important to ensure that key strategies are executed effectively. The control structure should also be flexible enough to adapt to shifts in strategy. Introducing changes such as a focus on traditional performance-driven strategies to a service line is sometimes stalled due to a rigid management structure. It is important to have a flexible control structure to facilitate decision-making processes that are most times challenged by poor leadership structures.
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Given the opportunity, I would correct an inefficient hospital strategy by reorganizing the organizational structure to focus entirely on key strategies of a service line. Clinical services, planning, marketing and public affairs are some of the new elements that I would to traditional organizational structures in hospitals. This way, any shifts in strategies can easily be adapted due to a flexible control structure. At the same time, as a leader, I would focus on building value around my employees by assigning them responsibilities based on the right service lines. This will ensure that they remain accountable for their performance and use of resources along with their service lines. A good management structure is also necessary to maintain a good relationship between the business strategy and the performance of my employees.
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Health Services In Relation to Environmental Analysis
Dr. Mountasser Kadrie
July 27, 2014
As a manager in Ford Rehabilitation centre, I have encountered several challenges in both external environment and internal environment that have greatly challenged the increasing demands of my patients’ services as well as failure of the reimbursements of funds by the insurance providers. Environmental conditions normally affect human health in varied means. Interactions between the environment and human health usually lead to very complex ethical queries that are related to health policy decisions. There are various factors in the environment that can lead to risks and the same time benefits. They include genetically modified plants, nanotechnology, bio fuels and other technology. There is a body of evidence that have emerged saying that environment can affect the health of human being and at the same time human health can have impact to the environment.
The external factors are factors in the environment that cannot be controlled by an organization. There are several external factors that affect many health organizations; these factors include political conditions, government policies and regulations, technological environment and social environment. In my organization the two key external factors affecting my company are the social environment and technological environment. Social factors have developed challenge in the Ford rehabilitation centre. This is because many patient customers have varied and different types of beliefs which make the relations in the health centre challenged. It have become problematic to deal with some patients since it is difficult to know the type of services they need based on where they have come from. Various patients have diverse transformation in attitude towards health care. The patients are however very demanding in my organization because each one of them needs to be handled differently based on community variations. In order to curb this, as manager I have decided to implement several programs that will promote cooperation between my patients as well amendments that will bring in suitable services to each patient. Implementation of this programs will enable my organization to continue being indispensible and financially stable despite the social challenges affecting the availability of patients in the organization.
Another external factor in the environment that will have a great impact in my company is technological environment. Implementation of more advanced methods to serve my customers is likely to improve patients’ attendance and this will boost the compan.
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Case Study 1: Are Our Customer Liaisons Helping or Hurting?
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Introduction
In any hospital setting, Patient Care Executives usually are charged with the responsibility of ensuring that patients receive high-quality healthcare. At Holy Cross hospital, this position is created to give the executives an opportunity of managing the patients and allow doctors to focus on treating the patients. This is intended to make the functions of the facility much smoother. Initially, a lot of work was being put on the physicians, leaving them with too little time to attend to the patients and offer the quality of care that is required.
Recently, however, physicians have been complaining that the Patient Care Executives do not perform their duties as expected. As earlier mentioned, the position was created in this facility to ensure that patients are well-taken care of and other management functions are also handled effectively. Generally, it was meant to ensure smooth management of the healthcare organization and provide a smooth system and relationship between the PCEs and the healthcare providers. As an administrator, it is essential to work closely with HR to ensure that qualified and competent candidates are hired in this position to avoid future concerns from the physicians. As a result, a regular evaluation is required to identify the factors that affect the functioning of Holy Cross Medical Center.
External Environmental Forces
Various external factors affect the operation of Holy Cross Medical Center. Some of the major external forces include competition and patient outcomes. It is important to note that like any hospital, the patient outcome reflects the image of the organization to the public and clients typically. It is an advantage that in recent years, patient satisfaction has improved. This must be maintained or even further enhanced. Patient outcome is one of the factors that affect the organization because it plays a crucial role in determining patient retention and can improve the image of Holy Cross in public, consequently affecting its competitive advantage in the healthcare market. This means that if the PCEs and the healthcare providers are capable of working closely and collaboratively, they can improve patient outcomes and satisfaction within Holy Cross and bring success to the organization (Ginter, Duncan & Swayne, 2013).
Another external factor affecting the operations of the Holy Cross is competition. It is noted that the organization is surrounded by various healthcare organizations, both public and private, with relatively better facilities. Holy Cross is expected to compete with such organizations by offering better quality care. Competition, in this ca ...
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Quality Improvement Plan; Mayo Clinic
Introduction
Quality in the healthcare organisation is of paramount importance. This is not only for the purpose of ensuring that more customers are attracted to the business but also to make sure that the services being offered comply with the standard that are required for medical practitioners. Quality in mayo clinic is realised through various ways in accordance with the services that are offered. Each personal work strives to ensure that quality medical services are offered. Mayo clinic is a healthcare facility that offers medical services at a fee. People who attend the facility come with the hope of getting quality services they are paying for; this is the driving force of the facility- to ensure that quality services are offered.
With the above being said, the purpose of this paper is to evaluate quality improvement for conflict in mayo clinic caused by diversity of cultures.
Description of the environment and the departments of mayo clinic
Mayo clinic is located in different parts of the United States of America, with over 3300 physicians, researchers and other professionals sharing expertise to empower its clients. Being among one of the renowned healthcare organizations, mayo clinic is not without its own weaknesses. Many of these weaknesses as presented in the SWOT analysis were obtained from the interview conducted in this environment (Bauer, Kermott, Millman, & Mayo Clinic, 2017). The objective of this healthcare organization is to provide quality services in order to attract more customers seeking for services. Therefore, seeking quality plans to counter the possible weaknesses arising in the departments is inevitable.
