HCS/451 Week 5 Discussion: Innovating Performance Improvement

HCS/451: Health Care Quality Management And Outcomes Analysis

Wk 5 Discussion: Innovating Performance Improvement [due Thurs]

Wk 5 Interactive Video: Collaboration and Continuous Quality Improvement

Wk 5 Summative Assessment: Performance-Improvement Evaluation

Discussion Topic

As a new health care manager, you might be asked for your perspective on ways to innovate procedures at your organization.

Imagine you are a new health care manager at ABC Hospital. It is a small, privately-owned community hospital. It has been struggling to survive financially, as reimbursement rates have declined, and consumers are being drawn to the larger, state-of-the-art hospital facilities in urban areas that are perceived to have better quality. ABC Hospital was built in 1960 and has been operating in the same manner for many decades. The hospital meets legal and regulatory requirements, but it has not kept pace with some of the newer technologies and patient conveniences becoming more prevalent in the health care industry.

• In your hypothetical role as health care manager, what strategies do you recommend the organization should implement to survive, improve its performance, and compete with other hospitals over the next 5 years?

• What are some advantages or disadvantages of these strategies?

Response Requirements

• By Thursday, respond to the prompt above in a minimum of 175 words. 

• By Monday, Read and respond to at least two of your classmate’s discussion posts. 

• Write a 100 to 150-word response to your classmate’s response.

• “Be constructive and professional with your thoughts, feedback, or suggestions.”

• post a total of 3 substantive responses over 2 separate days for full participation. This includes your initial post and 2 replies to classmates or your faculty member.