Examined how a growing population that is living longer and requiring more healthcare services than ever before will contribute to many challenges in the future of health care. The readings highlighted that while an ongoing issue, emergency department (ED) overcrowding and quality of service is certain to continue to worsen as a result without innovation and quality initiatives.
Synthesize many concepts covered in this course to analyze this problem and outline a quality improvement initiative that can create positive change.
This hospital in the District of Columbia ranks as one of the worst in the entire nation for ED timely and effective care.
Create a systems-wide approach to substantially improve aspects of ED operation and care that will dramatically improve wait times to be seen, wait times until admission, and reduction of left-without-being-seen rates to meet or register below national averages.
This is the hospital in question.
https://www.medicare.gov/care-compare/details/hospital/090001?id=b9cafe19-1d42-4af1-bc4f-00338f195e26&city=Washington&state=DC&zipcode=20037#ProviderDetailsRatingsContainer
This is the Textbook used for this course
Textbook:
Sollecito, W. A., & Johnson, J. K. (2020). McLaughlin and Kaluzny’s continuous quality improvement in health care (5th ed.). Jones & Bartlett Learning. https://online.vitalsource.com/#/books/9781284174410