In order to embrace the tradition of providing quality in all areas, such as the effectiveness of Medicare program, mayo clinic utilizes the department ad centres for research (Bauer, Kermott, Millman, & Mayo Clinic, 2017). Irrespective of the various challenges this healthcare organization go through, its belief that quality improvement is an endless task makes it moving. The research department and centres always endeavour to identify every possible gap in health care provisions going on in the different departments as a foundation of solution seeking.
The services offered in mayo clinic ranges from consumer services to business services. For the former, this healthcare organization offers health living programs, book and related programs, health letter for future reference, gift shop and mayo clinic voice apps which helps the customers to get health services in a convenient way using technological means (Bauer, Kermott, Millman, & Mayo Clinic, 2017). On the other hand, business services offered by this healthcare organization include medical laboratory services and Global business solutions.
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In Week 4, you identified some immediate areas of concern that you were able to effectively address. You must present the final phase of your improvement plan to your staff and upper-level management. You will create a presentation of 15-20 slides addressing the following areas:
In preparation for the accreditation visit for AKT, choose 1 health care accrediting and credentialing organization.
Select a quality improvement focus (QIF) area to improve patient outcomes in beyond the 3 issues that you identified and addressed in Week 4.
Discuss the selected accreditation agency related to the QIF and why the organization is seeking this particular agency for credentialing.
As part of the quality improvement initiative, select 3-4 related accrediting standards that the organization will use as the basis for the quality improvement plan.
Provide a clear mission statement and set of 3-4 specific, measurable, attainable, realistic, and timely (SMART) goals for the QIF initiative.
Using the online database provided the by the organization you selected conduct an analysis.
Provide general statistical data related to the QIF.
Discuss specific health care examples of local, state, and national policies that have been developed to improve this QIF based on evidence-based practice research.
What internal policies do you plan to implement based on evidence-based practice approaches to ensure your organization meets these standards?
Develop a plan that includes strategies for your facility to improve patient outcomes regarding the QIF.
Describe how the QIF initiative can be incorporated to the organization’s overall strategic plan.
Describe how you plan to evaluate the effectiveness of the initiative.
Each slide will have 4-6 bullets and 100-150 words of speaker’s notes and pictures.
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The Staff and the Management
FROM:
Joycelyn Henry
DATE:
Thursday, August 06, 2015
SUBJECT:
Evidence-Based Practice and Policies
Introduction
Having reviewed the evidence-based practice from health statistics data, it has emerged that we have deviated from standard practice. There have been long waits in the emergency rooms, capacity management strategies are not effectively implemented by the AKT and we have high number of re-admissions than never before.
As we are aware of the Future of Nursing report (IOM, 2011a), our focus should be on the convergence of our knowledge to provide quality services and realize the necessity of new competencies. If we ignore these, we are likely to support the attitude of resistance to change as shown in research by y still faced significant barriers in employing it in practice (Melnyk, Fineout-Overholt, Gallagher-Ford, & Kaplan, 2012). As highlighted by Pfeffer and Suton (2006), our financial performance and control of expenditure depend on implementation of this practice. Furthermore, we stand to lose patients through obsolete practices and endanger the lives of many.
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Davis Health Care’s Quality Improvement Plan
To be able to effectively implement the quality improvement plan, the management of Davis Healthcare must be in a position to make a detailed illustration of the crtical steps to act as map that would guide the implementation team in starting and coordinating the project. This assignment will address areas of criteria and tasks with regards to the authority, structure and organization; communication, education; monitoring and revising; and regulation and accreditation patient identification should be treated with the seriousnes it deserves because failure to correctly identify patients may have far reaching consequences whereby a patient may undergo wrong procedures, transfusion errors may occur, a petient may be given errenous medication, and testing errors may also occur among other errors. The above areas will provide guidence in the implementation process so as to reduce errors associated with patient identity.
Criteria and Tasks
This section decsribes the authority structure, and organization of the implementaion of the quality implementation plan. The different roles of each group involved in the management and running of an healthcare organization will be described. Every professional project must have an implementation committee whose role is to oversee the implementation of the program. As is the case with most professional projects, this quality improvement plan will be implemented by an inplementing committee. However, different bodies involved in the plan within the healthcare organization, will play different roles.
Board of directors: The board of directors are have the responsibility of drafting policies of the organization. Equally, they are responsible for making decisions regarding the implementation structure and organization; communication, education; monitoring and revising; and regulation and accreditation patient identification Also, they provide oversight with regards to plans and projects of the organization.
Executive leadership:The executive leadership lias with the board to guide a culture of the organization aimed at spearheading improvements in the organization. The executive also directs the healthcare resources towards processes, structures of the organization as well as resources to monitor the healthcare systems, which in turn would ensure reduced patient identification errors.
Quality improvement committee:The role of the quality improvement comittee is to monitor this quality improvement plan, make observations on areas of improments and report to the board for action on quality issues. This committee also makes recommendations to the executive board with regards to the initaitives and policies aimed at improving the quality of the patient identification program. In addition, the committee ensures that the best practises on patient identification, are “shared with the staff” (Sadeghi, 201.
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On April 18, 2016, The United States Supreme Court denied a petition for certiorari (refused to review the lower court’s ruling) in the case of Authors Guild v. Google, Inc., 804 F. 3d 202 - Court of Appeals, 2nd Circuit 2015.
Tell me what you would do if you were the Supreme Court.
That case let stand the ruling of the Court of Appeals, which can be found at the following website:
https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=2220742578695593916&q=Authors+Guild+v.+Google+Inc&hl=en&as_sdt=4000006
Please write a 500-word summary of fair use as this court decision says it.
