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Unit outcomes addressed in this Assignment: • Assess quality and techniques for improving quality and safety. Course outcome addressed in this Assignment: HA540-3: Research methods of assessing quality and techniques for improving quality and safety Instructions: In this assignment, you will be researching dimensions of quality and safety in healthcare, specifically long-term care, and how various industries can apply these concepts to improve operations. ? Using the Medicare Nursing Home Compare website, research one nursing home that displays a low level of quality as indicated by their Five Star Rating* ? The nursing home should display a low level of quality (-2 star rating) ? The nursing home should display a low level of safety ? Provide a general overview of the nursing home (e.g., name, location, bed size, ownership, etc.) ? Discuss the quality performance of the nursing home as evident by its most recent health care inspection (e.g., deficiencies, citations, financial penalties, etc.). This can be accomplished by thoroughly reading the nursing home's statement of deficiencies and plan of action to correct quality deficiencies (CMS Form 2567). ? Discuss the safety performance of the nursing home as evident by its most recent life safety inspection (e.g., life safety citations, financial penalties, etc.). This can be accomplished by thoroughly reading the nursing home's life safety code statement of deficiencies and plan of action. ? Discuss appropriate techniques that you would use to improve quality in the nursing home. ? Discuss appropriate techniques that you would use to improve safety in the nursing home. ? Be sure to include details about the deficiencies that you found. ? Report your findings by using one (1) of the methods below: ? 3-4 page paper excluding front and back matter (APA standards apply). ? Internal organizational memorandum. ? Infographic 2 Kaplan University School of Health Sciences HA540 Unit 7 Assignment COURSE # ? Power Point presentation for a Board of Directors (10-12 slides; speaker notes as needed to support assertions). ? 7-10 minute public service announcement (using a free online voice recorder such as vocaroo.com) ? Video newscast (using a free online video recorder such as YouTube.com)(e.g., entertainment talk show, television commentary, interview-style, news reporting, etc.). ? The use of first person is permitted for this assignment (excluding option 1). ? APA formatting (e.g., title page, conclusion, reference page, etc.) should not be used. •You can select any nursing home published on the Medicare Hospital Compare website. To narrow your selection, consider researching nursing homes in your community, previous places of residence, employers, competitors, or even a nursing home you would like to network with someday. References: http://www.medicare.gov/nursinghomecompare/search. html https://www.cms.gov/Medicare/CMS-Forms/CMS-Forms/downloads/cms2567.pdf http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nnhs.htm Submitting your work: Submit your Assignment to the appropriate Dropbox. For instructions on submitting your work, view the Dropbox Guide located under Academic Tools at the top of your unit page. Please be sure to download the file “Writing Center Resources” from Doc Sharing to assist you with meeting APA expectations for written Assignments.
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Select one social institution (e.g., family, religion, education, or government) and briefly describe how this social institution contributes to the transmission of society's values.
Identify a problem that affects your community.
Describe how you could use research to learn more about the problem.
Locate two scholarly articles in the Walden Library that pertain to your topic. Please locate one quantitative and one qualitative study for review. A qualitative study may focus on interviews and stories. A quantitative study may include numeric data or statistics. Qualitative example: If you were exploring the role that volunteerism plays in high school student academic achievement, you might want to read a case study of youth volunteers in religious organizations. Put another way, look for "story-based" research. Quantitative example: For the same exploration, you might want to read a study that compares college acceptance rates in schools with a strong volunteer presence to schools without volunteers. Put another way, look for "numbers-based" research. Once you have read your articles, consider the new information that you have gained. Write a short description of how the social institution that you’ve selected could use the information that you found in your research to help alleviate the problem or issue that you are exploring.
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1. If all the assumptions of perfect competition hold, why would firms in such an industry have little incentive to carry out technological change or much research and development? What condition would encourage research and development in competitive industries?
2. QuadPlex Cinema is the only movie theater in Idaho Falls. The nearest rival movie theater, the Cedar Bluff Twin, is 35 miles away in Pocatello. Thus QuadPlex Cinema possesses a degree of market power. Despite having market power, QuadPlex Cinema is currently suffering losses. In a conversation with the owners of QuadPlex, the manager of the movie theater made the following suggestions: "Since QuadPlex is a local monopoly, we should just increase ticket prices until we make enough profit." Comment on this strategy. How might the market power of QuadPlex Cinema be measured? Also recommend, the options that QuadPlex consider in the long run. Fully explain your answer in terms of market powers.
3. How does a price ceiling undermine the rationing function of market-determined prices? How could rationing coupons insure that consumers with the highest values get the limited amount of a good supplied when government price ceilings create shortages? Fully explain your answer based upon demand, supply and market equilibrium.
4. Are organizations more risk adverse or individuals more risk adverse? Is one more risk tolerant? Use economic theory to explain your position.
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Introduced the company and the product selected for the project.
Defined the quality from product, user, and customer perspectives.
Provided the SWOT analysis.
Described the vision and mission statements.
Described the selected quality focus method and the reason behind the selection.
Explained the methods of implementing a quality culture.
Explained the quality control methods and requirements for implementing them.
Analyzed and explained the role of management in implementing quality control methods.
Described any other point you think is necessary in presenting your project work.
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Determine the car payment and mortgage payment with the following conditions: your monthly household income, 10 percent for the car payment, and 28 percent for the mortgage payment. Also, assume a 10 percent down payment on the car and a 3 percent down payment on the house. Create an amortization schedule, and graph the components over time: interest, principal, and balance. Discuss the distributions of principal, interest, and the balance over the life of the loan.
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On what basis shall we allocate resources to Program A instead of Program B,” is the perennial statement in public sector budgeting. Identify and discuss at least five attempts, found in the budgeting literature, used to answer V.O. Key’s famous budgeting question. In your professional judgment, which type of budgeting system is most appropriate for public administration? Why do you feel this way?
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It is difficult to assess the independent effect of public opinions on shaping public policy. Public policy often differs from national opinion polls, and the Constitution contains no provision for national referenda on policy issues. The public does not have opinions on many policy questions, public opinion is unstable, and decision makers can easily misinterpret as well as manipulate public opinion. Public policy is more likely to conform to elite opinion than to mass opinion. Discuss the impact of political processes on policy content in context of the preceding statements. Respond to at least two of your fellow students’ posts