DISCUSSION BOARD HEALTH 440
Assignment Details (200 Words)
What competencies were you able to develop in researching and writing the Comprehensive Project due in Unit 5? How did you leverage feedback from your peers in the Discussion Board for Units 1–4 in completing the project? How will these competencies and knowledge support your career advancement in management?
INDIVIDUAL PROJECTS UNIT 5
Assignment Details 3 Pages
Quality Improvement in the Health Care Organization Accreditation
The mandate for improving the way in which health care is delivered was stimulated by the public outcry over the estimated 98,000 deaths because of medical errors each year according to the Institute of Medicine in 1999. Since then, health care organizations have sought means by which the public can be reassured that they were meeting quality and safety standards. Accreditation agencies (e.g., The Joint Commission) and quality awards provide a means for the public to evaluate where the agency is meeting minimum standards.
You have been assigned by your manager to determine which accrediting agencies or quality improvement programs your hospital will utilize in its upcoming revenue cycle. Your hospital is a magnet hospital in a large urban area that provides multilayered services. You have previously used The Joint Commission for your accreditation but feel that you might be better served by using another accrediting body. You have three months in which to gather data and present the information to your manager.
Complete the following for this assignment:
- Choose 3 quality improvement or accreditation-related programs to consider in replacing The Joint Commission for your organization, and briefly describe them. Your agency accepts Medicare and Medicaid payments; therefore, you will need to explore, as background, the conditions of participation for Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). This is important information because you will need to compare your list of accrediting agencies and quality improvement programs with the conditions of participation to see if they meet the criteria.
- Analyze the costs and benefits of each quality improvement or accreditation-related program by stakeholder group (e.g., patient, provider, and third-party payer).
- Rank your quality improvement or accreditation-related program suggestions with rationale.
REMINDER PLEASE:
Instructor don’t want a paper that is difficult to follow, they wanted more of the students own wordings, and most of all they wanted students to get information if possible not from other sites but only from the library (AIU). Instructor needed that a student has a good understanding of the concepts that is being discussed. If possible not too many cited information, the instructor wanted more of own wording, synthesis, and analysis of the information being provided. It need to be Scholarly Research, less bullets