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What is your plan for evaluation of the strategies using performance improvement data and tracers? What tracers will you use? Include necessary detail to deliver key points and requirements, such as specific data collection methods, timeframes for evaluation, and intended re-evaluation.
Tracer method is a unique technique used by the healthcare organizations, to obtain a real time picture of quality performance from point of entry to discharge. A key part of The Joint Commission’s on-site survey process is the tracer methodology (The Joint Commission, 2017).. Some traditional tracer tools can be used for quality and safety improvement. The focus of these tools is on ….. and the plan for the evaluation of this initiative for fall prevention will use tracers in the following manner….
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To evaluate the identified measure is the 30 day readmission rate for patients, data twill be racked by system tracers which will be completed monthly by the Assistant Director of Nursing.
Plan Evaluation
How effective and sustainable is your plan? In other words, evaluate the effectiveness and the ease of use, timeliness, and efficiency of your plan for the progress and success of your initiative.
The plan to prevent falls is effective and sustainable with the involvement and collaboration of all team members by implementing the following strategies… The initiative will be evaluated by the following methods, post implementation…….
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Every three months this data will be compiled and analyzed to determine what actions were effective and ineffective. The complete study will take place over a one year period with the desired result of an 15% or below hospital readmission rate.
Use of Tracers
Individual tracers make the most sense to utilize for this proposal because these tracers are designed to “trace” the care experiences that a patient had during hospitalization. For example: in case of fall prevention, these tracers help to track the patient’s experience regarding safety, satisfaction of personal needs, hygiene, compliance of staff during care….. System tracers can be utilized as well, for example….
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System tracers provide information by tracking where in an organizational process breakdowns occur or exist and are a valuable tool in identifying where changes needs to occur. ...
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Prepare an 8–10-page data analysis and quality improvement initiative proposal based on a health issue of professional interest to you. The audience for your analysis and proposal is the nursing staff and the interprofessional team who will implement the initiative.
"A basic principle of quality measurement is: If you can't measure it, you can't improve it" (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, 2013).
Health care providers are on an endless quest to improve both care quality and patient safety. This unwavering commitment requires hospitals and care givers to increase their attention and adherence to treatment protocols to improve patient outcomes. Health informatics, along with new and improved technologies and procedures, are at the core of virtually all quality improvement initiatives. The data gathered by providers, along with process improvement models and recognized quality benchmarks, are all part of a collaborative, continuing effort. As such, it is essential that professional nurses are able to correctly interpret, and effectively communicate information revealed on dashboards that display critical care metrics.
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Reflect on QI initiatives focused on measuring and improving patient outcomes with which you are familiar.
How important is the role of nurses in QI initiatives?
What quality improvement initiatives have made the biggest difference? Why?
When a QI initiative does not succeed as planned, what steps are taken to improve or revise the effort?
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In this assessment, you will propose a quality improvement (QI) initiative proposal based on a health issue of professional interest to you. The QI initiative proposal will be based on an analysis of dashboard metrics from a health care facility. You have one of two options:
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Analyze data from the health care facility to identify.
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Goals for Stevens District Hospital
Kevin Hawkins
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Financialor Economic Goal: Increasing the market share
Stevens District Hospital’s mission is providing high quality care, a wide range of services and exceptional care services. However, attaining this would need a provision of quality care and increasing the range of services so that the hospital can compete favorably with the contenders (Pronovost, & Vohr, 2010). Besides that, the hospital needs to provide exceptional services which would then make it a destination for all the physicians and patients seeking to receive top-notch treatment and optimum working environment respectively. With such objectives, increment of the market share is not only possible but also inevitable.
Measurement of the goal.
Growth in the market share is measured by the use of patient visit statistics. Stevens District Hospital’s visit stats shall be compared with industry data in order to get the percentage of visits to the hospitals out of the total visits. Besides that, the health insurance data shall be invaluable in assessing % change of visits to the hospital. In general, measurement of the market share shall be done by the use of patient visit data.
Milestones that need to be achieved for progress is increasing the use of EMR and a 5% growth in the number of patient visits to the new care center within a year.
In order to achieve the 5% growth in the market share, it is important to first attain an increased amount of visits of patients from 96103 zip code by 5% by the end of the year. This goal shall be measured by the use of the percentage change in the number of visits to the hospital quarterly. The term chosen for the measurement is three months in order to determine whether the goals are being met (Mills & Spencer, 2005). When the hospital has determined whether or not the goals are being met, it can then put in place control strategies to ensure that the plan is implemented in every bit.
Legal or Regulatory Goal: Accommodating Patient Scheduling Requests Due To Changes To The Affordable Care Act.
The changes in the affordable care act has increased the number of patients in the hospital with many of them seeking primary care physician’s services. Due to the shortage of physicians, Stevens District Hospital is unable to counter such a surge in the number of patients. This goal will be in line with Stevens District Hospital’s mission which is to provide exceptional care, provide comprehensive treatment as well as the provision of high quality care. Adjusting and increasing the number of physicians so as to adjust to the changes brought about by affordable care act amendment will also ensure that the physicians have a good working environment that would foster provision of quality care (Pronovost, & Vohr, 2010). It will definitely make Stevens District Hospital’s the destination for both the physicians and the patients.
This goal is going to be measured by the number.
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The author points out that many hospitals are struggling with how to execute strategic plans effectively in their organizational structure. These institutions lack efficient decision-making processes, accountability for the performance of key strategies and the recognition of the importance of hospital strategies to propel them to new business. The key challenge in provider-based organizations is their inability to focus their strategies on the provision of high-quality patient care services. Hospitals should stop focusing on performance-driven traditional strategies and instead align their strategies to focus on a service line.
