Mayo Qi Mayo Clinic Quality Improvement (QI) Plan

The Quality Improvement Plan laid out here centers on the Mayo Clinic. The healthcare system has an international reputation for providing patient-focused and cooperative medical care for individuals suffering from the most severe illnesses. In addition to maintaining a highly collaborative atmosphere within which physicians, nurses and practitioners work together to resolve medical challenges, the Mayo Clinic is renowned for its innovations in the areas of service delivery and positive treatment outcomes. This is why the focus of a discussion on Quality Improvement has less to do with improving the Mayo Clinic itself than with demonstrating ways of replicating its successes in other healthcare systems.

Goals/Objectives:

The goal that drives the Mayo Clinic is drawn from a patient-centered treatment philosophy. The Mayo Clinic strives to incorporate its patients in the process of achieving desired treatment outcomes. The clinic uses feedback from patients to improve and acknowledge the legitimacy of physicians whilst the importance of care perspectives (Kongstvedt, 2013). The Mayo Clinic is also always in the pursuit of quality assurance, which it maintains by engaging in constant research and clinical practice.

Scope/Description/QI Activities:

There is a pressing interest to find ways of making the Mayo Clinic's successful achievement of its goals applicable in other healthcare contexts. This helps us to define the scope of the present quality improvement plan, the focus of which is on strengthening the quality of analytics and the ability to convey these analytics to other healthcare facilities. The Mayo Clinic (2012) reports that activities will include the use of in-depth medical records studies, informatics and epidemiology health services research. The intent is to yield data from the performance of the Mayo Clinic that can be applied to a healthcare system in need of transformative improvement.

Data Collection Tools:

In order to determine exactly what the Mayo Clinic is doing so successful, a data collection process is required. The Exit Survey has emerged as the preferable data collection method and would use a Likert instrument in order to gather quantitative data on patient experience. The interview method would also be applied in order to gain qualitative data...

Finally, in order to determine the greatest areas of need for the healthcare system outside of the Mayo Clinic, the focus group would be appropriate. Consluting randomly selected respondents in order to compose a sample population from the region, the focus group can offer data on the highest ranked needs in terms of yielding quality analytics.
QI Processes and Methodology:

We proceed to a discussion on the methodology by introducing the performance measurement matrix, a system adopted by a wide range of organizations seeking to gain insight into their own performance. The Mayo Clinic would utilize the performance measurement matrix to demonstrate the qualities in its personnel and processes that are part and parcel to its success.

Using the BSC model as a basis for deriving quality measures, the methodology described calls for the integration of the financial, patient-centered, innovation-drawn and advanced-treatment aspects of its operation into a single mode of evaluation. Using the evaluative methodology promises to offer a template in the proper orientation of personnel that can be applied by other healthcare systems.

Comparative Databases, Benchmarks, Professional Practice Standards:

The Enterprise Learning System (SLS) will also be an important part of benchmarking and consequently databasing emergent standards. The ELS is a system that will not only share clinical knowledge and patient specific triggers with physicians, but will also enable the organization to provide continual medical education as a just-in-time learning approach. This allows for the seamless sharing of information between acute-care providers, specialists, nurses, clinicians and even the primary care physicians and post-acute care providers that will be seen following a hospital visit. This means that decisions can be made regarding patients with a far lower risk of inconsistency or treatment error. It also means that information can be used to make population-wide observations about patient groups for a specific hospital. In this regard, the ELS is well-established and successful way of promoting staff education specific to a given healthcare treatment context.

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