Healthcare

Safety and Quality Standards of Healthcare Introduction The National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards aims at protecting patients from harm. They ensure that in the provision of care, safety, ethics and other regulations are followed all with the aim of providing quality patient-centred care. For healthcare facilities to be accredited, they must meet the […]

Statistical Process Control- Healthcare Quality SPC (Statistical Process Control), are statistical devices founded on the theory of variation, employed to understand any process measured over a duration of time, normally to identify areas of improvement or maintain high performance levels. SPC uses time series analysis and graphical data representations to simplify information to a broad

Infant Mortality High infant mortality rates have been a key public health issue in the United States over the last decades. Researchers have been focusing on learning about the causes, the risk factors and possible interventions in reducing infant mortality (IM). IM can be defined as the passing away of a newborn before their first

Healthcare Quality Management Define Vision, Mission and Strategic Plan. To achieve its objectives, the management of any organization lays down a series of steps or statements to direct the organization. They include vision, mission and a strategic plan(Ginter et al., 2018). The vision of an organization provides the long-term targets of an entity. It states

HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) The HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) was enacted in 1996. In its inception, the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) was required to make public the standards for exchanging electronic health information and the standards for security and privacy of this information.

Benchmarking: Healthcare Quality In healthcare matters, benchmarking is a management tool for applying best practices at the optimum cost (Ettorchi-Tardy et al., 2012). Benchmarking allows for continuous improvement and enables the decision-makers in an organization to gauge the necessary improvement needed to reach and maintain satisfactory performance levels. It is a monitoring tool used to

Healthcare Quality Paper DRG’s, diagnosis-related groups, are a method of grouping hospitalized patients into classifications with similar care processes and predictable service ranges (HMSA, 2018). DRG’s are categories for defining hospital admission cases. In 2014 according to HCUP, the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project, the top ten DRGs by hospital admissions were lower extremity arthroplasty,

Healthcare Quality The Hofstede dimension is a model used to gain insight into different cultures in different countries and to distinguish the way business is conducted across these cultures (CFI, 2021). This model lists some categories that describe culture. Power distance is the degree to which less powerful individuals in a society assume that power

Health Promotion in the African American Community In the U.S., African Americans make up the second largest minority group after the Latino/Hispanic population. Despite the declining death rate for African Americans, younger African Americans are suffering or dying from numerous health issues characteristically associated with older white Americans, (CDC, 2020). They are also more likely

Mitigation of Hospital-Acquired Infection (HCAI) Introduction This paper will illuminate hospital-acquired infections and propose a detailed strategy to implement an evidence-based practice designed to improve patient care by mitigating these infections. Hospital-acquired infection (HCAI) is among the most frequent forms of adverse event to affect patient care. HCAI can contribute to pain, prolonged hospital stay