Discuss the scope and severity of these deficiencies. What would you do to correct some of these problems?

Using the Medicare Nursing Home Compare website, research one nursing home that displays a low level of quality as indicated by their Five Star Rating*

  • The nursing home should display a low level of quality (-2 star rating)
  • The nursing home should display a low level of safety

After thoroughly researching your nursing home on the Medicare Nursing Home Compare website, discuss their quality performance and life safety indicators. What types of deficiencies did this nursing home receive in its most recent survey? Discuss the scope and severity of these deficiencies. What would you do to correct some of these problems?

This is an opportunity for you to explore the practical application of quality research in healthcare. I encourage you to respond in first person, share personal experiences, and ask questions to further develop your understanding of quality performance and value in healthcare.

Discuss the quality performance of the nursing home as evident by its most recent health care inspection (e.g., deficiencies, citations, financial penalties, etc.).

Unit outcomes addressed in this Assignment:

  • Assess quality and techniques for improving quality and safety.

Course outcome addressed in this Assignment:

HA540-3: Research methods of assessing quality and techniques for improving quality and safety

Instructions:

In this assignment, you will be researching dimensions of quality and safety in healthcare, specifically long- term care, and how various industries can apply these concepts to improve operations.

  • Using the Medicare Nursing Home Compare website, research one nursing home that displays a low level of quality as indicated by their Five Star Rating*
    • The nursing home should display a low level of quality (-2 star rating)
    • The nursing home should display a low level of safety
  • Provide a general overview of the nursing home (e.g., name, location, bed size, ownership, etc.)
  • Discuss the quality performance of the nursing home as evident by its most recent health care inspection (e.g., deficiencies, citations, financial penalties, etc.). This can be accomplished by thoroughly reading the nursing home’s statement of deficiencies and plan of action to correct quality deficiencies (CMS Form 2567).
  • Discuss the safety performance of the nursing home as evident by its most recent life safety inspection (e.g., life safety citations, financial penalties, etc.). This can be accomplished by thoroughly reading the nursing home’s life safety code statement of deficiencies and plan of action.
  • Discuss appropriate techniques that you would use to improve quality in the nursing home.
  • Discuss appropriate techniques that you would use to improve safety in the nursing home.

Discuss what role end-users typically play in incident reporting?

Search “scholar.google.com” or your textbook. Discuss what role end-users typically play in incident reporting? Should end users be encouraged to report suspicious occurrences? If so, why; if not, why not. What factors typically influence the end-user decision to report (or not report) a potential incident?

What are the benefits these technologies provide to organizations? Are there any cost savings organizations might realize by utilizing such technologies? Explain.

Conduct research and write a paper on either collaborative technologies or the Internet of Things. In your paper, address the following:

· Briefly define the technologies you chose (collaborative technologies or IoT technologies).

· How and why are organizations using these technologies? Provide one real-world example.

· What are the benefits these technologies provide to organizations? Are there any cost savings organizations might realize by utilizing such technologies? Explain.

· How do these technologies benefit internal and/or external users?

· What are some challenges or potential problems of using such technologies? Do the benefits outweigh these concerns? Explain.

Discuss ethical and cultural strategies for promoting resilience, optimum development, and wellness in adolescence.

The divorce rate in the United States remains at an all‐time high.

Write an essay in which you consider the socioemotional response of adults and adolescents regarding divorce and custody arrangements. You are encouraged to use attachment theory in your paper. Address the following in your paper:

  1. Steps that can be taken to minimize the number of divorces
  2. Steps that can be taken to help children cope more effectively with their parents’ divorce
  3. A discussion of how a professional counselor can provide support for all the parties involved
  4. Discuss ethical and cultural strategies for promoting resilience, optimum development, and wellness in adolescence.

Write a letter in which you explain what he or she can expect to experience both socially and emotionally during adolescence.

Write a letter in which you explain what he or she can expect to experience both socially and emotionally during adolescence.Share both the bright and dark sides of this time period and share ideas on how to get through it in the healthiest manner. Let him or her in on what you wished you had known. Share how your behaviors in adolescence impacted the rest of the family.

As operational responsible at the University Hospital in Gothenburg your responsibility is to set the stock level for all products. How would you discuss and act?

In cancer therapy some of the new drugs are extremely expensive, in addition those drugs might also have a short shelf lifetime. Even though the numbers of patients that can be treated with those drugs are quite few, the cost is quite significant.The lead-time from order to delivery can be long and in worst cases life might be lost whilst waiting for the drug. TheUniversity Hospital in Gothenburg is struggling with a limited budget and fast increasing costs for drugs and has a need for a strategy for those new drugs.As operational responsible at the University Hospital in Gothenburg your responsibility is to set the stock level for all products. How would you discuss and act? Is this an operational decision?

Discuss the situation. Describe how this particular “From => To” strategy was approached and how it successfully resulted in change.

Katz and Miller (2014) identified seven “From => To” strategies for leaders to apply, in order to transform an organization. Be sure to read the unit lesson and the Katz and Miller (2014) article before posting, so they can inform your post. Include the following elements in your post:

  1. Give an example of one of the seven “From => To” strategies that you have observed in your own organization. (The organization used in this example may be your current or past employer, a volunteer organization, your church, a music or athletic organization in which you participated, or any other organization in which you actively participated.)
  2. Discuss the situation. Describe how this particular “From => To” strategy was approached and how it successfully resulted in change.
  3. Describe its impact on the organization culture. How did this “From => To” approach impact the diversity of ideas shared or the inclusiveness within the organization?
  4. At the top of your post, write—in bold—the “From => To” goal that you chose to discuss in this post.