1. Assignment 1: Provider Evaluation (Quality & Safety)
Due Week 6 and worth 125 points
Preparation
In this age of acute competition and alignment of providers,
systems are evolving to improve contracting opportunities,
including population health, accountable care organizations, and
models of health care delivery. They are targeting quality care
at a value price. This assignment explores a provider of your
choice to determine their desirability to be a member of a
system and recommend improvements they may need to make to
become more competitive in their market.
Instructions
Write a two to three (2-3) page proposal in which you evaluate
and make recommendations for a provider you have chosen in
terms of safety, quality, and evidence-informed health care by
doing the following:
1. Choose a health care provider — nursing home, hospital,
home care, etc.
2. Using the search function at one of the medicare.gov sites (
https://www.medicare.gov/hospitalcompare/search.html
or
https://www.medicare.gov/nursinghomecompare/search.html
), review your provider's measures on safety, quality, and
evidence-informed health care. Pay attention to the publicly

2. reported outcomes on mortality, rehospitalization, and infection
rates, as well as patient satisfaction and preventive care.
Note:
If you have chosen a home health provider, you can use the
following website to review their home health quality measures
https://www.cms.gov/Medicare/Quality-Initiatives-Patient-
Assessment-Instruments/HomeHealthQualityInits/Home-Health-
Quality-Measures.html
.
3. Identify other providers in the same geographic area, review
their outcomes, and compare your provider (e.g. search by zip
code).
4. Determine how these outcomes impact this provider as a
potential member for a health system, accountable care
organization, or as a contender to obtain population health
contracts.
5. Based on the reports, determine which quality initiative the
providers should address through evidence-based practices, such
as safety, quality, rehospitalizations, mortality, etc.
6. Would your provider be a desired member of a system?
7. What is your recommendation for this provider to improve
their outcomes in order to improve reimbursement and to
become a desirable member of a system of providers?
Your assignment must follow these formatting guidelines:

3. This course requires the use of the new
Strayer Writing Standards (SWS)
. The format is different from other Strayer University courses.
Please take a moment to review the SWS documentation for
details.
Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the
student's name, the professor's name, the course title, and the
date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in
the required assignment page length.
Go to
https://research.strayer.edu
to locate at least two (2) quality resources to use in this
assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites do not
qualify as academic resources. Refer to the Strayer University
Library,
https://research.strayer.edu
.