Assume that you have recently been hired as the specialassistant to the chief executive officer (CEO) of your health careorganization, Thunder Hospital. Your duty is to head up the newquality improvement department. Over the last year, the hospitalhas experienced substantial growth but is also facing a number ofpatient safety concerns, including a steady increase in medicalerrors and a 25% rise in hospital-acquired infections. Based uponwhat you have learned in this course, prepare a quality improvementplan to present to the CEO with strategies for addressing theseissues.
In a 1,000-1,250-word proposal, include the following:
- Identify the issues the hospital is currently facing and howthey are affecting quality outcomes and endangering patients.
- Present a detailed plan to improve quality and elaborate on howit aligns with the hospital’s initiatives to improve value-addedhealth care. Discuss the quality improvement tool you suggest usingto locate and ameliorate problem areas, as well as the roles andresponsibilities of involved stakeholders, financial considerationsfor the implementation of your proposal, the goals of the plan, andmethods for evaluating its success.
- Examine the effects that the implementation of this proposalwill have upon administrators, clinicians, and physicians. Explorepossible challenges that could arise with stakeholders reactingnegatively to changes presented by this proposed plan. Whatstrategies or preventive measures could be put in place to reducethe friction between various health care providers?
- How will your plan improve overall quality for ThunderHospital? How will the improvements your plan suggests implementingnow set the hospital up to continue providing quality care in thefuture?
