CMS Quality Strategy Guides Paper

The CMS develops the Quality Strategy guides, which is built on the foundation of the CMS Strategy and the U.S. Health and Human Services National Quality Strategy for Improvement in Health Care (NQS). The CMS Quality Strategy guides focus on Medicare payments for hospitals by quality of services not quantity of services with three strategies: improvement of the quality of care by creating healthcare environment more reliable, accessible, patient-centered, and safe; reducing the cost of care while providing high quality services; increasing the health outcomes by developing interventions to enhance the social, behavioral, and environmental characteristics of healthcare. The NQS further instruct that hospitals should reduce the issues that may

All three quality improvement interventions that Fielder Medical Center staffs have been working on adhere closely to the CMS Quality Strategy guidelines. The hospital has been applying plans to assist patients and their families in ensuring the steady care processes before and after discharges to reduce the readmission rate. Additionally, the Center creates various research professional teams and mandated educating programs for all staffs in the efforts to reduce the hospital-acquired infections related to central line catheters and urinary catheters. These activities have helped Fielder Medical Center in raising the quality of provided cares to all of their patients and eliminating preventable errors, which give the patients the best experience during their stay and reducing the unfavorable addition costs to overall

The staffs need to give all relevant information necessary to the reason of discharges and transfers. Additionally, before the planned discharges, the staffs must provide the written descriptions and documentations related to the discharges to patients under federal and state law. In section 405.5(b) (3) regarding the nursing services, the law requires that patients’ education, which includes the patients and their families’ knowledge of care processes, must be included in the nursing plan (New York State Department of Health, 2017). Fielder Medical Center policies and procedures have been adhering closely to the state requirements. The hospital has been trying to provide the best of cares before, during, and after discharges to ensure patients’ care processes are steadily continuing at their homes or at other places. The discharges plans are always given to patients and their families along with the education of home medications about how to administer the drugs and the possible side effects that they should