Write a 2–3 page proposal in which you evaluate and make recommendations for a provider you have chosen (TEMPLE HOSPITAL) in terms of safety, quality, and evidence-informed health care by doing the following:
- Choose a health care provider—nursing home, hospital, home care, etc.
- Using the search function on Medicare.gov to review your provider’s measures on safety, quality, and evidence-informed health care.
- Pay attention to the publicly reported outcomes on mortality, rehospitalization, and infection rates, as well as patient satisfaction and preventive care.
- Note: If you have chosen a home health provider, use the Home Health Quality Measures website to review their home health quality measures.
- Identify other providers in the same geographic area, review their outcomes, and compare your provider (e.g., search by Zip code).
- Determine how these outcomes impact this provider as a potential member for a health system, Accountable Care organization, or as a contender to obtain population health contracts.
- Based on the reports, determine which quality initiative the providers should address through evidence-based practices, such as safety, quality, rehospitalizations, mortality, etc.
- Would your provider be the desired member of a system?
- What is your recommendation for this provider to improve their outcomes in order to improve reimbursement and to become a desirable member of a system of providers?
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