HA425_Unit_3_Assignment_FINAL.docx Healthcare Quality Improvement Purdue University Gl

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HA425_Unit_3_Assignment_FINAL.docx Healthcare Quality Improvement Purdue University Global HA245 Operational Analysis and Quality Improvement Changes in healthcare quality was started by Flor... ence Nightingalein the early 19th century. As a result, it is currently adapted by a multitude of healthcare quality organizations. The word “quality healthcare” according the to the Institute of Medicine connotates the safe, effective, patient-centered, timely, efficient and equitable (Steiner, 2019). But the question is –do patients receiveadequate care to be healthy? or are they given theappropriate patient resources to make the right decisions for ourcare? Tracing back the history of healthcare, there has been inadequacy in our patient care quality and safety. “Health care & hospitals” (2019) contends several factors that hospitals in many states were segregated by race resulting to extensive racialism, the absence of pain management, hospital admissions were longer, smoking on hospital premises, doctors withholding patient healthcare information, the norm of aseptic technique is not a followed, hospitals manipulate patient treatment costs and etc. According to Marjoua&Bozic (2012), academic health quality movements developed approaches to address the deficiencies in the delivery of healthcare. In theory, there is a possibility that healthcare professionals in the past lack the medical expertise to effectively treat patients, to include lack of advanced medical and surgical equipment to treat them.. . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . .. .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [Show More]

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