Please help with this assignment. Strictly follow the rubric and address all key elements. Thank you.

IHP 435 Milestone Two Guidelines and Rubric

Overview: Healthcare administrators must be able to understand and effectively use performance-improvement methods to further institutional goals and remain compliant with regulatory standards. The administrator role in healthcare organizations may vary, but the administrator’s ability to recognize the role of data in establishing meaningful thresholds for patient safety and quality and ability to analyze information to develop performance-improvement activities are essential. Your final project for this course will require you to place yourself in the role of a healthcare administrator with the responsibility of performing a quality assessment on your organization.

Prompt: Your topic for your final project will be a study of readmission trends for SNHU Hospital. For comparison and informational purposes, you have been given a data set representing readmission trends for the entire state of New Hampshire and SNHU Hospital. The third table in your data set shows where patients were readmitted after they were discharged from SNHU Hospital.

In this milestone, you will draft the second portion of your written quality assessment focusing on assessment tool, benchmarks, and quality thresholds. Base your responses on how you would gather and approach the data using your data-driven approach. Include the following critical elements:

1. You were provided with data regarding readmission trends for SNHU Hospital, along with state-wide data. Discuss how you believe the data was collected and compare that process to the one you would use to collect data if you were the person charged with the task. What data collection tools would you use? Why? Provide research for support.

2. Explain your approach to analyzing the data, comparing methods and tools to determine which you will utilize to accomplish your approach. You have studied Lean Six Sigma and Plan, Do, Study, Act (PDSA), along with others. Would one of these methodologies be suited for your approach? Explain why or why not. Be sure to provide research to support your approach.

3. What benchmark should be used for assessing the level of quality based on the data given? (Note: You should conduct additional research of comparable institutions to complete this section.) How have other comparable institutions performed regarding the key indicator? What does the data on other institutions suggest might be the goal of this institution? Support your benchmark with appropriate examples and research. (Note the definition of “benchmark” below.)

4. What threshold regarding the key indicator should be used for this organization? How will you use this threshold? (Note the definition of “threshold” below.)

Benchmark: A benchmark is a piece of data used as a comparative. For example, in the last module, you looked at hospital data in your area and compared two hospitals to the national benchmark for several key indicators in the healthcare areas of complications and readmissions.

Threshold: A threshold is the lowest level of acceptable performance for an organization. The threshold may be above or below the benchmark. For example, the national rate (benchmark) for hip-replacement complications may be 3.1%, but if your organization prides itself on being a leader in hip replacement, it may set a threshold of 2%. If, then, the organization notes that its hip-replacement complication rate is 2.5%, that would trigger a performance-improvement process because it has exceeded the organization’s threshold even though that rate falls below the benchmark. A different organization with a different focus may have a hip replacement complication threshold of 3.5%—above the benchmark.

Guidelines for Submission: Your paper must be submitted as a 2- to 3-page Microsoft Word document with double spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, and one-inch margins. Citations should be in APA format.