Strategic Plan Part I- Organizational Structure Jennifer Janke HCS/589 Health Care Strategic Planning Sheryl Mc Gee, PhD April 13, 2015 Strategic Plan Part I - Organizational Structure Strategic planning is necessary in health care organizations since change is a continuous aspect and implementation is necessary. For this project, Health South Sunrise Rehabilitation Hospital is the chosen organization that is moving forward by improving itself to provide better services to their patients. Mission and vision statements as well as values are important to be communicated with employees, stakeholders, and everyone else. Strategic planning will have successes and failures, but leaders need to think positive at all times. This paper will
One might think that this report was based on improving health care by only reforming nurses but in turn it focuses on nursing being a significant role player and a large part of the health care team ,so by reforming them IOM intends to strengthen the infrastructure of health care as a whole .Thereby securing a brighter and safer future for our patients and
Quality Management Assessment Summary Maria Cordero HCS/451 June 12, 2012 Lauri Rose Quality Management Within an organization quality management is a systematic and continuous process utilize to deliver products and services that can meet or exceed a customer’s expectations. However, in healthcare it has evolved over the years to address the increase demands of patient’s quality of care and services. And addressing the problems in patient outcomes. The healthcare field tends to utilize quality management to focus on the safety of patients and staff, the reduction of medical errors, and avoiding morbidity or mortality rates. To insure and improve the quality of a healthcare facility requires the entire staff to be educated on the definition
Healthy People 2020 I think is one of the most important move that the state should make in order to make the vision of having healthy Americans, including all migrants, ethnic and minority groups, by the year 2020. Though free service is not always the key to have access to quality healthcare the state can definitely find ways such as moving funds to have an affordable medical insurance to cover all Americans so that everyone in America can avail of healthcare services as the need arises to have better chances of improving health by making it available and accessible to ever individual at once. A smaller set of Healthy People 2020 objectives, called Leading Health Indicators, has been selected to communicate high-priority health issues and actions that can be taken to address them. These objective areas include: Clinical preventive services, environmental quality, Injury and violence, maternal, Infant, and child health, mental health, nutrition, physical activity, and obesity, oral health, reproductive and sexual health, social determinants, substance abuse and tobacco. To achieve the goal of achieving healthy American people by the year 2020, Healthy People 2020 have formulated a step in gradually bringing about change in the health status of the community by Mobilizing partners, assessing the needs of the community, creating and implementing a plan to reach the goal set and tracking the plan’s progress along the process (US Department of Health and Human Services, 2012).
Health Information Exchange December, 9th, 2012 Health Information Exchange December, 9th, 2012 “The National Alliance for Health Information Technology Report to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology on Defining Key Health Information Technology Terms,” (April 28, 2008) The ability to exchange health information electronically is a basic and critical capability that is the foundation of efforts to improve healthcare in the US. The increased availability of relevant health information through HIE: Provides a key building block for improved patient care, quality and Safety, Makes relevant healthcare information available where and when it is needed (providers, public health, community health, etc. Provides
Therefore, it takes a very important part in the reformation of health care. The American Nurse Association was purposed to charge nurses to further their education in the medical field so that they could gain more credibility amongst their patients and within the medical field.With the ANA support in March of 2010 President Obama proposed the Health Care Reform Act to help assure individuals better, high-quality, and affordable health care insurance coverage. ("Health care reform in the United States", 2010, p.1). President Obama's purpose of the health care reform was purposed to provide better quality care to patients and the American Nurse Association is a perfect way in insuring that this word stands
Unit 6 Assignment: Service improvement in the health sector. 1.The national health service is committed to becoming more modern, more efficient and meeting expectations of the public, in order to achieve this the government has introduced initiatives such as the dignity strategy, and the care quality commission, all of which are the created through research of evaluation and analysis. The only way to establish if a business is working productively and efficiently is through evaluation this enables health providers to analyse in depth what it is they are doing well and what it is they need to improve upon. The evaluation of services is particularly important within health care as the service is surrounded by the care quality commission’s
The mission of the AHRQ is to “improve quality safety efficiency and effectiveness of healthcare for all Americans”. Information from their research allows people to make informed decisions regarding their medical care and improve the quality of services. The Joint Commission has recommended that a culture of safety be created. Stressing that organizations should have “transparent and equitable disciplinary process that takes into account personal responsibility and accountability.” TJC noted two major actions that erode leadership credibility and undermine the culture of safety; terminating or failing to support an employee who committed a blameless act during the course of an adverse event (med error), and exempting influential individuals from complying with quality and safety policies, such as policies on intimidating and disruptive behavior, (playing favorites). TJC has also been instrumental in creating the “do not use” list of abbreviations and the sound a like warnings for
Each agencies primary goal is prevention, protection, promotion, and preparedness for individuals, families, communities, and society. Without this shared mission the quality of life would cause devastation to the nation, but also globally. IHS works to increase the health of American Indians and Alaskan Natives physically, mentally, socially, and spiritually. I chose DHHS as my topic because it is the largest federal agency responsible for the health care and services of the United States. The DHHS is obligated to ensure public safety, health care insurance, technology, quality of care, prevention, promotion, education, and research.
Therefore, doctors, physician assistants, nurses, pharmacists, and the individual themselves are in fact what makes up the the health care industry that needs to reduce the risks from using medicines and to get the most benefit out of them. In order to make medicine use safer, one must speak up about their past and present because the more information a health care organization knows about them, the better they can plan the care that’s right for them. Another important factor that FDA effects in the health care industry is finding the correct facts. Before the health care organization can decide on a prescription or OTC medicine, one must know understand as much about it as possible. The most important factors to identify are brand and generic names, active ingredients, inactive ingredients, uses, warnings, possible interactions, side effects, possible tolerance, dependence, or addiction, overdose, directions, storage instructions, and expiration