To ensure that such procedures are executed efficiently, it is important that their organizational structures are informed by the care service strategy. The organizational structure should ensure that the strategy is encompassed in their strategic plan, organizational control structure, management responsibilities and physician leadership. In today’s world, patients are seeking more care on their heart conditions, cancer or other illnesses or injuries rather than on traditional hospital departments such as nursing, physical therapy or radiology. By focusing on patient care functions along these service lines, hospitals can optimize performance. The organizational structure should also be streamlined to support key strategies. Laying a strong foundation for the organization structure is important to ensure that key strategies are executed effectively. The control structure should also be flexible enough to adapt to shifts in strategy. Introducing changes such as a focus on traditional performance-driven strategies to a service line is sometimes stalled due to a rigid management structure. It is important to have a flexible control structure to facilitate decision-making processes that are most times challenged by poor leadership structures.
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Given the opportunity, I would correct an inefficient hospital strategy by reorganizing the organizational structure to focus entirely on key strategies of a service line. Clinical services, planning, marketing and public affairs are some of the new elements that I would to traditional organizational structures in hospitals. This way, any shifts in strategies can easily be adapted due to a flexible control structure. At the same time, as a leader, I would focus on building value around my employees by assigning them responsibilities based on the right service lines. This will ensure that they remain accountable for their performance and use of resources along with their service lines. A good management structure is also necessary to maintain a good relationship between the business strategy and the performance of my employees.
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Health Services In Relation to Environmental Analysis
Dr. Mountasser Kadrie
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As a manager in Ford Rehabilitation centre, I have encountered several challenges in both external environment and internal environment that have greatly challenged the increasing demands of my patients’ services as well as failure of the reimbursements of funds by the insurance providers. Environmental conditions normally affect human health in varied means. Interactions between the environment and human health usually lead to very complex ethical queries that are related to health policy decisions. There are various factors in the environment that can lead to risks and the same time benefits. They include genetically modified plants, nanotechnology, bio fuels and other technology. There is a body of evidence that have emerged saying that environment can affect the health of human being and at the same time human health can have impact to the environment.
The external factors are factors in the environment that cannot be controlled by an organization. There are several external factors that affect many health organizations; these factors include political conditions, government policies and regulations, technological environment and social environment. In my organization the two key external factors affecting my company are the social environment and technological environment. Social factors have developed challenge in the Ford rehabilitation centre. This is because many patient customers have varied and different types of beliefs which make the relations in the health centre challenged. It have become problematic to deal with some patients since it is difficult to know the type of services they need based on where they have come from. Various patients have diverse transformation in attitude towards health care. The patients are however very demanding in my organization because each one of them needs to be handled differently based on community variations. In order to curb this, as manager I have decided to implement several programs that will promote cooperation between my patients as well amendments that will bring in suitable services to each patient. Implementation of this programs will enable my organization to continue being indispensible and financially stable despite the social challenges affecting the availability of patients in the organization.
Another external factor in the environment that will have a great impact in my company is technological environment. Implementation of more advanced methods to serve my customers is likely to improve patients’ attendance and this will boost the compan.
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Introduction
In any hospital setting, Patient Care Executives usually are charged with the responsibility of ensuring that patients receive high-quality healthcare. At Holy Cross hospital, this position is created to give the executives an opportunity of managing the patients and allow doctors to focus on treating the patients. This is intended to make the functions of the facility much smoother. Initially, a lot of work was being put on the physicians, leaving them with too little time to attend to the patients and offer the quality of care that is required.
Recently, however, physicians have been complaining that the Patient Care Executives do not perform their duties as expected. As earlier mentioned, the position was created in this facility to ensure that patients are well-taken care of and other management functions are also handled effectively. Generally, it was meant to ensure smooth management of the healthcare organization and provide a smooth system and relationship between the PCEs and the healthcare providers. As an administrator, it is essential to work closely with HR to ensure that qualified and competent candidates are hired in this position to avoid future concerns from the physicians. As a result, a regular evaluation is required to identify the factors that affect the functioning of Holy Cross Medical Center.
External Environmental Forces
Various external factors affect the operation of Holy Cross Medical Center. Some of the major external forces include competition and patient outcomes. It is important to note that like any hospital, the patient outcome reflects the image of the organization to the public and clients typically. It is an advantage that in recent years, patient satisfaction has improved. This must be maintained or even further enhanced. Patient outcome is one of the factors that affect the organization because it plays a crucial role in determining patient retention and can improve the image of Holy Cross in public, consequently affecting its competitive advantage in the healthcare market. This means that if the PCEs and the healthcare providers are capable of working closely and collaboratively, they can improve patient outcomes and satisfaction within Holy Cross and bring success to the organization (Ginter, Duncan & Swayne, 2013).
Another external factor affecting the operations of the Holy Cross is competition. It is noted that the organization is surrounded by various healthcare organizations, both public and private, with relatively better facilities. Holy Cross is expected to compete with such organizations by offering better quality care. Competition, in this ca ...
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Introduction
Quality in the healthcare organisation is of paramount importance. This is not only for the purpose of ensuring that more customers are attracted to the business but also to make sure that the services being offered comply with the standard that are required for medical practitioners. Quality in mayo clinic is realised through various ways in accordance with the services that are offered. Each personal work strives to ensure that quality medical services are offered. Mayo clinic is a healthcare facility that offers medical services at a fee. People who attend the facility come with the hope of getting quality services they are paying for; this is the driving force of the facility- to ensure that quality services are offered.
With the above being said, the purpose of this paper is to evaluate quality improvement for conflict in mayo clinic caused by diversity of cultures.
