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Health care is a major concern in the United States. Where does Texas rank in the U.S. in terms of cost, accessibility and quality of health care? How does your county rank? Write an editorial on what you see as the major health care concern within your county .(CT/SR/CM/PR)
Scenario
You are the senior clinical analyst for the Oakridge Health System. Oakridge Health System is comprised of Medicare-certified hospitals, home health, hospice, inpatient rehabilitation and long-term care facilities. The Chief Medical Officer (CMO) needs to identify a quality improvement initiative for the next fiscal year. You are tasked to write a white paper outlining the quality of care for Medicare-certified hospitals across the country.
Instructions
Your white paper should include:
Analyze your state and national health care quality based on the most recent year of data reported by Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
Identify one quality measure from your analysis to recommend for an initiative.
Provide an evaluation of the quality measure outcomes using quality improvement principles that will support your initiative recommendation.
Scenario
You are the senior clinical analyst for the Oakridge Health System. Oakridge Health System is comprised of Medicare-certified hospitals, home health, hospice, inpatient rehabilitation and long-term care facilities. The Chief Medical Officer (CMO) needs to identify a quality improvement initiative for the next fiscal year. You are tasked to write a white paper outlining the quality of care for Medicare-certified hospitals across the country.
Instructions
Your white paper should include:
Analyze your state and national health care quality based on the most recent year of data reported by Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
Identify one quality measure from your analysis to recommend for an initiative.
Provide an evaluation of the quality measure outcomes using quality improvement principles that will support your initiative recommendation.
Discuss the access, cost, and quality of quality environments, as well as recent quality initiatives (See Chapter 24 and Table 24.1). Student is to reflect on the relationship between quality measures and evaluation and role development. In addition, describe this relationship and note how the role of the APN might change without effective quality measures.