Problem:
The Institute of Medicine (IOM) developed six specific aims to ensure the delivery and improvement of health care. In the first portion of your initial post, you will
Choose two from the six aims: safe, effective, patient-centered, timely, efficient, and equitable.
For each of the two aims you chose, briefly discuss the implications of each aim on the delivery of quality care.
After reviewing the information about the Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) model on the Institute for Health Care Improvement's How to Improve (Links to an external site.) webpage, select one of the aims you addressed above and address the following regarding that aim in a health care organization such as a hospital, physician's office, community health service (e.g., mental health, meals-on-wheels, Planned Parenthood, etc.), or your local health department:
Discuss how the aim can be met in the health care organization.
Include one or more specific change(s) that can be made that will result in improvement.
Discuss how you will know that a change is an improvement.
Identify the personnel to include on a team that would develop the action plan for improvement.