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For more course tutorials visit<br>www.hca375.com<br>HCA 375 Week 1 DQ 1 Management versus Leadership <br>HCA 375 Week 1 DQ 2 Implementation and Barriers <br>HCA 375 Week 2 DQ 1 Measurement <br>HCA 375 Week 2 DQ 2 Quality and Outcomes <br>HCA 375 Week 2 Assignment Customer Satisfaction and Quality Care <br>HCA 375 Week 3 DQ 1 Teamwork in Health Care <br>HCA 375 Week 3 DQ 2 The Impact of Nursing <br>HCA 375 Week 3 Assignment High-Performance Teams <br>HCA 375 Week 4 DQ 1 Medical Errors

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  1. HCA 375 Course Real Knowledge / hca375.com The Best way to predict the Future is to create it.....To Best way.... www.hca375.com

  2. HCA 375 Course Real Knowledge / hca375.com HCA 375 Entire Course (Ash) For more course tutorials visit www.hca375.com HCA 375 Week 1 DQ 1 Management versus Leadership HCA 375 Week 1 DQ 2 Implementation and Barriers HCA 375 Week 2 DQ 1 Measurement HCA 375 Week 2 DQ 2 Quality and Outcomes HCA 375 Week 2 Assignment Customer Satisfaction and Quality Care HCA 375 Week 3 DQ 1 Teamwork in Health Care HCA 375 Week 3 DQ 2 The Impact of Nursing HCA 375 Week 3 Assignment High-Performance Teams

  3. HCA 375 Course Real Knowledge / hca375.com HCA 375 Final Exam (100 Question) For more course tutorials visit www.hca375.com 100-question multiple-choice exam HCA 375 Final Exam (100 Question) 1. Federal regulations require that states who contract with Medicaid managed care organizations (MCO) or Prepaid Inpatient Health Plans (PIHP) do which of the following? Question 2. The organization that is best known for evaluating hospitals and physicians based on clinical outcomes and patient surveys is

  4. HCA 375 Course Real Knowledge / hca375.com HCA 375 Week 1 DQ 1 CQI Process For more course tutorials visit www.hca375.com CQI Process. Review the illustration of the Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) model on the Institute for Health Care Improvement website. Identify an issue at your work, home, or community that could use improvement. After reviewing the information about the Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) model, list your answers to the top three questions and list the personnel to include on a team that would develop the action plan for improvement. · What are we trying to accomplish? · How will we know that a change is an improvement? · What changes can we make that will result in improvement?

  5. HCA 375 Course Real Knowledge / hca375.com HCA 375 Week 1 DQ 1 Management versus Leadership (Ash) For more course tutorials visit www.hca375.com HCA 375 Week 1 DQ 1Management versus Leadership Management versus Leadership After completing this week’s reading answer the following questions:a. What role does management play in continuous quality improvement?b. How is managing different from leading?c. In your opinion, which role is more effective in implementing changes that improve quality outcomes: managing or leading? Why?Your initial post should be 250-300 words and utilize a minimum of two scholarly sources from the Ashford University Library, cited in APA format.

  6. HCA 375 Course Real Knowledge / hca375.com HCA 375 Week 1 DQ 2 Implementation and Barriers (Ash) For more course tutorials visit www.hca375.com HCA 375 Week 1 DQ 2Implementation and Barriers Implementation and Barriers Select one of the following organizations and the associated quality improvement initiative:a. The Joint Commission National Patient Safety Goalsb. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Never EventsDescribe the overarching goal of the initiative. Describe key strategies this organization has recommended to improve quality in the healthcare setting.

  7. HCA 375 Course Real Knowledge / hca375.com HCA 375 Week 1 DQ 2 Promoting CQI Efforts For more course tutorials visit www.hca375.com Promoting CQI Efforts. The Institute of Medicine (IOM) developed six specific aims to ensure the delivery and improvement of health care. Choose two from the six aims: Safe, effective, patient- centered, timely, efficient and equitable (Institute of Medicine, 2001). Of the two aims you chose, discuss the effects on the delivery of quality care. Give an example of how a hospital or physician practice can meet these aims.

