Hcs 451 - Performance Management Through Benchmarking

Performance Management Through Benchmarking

Nina Brown

Health Care Quality Management and Outcomes Analysis /HCS 451

March 22, 2010

Sheryl-Anne Murray

University of Phoenix

Performance Management Through Benchmarking

Prevention and Safety is very essential in the medical surroundings. Mass of statistics is pull together daily on patients in all medical areas, by medical professional of all regulations for the intention of generating precautionary measures and safety procedures. Million of people and their relatives have put their life in the care of health professional day after day. These medicinal proceedings vary in harshness from a small cut or injure to an important surgical procedure and everything in between. Even though many patients consider medical services as safe and sound and free of danger, that is not always case. The condition of medical care that the standard person obtains is typically what they are anticipating and to the finest of the doctors capability. Nevertheless, there are days when miscalculations are made those outcomes are life-threatening complication, which sometime causes death or a critical injury.

In the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that roughly 1.7 million hospital-associated infections, from all types of bacteria combined, cause or contribute to 99,000 deaths each year (Pollack, 2010). Nosocomial infections can bring about serious inflammation of lung and viruses of the urinary tract, respiratory tract, skin, gastrointestinal, bloodstream and central nervous system. Nosocomial viruses are usually communicated when hospital administrators become satisfied and do not perform proper sanitation on a regular basis. The medical personnel touching one patient to another patient are a cause for dispersal a bacterium or a virus.

Root Cause

The root cause for the nosocomial infections at Lenity Hospital for Advanced Care (LHAC) is inefficient equipment management. Performance of paraphernalia deteriorate over point in time regular repairs can help keep paraphernalia operating but there comes a time when used equipment, and repairs grow to be too expensive and it becomes less pricey to purchase new supplies and equipments. There is other periods when upgrading to technology indicate that new paraphernalia is so much more resourceful than outdated equipment that it makes production judgment to purchase up-to-date equipment. Today most healthcare professionals are thinking about Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) which focuses on patient wellbeing, industry flow administration, and advantage equipment management. Before introducing Radio