HA565 Unit 7 Assignment

HA565 Health Information Management and Assessment Unit 7
Assignment 1

Instructions:

Identify an acute care facility and a non-acute health care facility in your area. Arrange to speak to the health information management professional at each facility and discuss the challenges they feel they face in collecting data, the type of data they are responsible for collecting, what their job duties are, and what type of patients they provide care. Assess and relate the outcome of the interview to the material explored in the Readings.

Requirements

3 page paper

APA expectations for written assignments.

At least 2 refences

Assignment 2

Instructions:

· Using the Medicare Nursing Home Compare website, research one nursing home that displays a low level of quality as indicated by their Five Star Rating*

· The nursing home should display a low level of quality (-2 star rating)

· The nursing home should display a low level of safety

· Provide a general overview of the nursing home (e.g., name, location, bed size, ownership, etc.)

· Discuss the quality performance of the nursing home as evident by its most recent health care inspection (e.g., deficiencies, citations, financial penalties, etc.).

· Discuss the safety performance of the nursing home as evident by its most recent life safety inspection (e.g., life safety citations, financial penalties, etc.).

· Discuss appropriate techniques that you would use to improve quality in the nursing home.

· Discuss appropriate techniques that you would use to improve safety in the nursing home.

Requirements

· 3-page paper excluding title and reference page.

· (APA standards apply).

You can select any nursing home published on the Medicare Hospital Compare website.

References:

http://www.medicare.gov/nursinghomecompare/search.html

https://www.cms.gov/Medicare/CMS-Forms/CMS-Forms/downloads/cms2567.pdf

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nnhs.htm