Quality Dashboard for Healthcare

For this Performance Task Assessment, you will create a quality dashboard for a healthcare organization, justify your selection and presentation of the measures, and leverage the dashboard as a leadership tool.

Submission Length: Two-part submission: One PowerPoint or Excel dashboard file and a 2- to 3-page summary.

To complete this Assessment:

Download and review the Community General Hospital Case Study.
Research quality and safety measures using the links provided in the Case Study document and in the Learning Activities.
Consider the priority areas for measurement for Community General Hospital. Based on the case study, select 6-8 measures for inclusion in a dashboard for the Community General Hospital Board.
Determine how you will display the measures in your dashboard.

Part 1: Dashboard
Using Excel or PowerPoint, create a quality dashboard based on the Community General Hospital Case Study. Your dashboard must include 6-8 measures. Use mock data to represent the measures you have chosen.

Part 2: Written Summary
To accompany your dashboard, write a 2- to 3-page paper in which you do the following:

Identify the 6-8 quality measures you have chosen for your dashboard. Explain why these measures are important to the organization.
Analyze how the Triple Aim/Quadruple Aim is represented in your chosen measures.
Explain how you displayed the measures. Justify your choice of display.
Provide a strategy for communicating the dashboard throughout the organization.
Explain how the dashboard could be used as a leadership tool to improve patient outcomes.