Quality improvement report for organizational systems

Quality Improvement in Health Care Institutions

Quality Improvement Report

Report on quality improvement

Quality improvement in health care involves activities undertaken to elevate the patient experience and the health of the population. It also encompasses an improvement of the health care provider experience (Leonard, Graham, & Bonacum, 2010). To attain a set standard of quality in health care a there is need to appreciate that quality improvement is a continuous process that require: an understanding and knowledge of the quality improvement approaches and commitment of practice leadership by the staff and resources. The staff and management should work as a team in problem identification, coming up with solutions and making improvements on a continuous basis.

An essential component to achieving quality improvements is the laying down infrastructure to facilitate quality health care practices (Nutting, Miller, & Crabtree, 2009). Ideal quality improvement infrastructure is intended to act as support to management providing information, intervention, direction and assessment. The infrastructure support health care providers to embrace best health care practices in order to achieve set goal and objectives. The support is expected to provide cohesion among the stakeholders to achieve the goals with guidance to meeting the challenges.

Quality improvements foundational frameworks

A foundational framework is a tool that organizes health care institution functionality according to their objectives, patients and understanding of quality healthcare. The framework entails a multiplicity of performance dimensions with multiple interactions (Nutting et al., 2009). The selection of a foundational framework is guided by the needs in quality improvements and the available resource. Since quality improvement encompasses an organization's approach to improve the quality of care and service the use of set principles specified under organization strategy is deployed. Health care frameworks on improving quality may focus on reducing waiting time in the physicians or in the ER, increasing community immunity and reducing disease transmissions, or improving the patients' well-being through health life style (Kuehn, 2007).

Differences in definition of Quality by Stakeholders

Complexities in the different definition of quality health care are understood from the point-of-view of the different aspiration held by stakeholder (Pham, Jennifer. C., & Ann, 2006). The management and directors of health care institution hold a view to ensure sustainability of the health care institution in the community. In their view they put in to focus the business aspect looking into ways to improve their status in the community considering the environment they are operating in. The management team and directors of the institutions will align their quality improvement needs focusing on ensuring that the business aspects run in a way to guarantee its continued existence. They will focus on ensuring that the business remain sustainable through the operations undertaken, the utilization of available resources. The management will seek to align their objective with those of the industry and the regulatory bodies.

Health care providers view of quality improvement in a healthcare institution will focus on patient and community need. While this focus may be reflected in the management and directors' needs, it is at a deeper breath. Health care providers will focus on the accuracy of their diagnosis, dissemination of treatment and subsequent recovery outcome. Health care provider will also focus on how appropriate the treatment prescribed is to the diagnosis done (Pham et al., 2006). Measures encompassing community health status is a concern for the health care provider since they will incorporate measure to reduce disease occurrence in the community. The health care provider will focus on measures to reduce disease occurrence and minimize disease spread as a quality improvement criterion.

Patients and their family members consider quality improvement to incorporate cost effectiveness of the treatment prescribed, the recovery period and the care shown by the health provider (Kuehn, 2007). The concern for patient to receive good quality treatment, appropriate medication, timely diagnosis and reasonable fees for the service is one that health care providers face as a challenge. Health care regulatory bodies have laid down standards to measure quality and guide health care providers. The regulatory focus is the concern is to protect the community against improper practices among service providers. The regulatory bodies put measures to assess quality improvement of health care intuitions through laid down policies.

Role of various clinicians and patients

The vital role of ensuring quality improvements in healthcare institution is held by clinicians. This is because they have direct regular contact with patients and they serve as a link between the patients and the physicians. The lengthy hours spent with patients during diagnosis and treatment prescription give clinicians and overall view of the idealistic care to patients. In order to support their pivotal role in quality improvements there is need for support alliances that provide a linkage to their experiences and recommendations (Kuehn, 2007). The clinician should uphold their role in provision of care with commitment to improve the patients experience and give recommendation and feedback report for appropriate action. The clinicians should be engaged in diagnosis and be encouraged to assess the best treatment measures for particular patients in a bid to guarantee patient satisfaction. The communication of treatment measures undertaken and the patient response to treatment ought to be timely and accurate. This report will assist in improving the physicians' accuracy in authorizing clinical test and treatment prescriptions for subsequent ailments (Kuehn, 2007).