Explain importance using quality improvement in healthcare

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Homework: Health Care Operations and Quality

Overview

According to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (2002), "a central goal of healthcare quality improvement is to maintain what is good about the existing healthcare system while focusing on the areas that need improvement" (para. 2).

This homework will familiarize you with the quality improvement (QI) approaches and models that health care administrators can effectively apply.

SLP Homework

You are a junior administrator in a hospital. You have been asked by HR to do a presentation to introduce new administrative hires to quality improvement.

To create your presentation, please locate the following book in the Trident Library:

Nash, D. (2019). The healthcare quality book: Vision, strategy, and tools. (4th ed.)

Chicago, IL: Health Administration Press. Retrieved from Trident Online Library.

Review Chapter 1, Overview of Healthcare Quality. There are five approaches/models of quality improvement discussed in Chapter 1.

Create 6 to 8 slides PowerPoint (PPT), not including your introduction or reference slide, to discuss three of the five approaches/models of quality improvement discussed. Your presentation should address the following explicitly:

Question A. Explain the importance of using quality improvement in healthcare.

Question B. Highlight the steps, stages, or processes of the three selected approaches/models and provide an operational example for each that could be applicable in a health care clinical or administrative setting.

Reference no: EM133531592

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