Benchmarking

 

Watch the YouTube video What Is Benchmarking?
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuZOtKmGB1M). Benchmark the service chosen
against these standards.
In your paper,
1) Discuss the availability of the services, the requirements for accessing those
services, and the human service professionals involved in the service setting.
2) Outline any detailed information the source provides about services and
professionals involved in services.
3) Describe the type of information there is on the requirement for accessing
services.
4) Explain any information provided about the number of people served and the
demographics of people.
5) Conclude if the available service is adequate for treating the needs of this
particular population to be served.
a. Defend why or why not.
6) Determine what other professionals might need to be involved in the service
setting to make the service more effective

 

Benchmarking

 

How might benchmarking be useful for health care administration leaders?
Health care administration leaders face many challenges in ensuring that their health services organizations comply with standards set forth for practice. Further, they must also ensure that relative to their competitors, standards for quality, cost, and patient satisfaction remain consistent. Certain levels of benchmarking, whether internal (across units in an organization), competitive (against rivals), industrial (across the industry), and functional (against recognized leaders), help health care administration leaders establish workflows for top performance.
For this Discussion, think about your health services organization, or an organization with which you are familiar, and reflect on how this organization may use benchmarking for health care quality.
Then post a description of how your organization, or one with which you are familiar, may use benchmarks for effective health care delivery. Be specific and provide examples with fictitious data of some of the organization’s benchmarks. Is the organization you selected benchmarking the right measures? Why, or why not?