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Assignment 3: Healthcare Quality
Due Week 6 and worth 200 points
Assume that you are a quality officer who is responsible for one (1) of the state’s largest healthcare organizations. You have been told that the quality of patient care has decreased, and you have been assigned a project that is geared toward increasing quality of care for the patients. Your Chief Executive Officer has requested a six to eight page (6-8) summary of your recommended initiatives.
Note: You may create and /or make all necessary assumptions needed for the completion of this assignment.
Write a six to eight (6-8) page paper in which you:
- Analyze three (3) quality initiatives for your organization.
- Determine the supporting factors that would aid in the reduction of healthcare cost in your organization without reducing quality of care for the patients.
- Differentiate between quality in a free market healthcare system and in single-payer government system with three (3) examples for each.
- Specify three (3) common law quality initiatives that are still found in 21st century healthcare organizations.
- Defend your position on the importance of healthcare quality for your organization. Provide support with at least three (3) examples that illustrate your position.
- Assemble a plan to protect patient information that complies with all legal requirements.
- Use at least three (3) quality references. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic resources.
Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:
- Typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
- Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.
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Quality is an important issue of concern for all healthcare providers, payers, patients and
policy makers. When the quality of patient care decreases, it essentially means that the outcomes
of healthcare services are not desirable or they are not consistent with the existing professional
knowledge. Trinity Health is one of the largest healthcare organizations in the state of Michigan,
United States. Recently, the organization has been plagued with issues of quality as it relates to
patient care. As a quality officer, it is imperative to come up with measures that can help the
organization to enhance the quality of care it delivers to its patients. This paper seeks to highlight
the quality initiatives for Trinity Health, identify factors that can help to reduce healthcare costs
while maintaining quality of care, contrast between quality in a free-market system and quality in
a single-payer system. The paper will further explore the common quality law initiatives that still
exist in modern healthcare organizations, argue for the importance of healthcare quality in
Trinity Health and formulate a plan for protecting patient information that is in line with all the
legal requirements.
Quality Initiatives for Trinity Health
The three quality initiatives that will be pursued by the Trinity Health include enhanced
patient flow, zero errors and reduced readmission rates. In essence, measures of quality in any
given healthcare organization are based on the parameters of effectiveness, safety, timeliness,
patient-centeredness, equity, and efficiency as it relates to delivering care and the outcomes of
respective services delivered. Therefore, enhanced patient flow is one initiative that will to help
the organization to increase quality of care. As it is, Trinity Health suffers from overcrowding
and frequent delays especially in emergency departments, laboratories, and in the intensive care
units. Enhancing the flow of patients in the aforementioned areas and other areas on hospital
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floor will be the first step to ensuring smooth handling of patients in and out of the hospital in a
timely and effective manner. Enhancing patient flow will further help to ensure proper
management of patient visits and prevent overcrowding as well as wide variations in occupancy
rates. This will help to reduce patient surges, eliminate delays and enhance physician-patient
interaction, which in turn, will improve health outcomes of patients (Sadeghi, 2013).
The second quality initiative will focus on ensuring zero errors in clinical outcomes.
Patient safety is one of the quality goals of the organ...
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