Healthcare Clinics

Paper Summary:

This paper examines the quality improvement processes in a primary provider healthcare clinic. It describes organizational excellence, defines and applies the concepts of quality care in healthcare organizations and determines the individual healthcare facility's performance. Further, this work utilizes current technologies in healthcare settings and identifies organizational behaviors that enhance and detract from quality healthcare. It then reviews the issues of strategic management in an organization and identifies specific examples of each from existing healthcare operations.

Table of Contents:
Abstract
Introduction
Eight Characteristics Of Excellent Organizations
Business Excellence Theoretical Framework
Comformance To Standards Unreliable For Excellence
Climate For Change And Collaborative Culture Creation
Technological Considerations Geared Toward Excellence
Necessary Leadership Skills In Healthcare
Patient Safety Considerations
FMEA: Failure Moded And Effects Analysis
Terms Used In The Fmea Risk Assessment Model
The Importance Of A Hazard Analysis
Severity Rating Scales For Failure Mode Effects
Severity Rating Scales For Failure Mode Effects
Failure Mode And Probability Rating
Root Cause Of Critical Failures
Evaluation Of Effect Of Redesign Of Process
FMEA Implementation Timeframe
Organizational Overview
Fmea Process Worksheet
Promoting Healthcare Workplace Excellence - The Georgia Dialogue
Problem Statement/Improvement Project
Analysis Of Problem
Proposed Solution And Anticipated Outcomes
Proposed Solution And Anticipated Outcomes

From the Paper:

"One method of assessing and correcting process failure is the method referred to as FMEA or 'Failure Mode and Effects Analysis' is an unfamiliar concept to the majority of health care providers currently. However, it is a vital tool due to the reduction of risk that it has within its potential if implemented correctly, which will identify and prevent process problems before their occurrence in a systematic approach. This is to make identification of the ways that failure can occur within processes and for the identification of why failure might occur and how the process can be ensured to be safer."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Patrice L. Spath (2004) Performance Excellence: If Not Now, When? For the Record Vol. 16 No. 19, Page 30 Online available at: http://www.fortherecordmag.com/archives/ftr_092004p30.shtml.
• Nabitz, U., Klazinga, N. and Walburg, J. (2000) The EFQM Excellence Model: European and Dutch Experiences with the EFQM Approach in Healthcare. European Foundation for Quality Management. International Journal of Quality Health Care 2000 Jun;12(3): 191-201. Online available at: PUBMED.
• The EDS Eight (2000) EDS Website Online available at: http://www.eds.com/news/news.aspx?news_id=2228
• Spath, Patrice L. (2003) Using Failure Mode and Effects Analysis to Improve Patient Safety 2003 July, Vol.78 No. 1.
• Promoting Health Care Workplace Excellence: The Georgia Dialogue (2003) Spring

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