  8. HCA 375 Course Real Knowledge / hca375.com HCA 375 Week 1 Quiz (2 Set) For more course tutorials visit www.hca375.com HCA 375 Week 1 Quiz (2 Set) Grade Details - All Questions Question 1. Which expanded health insurance coverage to a large number of uninsured in the United States? Question 2. If an organization is analyzing information to determine the success or failure of different interventions, then the organization is likely in which phase of the PDSA cycle? Question 3. Quality improvement did not begin in the health care industry. It came to the forefront as a way to Question 4. Quality improvement is the responsibility of

  9. HCA 375 Course Real Knowledge / hca375.com HCA 375 Week 2 Assignment Customer Satisfaction and Quality Care (Ash) For more course tutorials visit www.hca375.com HCA 375 Week 2 Assignment Customer Satisfaction and Quality Care Customer Satisfaction and Quality Care In this competitive health care environment, consumers want and expect better health care services and hospital systems are concerned about maintaining their overall image. There is also attention to ways in which patient satisfaction measurement can be integrated into an overall measure of clinical quality.To begin, review the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Health Plans Survey H.C.A.H.P.S. available at http://tinyurl.com/4272s7l.

  10. HCA 375 Course Real Knowledge / hca375.com HCA 375 Week 2 Assignment Customer Satisfaction Improvement Plan (2 Papers) For more course tutorials visit www.hca375.com This Tutorial contains 2 Papers Paper 1: Emergency Department Paper 2: Car Repairs Customer Satisfaction Improvement Plan. Most people have experienced frustration when talking with customer service at least once. Often, organizations provide satisfaction surveys to customers in order to evaluate their experience. In the health care field, accrediting agencies require providers to measure patient satisfaction through surveys. You will be using the Customer Satisfaction Improvement Plan templatedocument to enter all of your information. Note: If you have responded substantively to each of the content items within the template of the assignment, the temp

  11. HCA 375 Course Real Knowledge / hca375.com HCA 375 Week 2 DQ 1 Comparative Performance For more course tutorials visit www.hca375.com Comparative Performance. Visit the Quality Check page of The Joint Commission website, enter the name and state of a health care organization within 100 miles of your home, and select search. Take the following steps to find two health care organizations: · Under the column organization name or number, type the healthcare organization name and state (e.g., Hospital – Hurley Medical Center, Michigan). · Once the chosen organization appears, click the View Accreditation Quality Report link. Once the summary of the report appears, click on the Accreditation National Safety goals link in the left navigation bar. You will be able to view the patient safety goals that were measured for the organization as it is

  12. HCA 375 Course Real Knowledge / hca375.com HCA 375 Week 2 DQ 1 Measurement (Ash) For more course tutorials visit www.hca375.com HCA 375 Week 2 DQ 1Measurement Measurement According to Berwick 1996, “measurement is only a handmaiden to improvement but improvement cannot act without it” Sollecito& Johnson, p.78.Do you agree or disagree with this statement? Why or why not? Provide at least three specific reasons to support your

  13. HCA 375 Course Real Knowledge / hca375.com HCA 375 Week 2 DQ 2 Managed Care For more course tutorials visit www.hca375.com Managed Care. After reading Chapters 3 and 4, you should be familiar with the many stakeholders involved in the health care system. In the early 70’s legislation was created for the establishment of Health Maintenance Organizations (HMOs) in an attempt to reduce health care costs due to the excessive spending of the fee-for-service health plans. Considering the reason for their creation, discuss your opinion regarding why managed care organizations did or did not have the intended effect. List two examples that prove your point.

  14. HCA 375 Course Real Knowledge / hca375.com For more course tutorials visit www.hca375.com HCA 375 Week 2 DQ 2Quality and Outcomes Quality and Outcomes According to Sollecito& Johnson it is more meaningful to analyze outcomes data, as opposed to structures and processes, because improving outcomes is the end goal of health care services.After viewing the “Defining Quality”: Aiming For a Better Health Care System video, develop a description of quality as it relates to health care; then answer the following questions:a. How would one go about measuring outcomes based on your definition of quality? Provide at least three specific reasons to su

  15. HCA 375 Course Real Knowledge / hca375.com HCA 375 Week 2 Quiz (2 Set) For more course tutorials visit www.hca375.com HCA 375 Week 2 Quiz (2 Set) Grade Details - All Questions Question 1. An integrated delivery system Question 2. The largest accrediting agency of health care organizations in the United States is Question 3. Which of the following is an Accreditation Organization? Question 4. This act promises the delivery of quality care through incentive programs and changes in reimbursement methods. What is it called?

