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Running Head: HEALTHCARE QUALITY IMPROVEMENT 1




Healthcare Quality Improvement

Purdue University Global

HA245 Operational Analysis and Quality Improvement

, HEALTHCARE QUALITY IMPROVEMENT 2

Changes in healthcare quality was started by Florence Nightingalein the early 19th

century. As a result, it is currently adapted by a multitude of healthcare quality organizations.

The word “quality healthcare” according the to the Institute of Medicine connotates the safe,

effective, patient-centered, timely, efficient and equitable (Steiner, 2019). But the question is –do

patients receiveadequate care to be healthy? or are they given theappropriate patient resources to

make the right decisions for ourcare?

Tracing back the history of healthcare, there has been inadequacy in our patient care

quality and safety. “Health care & hospitals” (2019) contends several factors that hospitals in

many states were segregated by race resulting to extensive racialism, the absence of pain

management, hospital admissions were longer, smoking on hospital premises, doctors

withholding patient healthcare information, the norm of aseptic technique is not a followed,

hospitals manipulate patient treatment costs and etc.

According to Marjoua&Bozic (2012), academic health quality movements developed

approaches to address the deficiencies in the delivery of healthcare. In theory, there is a

possibility that healthcare professionals in the past lack the medical expertise to effectively treat

patients, to include lack of advanced medical and surgical equipment to treat them. However, in

1847, the establishment of the American Medical Association (AMA) led to goals of scientific

advancement, influencing medical education standards, initiation of a medical ethics program

and finally, improving public health (“AMA History,” 2018). In 1910, changes in medical

education progressed as standards for medical schools introduced the use of the “Flexner report”

whereas admission standards, physical facilities, laboratories and instruction by physician

scientists were factors in judging the quality of education for medical schools (Duffy,

2011).Additionally, as the U.S. population kept growing, the need for more healthcare providers

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