Description of the environment and the departments of mayo clinic
Mayo clinic is located in different parts of the United States of America, with over 3300 physicians, researchers and other professionals sharing expertise to empower its clients. Being among one of the renowned healthcare organizations, mayo clinic is not without its own weaknesses. Many of these weaknesses as presented in the SWOT analysis were obtained from the interview conducted in this environment (Bauer, Kermott, Millman, & Mayo Clinic, 2017). The objective of this healthcare organization is to provide quality services in order to attract more customers seeking for services. Therefore, seeking quality plans to counter the possible weaknesses arising in the departments is inevitable.
In order to embrace the tradition of providing quality in all areas, such as the effectiveness of Medicare program, mayo clinic utilizes the department ad centres for research (Bauer, Kermott, Millman, & Mayo Clinic, 2017). Irrespective of the various challenges this healthcare organization go through, its belief that quality improvement is an endless task makes it moving. The research department and centres always endeavour to identify every possible gap in health care provisions going on in the different departments as a foundation of solution seeking.
The services offered in mayo clinic ranges from consumer services to business services. For the former, this healthcare organization offers health living programs, book and related programs, health letter for future reference, gift shop and mayo clinic voice apps which helps the customers to get health services in a convenient way using technological means (Bauer, Kermott, Millman, & Mayo Clinic, 2017). On the other hand, business services offered by this healthcare organization include medical laboratory services and Global business solutions.
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In Week 4, you identified some immediate areas of concern that you were able to effectively address. You must present the final phase of your improvement plan to your staff and upper-level management. You will create a presentation of 15-20 slides addressing the following areas:
In preparation for the accreditation visit for AKT, choose 1 health care accrediting and credentialing organization.
Select a quality improvement focus (QIF) area to improve patient outcomes in beyond the 3 issues that you identified and addressed in Week 4.
Discuss the selected accreditation agency related to the QIF and why the organization is seeking this particular agency for credentialing.
As part of the quality improvement initiative, select 3-4 related accrediting standards that the organization will use as the basis for the quality improvement plan.
Provide a clear mission statement and set of 3-4 specific, measurable, attainable, realistic, and timely (SMART) goals for the QIF initiative.
Using the online database provided the by the organization you selected conduct an analysis.
Provide general statistical data related to the QIF.
Discuss specific health care examples of local, state, and national policies that have been developed to improve this QIF based on evidence-based practice research.
What internal policies do you plan to implement based on evidence-based practice approaches to ensure your organization meets these standards?
Develop a plan that includes strategies for your facility to improve patient outcomes regarding the QIF.
Describe how the QIF initiative can be incorporated to the organization’s overall strategic plan.
Describe how you plan to evaluate the effectiveness of the initiative.
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Having reviewed the evidence-based practice from health statistics data, it has emerged that we have deviated from standard practice. There have been long waits in the emergency rooms, capacity management strategies are not effectively implemented by the AKT and we have high number of re-admissions than never before.
As we are aware of the Future of Nursing report (IOM, 2011a), our focus should be on the convergence of our knowledge to provide quality services and realize the necessity of new competencies. If we ignore these, we are likely to support the attitude of resistance to change as shown in research by y still faced significant barriers in employing it in practice (Melnyk, Fineout-Overholt, Gallagher-Ford, & Kaplan, 2012). As highlighted by Pfeffer and Suton (2006), our financial performance and control of expenditure depend on implementation of this practice. Furthermore, we stand to lose patients through obsolete practices and endanger the lives of many.
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Davis Health Care’s Quality Improvement Plan
To be able to effectively implement the quality improvement plan, the management of Davis Healthcare must be in a position to make a detailed illustration of the crtical steps to act as map that would guide the implementation team in starting and coordinating the project. This assignment will address areas of criteria and tasks with regards to the authority, structure and organization; communication, education; monitoring and revising; and regulation and accreditation patient identification should be treated with the seriousnes it deserves because failure to correctly identify patients may have far reaching consequences whereby a patient may undergo wrong procedures, transfusion errors may occur, a petient may be given errenous medication, and testing errors may also occur among other errors. The above areas will provide guidence in the implementation process so as to reduce errors associated with patient identity.
Criteria and Tasks
This section decsribes the authority structure, and organization of the implementaion of the quality implementation plan. The different roles of each group involved in the management and running of an healthcare organization will be described. Every professional project must have an implementation committee whose role is to oversee the implementation of the program. As is the case with most professional projects, this quality improvement plan will be implemented by an inplementing committee. However, different bodies involved in the plan within the healthcare organization, will play different roles.
Board of directors: The board of directors are have the responsibility of drafting policies of the organization. Equally, they are responsible for making decisions regarding the implementation structure and organization; communication, education; monitoring and revising; and regulation and accreditation patient identification Also, they provide oversight with regards to plans and projects of the organization.
Executive leadership:The executive leadership lias with the board to guide a culture of the organization aimed at spearheading improvements in the organization. The executive also directs the healthcare resources towards processes, structures of the organization as well as resources to monitor the healthcare systems, which in turn would ensure reduced patient identification errors.
Quality improvement committee:The role of the quality improvement comittee is to monitor this quality improvement plan, make observations on areas of improments and report to the board for action on quality issues. This committee also makes recommendations to the executive board with regards to the initaitives and policies aimed at improving the quality of the patient identification program. In addition, the committee ensures that the best practises on patient identification, are “shared with the staff” (Sadeghi, 201.
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The world of healthcare is dynamic. With this, the system goes through changes from time to time. Now, with the latest updates in healthcare policies, healthcare providers and organizations need to adhere to them. This has made them look into healthcare KPIs and metrics as well to ensure if they are aligned with the new policies.
