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Quality Improvement in the Health Care Organization Accreditation

The mandate for improving the way in which health care is delivered was stimulated by the public outcry over the estimated 98,000 deaths because of medical errors each year, according to the Institute of Medicine in 1999. Since then, health care organizations have sought means by which the public can be reassured that they were meeting quality and safety standards. Accreditation agencies (e.g., The Joint Commission) and quality awards provide a means for the public to evaluate where the agency is meeting minimum standards.
You have been assigned by your manager to determine which accrediting agencies or quality improvement programs your hospital will utilize in its upcoming revenue cycle. Your hospital is a magnet hospital in a large urban area that provides multilayered services. You have previously used The Joint Commission for your accreditation but feel that you might be better served by using another accrediting body. You have three months in which to gather data and present the information to your manager.
Complete the following for this assignment:
 

  • Choose 3 quality improvement or accreditation-related programs to consider in replacing The Joint Commission for your organization, and briefly describe them. Your agency accepts Medicare and Medicaid payments; therefore, you will need to explore, as background, the conditions of participation for Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). This is important information because you will need to compare your list of accrediting agencies and quality improvement programs with the conditions of participation to see if they meet the criteria.
  • Analyze the costs and benefits of each quality improvement or accreditation-related program by stakeholder group (e.g., patient, provider, and third-party payer).
  • Rank your quality improvement or accreditation-related program suggestions with rationale.
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academic skills

For this discussion, create and post a response that addresses each of the questions below. Your response should be two to three paragraphs in length.
Identifying skills

Using the resources

  • Which Capella resources can you utilize to support that development?
  • Knowing that the resources will be valuable to you throughout your program, how will you make time outside of your coursework to revisit and use them?

Growth mindset

  • How might your mindset play a role in your learning and growth?

DISCUSSION 2
For this discussion, reflect on the following questions, and then post a response. Your post should be two to three total paragraphs and address all of the questions.

  • What time management strategies have worked well for you in the past?
  • What is different in your life now than when you were previously in school? Do you have new obligations or priorities? How will you factor those differences into your time management plan?
  • Now that you know more about how much time you may spend on your coursework, what do you need to consider for your time management plan that you hadn’t considered before?
  • How might other people in your life help support your time management plan?
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recent conversation*subject is in human services

  • Analyze a recent conversation you had with a person of a different culture. Or, if you haven’t had this type of conversation recently, find a video clip online that focuses on people from different cultures communicating and analyze the clip.
  • Provide a brief synopsis of the conversation—what was the general content and context?
  • Describe how you greeted this person. Did you greet this person with a kiss, a handshake, or some other cultural mannerism? Was there additional touching or no touching at all?
  • Describe your physical proximity. How far were you standing from each other? What if any body language was evident? Did you maintain eye contact?
  • Describe the physical characteristics that might be evident. What were you wearing? Were you dressed in casuals or in business attire? Describe what the other person was wearing. How might the apparel make a difference in the conversation?
  • Describe the protocol for the conversation. Did you take turns talking, or did you both talk at the same time? How did you refer to each other? Do you feel like you had equal time to express yourself? Why or why not?
  • Did the physical setting impact what was discussed? What did you talk about? How was the conversation brought to a close? What happened at the end?
  • How might your own cultural affiliation have impacted this conversation? Do an analysis using support from scholarly sources.
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standardized healthcare data set

For this unit assignment, identify a reputable website or scholarly article and discuss the following:
 
 
1. Describe what a standardized healthcare data set is.
 
2. Compare and contrast at least three data sets used in electronic health records.
 
 
 
 
 
 
a. What are the data sets used for?
 
b. Where are the data sets stored/housed?
 
c. Are the standards governing the data sets used as part of the Department of Health and Human Services meaningful use regulations?
 
3. Analyse and compare administrative based data and clinical based data.
 
Your response must be at least three pages in length, double spaced. You are required to use at least one outside source. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying APA citations.

