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Running Head: HEALTHCARE QUALITY IMPROVEMENT
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Healthcare Quality Improvement
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HA245 Operational Analysis and Quality Improvement

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HEALTHCARE QUALITY IMPROVEMENT
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Changes in healthcare quality was started by Florence Nightingalein the early 19
th
century. As a result, it is currently adapted by a multitude of healthcare quality organizations.
The word “quality healthcareaccording the to the Institute of Medicine connotates the safe,
effective, patient-centered, timely, efficient and equitable (Steiner, 2019). But the question is do
patients receiveadequate care to be healthy? or are they given theappropriate patient resources to
make the right decisions for ourcare?
Tracing back the history of healthcare, there has been inadequacy in our patient care
quality and safety. “Health care & hospitals” (2019) contends several factors that hospitals in
many states were segregated by race resulting to extensive racialism, the absence of pain
management, hospital admissions were longer, smoking on hospital premises, doctors
withholding patient healthcare information, the norm of aseptic technique is not a followed,
hospitals manipulate patient treatment costs and etc.
According to Marjoua&Bozic (2012), academic health quality movements developed
approaches to address the deficiencies in the delivery of healthcare. In theory, there is a
possibility that healthcare professionals in the past lack the medical expertise to effectively treat
patients, to include lack of advanced medical and surgical equipment to treat them. However, in
1847, the establishment of the American Medical Association (AMA) led to goals of scientific
advancement, influencing medical education standards, initiation of a medical ethics program
and finally, improving public health (“AMA History,” 2018). In 1910, changes in medical
education progressed as standards for medical schools introduced the use of the “Flexner report”
whereas admission standards, physical facilities, laboratories and instruction by physician
scientists were factors in judging the quality of education for medical schools (Duffy,
2011).Additionally, as the U.S. population kept growing, the need for more healthcare providers

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Running Head: HEALTHCARE QUALITY IMPROVEMENT Healthcare Quality Improvement Purdue University Global HA245 Operational Analysis and Quality Improvement 1 HEALTHCARE QUALITY IMPROVEMENT 2 Changes in healthcare quality was started by Florence Nightingalein the early 19th century. As a result, it is currently adapted by a multitude of healthcare quality organizations. The word “quality healthcare” according the to the Institute of Medicine connotates the safe, effective, patient-centered, timely, efficient and equitable (Steiner, 2019). But the question is –do patients receiveadequate care to be healthy? or are they given theappropriate patient resources to make the right decisions for ourcare? Tracing back the history of healthcare, there has been inadequacy in our patient care quality and safety. “Health care & hospitals” (2019) contends several factors that hospitals in many states were segregated by race resulting to extensive racialism, the absence of pain management, hospital admissions were longer, smoking on hospital premises, doctors withholding patient healthcare information, the norm of aseptic technique is not a followed, hospitals manipulate patient treatment costs and etc. According to Marjoua&Bozic (2012), academic health quality movements developed approaches to address the deficiencies in the delivery of healthcare. In theory, there is a possibility that healthcare professionals in the past lack the medical expertise to effectively treat patients ...
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