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for Telehealth Training PaperOverviewDevelop a training plan for one of the role groups in
the organization that will be responsible for implementing practice guidelines under the
new organizational policy you presented in Assessment 3. Prepare an agenda for a two-hour
workshop, and summarize your strategies for working with this group, the expected
outcomes of the training, and why you chose this group to pilot the change. NHSFP6004
Activities and Materials Needed for Telehealth Training Paper.Note: Each assessment in this
course builds on the work you completed in the previous assessment. Therefore, you must
complete the assessments in this course in the order in which they are presented.Training
and educating those within an organization who will be responsible for implementing and
working with changes in organizational policy is a critical step in ensuring that prescribed
changes have their intended benefit. A leader in a health care profession needs to be able to
apply effective leadership, management, and educational strategies to ensure that
colleagues and subordinates will be prepared to do the work that is asked of them. This
assessment offers you an opportunity to develop and implement such strategies.By
successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the
following course competencies and assessment criteria:Competency 2: Analyze relevant
health care laws and regulations and their applications and effects on processes within a
health care team or organization.Describe changes to policy or practice guidelines to be
implemented in an organization.Competency 3: Lead the development and implementation
of ethical and culturally sensitive policies that improve health outcomes for individuals,
organizations, and populations.Identify training activities and materials that learning and
skill development and prepare a specific group to successfully apply a new policy or
practice guidelines to its work.Justify the importance of an institutional policy or practice
guidelines to improve the quality of care or outcomes related to a specific
group.Competency 5: Develop strategies to work collaboratively with policy makers,
stakeholders, and colleagues to address environmental (governmental and regulatory)
forces.Develop strategies for engaging with a specific group to ensure buy in, , and
preparedness to implement changes in policy and practice guidelines.Advocate for the
importance of the role a specific group will play in implementing changes in policy and
practice guidelines.Competency 6: Apply various methods of communicating with policy
makers, stakeholders, colleagues, and patients to ensure that communication in a given
2. situation is professional, clear, efficient, and effective.Interpret complex policy
considerations or practice guidelines for a specific group with respect and clarity.Write
clearly and logically, with correct use of grammar, punctuation, and spelling.Integrate
relevant sources to arguments, correctly formatting citations and references using current
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SOLUTION PAPERS Policy Change Paper SampleImportance of BenchmarkingIt’s always
good for any health organization to conduct benchmarking to ensure efficiency in a health
organization. That will help the hospital to keep records of the organization. Benchmarking
will help to improve health organizations to provide better services to the patients and
those who are in need. The importance of benchmarking is to help compare the
performance of both the internal and external sectors. This will help to improve the
managers to have improvements in their various departments hence the members can work
effectively and improve on places of work. This benchmark was conducted both internally
and externally. Therefore, this will help to collect data to help in comparing with other
hospitals. Benchmarking will help the organization to adopt new things other organizations
are embracing. Therefore, our organization through benchmarking will help to align our
employees, resources and our internal systems to meet our main objectives. So, by creating
the dashboard one can track the metrics and make proper adjustments.The main reason for
creating a benchmark policy is to improve the services of the metrics that are discovered.
Hence the Mercy Medical Center needed to change its metric on hospital incidents. This
metric helps in measuring the quality of services of the patients and health care. All patients
don’t get infections, bed sores and reacting to transfusions. Therefore, this type of metric
helps in monitoring and keeping track data of various patients. Hence helps in improving
service delivery. Also, benchmarking will help the hospital to increase the chances of
readmission. Therefore, nurses and doctors were supposed to conduct a proper checkup
before discharging patients because other diseases may crop up. In 2015, only pneumonia
was meeting the both the federal and local rates of readmissions in… NHSFP6004 Activities
and Materials Needed for Telehealth Training PaperEffects of readmissionsFailure to do a
sufficient checkup before discharging the patients would lead to recurrence of similar
illnesses, hence leading to readmissions. Readmissions leads to overcrowding and hence
reducing the quality of services given. However, through the formation of the performance
dashboard, the organization will keep track of important matters that are affecting the
healthcare center. This approach will help the organization to compete locally and
nationally. The dashboard will help the company to improve its service and compete with
others internationally. Dashboards play significant roles in organizations. Such roles are
increasing one’s awareness of the variables about the treatment of patients (Ghazisaeidiet
et al., 2015). When variables are not set in the database one may lose track because of the
number of patients that the hospital serves. Another reason is that it will reduce variations
in that all patients in the facility are able to receive proper care and able to standardize all
the values across the facility. Similarly, they will be able to identify the trends and patterns
3. in that when data is kept in a central place the organization can easily interconnect with
other departments. Also, the metric will realize the members who are working and those
not doing so hence ensuring accuracy in the company. Therefore, by creating the dashboard
system, we can easily get reliable data which help the managers to achieve their goals
(Jiménez-López et al., 2016).This will greatly improve on the services and achieve its main
goal. Changes must be done in order to rectify the previous mistake that was done to ensure
system delivery. Therefore, better adjustments should be done in the system to correct the
mistakes. The company’s sales managers should try to make changes that happened
previously and improve their services. Performance of the hospital was to be achieved
through standardization and equality. Therefore, patient care should be the same across the
facility for all the patients to enjoy. Hence by not making any changes in the system is going
to delay the system delivery of the hospital because they will not have patients to attend to.
