Managing, deploying and reviewing quality throughout the organization is the primary objective of quality improvement (QI) plan (Meisenheimer, 2012). The mission and vision of Mental health organization focus on providing quality health services at relatively low costs for the community. The organization's QI structure entails various tools and elements helping in achieving the set multiple goals; first activity is to identify the barriers, strengths, and weaknesses of the company's activities. The structure plan clearly outlines policies and external requirements necessary for the achievement of the Mink's health organization.
In achieving an organization's objectives of quality and cost-efficient health services; there are several strategies that the management should consider implementing. Direct resources to the right people for instance vaccines and diagnosis tests such as cancer screening that require more resources; the company should ensure only people that are considered vulnerable can access the tests to avoid many negative tests while depleting resources. It helps in the cutting off unnecessary costs while increasing quality.
In as, much quality of health services is a core aspect of ensuring development of a community, health care quality improvement may be affected by challenges in future. Investing in technology to improve quality for instance with time becomes a burden to the taxpayer; various quality checks as well by the respective administrative body cause a strain on a country's budget.
The introduction and implementation of Accountable Care Act (ACA) that requires and evaluates health organizations on quality basis pose some effects to the groups in future. According to Meisenheimer (2012), the ACA policy is a quality incentive program that gets funding from reducing Medicare Diagnosis Related Groups equal to a 1% in a fiscal year. Performance, therefore, has a direct effect on finances of an organization where with time hospitals that do well but are not performing as per required standards compared to more quality ones will end up losing more money as per the Accountable Care Act. Nevertheless, penalties and putting organizations to shame may not be a solution to improve quality in the health sector.
References
Meisenheimer, C. G. (2012). Improving quality: A guide to effective programs. Rockville, Mar: Aspen
