Safe: Avoid injuries to patients from the care that is intended to help them.
Effective: Match care to science; avoid overuse of ineffective care and underuse of effective care.
Patient-Centered:
References: Niall Brennan, Nichole Cafarella, S. Lawrence Kocot, Aaron Mckethan, Marisa Morrison, Nadia Nguyen, Mark Shephard and Reginald D. Wiliams. (2009). improving quality value in the U.S. Health Care System. Retrieved August 2009, from www.brookings.edu/reports/2009/08/21-bpc-qualityreport…
Healthcare management with a focus on developing high standards of practice, evaluating patient care for…
Quality improvement (QI) consists of systematic and continuous actions that lead to measurable improvement in health care services and the health status of targeted patient groups ("Quality improvement," 2011). At the Bon Secours Health System in Hampton Roads, Virginia, the organization has identified potential areas of needed improvement. Each area identified as needing improvement will potentially have a financial consideration and will increase patient satisfaction. Staff, internal systems and functions will also be touched by the quality improvement…
Innovative ways that a group or organization can go beyond what they do today to pursue the triple aim is to apply analytics to help improve performance. Healthcare providers typically use analytics to help with the financial part of an organization. Triple Aim is an assessment tool that is divided into three areas. The areas are population health, experience of care, per capital cost. Analytics is an area of which recorded information is used to describe patterns in data, statistics, and operations to understand or explain performance. To accomplish Triple Aim, healthcare organizations must review performance levels from the past/present and then implement new ways to improve their performance. Since an organization needs to be operating at…
Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century. Institute of Medicine.…
Management’s role in establishing goals in the public health sector is limited. Given the official goal are well defined and established public health management is often left to work within the limitation of the HHS official goals. Operational goals do allow for management to support the official goals, though individual views on how these goals should be accomplish can cause disagreement among administrators.…
Institute of Medicine. (2001). Crossing the quality chasm: A new health system for the twenty-first century. Washington, DC: National Academy Press.…
There are some adjustments that need to be made in order for healthcare in this country to be more affordable and effective. One thing is to consider the time verses quality concept which is where the doctors see more given patients within a day and save time…
To improve health services, governments and other key organizations use quality indicators.3,4 These indicators improve…
References: Department of Health & Human Services. (2011). National Strategy for Quality Improvement in Healthcare. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.…
Some things to consider when trying to offer quality care from the health care facilities point of view, includes: ensuring compliance with laws and regulations, following standards of care, ensuring staff and processes are necessary and effective, continuous training, developing and analyzing systems and processes within the company, minimizing unnecessary waste, resources, and processes. There are many “performance and core quality measures”, programs that may be implemented and once a program is started,…
Second, health care reform is needed to improve the quality of care, which is the worst in the developed world. Chronic diseases cause almost 70% of deaths in the United States and effect 45% of all Americans. As our population ages, the incidence of this will continue to rise. By 2023 cancer and diabetes will increase 50%, heart disease 40% and hypertension and lung disease will be up by 30%. Each year, the cost of treatment totals $1.7 trillion, representing 75% of all health care dollars spent. The cost can be lowered through disease prevention and wellness programs (Amadeo, 2011).…
References: Davis, K., Schoen, C., Shea, K., & Haran, C. (2008). Aiming High for the U.S. Health System: A…
Stakeholders increasingly expect their healthcare providers to be involved with programs for quality improvement. The purpose of this paper is to discuss my organization’s quality program goals, how the quality management is structured, and who holds responsibility for the organization. This paper will also discuss how my facility selected improvement projects as well as quality methodology, tools and techniques for project management. Furthermore I will include nursing’s role, communication, and education in these processes. Lastly, I will discuss the facility’s evaluation of quality improvement processes on patient outcomes.…
Institute of Medicine (IOM) proclaims that the system is in need of “fundamental change” and that “patients, doctors, nurses, and health care leaders are concerned that the care delivered is not, essentially, the care we should receive.…