Category: Healthcare

For this first part of the quality improvement (QI) initiative, you will write a three- to five-page paper that details the information you find in your research about your team’s selected hospital. Recall from the Project Brief: Quality Improvement Initiatives that your team is to select a hospital from the Medicare.gov Providers & Services: Find Care ProvidersLinks to an external site. webpage.
In order to fulfill the CEO’s request to identify the low performing quality and patient safety issues in the hospital, browse through the following categories listed on the webpage for your team’s selected hospital:
Timely and Effective Care
Note: No two team members can research the same initiative. Each team member will be working independently on their chosen initiative. If you feel you need support, reach out to your team members.
After your team selects a hospital, explore the categories listed on your chosen hospital’s webpage to get an understanding of how it scores. Be sure to scroll down and expand each category to see the measures nested within the category. For example, for one particular hospital, under the category “Timely and Effective Care for Sepsis Care,” the hospital scored 53% for this measure. This is the percentage of patients who received appropriate care for severe sepsis and septic shock. The national average was 60%, and the state average was 55%. This is a low performing quality and patient safety issue that could be explored. Here is another example: Under the category “Timely and Effective Care for Emergency Department Care,” this hospital had 146 minutes for the measure, “average (median) time patients spent in the emergency department before leaving from the visit.” The national average had 172 minutes, and the state average had 158 minutes. But another hospital in the same area had 125 minutes. This measure could be explored as well.
In your paper,
Describe the nature of the business, services or products, and customers served by your chosen hospital.
Evaluate one measure of your choice.
Remember that each team member must have a unique measure.
Discuss the importance of your selected measure (e.g., accreditation status, patient safety, and/or financial status of the hospital).
Define two to three SMART goals for your selected measure to improve. 
Be sure to include all five elements—specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, and time-bound—in each goal. 
For example: To implement an up-and-running emergency department tracking system by 12/31/2022. To hire and train additional five nurses to meet the staff-to-patient ratio during peak times by 12/31/2022.  To reduce the turnaround time at 10% for lactic acid/lactate levels laboratory testing by 12/31/2022.
Analyze specific local, state, or national policies (e.g., The Joint Commission Standards) that have been developed to improve your selected measure based on evidence-based practice research.
The Quality Improvement Initiative: Part 1
Must be three to five double-spaced pages in length (not including title and references pages) and formatted according to APA StyleLinks to an external site. as outlined in the Writing Center’s APA Formatting for Microsoft WordLinks to an external site. resource.
Must include a separate title page with the following:
Title of paper in bold font
Space should appear between the title and the rest of the information on the title page.
Student’s name
Name of institution (The University of Arizona Global Campus)
Course name and number
Instructor’s name
Due date
Must utilize academic voice. See the Academic VoiceLinks to an external site. resource for additional guidance.
Must include an introduction and conclusion paragraph. Your introduction paragraph needs to end with a clear thesis statement that indicates the purpose of your paper.
For assistance on writing Introductions & ConclusionsLinks to an external site. and Writing a Thesis StatementLinks to an external site., refer to the Writing Center resources.
Must use at least three scholarly or peer-reviewed sources published in the past 5 years in addition to the course text.

RB Application Draft Revisions
The following are the tasks in this Individual Project:
Submit your Institutional Review Board (IRB) application revisions per discussions with your research supervisor.
If you have moved beyond this assignment (you are encouraged to move forward as soon as your work will allow), please see the list of steps below. In collaboration with your research supervisor, locate your current step in the dissertation research process, and move to the next step for this assignment or as your research supervisor has advised.
Revision of the IRB application (as required)
Commence data collection upon receipt of the IRB approval
Commence data analysis once data collection is closed
Commence draft of Chapter 4
Please submit your assignment.
For assistance with your assignment, please use your textbook, all course resources, and any external research and resources you have gathered.
Individual Project Rubric
The Individual Project (IP) Grading Rubric is a scoring tool that represents the performance expectations for the IP. This Individual Project Grading Rubric is divided into components that provide a clear description of what should be included within each component of the IP. It’s the roadmap that can help you in the development of your IP.
Expectation Points Possible Points Earned Comments
Assignment-Specific: The student has submitted a revised draft of the IRB application with all of the required attachments completed satisfactorily.
35
Assignment-Specific: The student has revised the submission and incorporated feedback from the RS.
35
Assignment-Specific: The submission adheres to all requirements of the IRB application.
35
Assignment-Specific: The submission demonstrates the utilization of the course readings and other scholarly or professional materials to complete the assignment.
10
Professional Language: The assignment contains accurate grammar, spelling, and punctuation with few or no errors. (APA formatting or the style specified in the assignment is required.)
10
Total Points
125

Each quality improvement (QI) initiative is composed of systematic inputs, processes, and activities. Additionally, the QI initiative is a team process involving various stakeholders. Whether the initiative is seeking to improve wait time, diabetes care, or other important goals, a team effort can help achieve significant and lasting improvements. Without proper resources as inputs, the QI activities might not reach their optimal outcomes.
Individual members of each team are to write a three- to five-page paper that details Part 2 of your QI initiative.
In your paper,
Identify at least three quality improvement or risk management tools or methodologies (e.g. flowchart, 6-Sigma, etc.) needed for your QI initiative.
Be sure to provide the rationales for your selected tools or methodologies.
Determine the stakeholders involved to accomplish your QI initiative.
Be sure to provide the rationales.
Examine other resources (e.g., time, financial, materials, etc.) required for your QI initiative.
Be sure to provide the rationales.
The Quality Improvement Initiative: Part 2 paper
Must be three to five double-spaced pages in length (not including title and references pages and formatted according to APA StyleLinks to an external site. as outlined in the Writing Center’s APA Formatting for Microsoft WordLinks to an external site. resource.
Must include a separate title page with the following:
Title of paper in bold font
Space should appear between the title and the rest of the information on the title page.
Student’s name
Name of institution (The University of Arizona Global Campus)
Course name and number
Instructor’s name
Due date
Must utilize academic voice. See the Academic VoiceLinks to an external site. resource for additional guidance.
Must include an introduction and conclusion paragraph. Your introduction paragraph needs to end with a clear thesis statement that indicates the purpose of your paper.
For assistance on writing Introductions & ConclusionsLinks to an external site. and Writing a Thesis StatementLinks to an external site., refer to the Writing Center resources.
Must use at least three scholarly or peer-reviewed sources published in the past 5 years in addition to the course text

