Healthcare Management Plan

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The course project requires a quality management plan. To do this, you will:

  • Identify various aspects of a quality management plan in a healthcare organization.
  • Apply various processes and tools to enhance quality in a healthcare setting. Seek additional resources from http://www.leanproduction.com/index.html.
  • Identify workflow processes in a healthcare setting.
  • Identify quality parameters in a healthcare setting.
  • Examine the effectiveness of a quality management plan in a given healthcare setting.

The project is modeled on the Shewhart Cycle (Plan, Do, Check, Act). You will modify the Shewhart Cycle to make it applicable to your selected healthcare service or program.

Seek additional resources that will help you understand the process being studied as well as planning and quality improvement in general. You can visit the following link for more details on a quality process improvement plan:
www.goleansixsigma.com

Click Resources and then select Lean Six Sigma Tools. Review the steps in sequence; they provide direction to a quality process improvement plan. While you do not need to use the steps in sequence, they provide direction, as given below:

  • Define: This step describes the importance of the problem within the organization.
  • Measure: This step relates to the impact of the current condition and target goals for improvement.
  • Analyze: This step relates to understanding work flow mapping and the value stream as well as understanding root cause analysis (RCA).
  • Improve: This step identifies improvements to consider in the implementation of change.
  • Control: This step is about sustainability of change.

Tasks:

  • Complete a part of the Plan step of the cycle.
    • Describe the environment, the organization, and the department or program within the organization that is the basis for your project. Describe the selected healthcare setting, specifically its service, staff, equipment, and patients. Identify and describe the scope and nature of the problem.
    • Assess the environment using strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) analysis. Interview some stakeholders, such as managers, staff, or customers. Use the interview information to conduct the SWOT analysis. You may also summarize or quote any important or interesting information gathered during the interview.
    • Select one of the weaknesses determined by the SWOT analysis to create a plan for improvement.

Submission Details:

  • Present the description of the organization, the SWOT analysis, and any interview summaries in a 5-page Microsoft Word document formatted as a report in APA style.
  • On a separate page, cite all sources using APA format.

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Running head: HCA’S QUALITY MANAGEMENT PLAN

HCA Quality Management Plan
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HCA’S QUALITY MANAGEMENT PLAN

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HCA’S Quality Management Plan
This is the threshold of a quality level defined by the customer. Quality management plan
gives a summary of the methods that will be applied in a project during the whole process to
ensure quality. It has its importance in explaining quality is maintained in the project’s lifespan.
It includes all the project’s procedure and processes which ensure that there is a maintenance of
quality. A quality management plan is required to be followed in all organization. In Healthcare,
it is of great importance mostly because of the services to human beings. Quality management
plan in the health sector is a combination of the available and quality of the
facility/infrastructure, the staff, the applied technology and the relationship between the
hospital’s staff with the local. In this question, HCA hospital located in Nashville.
As this is a company with the main role of treating the patients, there has to be the aspect
of money generating as well as the service delivery. As HCA is a private hospital, the gained
profits ensure smooth running and sustainability of the hospital. Profit generation also ensures
hiring of competent staff and thus delivery of quality services. Goodwill of the hospital’s staff
also facilitates a positive relationship between the locals and the hospital’s management and thus
a good platform for engagement (LaBrecque, 2016).
As stated in its vision and mission statement: this hospital’s dedication is provision of
access to coordinated patient-centered care. This ensures support for future patients’ care and
thus t...


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