Week 4_5/13/2019

Table of Contents Section 2: Improving Healthcare Quality from Within Week 4 Week 4 - Assignment: Interpret Performance Measures

Week 4 - Assignment: Interpret Performance Measures

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You have just been appointed as the administrator of a large managed healthcare organization with multiple facilities in your state, including facilities in city X and Y (table below). A task your office is charged with is to reimburse facilities based on how they perform on a set of healthcare quality measures.

Based on the information provided below, what considerations will you make in your decision- making process? To complete this assignment, prepare a PowerPoint presentation that highlights whether or not these two facilities (A and B) should be treated equally when conducting your assessment. If any, what are the implications of treating these facilities as equals for the purpose of comparison? Also, address the techniques you will use to ensure these facilities are assessed fairly.

Measures Facility A Facility B

1 Population

characteristics

City X: Mostly people

with high economic

status and those with

more than high school

education

City Y: Mostly people

with low economic

status, minorities,

high school or less

education

2 Population served All ages

Mostly older adults

and people with

disabilities and

chronic conditions

3 Staff to patient

ratio 1:4 1:8

4

Physician and

nurses continuing

education

Required Required

5 Average number of

hours staff work

per week

50 hours 60 hours

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Length: 8-10 slides (excluding title slide and references slide)

References: Include a minimum of 3-5 peer-reviewed, scholarly resources referenced on a separate slide at the end of your presentation.

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