Signature: Plan on Performance Management System

Signature: Performance Management
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Signature: Performance Management
Performance management in healthcare organizations is instrumental in ensuring the consistent achievement of goals in an efficient and effective manner. It primarily helps them to achieve wellness goals through accountability, patient-centered care services, quality, as well as cost and data management. The department of health and human services in the United States specifies the circumstances under which a clinical facility may choose to measure its operations, and they are incorporated in the preparation of this assignment (Bernal-Delgado et al., 2018; Rowland, 2017). These factors include baseline creation, distinguishing actual and projected activities, decision-making based on concrete evidence, conducting performance comparisons across sites or hospitals, recognizing improved performance, as well as tracking each change to ensure long-term sustainability. This project describes a performance management system for a virtual hospital named Lifecare. It details the organization’s life safety plan, performance improvement processes, process improvement strategy, as well as ethical issues resolution, and communication strategies. The project presents Lifecare’s risk management assessment and issue resolution plan, as well as the specific management framework and how results are communicated.
Organization’s Life Safety Plan
Lifecare’s safety plan will involve the ‘defense-in-place’ strategy, which is helpful in ensuring hospital safety. It includes the facility’s entire operating systems, and it will be affected through the ‘total concept’ approach. With this approach, the facility will have an assortment of features that reduce or eliminate unnecessary patient movements outside in case of fire (Saleh, 2017). Lifecare will provide different protection gears and move patients to adjacent safety areas within the same floor. Furthermore, the hospital will include allowable building alarms, sprinklers, and detection gadgets, apart from training the workforce on safe and adequate patient protection. Staff response will be integral in saving lives, and they will act through availability, hands-on service, and fire management. Regarding fire alarms, the safety department will install alarms in each building and place flashlights in intensive care units and surgical rooms, as well as areas that have high levels of noise. Additionally, voice evacuation systems will be installed in patient rooms and public areas in the facility. Fire extinguishers will be installed throughout the facility’s buildings and the hazardous areas, especially the rooms without sprinkles (Saleh, 2017). Lifecare requires standpipes and horse reels throughout the hospital. Moreover, the facility requires automatic suppression systems. These systems will be vital in the kitchen to safeguard hazardous cooking equipment, such as fat fryers when they are used in an open kitchen. Lifecare will have a kitchen system outside its restaurant and gas extinguishers in every room where a fire outbreak can largely interrupt operations (Saleh, 2017). Regarding smoke contro...