Managing Quality Across Various Health Care Settings

For this assignment, imagine you have accepted an administrator position at a physicians practice. One of your first tasks is to gather your team to introduce yourself and discuss operational priorities for the practice at a lunch-and-learn.

Instructions

Using course resources along with a minimum of three peer-reviewed articles based on your own research, complete the linked assignment template to address the following:

• Describe where the physician practice and the hospital fall on the continuum of patient care.
• Analyze how providers at each location try to return their patients to their highest level of functioning.
• Explain how a physician practice communicates with the hospital to foster high-quality, efficient, and effective patient care.
• Analyze three peer-reviewed articles that each discuss one of the topics above.

• Description or summary presents the what of the article, but analysis will pursue the question of so what?
• Why do these ideas matter and/or how are these ideas connected?
• What are the potential gaps or questions that remain?

Please use the Week 3 Assignment Template [DOCX] to organize your paper with the following headings:

• Title Page.
• Agenda.
• Introduction.
• Professional introduction (1 paragraph).

• You have license to be creative as you imagine the background you would bring to a position like this one.
• Agenda (bullet points).

• Preview the main goals of the lunch-and-learn.
• Refer to some of the scholarly sources you will summarize.
• Continuum of Care.

• Describe where the physician practice and the hospital fall on the continuum of patient care.
• Analyze a peer-reviewed article that discusses where the physician practice and the hospital fall on the continuum of patient care.
• Care Quality.
• Describe how a physicians practice maximizes patient care quality to return them to the highest level of function, addressing quality standards such as:

• Maximizing value-based reimbursement.
• Positive patient experience.
• Maintaining operational efficiency.
• Analyze a peer-reviewed article that discusses how a physicians practice maximizes patient care quality to return them to the highest level of function.
• Operational Approach.

• Describe how the physicians practice and the hospital system communicate to foster high-quality, efficient, and effective care.
• Analyze a peer-reviewed article that discusses how a physicians practice and the hospital system communicate to foster high-quality, efficient, and effective care.
• Conclusion.

• Recap the main themes of your lunch-and-learn session.
• Draw conclusions based on information contained in at least two of the articles you summarized.
• Offer specific examples to demonstrate application of these ideas in everyday practice.
• References.

Additional Requirements

• Length: Your paper must be a minimum of 3–5 double-spaced pages, not including the title page and References section.
• Font: Times New Roman, 12 point.
• References: Cite at least three reliable primary sources from government or professional organization publications.
• Style: Format your paper according to APA style. Refer to Evidence and APA for guidance.