  16. HCA 375 Course Real Knowledge / hca375.com HCA 375 Week 3 Assignment High-Performance Teams (Ash) For more course tutorials visit www.hca375.com HCA 375 Week 3 AssignmentHigh-Performance Teams High-Performance Teams The health care team is at the “sharp end” of service delivery. Members of the health care team are most qualified to analyze problems, generate solutions, and implement and evaluate change. Teamwork is vital to the success of the health care system. Health care administrators must know how to form highly functioning health care

  17. HCA 375 Course Real Knowledge / hca375.com HCA 375 Week 3 DQ 1 CQI Models For more course tutorials visit www.hca375.com CQI Models. After reading Chapter 1 through 4, you should be familiar with quality improvement initiatives including NCQA’s HEDIS® measures. Health plans and physicians must ensure they are meeting standards set by the accreditation agencies, such as NCQA. As a physician practice manager for Dr. Jones, you have just conducted a mock survey of the patient chart data. The data shows that your physician practice is not meeting standards for two HEDIS® measures. · Choose two HEDIS® measures (from the list below either a, b, c, d, e or f) that must be implemented in a physician practice to improve patient outcomes. · Describe the sources of data needed to conduct the two measures.

  18. HCA 375 Course Real Knowledge / hca375.com HCA 375 Week 3 DQ 1 Teamwork in Health Care (Ash) For more course tutorials visit www.hca375.com HCA 375 Week 3 DQ 1Teamwork in Health Care Teamwork in Health Care According to Sollecito& Johnson 2013, healthcare organizations have moved away from focusing on technical expertise to focusing on clinical teams that focus on patients’ needs and organizational systems thinking.After completing this week’s reading, answer the following questions:a. Why are organizations focusing o

  19. HCA 375 Course Real Knowledge / hca375.com HCA 375 Week 3 DQ 2 Mandates and Cost For more course tutorials visit www.hca375.com Mandates and Cost. The Department of Health and Human Services has oversight of several agencies (i.e., FDA, CDC, AHRQ, NIH, CMS) that regulate health care in the United States. Regulation encompasses insurance plans, cost, research, safety, all in the name of delivering quality care in a cost effective manner. These agencies are responsible for monitoring compliance and enforcing legislative mandates. However, the debate continues on government regulation and its effect on ensuring quality care. After completing this week’s reading, review the following articles listed below, which were published 11 years apart. Analyze the cost- quality paradigm noted in the articles. Considering the many governmental mandates and regulations to reduce costs and ensure the delivery of quality care that have been implemented over the years, discuss your opinion regarding why costs have continued to rise wit

  20. HCA 375 Course Real Knowledge / hca375.com HCA 375 Week 3 DQ 2 The Impact of Nursing (Ash) For more course tutorials visit www.hca375.com HCA 375 Week 3 DQ 2 The Impact of Nursing The Impact of Nursing After completing this week’s reading, consider the following statement:Never before has nursing been so important to a health care organization. Nurses are responsible for upholding the public’s trust as well as their health care organization’s reputation and its financial viability.Do you agree or disagree with this statement?

  21. HCA 375 Course Real Knowledge / hca375.com HCA 375 Week 3 Quiz (2 Set) For more course tutorials visit www.hca375.com HCA 375 Week 3 Quiz (2 Set) Grade Details - All Questions Question 1. Donabedian’s model of care is categorized into 3 groups. What are the three groups? Question 2. The approach of following a patient’s health into the future is called Question 3. One method used to extract new data is Question 4. In what stage of PDSA do we identify the problem? Question 5. Demographic data includes all EXCEPT

  22. HCA 375 Course Real Knowledge / hca375.com HCA 375 Week 4 Assignment Adverse Event Reporting (2 Papers) For more course tutorials visit www.hca375.com This Tutorial contains 2 Papers Adverse Event Reporting. Read Chapters 5, 6, and 7 in our textbook. After reviewing this week’s required reading, consider the following scenario: You are the lead of the risk management team that has been assigned to evaluate an incident that has occurred. You will be preparing a report for the CEO of the hospital that includes all system failures that contributed to the adverse event as well as utilizing a CQI tool (pareto, fishbone, flowchart).

  23. HCA 375 Course Real Knowledge / hca375.com HCA 375 Week 4 DQ 1 CQI Methodologies For more course tutorials visit www.hca375.com CQI Methodologies. Choose two of the CQI methodologies (PDSA, Lean or SixSigma). How do these methodologies utilize data? Discuss the significance of the collection and analysis of data in CQI processes.

