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Hospital Compare Assignment –

This assignment may be completed in groups of up to 3 students – no more.  Students may self-select your group members by signing up in the People tab.  If you do not wish to complete this assignment with a group you may work alone on it. 

You will select a hospital from a region of the United States based on your first letter in one of the team members last name.  Use this list below to determine your region:

Last names beginning with A-C:  Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island

Last name beginning with D-F:   New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware

Last names beginning with H-I: West Virginia, Virginia, Maryland, Washington DC, North Carolina, South Carolina

Last names beginning with J-L: Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida

Last names beginning with M-O: Michigan, Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee

Last names beginning with P-R: Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Arkansas

Last names beginning with S-U: Montana, Wyoming, Idaho, Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, Arizona

Last names beginning with V-Z: Alaska, Washington, Oregon California, Nevada, Hawaii

Go to https://www.medicare.gov/hospitalcompare/search.html? (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. (Links to an external site.)   Enter the zip code from the region assigned to your group and locate the data for one hospital. 

1. Select one data element from the “Survey of patient experiences,” one data element from the “Timely & effective care,” and one data element from the complications & deaths” data for your hospital.
2. Compare your data elements to the state and national averages, create an appropriate graph or table (dependent on the data elements you select) for this data.
3. Analyze this data – is your hospital better, worse, or the same as the state and/or national averages?
4. From your data analysis, what action might your hospital need to take to correct/improve the reported data to be better or equal to the state and/or national averages?
5. Create a meeting agenda to present your findings and to brainstorm an improvement plan. 
6. Identify the stakeholders of this process – who should be at the meeting and why?
7. Go to this hospital’s website; find their mission, vision, values statements. 
8. Search the local newspaper, radio, and/or TV stations for stories about this organization. Report on one or two of these stories, specifically if the story is related to patient safety or quality of care.
9. Create a power point presentation that includes all of this information: mission, vision, values statement, board of directors of your hospital;  news story; and  present your data findings, your analysis, and action plan, add your graphs to this presentation.  Record your presentation. This can be easily accomplished in Power Point, by going under the “insert” tab on the far right side there is an audio drop down menu.  You just need a microphone (which most computers now have) select the record audio option and just move through your presentation as you would if you were delivering it to an audience.  Contact me with any questions regarding this step.