how you feel Quality Improvement might be useful to a career path in the health care industry.

Identify 25 key benchmarks for hospitals within the U.S. healthcare system.  Align the benchmarks into one of the three broad categories – quality, operations, and financial.  If you feel the benchmark doesn’t align with these three categories, please fill in which category you would place it in.  You must have at least 5 benchmarks in each broad category.  Then identify the industry standard, whether the mean or median (each metric is different), and record them in a table format similar to the template provided in Table 1 (see Appendix).  This is an example of identifying industry best practices and aligning healthcare facilities with evidence-based outcomes.  Make sure you identify a true benchmark and not just an operating statistic.  Example, the total number of beds or outpatient visits is not a benchmark.  A better example of a benchmark would be “cost per bed”, or “revenue per outpatient visit.”  You may not be able to find a metric for some benchmarks, but if you combine…

Discussion - Long-Term Care Industry Discuss one of the three important historical events that formed the basis of the long-term care industry.  Next, discuss three long-term care options and the disadvantages and advantages for each option.

Why are laws and regulations important to the healthcare industry? What has  has the biggest impact on laws and regulations in the healthcare industry?

Use the quality maximization model to describe the role not-for-profit hospitals play in the diffusion of new medical technologies. Illustrate your answer on a graph.