Healthcare Assignment 2022

Running head: HEALTHCARE ASSIGNMENT
HEALTHCARE ASSIGNMENT
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author note

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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................2
Discussion........................................................................................................................................3
Analysis of data against benchmarks and national standards......................................................3
Observations about the areas where quality improvements are required....................................4
Goals for initiatives addressing the deficiencies.........................................................................6
Anticipated outcomes..................................................................................................................8
Re-evaluation of data...................................................................................................................9
Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................10
References......................................................................................................................................11

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Introduction
Healthcare, safety, equitability and efficacy are a few facts about which every human
being must be aware about. With the improvement of science and technology, the improvement
of quality of the healthcare services has also become one of the important aspect. The institutions
which are dedicating on the medical and the healthcare practices need to increase the effort for
the services of healthcare. Specialized methods should be followed for the healthcare settings
and the hospitals specially need to implement measurable improvement programs in order to
improve the healthcare services for the patients. Most of the hospitals, especially the hospitals of
the rural areas, lack the essential healthcare services needed by the patients. The hospital
management should look after this matter and should arrange the necessary quality improvement
programs according to the requirements of the patients of the hospital. The patients in the
hospital apart from their health issues, also get infected from the nosocomial infections. The
patients come in the hospital for receiving treatment against the diseases but in spite of getting
cured they are acquiring more infections. The number of death of patients are increasing day by
day in the hospitals not only for hospital acquired infections but also from the lack of proper
treatment facilities. The given case study provide information about two hospitals of United
States- one is Grand River Hospital and the other one is ST. Mary’s General Hospital. In the case
study, information about the causes of death of patients in the hospitals are provided. This
assignment is going to deal with analysis of the case study against the benchmarks and the
national standards of United States, it is dealing with the observations where the improvements
of quality are required. This assignment is also going to set some specific goals addressing the
deficiencies of the quality of the healthcare services and also the outcomes expected after
accomplishing those initiatives. Re- evaluation of the new data are also done.

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Discussion
The patient safety has become one of the systematic and cultural problems within the
healthcare industry. The patient safety cannot be solved only by correcting the individual errors,
in order to maintain the patient safety, the solution requires proper analysis of the relate factors
like designing of equipment and the staffs (Hall et al, 2016). In the case study, Dr. Ashok
Sharma, the chief of the staff of both the hospitals gave more importance on training the practice
of the physicians rather than threatening the professional autonomy. If the error has occurred in
an adverse event, this is considered as preventable adverse event. Most of the error in the patient
care happens at the time of providing primary care to the patient, example of this is
administration of wrong dose of medicines (DiCuccio, 2015).
Analysis of data against benchmarks and national standards.
According to the case study, Grand River Hospital in the year 2010 to 2011, patients took
admission in the hospital, out of them 58596 patients were admitted in the emergency
department, 12671 patients were admitted with day surgery visits and 210557 with the
ambulatory care visits where the total number of working staffs in the hospital were 3500. A
gaps is thee regarding providing care to the patients and the total number of nurses and staffs
working in the hospital. St. Mary’s General Hospital had reported that it had only 2000 staffs
who takes care of more than 7000 admissions, 100,000 outpatient visits, emergency visits of
47000 and 20,000 surgical procedures. Here also the number of staffs are less in comparison to
the number of patients taking admission in the hospital.
By considering the circumstances of the hospitals, Dr. Sharma considered to adjust the
organizational structures for formalizing the positions of the leaders. He decided to develop
quality competition among the staffs so that their performances get increased. These were done