Quality Improvement Proposal

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Grand Canyon University

Description

Assume that you have recently been hired as the special assistant to the chief executive officer (CEO) of your health care organization, Thunder Hospital. Your duty is to head up the new quality improvement department. Over the last year, the hospital has experienced substantial growth but is also facing a number of patient safety concerns, including a steady increase in medical errors and a 25% rise in hospital-acquired infections. Based upon what you have learned in this course, prepare a quality improvement plan to present to the CEO with strategies for addressing these issues.

In a 1,000-1,250-word proposal, include the following:

  1. Identify the issues the hospital is currently facing and how they are affecting quality outcomes and endangering patients.
  2. Present a detailed plan to improve quality and elaborate on how it aligns with the hospital’s initiatives to improve value-added health care. Discuss the quality improvement tool you suggest using to locate and ameliorate problem areas, as well as the roles and responsibilities of involved stakeholders, financial considerations for the implementation of your proposal, the goals of the plan, and methods for evaluating its success.
  3. Examine the effects that the implementation of this proposal will have upon administrators, clinicians, and physicians. Explore possible challenges that could arise with stakeholders reacting negatively to changes presented by this proposed plan. What strategies or preventive measures could be put in place to reduce the friction between various health care providers?
  4. How will your plan improve overall quality for Thunder Hospital? How will the improvements your plan suggests implementing now set the hospital up to continue providing quality care in the future?

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Introduction

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B. Thesis Statement

Body

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B. Summary of second piece of supporting evidence/information

Second paragraph description

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Conclusion

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Running head: QUALITY HEALTH IMPROVEMENT
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Quality Health Improvement
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Institution

QUALITY HEALTH IMPROVEMENT

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The growth and expansion of most facilities often face challenges relating to quality and
patient satisfaction. Mergers characterize the growth of medical facilities through technological
advancements, and staffing needs making medical facilities vulnerable to low-quality staffing
and services. Achieving the balance between quality and quantity is one challenging aspect that
most private health facilities experience in a growing customer base. Some of the issues that
arise due to expansion are financial challenges, patient satisfaction, and misdiagnosis that often
lead to readmission. The top hospital leadership has the responsibility to draft measures to
maintain quality and preserve the existing customers.
Thunder Hospital faces quality issues as a result of its substantial growth over a year. The
challenge of fast growth is the shortfall in quality and limited preparation for the growing
patients' needs. At Thunder hospital, the underlying issues are an increased number of errors by
health professio...


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