  24. HCA 375 Course Real Knowledge / hca375.com HCA 375 Week 4 DQ 1 Medical Errors (Ash) For more course tutorials visit www.hca375.com HCA 375 Week 4 DQ 1Medical Errors Medical Errors According to Sollecito& Johnson 2013, “Organizations do not suddenly start making mistakes. They tend to slide imperceptibly into a set of conditions that produce medical errors” p. 327. After completing this week’s reading discuss this concept as it relates to quality patient outcomes. Answer the following questions: a. In your opinion, do you believe that errors in the hospital setting are inevitable? Why or why not?b. If the most frequent type of error is omitting a step in delivering care Sollecito& Johnson, 2013, p. 312, would it be better to focus on the individual who omitted the step or the system in which they work? Explain your

  25. HCA 375 Course Real Knowledge / hca375.com HCA 375 Week 4 DQ 2 Disclosure and Litigation (Ash) For more course tutorials visit www.hca375.com HCA 375 Week 4 DQ 2 Disclosure and Litigation Disclosure and Litigation Complete the week’s reading and view the Safe Patient Project video about Linda: Katy,TX, then answer the following questions:a. What was the errors in the case presented in the video?b. Why do you think the errors happened? What might the contributing factors be in this situation?c. Imagine you are this patient's physician and are meeting with the family member to describe what happened. How would you communicate the error?

  26. HCA 375 Course Real Knowledge / hca375.com HCA 375 Week 4 DQ 2 Joint Commission Standards and Processes For more course tutorials visit www.hca375.com Joint Commission Standards and Processes. Health care Providers may volunteer to be accredited by an external body. The Centers of Medicare and Medicaid provide an updated list of approved accrediting organizations. For this discussion, we are focusing on the acute care hospital. Below are fourteen of the categories in The Joint Commission Standards Manual and accreditation process topics. The topics for this discussion are assigned by students’ last names. See the chart below for your assigned topic. For your assigned topic, you will need to access The Joint Commission Standards Manual and The Joint Commission’s publication The Source. To access this information follow the steps below:

  27. HCA 375 Course Real Knowledge / hca375.com HCA 375 Week 4 Quiz (2 Set) For more course tutorials visit www.hca375.com HCA 375 Week 4 Quiz (2 Set) Grade Details - All Questions Question 1. Kaizen event would be characterized by all of the following EXCEPT Question 2. Which of the following statements is TRUE about the difference between Six Sigma and Lean Theory quality improvement methodologies? Question 3. Two popular methodologies to improve health care are Question 4. In using the steps of the DMAIC process, which would be an example of Analyze?

  28. HCA 375 Course Real Knowledge / hca375.com HCA 375 Week 5 Assignment Research Paper (Value-Based Purchasing) (Ash) For more course tutorials visit www.hca375.com HCA 375 Week 5 AssignmentResearch Paper Value-Based PurchasingThe Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services C.M.S. began phasing in its value-based purchasing program in 2007.Value based purchasing links payment directly to the quality of care provided. It is one strategy being used by C.M.S. to transform the current payment system by rewarding providers for delivering high quality, efficient clinical

  29. HCA 375 Course Real Knowledge / hca375.com HCA 375 Week 5 DQ 1 Communication and Teamwork For more course tutorials visit www.hca375.com Communication and Teamwork. After completing this week’s reading, you have learned that teamwork is an essential part of Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) and healthcare delivery. Healthcare professional roles include physicians, nurses, diagnostics (laboratory ) and radiology staff, hospital administrators, patient registration, pharmacists, and triage staff, etc. Each role has its own contribution to ensuring the delivery of quality care.

  30. HCA 375 Course Real Knowledge / hca375.com HCA 375 Week 5 DQ 1 Quality Improvement Organizations (Ash) For more course tutorials visit www.hca375.com HCA 375 Week 5 DQ 1 Quality Improvement Organizations Quality Improvement Organizations Q.I.O.s After completing this week’s reading, answer the following questions:a. What is the role and function of the Quality Improvement Organization program?b. In your opinion, has the quality of health care received by Medicare beneficiaries improved or declined over time as a result of the QIO program?

  31. HCA 375 Course Real Knowledge / hca375.com HCA 375 Week 5 DQ 2 Accreditation (Ash) For more course tutorials visit www.hca375.com HCA 375 Week 5 DQ 2 Accreditation Accreditation Accreditation is a formal process wherein a health care organization is deemed credible by an external organization. Standards of practice are used to assess the credibility. According to Sollecito& Johnson 2013, health care professionals, “have been known to be skeptical about the purpose, value, and benefits [of accreditation]”. After completing the week’s reading, answer the following questions:a. In your opinion, why are some health care professionals skeptical about the accreditation process? Explain your

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