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Your organization has just updated its safety and quality dashb

Instructions<
Your organization has just updated its safety and quality dashboard. Please review the Vila Health Mercy Hospital Safety and Quality Dashboard [PDF]. Note: You do not need to create a dashboard for this assessment. You are simply being asked to work with the one provided.<
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The CEO has asked each of the organizational leaders below to prepare a joint PowerPoint presentation. In it, they are to prepare a set of slides outlining their analysis of how the new numbers will inform their particular activities for the next quarter. The organizational leaders include:<
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The quality director.<
The patient safety officer.<
The risk manager.<
Senior leadership.<
Because of the quality director’s critical role in implementing the organization’s safety and quality strategic objectives, this individual will open the presentation and provide additional background about how the new dashboard was developed. This individual will also close the presentation. Use the following outline to organize your presentation. Be sure to include the introduction and conclusion and address all the questions listed under these headings. Also be sure to address each role and the corresponding questions.<
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Introduction (3–4 slides)<
What is a safety and quality dashboard?<
What role do safety and quality dashboards play in helping health care organizations drive their strategic safety and quality objectives?<
How do health care organization determine what they want to measure? Be sure to consider:<
Pressures from regulators, payors, and the industry.<
Self-identified improvement areas. For example, one organization’s safety and quality dashboard may highlight patient falls because its rate of falls is higher than the national average. This may also have resulted in increased costs to the organization.<
What CQI tools did the organization use to obtain, measure, and report data?<
What was the quality improvement team’s role in addressing the reported measures?<
Quality Director (2–3 slides)<
Which metric on the dashboard would draw the quality director’s attention the most?<
What does this dashboard metric mean and why is it important?<
What three recommendations to leadership would help to address this metric?<
What (if any) quality models could be used to increase the quality of patient care and outcomes for this metric? Consider PDCA, Six Sigma, Lean, Hoshin Kanri planning, et cetera.<
Patient Safety Officer (2–3 slides)<
Which metric on the dashboard would draw the patient safety officer’s attention the most?<
What does this dashboard metric mean and why is it important?<
What role does the patient safety officer play in improving this metric?<
Risk Manager (2–3 slides)<
Which metric on the dashboard would draw the risk manager’s attention the most?<
What does this dashboard metric mean and why is it important?<
What role does the risk manager play in improving this metric?<
Senior Leader (1 slide)<
What is the role of senior leadership (for example, CEO, COO, president, senior VP) in driving safety and quality improvement initiatives?<
What next steps might senior leadership take given the dashboard findings and the quality director’s three improvement recommendations?<
Conclusion (2–3 slides)<
Which regulatory agency(ies) may be concerned about the findings in this dashboard?<
Why would regulators be concerned about these findings?<
Why are safety and quality dashboards important for monitoring key metrics in health care organizations?<
Your slides need to be concise and offer main ideas in bulleted format. Use the speaker notes to expand upon your findings as if they were the transcript of your presentation for the leadership team.<
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In the health care environment, it is unlikely for a presentation and speaker notes to be in APA style. Do make sure they are concise, organized, clear, and free of errors in grammar, punctuation, and spelling. Do make sure they address all the required headings and all of the questions under each heading.<
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Your senior leaders will want to know the sources of your information. Be sure to cite your sources in APA style in your speaker notes (at least two in total)<
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