Continuous Quality Improvement Timeline HCS 451 WEEK 1

Continuous Quality Improvement Timeline directions:

Quality improvement in health care has continuously grown throughout the years. Health care team members continuously ask themselves, “How are we doing?” and “Can we do it better?”

Research 4 to 5 events that have influenced changes in quality improvement and complete the timeline below by listing each event and writing a 75- to 175-word summary discussing each event and its effect on quality improvement in health care.

Cite at least 3 peer-reviewed, scholarly, or similar references and your textbook to support your information.

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Continuous Quality Improvement in Health Care Timeline
Date	Event and Significance

 Cite your sources below.

Continuous Quality Improvement Timeline: References 

HCS 451 WEEK 5 Benchmark Assignment—Risk and Quality Management Manual

Resource: Risk and Quality Management Tools Matrix

Imagine you are a quality leader for a health care organization and have been asked to create a manual for new employees to introduce the basic concepts of risk and quality management.

Part I:

Write a 1,750- to 2,100-word manual in which you address the following:

• Explain basic concepts of quality improvement in the health care industry
• Explain the concepts of risk management in the health care industry
• Analyze the information needed for decision-making processes in risk and quality management in the health care industry
• Explain challenges in making risk- and quality-management decisions in the health care industry

Part II:

Within your manual, you must include a matrix in which you do the following:

• Analyze the risk-and quality management tools used in the health care industry.
• Consider the following when completing your matrix:
• What is the risk- and quality-management tool?
• What is the purpose of the tool?
• What are the advantages and disadvantages of the tool selected?

To assist you with the development of your matrix, use the Risk and Quality Management Tools Matrix located under student materials. The matrix must be embedded within your training manual.

Format your manual according to APA guidelines.

Cite at least 4 peer-reviewed, scholarly, or similar references.

Click the Assignment Files tab to submit your assignment.

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HCS 451 WEEK 4 Health Care Organizations Presentation

Resource: Week Two individual assignment, Quality Dimensions and Measures Table

Research inpatient and ambulatory or ancillary health care organizations.

Inpatient health care organizations:

• Hospitals

Ambulatory or ancillary health care organizations:

• Dialysis clinic
• Laser eye clinic
• Pharmacy

As a team, select one inpatient health care organization and one ambulatory or ancillary health care organization.

Create a 12- to 15-slide Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation (the title and reference slides do not count toward the total slide count) with detailed speaker notes in which you compare each organization and their quality management performance as an organization.

Include the following in your presentation:

• Describe each of the health care organizations selected.
• Explain how to develop improvement capability for organizational performance.
  • What resources are needed to develop improvement capability?
  • Identify metrics used by each organization to measure each of the six dimensions of high quality discussed in the Week Two Quality Dimensions and Measures Table assignment.
  • Describe similarities and differences between the metrics of each organization.
  • How do these metrics help develop improvement capability for each organization?
  • What quality improvement tools are available to help develop improvement capability?
• Explain transformational improvement in relation to organizational performance.
  • What transformational model(s) can be used to assist with transformational improvement in relation to organizational performance?

Cite at least 3 peer-reviewed, scholarly, or similar references and your textbook to support your information.

Format your presentation according to APA guidelines.

Click the Assignment Files tab to submit your presentation.