Grand Canyon University Quality Improvement

Improving Long-Stay and Short-Stay Satisfaction Executive Summary A quality improvement initiative may be described as the systematic activities that may be implemented by an organization to assess, monitor, and improve the quality of performance at a place of work (Abdallah, 2014). One of the initiatives is improving long-stay and shortstay satisfaction at work by 10%. It is particularly very important in a healthcare setting. The purpose of this initiative is to tackle long stays in hospitals thus helping to reduce the possibility of harm to the patient and avoid unnecessary costs that come with spending a lot of hours in the hospital. It is important to note that spending unwarranted long hours in the hospital may be bad for patients. This is because long stays may lead to sleep deprivation, delirium, and increased risks of contracting infections that are associated with healthcare (Bird et al., 2018). As a result, the p