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The overall process of discharging a patient from a hospital and the transition back home or to a care facility are critical advancements in the overall course of both acute and long-term care. It is important that the hospitals releasing these patients have ensured the proper overall course of care from beginning to end. The lack of consistency with both the discharge process and the quality of discharge planning has led to many avoidable readmissions. To reduce the amount of hospital readmissions, it is imperative that hospitals recognize the need for focused patient care and that programs are being implemented to assist in the care transition.

▪ Giving showers to patients and doing other tasks related to personal care in general, such as changing pads or helping those less independent to go to a toilet.

What do you consider to be the key issues for quality improvements in the NHS quality-improvement program as it goes forward?

External and internal influences are relevant in health care. These influences continue to affect the total operations of a health care facility. I will summarize the insights I have gained into the external influences of the new health care reform policy and quality initiatives. The recent health care reform legislation was passed in the house and senate this year. The senior vice president, that I have interviewed, states that health care reform is an “unknown” for organizations. In addition, I will research the quality improvement initiatives and how these external influences include implications for organizations and health care administrators.

Continuous and life-long learning- Unlike other professions in healthcare field one has to keep in pace with the updates going on, know the new technology,

Finally, a concern with inadequate health care in prisons is that when prisoners are released, they will spread any contagious diseases and illnesses. They may also leave without having full control of their mental illnesses and that could compound into even larger issues when no longer incarcerated, as their access to society is not restricted.

Health care costs are a longstanding concern to policymakers. For years, health care spending has been rising faster than the rate of economic growth, raising the question of what factors are responsible for rising health care costs. This paper explores published articles that report results from research conducted on technological innovations in health care and its relation to rising health care costs. The cost increases have a significant effect on households, businesses, and government programs. Health care experts indicates the development and diffusion of medical technology as primary factors in explaining the persistent

The healthcare career I believe I will best fit into is the Medical librarian. They work closely with patients and consumers who are seeking information on medical care, they provide information such as new medical treatments, clinical and standards trials procedures, test and equipment. Being a medical librarian will allow me to be part of a medical team that would have a direct impact on the quality of patient care without

Quality Improvement Organizations (QIOs), work in partnership with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to advocate for safe, efficient, and quality healthcare for Americans. Working at the community level, QIOs collaborate with providers and interact with beneficiaries to improve patient outcomes. Additionally, QIOs support new models of care and promote healthcare goals endorsed by the National Quality Strategy, and CMS Quality Strategy. CMS has strategically placed QIOs in several regions nationwide, and Mississippi is served by Information and Quality Healthcare (IQH). IQH founded in 1971 as a non-profit organization has strived to improve the quality of care received in Mississippi. IQH participates in a tobacco cessation helpline, behavioral health services, and diabetes education for Medicare beneficiaries.

Although the United States is said to offer poor health services among other developed countries, it still has some internal features that makes the system thrive over most healthcare system. One of the major strength in the healthcare system is the breakthrough of technology advances. “Some technologies may improve the efficiency of care delivery by reducing procedure time, length of stay, or number of hospitalizations, thereby increasing the capacity of the hospital to treat additional patients” (Sorenson et al 2013). In which, also favors many patients whom wished to receive their test results sooner or on the estimated arrival date.

West Florida Regional Medical Center (WFRMC) located on the north side of Pensacola, Florida competed strongly with sacred heart and Baptist hospitals for patients. WFRMC’s CEO John Kausch was an active member of the Total Quality Council of the Pensacola Area Chamber of Commerce (PATQC) (McLaughlin, C.P., Johnson, J.K., & Sollecito, 2012).. PATQC’s vision was to develop the Pensacola, Florida area into a total quality community by promoting productivity, quality and economic developments in all area organizations both public and private (McLaughlin, et, al., 2012). John

The health care industry is one of the most dynamic and delicate industries in the U.S. having experienced healthy and substantial changes for the last thirty years most of which have aimed to improve health care management and services delivery to the patients. The changes have enabled the integration of technology into the industry such as in the area of informatics, science and research and payment services and clinical treatments. The health care sector has introduced various changes to address disease and health care management such as the Modernization Act of 2003, the Patient Protection Act and Affordable Act, which aim at improving health provision and most

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Why would a world-renowned organization, Mayo Clinic, already know for quality embark on a quality improvement journey?

Value-added service as it pertains to patient care services means fully engaging the patient. When it comes to a for-profit hospital is can mean high quality care, safety, patient satisfaction, and achieving goals in health care delivery. In the patient's point of view, it can be a variety of health care offerings such as wellness offerings (i.e.; physicals, occupational health, health screenings), fitness incentives and outreach programs. Value-added services offer patients a way to improve access to and reduce out-of-pocket expenditure for healthcare services. When patients are fully engage in the status of their conditions, they are able to make better healthcare decisions. The electronic medical records (EMRs) is a good example of value-added services, EMRs allows patient care data be shared between various physician offices, thereby improving care and quality of the patient. In addition value-added services are expected to nudge low-income households to become and stay insured against catastrophic health risks (Banerjee and Duflo, 2011).