This paper is going to analyze benchmarking strategies and the various ways of keeping
track of different metrics in the hospital. Also, it discusses the various ways to resolve the
detected underperformance benchmarks.Strategies to resolve readmissionsThe Mercy
Medical Center was facing various challenges that led it to consider carrying out of the
benchmarking activities. Implementation of the changes would lead the institution to
improve the challenges that it offered to its patients. The main reason why the Mercy
Medical Center was interested in the reduction of readmission cases was to reduce the cases
of poor data keeping as well as increasing its ability to make comparisons with other
organizations in the field of health care. Therefore, it would help it to identify where it
would keep its focus to make its engagement in the market a success.To realize the changes,
the organization came up with three main strategies that would make the proposed changes
in the readmission cases a reality.One of the most reliable strategies focused on the
diversity of culture of the communities that surrounded their activities. The institution
needed to learn about the best way to treat its relationship with different communities.It
also strategized on the keeping of good and perfect record about the services given to the
public.The standardization of equality regarding of its services is also a part of the
necessary strategies.The algorithm for reducing readmissionsTo implement the strategies
that had been set, various stakeholders of the Mercy Medical Center should join their
efforts. They should be willing to make suggestions about the best ways of achieving specific
strategies. The stakeholders should also be willing to the benchmarking activities that are
aimed at increasing the output of the institution. Issues such as readmissions and unreliable
information management are main challenges in the Mercy Medical Center. Therefore, they
should also be willing to suggest on the best alternatives that should be considered to
achieve the desired change. NHSFP6004 Activities and Materials Needed for Telehealth
Training Paper.Benchmarking challengesMetrics are expected in any organization during
the benchmark process. To ensure the process is well set you must ensure to identify the
problem before working finding a solution. The main problems that happen in a healthcare
organization are age, cultural diversity and lack of proper documentation. Therefore, once
the problems have been identified proper solutions have to be set in the facility. In order to
improve the health challenges, you have to have resources. Lack of resources is the main
factor as to why metrics can’t be improved. This includes insufficient or poor trained staff or
4. lack of trained staff makes health facilities poor. Also, delay of results from labs and absence
of doctors during nights and weekends. Another challenge that occurs at eagle creek
hospital is lack of funds. This limits their mode of working because they have to pay for
licenses and private payers to discharge patients.Therefore, for the readmission errors to be
minimized in Mercy Medical Center it is necessary for the hospital to employ qualified
health personnel and train them in all changes in health status. Also, the hospital should
enroll in regulatory incentives that aim to minimize hospital admissions by redefining many
of its rules that may be contributing to readmission errors.Ethical, Evidence-Based
StrategiesIn order to improve the performance in a health organization, cultural diversity
and age must improve so as to have better services in hospitals. Hence cultural diversity
happens to be the most primary factor that must be implemented in any organization.
Therefore, in order to improve the healthcare services of the facility, we must find amicable
solutions to ethical values. For instance, the Mercy Medical Center facility should improve
its efforts on ing nurse ethics. Such efforts would help the nurses to follow the rules and
regulations of the nurse code of ethics. Hospitals should incorporate behavior as the first
thing before being employed. Similarly, a unit based on ethics is to be included in that,
nurses should at least learn the importance of being ethical. To achieve this, the hospital
should employ mentors who could help in teaching their colleagues on the importance of
ethics (Dowding et al., 2015).Ethical strategies will help the health organization to find good
solutions that will help the organization to grow. Hence the staff employed must have good
skills in handling patients. Therefore, a plan must be set which will ensure the services have
improved despite any cultural diversity. Equally, cultural competence must be addressed to
improve the ethical goals.Analysis of environmental factors that could affect
implementationThe facility should incorporate the environmental factors that will help the
hospital to offer better services to the community. Mercy Medical Center’s main goal is to
offer safety and quality services to its patients. Environmental factors should also be
considered to improve their health. Some of the environmental factors that can affect the
implementation of the set strategies are inclusive the government policies, the cooperation
of the institution’s workers, the society around the institution, and the cleanliness of the
social facilities such as water and sanitation centers. Such factor affect the reaction of the
patients to the treatments offered at the center. The management of the health center
should, therefore, offer sufficient attention to all the factors to ensure positive
results.Involvement of stakeholdersManagers, nurses, doctors, and the government should
be all included in implementing the policies to improve the health sector activities. By this
approach, every sector is supposed to contribute in various ways to improve the health
services in Mercy Medical Center. Thus, Mercy Medical Center has greatly incorporated with
other local hospitals and local governments, so they have shared the responsibility to
achieve goals as far as health issues are concerned. The local governments are in charge of
funding initiates that have been started by the hospital to help patients from the condition.
