MHA 5028 Assignment 3 week 9.docx MHA5028 Cost and Benefits of Performance Improvement

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MHA 5028 Assignment 3 week 9.docx MHA5028 Cost and Benefits of Performance Improvement Capella University Comparative Models of Global Health Systems u09a3 Cost of Benefits of Performance Improve... ment Italy tax-funded universal health care system is known as Servizio Sanitario Nazionale (SSN) which is ranked second-best in the world. This ranking offers a best practice model, tailored to a primary prevention program for cardiovascular disease which focuses on smoking cessation counseling, healthy diet, and physical activity. It is carried out by the successful cooperation between prevention departments, general practitioners, hospitals, health operators and cultural and voluntary associations. The program benefits were observed by a surveillance system that collects data and identified quantitative trends in behavioral risk factors, education actions being implemented, and the comparison with other countries. On the contrary, the United States health care system ranks thirty-seventh, indicating that changes need to be implemented in order to reach the level of Italy™s care. A scope of change is needed to the United States delivery of health care which can improve the transition of care for cardiovascular patients from hospital discharge to home. The benefit of this change can improve and increase a patient™s quality of life, decrease readmissions, and lower health care cost. The performance of a transition of care program has been seen to be cost-effective by lower readmissions due to the involvement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . .. .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . [Show More]

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