Quality Improvement Report

This Individual Project (IP) builds upon your work in Unit 1 and 2.

In response to the boards request for the initiation and execution of quality programs, you appointed a task force for quality improvement to address the boards accountability concerns and to implement the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) quality initiatives, and the National Association for Healthcare Quality (NAHQ) initiatives, and the six safety culture domains by the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE). You and the task force will create a quality improvement report for the board that includes the following:

1. Summary of the agenda for the hospital by the task force
2. Role of governing boards in quality care and hospital governance
3. Quality and patient safety initiatives promoted by healthcare organizations
4. Stakeholders and drivers of quality care in hospitals
5. ACHE Leadership Safety Culture Domains for healthcare organizations
6. Four levels and six aims for quality improvements in healthcare as advanced by the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), formerly the Institute of Medicine (IoM)
7. Barriers to quality improvement
8. Accreditation organizations and what programs they accredit

Deliverable Requirements: The quality improvement report should address the points above in at least 5 pages (title and reference pages are not counted in the page requirement) and cite 5 sources in APA format.

Submitting your assignment in APA format means, at a minimum, you will need the following:

• Title page: Remember the running head. The title should be in all capitals.
• Length: 5 pages minimum
• Body: This begins on the page following the title page and must be double-spaced (be careful not to triple- or quadruple-space between paragraphs). The typeface should be 12-pt. Times Roman or 12-pt. Courier in regular black type. Do not use color, bold type, or italics, except as required for APA-level headings and references. The deliverable length of the body of your paper for this assignment is 5 pages. In-body academic citations to support your decisions and analysis are required. A variety of academic sources is encouraged.
• Reference page: References that align with your in-body academic sources are listed on the final page of your paper. The references must be in APA format using appropriate spacing, hanging indent, italics, and uppercase and lowercase usage as appropriate for the type of resource used. Remember, the Reference page is not a bibliography but a further listing of the abbreviated in-body citations used in the paper. Every referenced item must have a corresponding in-body citation.