Download and review the Community General Hospital Case Study.

Download and review the Community General Hospital Case Study.

Download and review the Community General Hospital Case Study.

To complete this Assessment:

  • Download and review the Community General Hospital Case Study.
  • Research quality and safety measures using the links provided in the Case Study document and in the Learning Activities.
  • Consider the priority areas for measurement for Community General Hospital. Based on the case study, select 6–8 measures for inclusion in a dashboard for the Community General Hospital Board.
  • Determine how you will display the measures in your dashboard.

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Part 1: Dashboard

Using Excel or PowerPoint, create a ONE SLIDE quality dashboard based on the Community General Hospital Case Study. Your dashboard must include 6–8 measures. Use mock data to represent the measures you have chosen.

Part 2: Written Summary

To accompany your dashboard, write a 2- to 3-page paper in which you do the following:

  • Identify the 6–8 quality measures you have chosen for your dashboard. Explain why these measures are important to the organization.
  • Analyze how the Triple Aim/Quadruple Aim is represented in your chosen measures.
  • Explain how you displayed the measures. Justify your choice of display.
  • Provide a strategy for communicating the dashboard throughout the organization.
  • Explain how the dashboard could be used as a leadership tool to improve patient outcomes.

You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.

Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.

Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.

The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.