Use the same organization type you selected for the Risk
Management Assessment Summary in Week Two. Your role as a consultant continues
as you relate risk management policies and practices to quality management. You
must summarize a plan for the organization’s leadership that will serve as the
foundation for developing a quality management program description for the
organization.
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Resource: Quality
Management Assessment Summary Grading Criteria
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Research key concepts
of quality management in health care, factors that influence quality outcomes,
and the relationship between risk management and quality management.
Write a 1,400- to 1,750-word executive summary in which you
complete the following:
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Describe the purpose
of quality management in health care organizations in general and in your
chosen organization type in particular.
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Explain three to five
key concepts of quality management. Comment briefly on why there are so many
other names and terms used to describe quality management—continuous quality
improvement, total quality management, performance management, and performance
improvement—and if these distinctions are important. Explain the terminology
your chosen organization type uses and why your organization uses them.
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Identify at least
three of the organization type’s typical long-term goals and at least three
typical short-term goals.
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Identify at least five
factors—internal and external—that influence quality outcomes in your chosen
organization type and describe how these factors might negatively affect
quality outcomes in your organization.
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Identify three to five
fundamental quality-management policies that should be implemented, how these
relate to risk management, and how they will influence health
outcomes.
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Explain the
relationship between risk management and quality management in your chosen
organization type and how these two disciplines relate to performance
management.
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Include at least four
sources, two from the University Library and two from either the course
textbooks or this Week’s Electronic Reserve Readings. Prepare a list of all
resources and websites used in your research.
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Format the executive
summary and reference list consistent with APA guidelines.
