SAFETY SCORE IMPROVEMENT PLAN:
Healthcare
SAFETY SCORE IMPROVEMENT PLAN: Healthcare
Consider the hospital-acquired conditions that are not reimbursed
for under Medicare/Medicaid. Among these conditions are
specific safety issues such as infections, falls, medication errors,
and other safety concerns that could have been prevented or
alleviated with the use of evidence-based guidelines. Hospital
Safety Score, an independent nonprofit organization, uses national
performance measures to determine the safety score for hospitals
in the United States. The Hospital Safety Score Web site and other
online resources provide hospital safety scores to the public.
Read the scenario below:
Scenario
As the manager of a unit, you have been advised by the patient
safety office of an alarming increase in the hospital safety score
for your unit. This is a very serious public relations matter because
patient safety data is public information. It is also a financial crisis
because the organization stands to lose a significant amount of
reimbursement money from Medicare and Medicaid unless the
source of the problem can be identified and corrected. You are
required to submit a safety score improvement plan to the
organization’s leadership and the patient safety office.
Select a specific patient safety goal that has been identified by an
organization, or one that is widely regarded in the nursing

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