PRESSURE ULCERS
Introduction and Proposed Initiative
1) Analyze a healthcare organization to determine the key characteristics (including organizational values, if applicable) impacting its quality of care, with a focus on the relationship between quality outcomes and healthcare reimbursement.
Analyze Henry J. Carter Specialty Hospital and Nursing Facility, they are a Long Term Acute Care Hospital in NYC . The population consists of critically ill patients, some requiring prolonged mechanical ventilation. As a result of immobility, patients inevitably develop pressure ulcers. Pressure Ulcers (HAPU) are very common. According to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, more than 2.5 million people in the United States develop pressure ulcers each year (2021). The good news is that with adequate treatment pressure ulcers can improve and heal.
2) Articulate a quality outcome problem involving patient care and impacted by financial considerations that provides a quality improvement opportunity.
3) Articulate a proposed initiative, including recommendations of interprofessional strategies to improve the patient care problem.
4) Articulate a SMART goal that the leadership role can support in the planning, analysis, and implementation of the quality improvement initiative.
5) Assess a quality improvement model for its applicability and use to promote change with the quality improvement initiative.
