MHA-5005 v3

A Multipayer Patient-Centered Medical Home Initiative in Pennsylvania. (2015). Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
Use this article when preparing your assignment as it augments the case study from Ward and Power in Nash et al. (2019).

Cheney, C. (2021). Patient experience key elements in safety and quality improvement initiatives. HealthLeaders Media Discussion.
Cheney provides a perspective on how the patient experience contributes to healthcare quality improvement.

Florida Blue Medicare Caregiver Guide (2019). Florida Blue Medicare Resources.
Consult page 31 in this resource for your assignment this week to see a list of the annual tests required for diabetics.

Guinane, C., & Mercado, S. (2019). Two keys to building a healthcare quality toolkit. National Association on Healthcare Quality.
Tools are necessary for any project and these authors, experts in the field of health administration, offer their perspective on particular tools for performance improvement.

Lagasse, J. (2021). Quality standards framework can improve both clinical and financial performance in healthcare. Healthcare Finance.
Aspects of healthcare quality improvement not only include the welfare of patients, but also the welfare of the financial health of the organization. Lagasse offers a perspective.

Mandel, S. R., Langan, S., Mathioudakis, N. N., Sidhaye, A. R., Bashura, H., Bie, J. Y., Mackay, P., Tucker, C., Demidowich, A. P., Simonds, W. F., Jha, S., Ebenuwa, I., Kantsiper, M., Howell, E. E., Wachter, P., Golden, S. H., & Zilbermint, M. (2019). Retrospective study of inpatient diabetes management service, length of stay and 30-day readmission rate of patients with diabetes at a community hospital. Journal of Community Hospital Internal Medicine Perspectives, 9(2), 64-73, DOI: 10.1080/20009666.2019.1593782.
Use this resource when completing your assignment. This resource provides good examples of Run Charts (data over time). The authors conducted a study of diabetic patients when managed during their hospitalization to determine the effect on the length of stay and their readmission rates as well as the cost savings to both the patient and to the hospital.

Mercado, S. (2020). Health care will improve when quality improves-and it begins with workforce competencies. MedCity News.
Mercado, an expert in the field of health administration stresses the importance of the healthcare professionals’ competencies in the quality improvement initiatives.

Miller-Rosales, C., & Rodriguez, H. P. (2021). Interdisciplinary primary care team expertise and diabetes care management. Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine, 34(1), 151-161. doi: 10.3122/jabfm.2021.01.200187.
Use this resource to complete your assignment as the researchers discuss the use of interdisciplinary care to manage patients with diabetes.

Singal, M., Godbole, M., Zafar, A., Jadhav, N., Alweis, R., & Bhavsar, H. (2020). Interventions to improve resident reporting of patient safety events: A quality improvement initiative, Journal of Community Hospital Internal Medicine Perspectives, 10(5), 431-435. doi: 10.1080/20009666.2020.1799494.
In an effort to remedy medical errors, professors in a medical school included the topic of quality improvement in the medical school curriculum.