Healthcare Quality. Analyze 3 quality initiatives for your organization

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There has been a lot of medication errors and a reduction in the quality of healthcare offered in hospitals. Therefore, implementations have to be made to ensure that the patients receive the best care possible. The implementations will also be directed towards the reduction of the expenses involved while ensuring that the patients are accorded good quality healthcare. Among the initiatives that will be considered will be timeliness, safety in the hospital and patient-centeredness.
In regard to timeliness, a substantial number of patients in healthcare centers across the country have lost their lives as a result of delays from the medical practitioners. Also, others end up getting health complications that would not have been conducted if the medical practitioners were punctual. Therefore, every employee in the hospital will be trained on how to be punctual in all the activities related to the health of the patient. Such training is not expected to incur costs because it will be done through the workplace meetings. In addition, medical practitioners will be required to obey specific rules in regard to the speed with which they attend to emergencies in the hospital. Emergency cases are the most urgent in the hospital and, therefore, if not handled quickly, then there are high chances that the patient might lose their life. Among the factors that will reduce the cost involved in the issue of timeliness is the creation of a working schedule. This will ensure that every medical practitioner is aware of what they are supposed to be doing in any given moment. The schedules should be placed on the notice boards and also sent to the email addresses of each of the employees.
Also, implementing safety strategy within the hospitals will help in the reduction of medication errors. In most cases, safety issues are as a result of negligence especially in the case of waste disposal. The hospitals will ensure that they place dustbins at strategic places depending on the kind of dirt that needs to be disposed of. For instance, the disposal of needles and other sharp objects would require a lot of keenness to ensure that they are properly disposed of. A prick from a needle is enough to transmit infectious diseases from the patients to the medical practitioners and vice versa. In addition, the nurses will also be taught the various safety rules when dealing with patients to ensure that they provide quality healthcare instead of worsening the conditions of the patient s. Therefore, the implementation of safety strategies does not necessarily require the hospitals to use a lot of capital. However, the safety strategies will cut on the cost that could have spent on attending to safety-related emergencies. It is also important for the hospitals to ensure that they have fire extinguishers in place and the building should have adequate emergency doors that could be used in the case of an emergency. Having such in place would help in the avoidance if the cost that could have been incurred in the case of an emergency. Therefore, the different departments in the hospitals require different safety strategies. The management should identify what each of the departments requires an implement th...