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 […]

Healthcare Reimbursement Healthcare reimbursement is the payment that healthcare providers receive for giving medical services. Value-based reimbursement is one of method of rewarding healthcare providers. The main aim of this model is to reduce the increasing costs by basis reimbursement on the quality of service. Value based reimbursement approach creates a balance between efficiency and

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

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

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

Healthcare Finance Article 1 (Rosenbaum & Margulies, 2011) Nearly 2,900 of all U.S. hospitals are nonprofit and under the Internal Revenue Code qualify for tax-exemption provided they attain several federal necessities (AHA, 2010). In 2002, 12.6 billion U.S. dollars was estimated to be attributed to foregone tax revenues (Rosenbaum & Margulies, 2011). Non-profit hospitals have

Influence of Culture on Healthcare Introduction Improving client outcomes in the health sector needs to take into account the cultural background of patients to inform the best healthcare plan for the diverse patients.  To aid healthcare workers in serving the multicultural population, the Purnell Model for Cultural Competence was created in 1995 (Purnell, 2000). I

Healthcare Quality Pediatric Hospital Discharges (Berry et al., 2016). This study was done at the national level in order to evaluate the use of HHC (home health care) and PAC (facility-based post-acute care) for children who have been discharged from hospital. In particular, the study focused on the national frequency and variation of PAC and