Category: Healthcare

Reporting Quality Measures One of the quality measures reported by hospitals to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) that is published on the Hospital Compare website is statistics on “surgery patients who were given an antibiotic at the right time (within one hour of surgery) to help prevent infection.” Answer the following questions…

ommunity Health Research Project Assignment In order to better understand the health needs and practices of various cultures within communities, you will conduct research on a community health issue that commonly affects a particular culture or group, a neighborhood or community, or a particular culture’s response to health issues and treatment. 1. You will identify…

Inferential Versus Descriptive Statistics Explain how inferential statistics differ from descriptive statistics; identify common inferential statistical methods and discuss why inferential statistical methods are a significant component of data analytics work. Cite two specific examples of how inferential statistics are used. Your initial post comprising of an approximately 250-word (or more)

1. Review the five examples of health equity discussed in Chapter 4 of your textbook: Type 2 Diabetes in Latinx Populations (p. 95) Infectious Disease Among Refugees (p. 97) Emotional Distress, Depression, and Suicide Among LGBTQ Youth (p. 98) Muslim Americans and Depression (p. 99) Women and Sexual Violence (p. 100) Select ONE example to…

Paper Topic: Three page Paper:  This paper will focus on identifying data in workflows, how to capture data, and discussing the use of data in understanding healthcare processes. Start by choosing a healthcare workflow process. Now look at the process as a whole. From the tasks that make up that process, identify the various types of…

Introduction: Healthcare leaders need experience in creating mission, vision, and value statements for their organizations. For this unit’s assignment, you will develop mission, vision, and value statements for a healthcare facility of your own choosing. The facility might be the one where you currently work, or it might be an organization that you someday hope…

Watch the video for this week’s reflection. To help you reflect more deeply on readings, podcasts, and videos in this course, you will complete written reflections. These reflections are designed to help you engage with the material in a deeper way and to construct new meaning from it. Your responses need not be long. That…

For this week’s discussion post activity (should you choose to complete it), please answer the following: Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, many epidemiologists were afraid that COVID-19 would reach remote reserves in Canada, like Grassy Narrows. Given what you know about the epidemiological profile of this community and what you know about COVID-19, why was COVID-19…

In the past, the utilization of telemedicine was often primarily thought of in the context of a “specialist” consulting with a physician regarding a patient in a remote or rural area who may not have easy access to the specialist, or a radiologist reading an image from a “remote” location. Due, in large part, to…

Most healthcare organizations in the country are implementing quality improvement programs to save lives, enhance customer satisfaction, and reduce the cost of healthcare services. Limited human and material resources often undermine such efforts. Zenith Hospital in a rural community has 200 beds. Postsurgical patients tend to contract infections at the surgical site, requiring extended hospitalization.…