Incorporating a change model to help guide the management process can help make the change successful. Kurt Lewin’s change model will provide the direction for this scenarios process improvement plan. This model proposes that change within an organization will occur in these stages: unfreezing, change, and refreezing. The first stage of unfreezing involves changing the current method of proceeding into a procedure without adequate communication and preparation to a process of forethought and safety. The staff will be included in the preparation of the new process, the education on its use, why the change is necessary and what it will accomplish.…
To overcome this challenges the organisation and the service providers need motivation to deliver good quality care and communication with staffs asking for their opinion on what need to be changed, Also, Acceptance and skills are important to make change happen and to learn new things to improve quality care, without this key instrument mentioned above an organisation might be struggling to adjust on a new level of change in improving quality and this will affect the people receiving the…
The ACO or Accountable Care Organization is a coordinated group of primary care providers, specialists, and hospitals that collectively share financial and medical responsibility. This ACO is set up through a formal legal arrangement, which has the primary goal of coordination of care focused on reducing costs by sharing patient information and incentives for improved results by decreasing the overall cost of care. Safety will be increased by decreasing possible prescription medication conflicts and costs will be reduced by sharing tests results that were previously done and, therefore, will not need to be repeated. ACOs were started to manage health care needs as part of Affordable Care Act (ACA) of 2010 and are controlled in the Center for Medicare and Medicaid…
Accountable care organization is described as an organized group of providers that coordinates the care for designated beneficiaries in the traditional Medicare fee for service program. Who are the members of the ACO? According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, members of ACO are a group of doctors, hospitals, and other healthcare providers who volunteer to coordinate quality care especially to elderly. ACO focuses more on chronic conditions that involve high cost (Kongstvedt P 2016 ). The Uncontrolled cost of health care brought American health care providers and payers effort to bend the cost curve and moderate the growth of cost.…
Discussion Board (Module 6 DB 5-3): Change Article Britton Lerch University of Iowa NURS 5002: Leadership and Management Essentials Dr. Bogue I like the article I chose by Varkey and Antonio (2010) because it talks about the importance of quality improvement processes necessary for organizations due to the advances in technology and medicine. In this article Varkey and Antonia (2010) begin with stating, “Technological and medical advancements have dramatically accelerated the speed of change in the realm of health care. New technology, the changing needs of patients, and economic pressures all contribute to the need for health organizations to modify practices continually” (p. 268). It is for these reasons that we anticipate and should embrace…
Health providers and payers considering to evolution to new payment system that is better organized and set to benefit in coordination care across multiple facilities. Accountable Care Organizations (ACO) was planned and approved by Medicare where group of doctors, nurses, hospitals and other health care providers deliver “incentives to reduce costs and improve the quality of care” including home health agencies, hospitals, and nursing homes (Nickitas, 2016). The main goal of this organization offered chronically ill Medicare patients to receive the right care at the right time and avoid any repeated services by physicians. Additionally, prevent unexpected medical errors that increase organizations cost. There are variety types of practices…
I have provided recommendations regarding strategic projects, future goals and organisational objectives while supporting ongoing change and providing comprehensive analysis of current practice and the impact of new directions in multidisciplinary coordination and patient record management. Previous to my work with CCLHD I had the opportunity to work in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE) integrating the secondary tier for the current UAE health service over a three year contract. I was employed as a Management Consultant with Dubai Health Care City (DHCC) to implement their new operating systems. This comprised teams creating workflow systems for individual components/sites within the Health Care City business model.…
It’s important to stay up to date on coding changes. To be a truly viable coder it’s absolutely necessary to stay informed about what’s taking place in the industry. Having a membership with AAPC and AHIMA has shown me the importance of staying current and these memberships are a great way to do it. Continuing education is necessary to keep your certification credential current, but the classes, webinars, and seminars will also help you stay informed of new developments that will affect you on the job. By keeping current you can be an asset to your organization and that can be good for you when it comes time for promotions and raises.…
Data Sources The measurement of outcomes is necessary to provide data that will illustrate the effectiveness of the quality improvement project. Qualitative measures can be used to determine how well a given quality initiative is fulfilled. Data measures that use surveys are considered qualitative because they reflect an individual’s opinion (Harris, et al., 2016). In this local emergency department, Press Ganey and HCAHPS scores are used to reflect patient satisfaction with their health care.…
There are new rules, new standards, new technologies, and new solutions to merge into the daily operations of a health care delivery system (Page, 2001). Therefore, hospital professionals and staff should constantly be educated on the changing guidelines. To do so, online training programs and on-site training should be used to train the healthcare staff on how to deliver care in the most effective and efficient ways, as well as train on how to improve patient care. Continuing education of the health care staff would help reduce treatments and managing…
Resolution of Problem Redundant documentation is a problem that is associate with the implementation of the electronic health records (EHRs). According to Zhang, Youngblood, Murphy, Ramsay, and Xiao (2012), redundant documentation of data can be characterized as same-data and correlated data. The authors referred to same-data as duplicated or replicated data and correlated data as derivative or supplemental data. This can be very frustrating for both the nurses and the patients, but especially the patients who have to answer the same question several times from multiple health care providers. Health care providers sees this problem as an issue that increases nurses’ workload, decreases time spent with the patients, and pose a potential…
Health and social care settings could be influence by many factors on their way to achieve high quality practice. Those factors could have positive or negative impact on quality depend on the way health and social organizations react to the influences (Spicker, P. 2009). Health and social industry constantly experience ongoing changes in order to meet services user’s changeable needs. There are different types of changes such as social, technological, and economical, therefore requires different approaches to adapt to those changes (NHS Connecting for Health 2000).…
Patient-Centeredness Patient-centeredness gives the patient the ability to be involved in their care. It allows them to be a part of the decision making process. This was seen while taking care of a senior student. She came in with complaints of pain to her lower back and her sides. She has a history of kidney stones and is to see a specialist in a few weeks.…
The growth and development of any organization in any industry is highly determined by the company’s ability to be and remain competitive in its industry. The company’s competitiveness is on the other hand influenced by the company’s ability to change swiftly with the change of technology. Thus to remain competitive a company needs to have the ability to reconfigure, build, and integrate external and internal competences to handle the drastically changing environments. This paper review dynamic capabilities of King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre (KFSH&RC) and how they have contributed to the organization competitiveness. KFSH&RC is a quaternary or tertiary referral and care hospital located in Riyadh in Saudi Arabia.…
It is important that the message be sent loud and clear to all employees within the organization that the change must be attacked with an extreme sense of urgency. It is also important for the top level of the organization to have a realistic plan in implementing change. Many times top level management overestimates how many big changes they can force early on. They also underestimate how hard it is to drive people out of their comfort zones (Kotter, 1996). In order to achieve this management must create a powerful…