Question

Imagine yourself as an administrator ready to undertake a new quality improvement program for your hospital. You need to explain the history and evolution of quality improvement programs to your employees and detail how the implementation of any new program developed will be incorporated into the strategic plan for the facility. Through this effort you want to prepare the team for development of a new strategic plan and quality improvement programs you are planning for the long-term care facility that will result in improved patient outcomes for the facility.

Instructions In this assignment you will examine the origins and the evolution of the US healthcare quality movement. You will explain some of the elements involved in the successful healthcare quality improvements efforts. Also, examine the elements needed in a good strategic plan for the facility. Finally, detail how the implementation of any new program developed will be included and align with the strategic plan and operations for the facility. This assignment will be at least 3 pages long in APA format, with a word count of at least 700.

Requirements

• Examine the origins and the evolution of the US healthcare quality movement.
• Explain some of the elements involved in the successful healthcare quality improvements efforts.
• Examine the elements needed in a good strategic plan for the facility and details how the implementation of any new program developed will be included and align with the strategic plan for the facility.

Answer 1

1. Examine the origins and the evolution of the US healthcare quality movement.

The origin of quality movement traces back to 19th century where an obstetrician named Ignaz gave importance to quality through hand washing. Florence Nightingale found out that because of poor living condition the death rates were more among the soldiers.

There has been multiple attempts to improve the quality of health care in U S through the past half decades. In 1965, the medicare and medicaid programs were started by the congress legislation.

2. Explain some of the elements involved in the successful healthcare quality improvements efforts.

Elements involved in successful healthcare quality improvement are:

• Clearly defined goals and objectives
• Quality improvement methodologies and tools.
• Evidence based practices
• Adaptive leadership, culture and governance.

3. Examine the elements needed in a good strategic plan for the facility and details how the implementation of any new program

Keep these points in mind while implementing new programe.

• We should check why a planning has to be done: To know where our organization is standing in terms of providing good healthcare.
• How far should we go: We should have a dream of taking the programe to new height. So we should measure how far we can go if we implement it.
• We should make a calculation on when the project should be completed.
• Implementation: This is where the real task starts. So keep all members occupied with this project by allowing weekly or monthly meetings to see how far we have achieved this.