Discuss the Magnet model components and quality improvement initiatives developed to address patient safety outcomes.

Instructions

Complete a strategic plan and a complementing PowerPoint summary presentation, which reflect your process of developing and implementing quality improvement initiatives.

Your strategic plan should include:

  1. Summary of changes in healthcare quality improvement initiatives over the past 10 years and how they are influencing healthcare practices.
  2. An analysis of state and national health care quality measures and the quality improvement principles used in developing your initiatives.
  3. Discuss the Magnet model components and quality improvement initiatives developed to address patient safety outcomes.
  4. Explain the quality improvement model used and strategies developed to address patient safety challenges healthcare.
  5. Identify two quality improvement initiatives and strategies that include engaging healthcare staff as part of the initiative.
  6. Summary of common threats to quality improvement in healthcare and apply a quality improvement model and strategies neutralizing the threats.

Create a PowerPoint presentation, which includes either speaker notes, for the conference that summarizes the strategic plan.

   How do high-level executives manage the tradeoffs between maintaining the fiscal solvency of their organizations and providing health care services to all who seek them?

Money is the lifeblood of any organization—for-profit, not-for-profit, or public. In most for-profit corporations, maximizing sales and profits, and returns to shareholders, is the primary objective. Many have criticized the healthcare industry for its growing fixation on profit maximization, claiming that health care should be treated as a “social good” rather than a “commercial good.”

●        How can the leaders of healthcare organizations reconcile these two positions?

●        How do high-level executives manage the tradeoffs between maintaining the fiscal solvency of their organizations and providing health care services to all who seek them?

How do the different funding types impact the strategic management of the facility?

Hospitals, outpatient centers, and free standing surgical centers are dependent on many funding sources to pay for their services.

  • **Compare and contrast approval/payment from the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), commercial insurance, and the traditional Medicare program (not a Medicare health maintenance organization [HMO]) available to these types of facilities.
  • **How do the different funding types impact the strategic management of the facility?

Your initial posting should be addressed at 300-500 words. Be sure to cite your sources using APA format.

Why is it said that electronic commerce is a catalyst of fundamental changes in organizations?

Why is it said that electronic commerce is a catalyst of fundamental changes in organizations?  Search the University of Arizona Global Campus Online Library for an article that addresses change in organizations as a result of e-commerce.  Briefly summarize the article pointing out how electronic commerce directly impacts change.  Include the resource information in the reference list. Explain your answer in 200 words. Respond to at least two of your fellow students’ postings.