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Quality Improvement in Hospital HealthCare

This paper looks at quality improvement in hospital healthcare in the United States and what is being done to promote it. It first discusses the contributions of Malcolm Baldrige in his establishment of methodologies for quality improvement, then looks at the efforts of Quality Improvement Organizations (QIO) and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to develop unified systems of quality care reporting by hospitals which is standardized nation-wide. Some of its achievements are noted and plans for the future discussed. The paper also examines a study which looked at healthcare quality improvement in hospitals from 1998-1999 to 2000-2001, and its findings and suggestions for the future. The paper finally looks at the problem of surgical infections, for which efforts are underway to enforce nationwide compliance with a set of standards to reduce the death rate from such preventable occurrences.

Malcolm Baldrige served as Secretary of Commerce from 1981 until 1987, when he died in a rodeo accident (Baldrige, 2001). His managerial expertise is credited with long-term improvement in the efficiency and effectiveness of government, and in developing methods which can help both manufacturing and service industries provide quality goods and services, while improving productivity, lowering costs, and increasing profits. The Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award was created by Public Law 100-107 in 1987 to create a public/private sector partnership to achieve these goals. The Findings and Purposes of Public Law 100-107 recognized that the Nation's productivity growth over the past two decades had improved less than other countries, and that American business and industry was beginning to recognize that poor quality costs companies as much as 20 percent of their sales revenues. It recognized that "strategic planning for quality and quality improvement programs, through a commitment to excellence in manufacturing and s...

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