LibGuides: HCA402: Module 3

Module 3 Required Resources

Textbook

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Textbook: McLaughlin and Kaluzny’s Continuous Quality Improvement in Health Care

Sollecito, W. A., Johnson, J. K. (2019). McLaughlin and Kaluzny’s continuous quality improvement in health care (5th ed.). Jones and Barlett Learning.

Read Chapters 12, 11,13

These chapters will provide you with a comprehensive overview of key implementation strategies and application in all levels of health care.

Reading for Discussion 3 Question – Analyzing Best Practice Approaches in the Public Health Arena

Textbook: McLaughlin and Kaluzny’s Continuous Quality Improvement in Health Care
Sollecito, W. A., Johnson, J. K. (2019). McLaughlin and Kaluzny’s continuous quality improvement in health care (5th ed.). Jones and Barlett Learning.
Read the Case Study: Institutionalization of Continuous Quality Improvement, Chapter 11, pages 278 and 279.
This case study presents an example of CQI Best practices applied to a public health setting.

Video for Assignment 4 – How to Heal Medicine

Video: How Do We Heal Medicine?
Gawande, A. (2012) How do we heal medicine? YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3QkaS249Bc
Dr. Atul Gawande is one of the champions of quality and patient safety today. He is a surgeon, a researcher, and a prolific speaker and author. He contends that in order to "heal medicine,” we need to go, as an industry, from "being cowboys to pit crews.”

Presentations for Assignment 5 – Utilizing CQI Across the Continuum to Improve Care Transitions

Presentation: Transforming Care Across the Continuum
Care transitions programs. (n.d.). San Diego Care Transitions Partnership: Transforming Care Across the Continuum.
This is a brief overview of a CQI Collaborative that reduced re-admission rates for a high risk population of patients in San Diego County, California.
Presentation: Improving Health Through Community Partnerships
Schmitthenner, B. (2015). Improving health through community partnerships. The San Diego Care Transition Partnership, Transforming Care Across the Continuum, County of San Diego Aging and Independent Services.
This presentation provides a follow-up to the CQI Project with more detail on the methodology and results of the Care Transition Program.