- 1. Under ‘Quality’, select one data element from one of the following categories: “Timely & Effective Care”, “Complications and Deaths”, “Unplanned Hospital Visits”, “Psychiatric Unit Services”, or “Payment and Value of Care” for the hospital you selected.
- 2. Compare your data element to the state and national averages and create at least 1 appropriate graph or table (dependent on the data elements you select) for this data in Excel. Save the table or graph and upload it to your discussion response.
- 3 Is your chosen hospital better, worse, or the same as the state or national averages for the data element you analyzed? Discuss how your hospital compares.
- 4. Investigate other information on the Medicare.gov site about your data element and try to determine what action your hospital needs to take to correct or improve the reported data to be better or equal to the state or national averages. Click on the links entitled, ‘Find out why these measures are important’, ‘Get more information about the data’, ‘Get current data collection period’, and ‘Watch a video to learn more about _____’. Discuss your findings.
- 5. Create a Performance Improvement Plan (PIP) for a measure you found that is performing poorly at your hospital choice. Use the Performance Improvement Plan Template – EXAMPLE document attached as an example to compare for your information
