Description
Exam Content
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), along with key stakeholders, developed methodology to calculate and display overall hospital-level quality using a star rating system. The overarching goal of the Overall Hospital Quality Star Rating (Overall Star Rating) is to improve the usability and interpretability of information posted on Hospital Compare, a website designed for consumers to use along with their health care provider to make decisions on where to receive care. The Overall Star Rating provides consumers with a simple overall rating generated by combining multiple dimensions of quality into a single summary score.
Use the Hospital Compare website as a resource for this assignment.
Choose an organization from Hospital Compare.
Review your selected hospital’s quality measures and performance data outlined in the tabs on the Hospital Profile. The available quality measures include:
Mortality
Safety of care
Readmission
Patient experience
Effectiveness of care
Timeliness of care
Efficient use of medical imaging
Select a quality measure as the basis for this assignment.
Create a 12- to 15-slide Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation to executive leadership in which you advocate for the business side of health care delivery using your selected quality measure. Include the following in your presentation:
Briefly describe your selected quality measure, including all sub-categories.
Apply organizational and systems theories to your chosen quality measure to identify ways to improve organizational performance.
Recommend an evidence-based practice intervention that will improve health outcomes related to your selected quality measure that integrates organizational theory and systems theory concepts.
Evaluate cost-effective measures you would take to balance the cost with the quality of your intervention.
Discuss the methods you could use to evaluate your recommendations to improve the outcomes of the quality measure selected.
Include detailed speaker notes and a minimum of 3 peer-reviewed articles to support your assignment.
Format your assignment according to APA guidelines.
Submit your assignment.
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