-This project will allow you to apply the key principles, practices, and concepts to examine health and well-being in a California county of your choice.
-This project will use 
https://www.countyhealthrankings.org/explore-health-rankings/county-health-rankings-model as a primary resource
-Submit a Word document via the assignment link on Canvas. No other formats will be graded. The page minimum for the final paper is 7 pages
-Teacher uses turnitin.com so please do not use any AI or plagerism 
-please follow files attatche 
-Use graphs and tables! 

i have to explain ways for adolescents to be aware of the amount of health risks in childrenand also find ways to decrease the amount in MLA format

Within the Discussion Board area, write 400-600 words that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. This will be the foundation for future discussions by your classmates. Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas.
Proposal Modifications Update
Provide an update on your dissertation research proposal modifications. Include a discussion of any hurdles you have encountered or are encountering, and devise a plan to address them.
Describe any additional assistance you may need from your research supervisor and your peers at this stage of your dissertation research process.

An research paper on any ethical topic regarding the healthcare in Saudi Arabia ( preferably in Riyadh city)
– preferably secondary data or a valid questionnaire have been approved and ues in Saudi Arabia.(I will do the survey and collect the answers)

The key to understanding an organization’s financial health is analyzing its financial performance using financial ratios.
Scenario
In your new role as comptroller of the hospital, your CFO has asked you to prepare a financial analysis by evaluating a medical supply company, Hillside, Inc., that the hospital is considering purchasing. You will use its balance sheet and income statement to calculate several financial ratios. You’ll demonstrate your financial analysis skills and make final recommendations as to whether the hospital should purchase Hillside, Inc. to improve the availability of medical supplies to the hospital.
Assessment Deliverable
Access and complete Financial Analysis Calculations Worksheet (contains Parts 1 and 3) and Financial Ratio Calculations (contains Part 2) in the following order using the prompts provided in the documents:
Financial Analysis Calculations Worksheet, Part 1: Matching Questions
Financial Ratio Calculations, Part 2: Financial Ratio Calculations
Financial Analysis Calculations Worksheet, Part 3: Financial Performance Summary

The Director at the hospital assigns you a very important task in rolling out an EHR: investigating vendors. She recommends researching different vendors. The two of you discuss some important questions to determine what is needed to meet your organization’s needs:
What software and hardware is needed to implement an EHR?
What features of an EHR are must-haves?
What features are strong wants, but not absolutely necessary?
What does one vendor have that the other doesn’t?
Your budget has a limit. Will this vendor meet your budget?
Compare alternatives: The lower-cost product does not have a physician order component, which means physician orders will be hand-written and you will have to scan them to add to the EHR. The mid-cost product does not link to diagnostic reports. The higher-cost product gives you the convenience of a fully electronic record, but at a price. You still must budget for scanners, because you know there are still paper documents that the HIM department receives that will need to be added to the EHR.
Deliverable:
In your initial post, research and evaluate two different vendors and recommend one of them to the Director and add the reasons why you picked one vendor over the other.
In at least one of your responses to your classmates, evaluate their decision and either recommend actions for them OR debate why they chose a certain vendor.
Investigate clinical decision support applications and provide a summary of one (1) of the applications that you find. Please provide facts about the applications and answer the following questions:
What does the application do?
How does the application help the user?
Examples of decision support applications include: DxPlain®, QMR®, Prodigy®, Diagnosis Pro®, Iliad®, and Problem Knowledge Couplers®
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The purpose of this assignment is to develop data stewardship standards for clinical and public health entities.
Data are essential to progress when it comes to health care information technology and HMIS. The collecting, interpreting, and modeling of data allows information technology specialists, health care administrators, and clinical practitioners to provide the highest quality patient diagnoses, treatment, and care. But the data are only effective when users have appropriate access and understand how to read the data, and when the integrity of the data is sound.
Using the information provided in conjunction with your own research, create a plan to enforce data stewardship standards across the clinical and public health sectors. Use the “Project Plan” template to complete this assignment.
In a project plan, elaborate on the following points:
Overarching goal for the alignment of both clinical and public data standards.
Differences between clinical and public health data use and how this partnership will minimize those disparities.
Similarities between clinical and public health data use and how this partnership will capitalize on those parallels.
Your proposal for new data stewardship standards and guidelines.
Action plan: What will be the first steps in standardizing these data stewardship guidelines and how do you plan to go about managing this process? How do you intend to ensure and maintain consistency in data stewardship standards across the clinical and public health sectors? Who will have access to what data? How will data be collected and stored? How will confidentiality be maintained throughout this process?
How will this collaboration affect patients, health care practitioners, and both public and private health care organizations?
How will this partnership strengthen the infrastructure and interdisciplinary team goals for health information systems and technology?
You are required to use at least two scholarly references in addition to your textbook for this assignment.
Textbook: Understanding Health Information Systems for the Health Professions by Jean A. Balgrosky