Essay Assignment
Competency
Explain the basic models of quality improvement in healthcare.
Course Scenario
Chaparral Regional Hospital is a small, urban hospital of approximately 60 beds, and offers the following:
o Emergency room services
o Intensive care
o Surgical care
o Obstetrics
o Diagnostic services
o Some rehabilitation therapies
o Inpatient pharmacy services
o Geriatric services
o Consumer physician referral services
Recently, the CEO has been hearing complaints from both patients and staff, varying from long wait times to rude physicians. You have been hired to design and implement a Quality Improvement Plan to help uncover quality problems and to satisfactorily resolve them.
Scenario Continued
The CEO has met with you to let you know that some members of the Board of Directors are questioning the value of developing a quality improvement plan. She has asked you to create an executive summary and an information sheet to be included in the next Board packet.
Instructions
Topics for the executive summary should include:
o What is a Quality Improvement plan?
o Why do healthcare facilities create improvement plans?
o Why would you recommend the facility create and implement a QI plan?
After completing the Executive Summary, you will create a one-page information sheet for the Board that they can use to answer questions about QI plans.
o The information sheet should give your CEO and the Board of Directors enough information to have an educated conversation with patients and other stakeholders on the value of QI plans.
o Make sure to use audience-specific language and tone on your information sheet. Remember, you are writing this information sheet for your CEO and the Board of Directors.
o Be creative, and make your information sheet fun and organized.
Executes an appropriate information sheet for board review containing detailed information on QI plans with examples.
Correctly identifies the purpose of a QI plan and thoroughly discusses supporting details.
Selects theory with fully supporting personal examples and explanation.
Correctly identifies reasons healthcare facilities create improvement plans and thoroughly discusses supporting details.
Provides a recommendation for developing a QI plan and thoroughly discusses supporting details.
Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
o The answer should be typed, using Times New Roman font (size 12), double spaced, with one-inch margins on all sides.
o The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
o Also include a reference page. The Citations and references must follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.