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social entrepreneurship programs

 
-Each discussion needs to be 3 paragraphs.
-Use ONLY U.S. Websites for references
– Make sure you use credible sources (website only) (NO BLOGS, real U.S. Websites)
-Will be checking for plagiarism
-DUE in 1 hour!!
 
 
Discussion 1:
 
Tell us about one of the competitors in the elevator industry and outline what you believe is their marketing strategy.  What hurdles does that company face?
 
(Use elevator company Otis elevator OR ThyssenKrupp elevator for this discussion. Whichever company you can find the most information on)
 
 
Discussion 2:
 
Thousands of high school kids drop out of high school daily.  What kind of social entrepreneurship programs might help these kids?
 

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film analysis of white material

In these analysis, I want you to resort to texts that we have read throughout the course and I want to see you use technical film terms & formal elements to support your argument about the film and video (these formal elements can be found in the material we have read from Film Art).
– How does the camera work (cinematography and mise-en-scene & editing & sound) help us make sense of the politics of representation?
– How does the history of colonialism and the after-life or effects of colonialism show themselves in the film?
– How does the film or video interrogate gender roles and sexual politics in relation to the history of colonialism.
– Write a film log for Un Prophete(1 page). Here are some guiding questions:
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Financial Management

our Discussion postings should be written in standard edited English and should follow APA guidelines. Be sure to support your work with specific in-text citationsfrom this week’s Learning Resources.  Refer to the Pocket Guide to APA Style to ensure that your in-text citations and reference list are correct. Initial postings must be 250–350 words (not including references).
Choose one of the following:

  1. The income statement, balance sheet, and statement of cash flows are three major financial statements that present varying snapshots of an organization’s financial position. For this topic discussion, consider a healthcare organization with which you are familiar with and examine the purposes and components of these documents. How they may be utilized within healthcare organizations?
  2. Consider a healthcare organization with which you are familiar with and explain the difference between cash and accrual accounting in healthcare setting. Be sure to include a discussion of the revenue recognition and matching principles.
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Government Securities

Quantitative Exercises and Final Project 3: Government Securities
 
Part One: Quantitative Exercises
 
Barbow Enterprises, Inc., is considering an expansion in their operations. One of the first items they want to examine is their cost of capital. According to the accounting department, the following items and their respective costs have been identified:
 

  • The cost of Common Equity: 15%
  • The before tax cost of debt: 12%
  • No Preferred stock

 
They have also calculated the marginal tax rate to be 40% and the stock sells at its book value.
 

Barbow Enterprises Inc.

Balance Sheet
Assets Liabilities and Owners’ Equity
Cash

$240

 Long Term Debt

$2,304
Accounts Receivable

480

 Equity

3,456
Inventories

720
Net P&E

4,320
  Total Assets

$5,760

 Total Liabilities and owners’ Equity

$5,760

 
Required:
 
Calculate Barbow’s after-tax weighted average cost of capital, using the data in the balance sheet above.
 
Deliverable:
 
Use a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet that illustrates your calculations. You may use the formulas embedded in Microsoft Excel and/or a financial calculator for these calculations.
 
Part Two:  Final Project 3: Government Securities
 
In this part of your Final Project, you will research and analyze current information (that is, within the past two months) on government securities.
 
Step 1: Go to a financial Web site to do your research. The following are three suggested sites, but you may use others. Be sure to cite your sources!
 

 
Step 2: Research current information (within the last two months) on the yields and maturity for:
 

  1. U.S. treasuries
  2. Municipal bonds
  3. Corporate bonds

 
Required:
 

  • Discuss what the pure expectations theory would imply about the yield curve.
  • Compare and contrast the yields and maturities for each of the securities.
  • Discuss which you would hold and why relative to interest rate risk.

 
Deliverables:
 
Your submission may be in a 3–6 page Microsoft Word or Excel document. Include a Microsoft Excel document that illustrates your calculations. You may use the formulas embedded in Microsoft Excel and/or a financial calculator for these calculations.