PT As An Administrator Flashcards
Healthcare administrators jobs will typically include…
- Assessment and ID of specific services, facilities, equipment, and personnel needed to address current and future healthcare needs of community and the funding required to provide the needed services
- Structure and execution of a cohesive strategic plan ew for effective and efficient healthcare delivery
- Research, data analysis, and determination of recommendations for addition, expansion, or reduction in specialized services
- Creation of a balanced budget and strategic plan to maintain fiscal health of org
- Supervision of departments
- Analyze data to support trends
- Provision of leadership and promotion of effective and efficient services and work friendly enviornment
- Promotion of clinical excellence using EBP
- Verification of clinical practice guidelines
- Overweight and confirmation of professional and staff development
- Creation and implementation of plans of compliance with all federal and state rules
- Risk assessments
- Design and application of crisis management plans
- Coordination of org wide performance improvement activities with documentation to support
- Creation and enactment of specific patient assessment reporting procedures
- Analysis of data to identify treands of improvements or areas of concerns
- Tracking data for joint commission quality initiatives
Healthcare administrators must be prepared to handle…
- Tech innovations
- Compliance strategies - legal and ethical regulations
- Org behavior — culture of facility
- Healthcare financing — budgets and revenue streams
- Human Resources — employment laws, recruitment, training
- Health information management — maintain legal standards
- Facility management
What are quality indicators
Specific standard measures of benefit
Prevention quality indicator (PQI)
Inpatient quality indicator (IQI)
Patient safety indicator (PSI)
Pediatric quality indicators
What are quality improvement strategies
Group of plans designed to raise the level of benefit derived from the organization
There are 9 strategies (slide 8)
Hospital value based purchasing program
Provide incentive payments to be made by CMS to a hospital determined by the level of performance on specific quality measures during a period of time.
Hospital acquired conditions
An illness or injury that a patient contracts during the hospital stay
- All are considered preventable
- Law specifically mandates that hospitals may not receive reimbursement for HACs acquired
What are hospital acquired condition examples
- Foreign object retained after surgery
- Air embolism
- Blood incompatibility
- Stage III and IV pressure ulcers
- Falls and trauma — fractures, dislocations, intracranial injuries, crushing injuries
- Manifestations of poor glycemic control
- Catheter associated urinary tract infection
- Vascular catheter related injection
- Surgical site injection
- DVT
What is case fatality
Total number of patients who died due to a specifi condition / total number of patients who have been diagnosed with specific condition in a specific period of time = case fatality %
readmission rate
Total number of patients who unexpectedly returned to same facility for additional treatment for same condition / total number of patients diagnosed with the specific condition within a specified period of time = readmission rate %
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Communication and relationship management
Communicate clearly and concisely with individuals internal and external to company ; establish and maintain relationship
