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1. As applied to the health care system you chose to study in Assignment 1.2, how does quality management relate to measurement, assessment, and improvement activities? Be specific and give examples.
2. What quality management building blocks do you identify to reach your goals?
3. How would you apply Lean Sigma concepts to quality management?
   1. For example: The administration wants to increase maternity services by 25% by December 2016: numbers of babies delivered and treated; pre-natal and post-natal services, including high-risk pregnancies. What measurement studies are needed (numbers of pregnancies/deliveries per month for the past two years [January 2013-January 2015]); profitability studies; demographic studies; third-party reimbursement)?
   2. What assessment protocols must be conducted (numbers of normal and high-risk deliveries; cost/risk analyses; etc.)? What improvement steps (cost analysis to build more ob-gyn facilities; high-risk equipment purchases; recruiting more board certified high-risk obstetricians, nurses, and staff, etc.) must be taken to reach this goal?

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http://archive.ahrq.gov/professionals/quality-patient-safety/quality-resources/tools/hroadvice/hroadvice.pdf

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