Written Assignment #4
Due: Saturday
Points: 75
Directions
Please complete this written assignment following APA 7th edition formatting guidelines using citations and references. Please use correct spelling, grammar, and punctuation and include a title page.
It is very important for a health care manager to continually focus on improving quality in his/her department in a health care organization. Why? Quality and value are closely tied to reimbursement. The health system is moving towards reimbursement based on ‘value-based care’. By 2018, 50% of Medicare payments will be based on value-based models of care.
- In two or three sentences, discuss the role of quality improvement in healthcare.
- Pretend you are a department manager of quality in a large skilled nursing facility. The Director of Quality told you to form a quality improvement committee. The committee’s function is to investigate the cause of patient falls because there were five patients who had falls in the last month. The goal of the committee is to reduce patient falls to zero.
- Describe three qualities that committee members should have to effectively work on your committee.
- Describe the titles of at least 4 people you would have on your committee and what each person would contribute to a committee to decrease patient falls (i.e. doctor, nurse, manager, etc.).
- Discuss the role of ‘brainstorming’. What is one ‘ground rule’ (found in the textbook) to follow when brainstorming?
- If your team decided to redesign the workflow of the nursing home, what is one-step you might take to successfully manage this change with the nursing home staff? [You do not need to describe the redesign. You only need to describe one-step that will help make the workflow change successful].
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