...QI plan Part II HCS/588 July 27, 2015 Georgia Rothstein QI Plan Part II This week’s study is a continuation of the week three assignment. Saint Joseph’s Hospital will focus on improving patient discharge instructions. This paper will have a description of each methodology researched as well as the pros and cons of each for the chosen performance improvement area. One of the mentioned methodologies will be chosen for the organizational plan as well as an explanation of that methodology was chosen. There will be a description of information technology applications researched as well as an explanation of they could be used to improve the performance area chosen for the organization. An explanation of the involvement of benchmarks and milestones in managing how quality indicators will be provided as well as three potential benchmarks and milestones from the quality indicators that could be used as part of the plan being developed. The last information to be provided is a description of an organizations performance and quality measures are aligned with the organization’s mission, vision, and strategic plan in general. After providing how performance and quality measures are aligned a description of how they align with the organization I have chosen will be provided. Quality Improvement Methodologies It is important for health care managers to improve quality services in health care facilities. This means the health care managers must use methods which are proven to be helpful...
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...Quality Improvement Plan Christen D. Hamilton HCS/588 October 21, 2013 Mrs Linda Roan Business Name: Trinity Home Health and Hospice Service Street Address: 2606 Rutland Dr, City, ST ZIP Code: Charleston, SC 29401 Phone: 843-201-2991 Fax: 843-201-2992 e-mail : trinityhomehealth.gov Table of Contents I. Table of Contents 3 II. General Company Description 3 III. Goals and Objectives…………………………………………………………………………3 IV. Scope/Description/QI Activities ………………………………………………………….3 V. Data Collection Tools 3 VI. QI Processes and Methodology 3 VII. Comparative Databases, Benchmarks, and Professional Practice Standards 3 * VIII. Authority/Structure/Organization………………………………………………………….3 IX. Communication: 3 X. Education 3 XI. Annual Evaluation 3 Executive Summary My Quality Improvement plan began a year ago when I open the new office in Charleston, SC. We have 15 staff members to include, Registered nurses, Certified Nurse Assistants, physical therapist with assistant and a new pilot program where we will employ a part-time dentist, dental assistant and hygienist. My plan will outline the challenges that I have encountered and the solutions to the issues. I have attached a financial statement on the additional cost of the new employees. I have included the federal organizations that I am working with to ensure that I meet all government requirements. I have listed the regulatory agencies and their guidelines in running this federal funded organization...
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...]eanne Penvenne, Marcia Wright and, especially, Leroy Vail. In Switzerland I benefitted from the friendship and assistance of Laurent Monier of the IUED in Geneva, Francois Iecquier of the University of Lausanne and Mariette Ouwerhand of the dépurtement évangélrlyue (the former Swiss Mission). In South Africa, Patricia Davison of the South African Museum introduced me to material culture and made me aware of the richness of difference; the late Monica Wilson taught me the fundamentals of anthropology and Andrew Spiegel and Robert Thornton struggled to keep me abreast of changes in the discipline; Sue Newton-King and Nigel Penn brought shafts of light from the eighteenthcentury to bear on early industrialism. Charles van Onselen laid a major part of the intellectual foundations on which I attempt to build. I must also pay tribute to the late F.M. Maboko, who introduced me to the joys and tribulations of fieldwork; I hope that many of the concerns of the old miners weinterviewed have fotmd a place in this work. The long period of gestation that finally resulted in the birth of this book would not have been possible without the financial support of various...
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...McGraw-Hill Create™ Review Copy for Instructor Espinoza. Not for distribution. Course BBE 4505 Omar Espinoza University Of Minnesota NATURAL RESOURCES McGraw-Hill Create™ Review Copy for Instructor Espinoza. Not for distribution. http://create.mcgraw-hill.com Copyright 2012 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. Except as permitted under the United States Copyright Act of 1976, no part of this publication may be reproduced or distributed in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without prior written permission of the publisher. This McGraw-Hill Create text may include materials submitted to McGraw-Hill for publication by the instructor of this course. The instructor is solely responsible for the editorial content of such materials. Instructors retain copyright of these additional materials. ISBN-10: 1121789048 ISBN-13: 9781121789043 McGraw-Hill Create™ Review Copy for Instructor Espinoza. Not for distribution. Contents 1. Preface 1 2. Methods, Standards, and Work Design: Introduction 7 Problem-Solving Tools 27 3. Tex 29 4. Operation Analysis 79 5. Manual Work Design 133 6. Workplace, Equipment, and Tool Design 185 7. Work Environment Design 239 8. Design of Cognitive Work 281 9. Workplace and Systems Safety 327 10. Proposed Method Implementation 379 11. Time Study 413 12. Performance Rating and Allowances 447 13. Standard Data and Formulas 485 14. Predetermined Time Systems 507...
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