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Assignment: Healthcare Quality and Safety in Your Area
 
Patient harm events happen at an alarming rate, but resources are available to consumers to help them make informed decisions about the care that they receive. Being an informed consumer of healthcare will not only help you protect yourself, but it will help you protect your family and friends as well.
In this Assignment, you will review patient safety and quality of care performance measures at healthcare organizations in your own area. You will also analyze the data for similarities and differences, in order to become a better healthcare consumer.
 
To prepare for this Assignment:

  • Review the Learning Resources for the last 2 weeks.
  • Download the Week 2 Assignment Template from this week’s Learning Resources
  • Search for quality and safety at healthcare organizations

◦     Medicare.gov. (n.d.). Hospital compare. Retrieved July 21, 2019, from https://www.medicare.gov/hospitalcompare/search.html?
◦     The Joint Commission. (2018). Quality check. Retrieved from https://www.qualitycheck.org/

  • Choose two healthcare organizations in your area and search for data that exists on both websites. If you live outside the U.S., please search for organization data in your area.

To complete this Assignment, complete the Week 2 Assignment Template found in this week’s Learning Resources. that addresses the following:
Support your work with specific citations from this week’s Learning Resources and/or additional sources, as appropriate. Your citations must be in APA format.
 
By Day 7
Submit your completed Week 2 Assignment Template.
 
Required websites:
 
https://www.fdbhealth.com/insights/articles/2018-10-04-reducing-errors-from-look-alike-sound-alike-medication-names-the-role-of-indications
 
https://www.jointcommission.org/-/media/deprecated-unorganized/imported-assets/tjc/system-folders/topics-library/speakup_doctors_visitpdf.pdf?db=web&hash=7937DD2B42CBB14673686A9F424FE505
 
https://marketplace.cms.gov/technical-assistance-resources/c2c-roadmap.pdf
 
https://www.nia.nih.gov/health/how-prepare-doctors-appointment
 
https://oig.hhs.gov/newsroom/spotlight/2012/adverse.asp