The local government should aid and provide a means that will help patients to get better
medical services (Shamian, Kerr, Laschinger, & Thomson, 2016). After all those bodies
working together they can achieve goals concerning the health sector. Also, to achieve
better goals, other hospitals should be included during the benchmarking
5. process.ConclusionIn conclusion, benchmarking is a critical thing to conduct. It needs a lot
of attention and time. Benchmarking at Mercy Medical Center has ensured that health
standard has improved over time. Therefore, doing it will ensure that all services in Mercy
Medical Center have greatly improved. Although the hospital has been performing well, the
changes must be done and incorporated according to the benchmarked experiences. So, by
eliminating the failures and errors, the facility can achieve its targeted goal and
objectives.ReferencesDowding, D., Randell, R., Gardner, P., Fitzpatrick, G., Dykes, P., Favela,
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NHSFP6004 Activities and Materials Needed for Telehealth Training PaperDevelop a
training plan for one of the role groups in the organization that will be responsible for
implementing practice guidelines under the new organizational policy you presented in
Assessment 3. Prepare an agenda for a two-hour workshop, and summarize your strategies
for working with this group, the expected outcomes of the training, and why you chose this
group to pilot the change.Note: Each assessment in this course builds on the work you
completed in the previous assessment. Therefore, you must complete the assessments in
this course in the order in which they are presented.Training and educating those within an
organization who will be responsible for implementing and working with changes in
organizational policy is a critical step in ensuring that prescribed changes have their
intended benefit. A leader in a health care profession needs to be able to apply effective
leadership, management, and educational strategies to ensure that colleagues and
subordinates will be prepared to do the work that is asked of them. This assessment offers
you an opportunity to develop and implement such strategies.By successfully completing
this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course
competencies and assessment criteria:Competency 2: Analyze relevant health care laws and
regulations and their applications and effects on processes within a health care team or
organization.Describe changes to policy or practice guidelines to be implemented in an
organization.Competency 3: Lead the development and implementation of ethical and
culturally sensitive policies that improve health outcomes for individuals, organizations,
and populations.Identify training activities and materials that learning and skill
development and prepare a specific group to successfully apply a new policy or practice
guidelines to its work.Justify the importance of an institutional policy or practice guidelines
to improve the quality of care or outcomes related to a specific group.Competency 5:
Develop strategies to work collaboratively with policy makers, stakeholders, and colleagues
to address environmental (governmental and regulatory) forces.Develop strategies for
engaging with a specific group to ensure buy in, , and preparedness to implement changes
in policy and practice guidelines.Advocate for the importance of the role a specific group
6. will play in implementing changes in policy and practice guidelines.Competency 6: Apply
various methods of communicating with policy makers, stakeholders, colleagues, and
patients to ensure that communication in a given situation is professional, clear, efficient,
and effective.Interpret complex policy considerations or practice guidelines for a specific
group with respect and clarity.Write clearly and logically, with correct use of grammar,
punctuation, and spelling.Integrate relevant sources to arguments, correctly formatting
citations and references using current APA style.Questions to ConsiderAs you prepare to
complete this assessment, you may want to think about other related issues to deepen your
understanding or broaden your viewpoint. You are encouraged to consider the questions
below and discuss them with a fellow learner, a work associate, an interested friend, or a
member of your professional community. Note that these questions are for your own
development and exploration and do not need to be completed or submitted as part of your
assessment.When trying to implement a change in how people will be doing their work, it is
important to ensure that they not only understand what they are expected to do and how
they should go about it, but also to create buy in so that stakeholders willingly embrace
policy, process, and practice changes.Consider a group of health care workers, in your
current or prospective organization, for which you might employ selected training
strategies to address internal policy or practice changes.What training strategies would you
use?How will these strategies help the target group implement the internal policy or
practice changes?Have those training strategies been applied successfully in a similar
context?How might these strategies help to create buy in and from the group? Assignment
instructions In this assessment, you will build on the policy presentation work you
completed in Assessment 3.PreparationYour policy proposal presentation secured buy in
and from the stakeholder group you addressed. They are enthusiastic about implementing
your proposed policy and practice guidelines. In an effort to help ensure a smooth roll out
and implementation of your proposal, senior leaders have asked you to create and lead a
training session for one of the role groups in the organization that will be responsible for
enacting the new policy and practices.In addition, senior leaders have asked you to develop
and submit a training plan for review and approval before conducting the requested
training session. They have also requested that you cite 2–4 credible sources that your
proposed training strategies, your intended approach to generating buy in and from the
group, and your plans for working with the group to facilitate implementation of the policy
and practice changes.As outcomes of this training session, participants are expected
to:Understand the organizational policy and practice guidelines to be
implemented.Understand the importance of the policy to improving health care quality or
outcomes.Understand that, as a group, they are key to successful implementation.Possess
the necessary knowledge and skills for successful implementation. Training Plan
RequirementsNote: The tasks outlined below correspond to grading criteria in the scoring
guide.As key elements of your training plan, senior leaders have asked that you:Develop
strategies for engaging with the selected role group to ensure the group’s buy in, , and
preparedness to implement the changes in policy and practice guidelines. In a brief
summary:Describe your evidence-based strategies for engaging with the group during the
training session.Explain how you will ensure the group’s buy in, , and
7. preparedness.Explain why you chose this group to pilot your proposal.Identify the training
activities and materials needed learning and skill development and to prepare the group
to successfully apply the new policy or practice guidelines to their work.Create an
annotated agenda and outline for a two-hour training workshop.Explain how each proposed
activity and individual item of training material in your workshop will learning and skill
development.Describe the policy and practice guidelines changes to be implemented.How
will these changes affect the group’s daily work routines and responsibilities?What
examples, activities, or materials could you provide to help illustrate or clarify the nature
and scope of the changes in policy and practice guidelines?Justify the importance of the
changes in policy or practice guidelines to improving the quality of care or outcomes
that are related to this role group.Why are these changes important?How will these changes
help improve the quality of care or outcomes?How could you help to illustrate the
importance of improved quality of care or outcomes for the role group you will be
training?Advocate for the importance of the role the group will play in implementing the
changes in policy and practice guidelines.Why is the group’s buy in and important in
implementing the changes?Why is this group’s work important in implementing the
changes?How could you help the group feel empowered by their involvement in
implementing the changes? NHSFP6004 Activities and Materials Needed for Telehealth
Training PaperInterpret complex policy considerations or practice guidelines for the role
group with respect and clarity.Does your training plan clearly lay out the expected
outcomes of training for this role group?Communicate your strategies for engaging and
training the role group in a professional and persuasive manner.Write clearly and logically,
using correct grammar, punctuation, and mechanics.Integrate relevant sources to your
arguments, correctly formatting source citations and references using current APA style.Did
you cite an additional 2–4 credible sources to your strategies for engaging and training the
role group? NHSFP6004 Activities and Materials Needed for Telehealth Training Paper