Process of care

Performance evaluation is important to quality improvement in health institutions. Hospitals differ due to myriad of variables, in the current content, South Florida Baptist hospital has a higher rating to compared Bartow Regional Medical Center and South Bay Hospital. This study has identified the main pro and cons of publicly displaying these data sets. Potential benefit includes great attractiveness of high accreditation rank.
Comparing hospitals makes it easier for consumers to select multiple healthcare facilities and directly compare general hospital performance on chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), heart attack, pneumonia, stroke and heart failure treatment.These results are organized by the following;

General information
South Florida Baptist Hospital has an overall rating of 3 stars from 75% of the patients during their stay in the hospital. This information is from emergency services, lab results and how easy patients’ records are tracked.
Survey of patients’ experiences
South Florida Baptist Hospital performs better on hospital consumer assessment of healthcare providers and Systems. This is based on nurse’s communication skills, doctor-patient communication, how fast the patients were attended to, patients who reported staff always explained medicine before administering, patient room hygiene, quite environment, patients who agreed to have understood their care when they were discharged and patients who reported they would definitely recommend the hospital.
Timely & Effective care
South Florida Baptist Hospital has the highest score against Bartow Regional Medical Centre and South Bay Hospital in attending to patients with these conditions fast; sepsis care, catact surgery outcome, colonoscopy follow-up, heart attack, emergency department care, preventive care, cancer care, blood clot prevention, pregnancy and delivery care.

Complication and death
South Florida Baptist Hospital has a higher score rate of 3 stars in providing intensive care to patients to avoid serious complications, being re-admitted after discharge or death.
Unplanned hospitals visits
South Florida Baptist Hospital leads in reducing the number of patients readmitted soon after discharge to avoid healthcare-associated infections and costs more of money.
Use of Medical imaging
When it comes to imaging test like mammograms, MRIs and CT scans protecting patient’s safety is a priority, South Florida Baptist Hospital ensures this. The hospital avoids the risk, expense, stress of performing tests that patients may not need. This assessment was done on patients with low-back paid who had an MRI without trying other therapy first, Outpatients who had a follow-up maammogram, breast ultrasound, or breast MRI within the 45 days after screening mammogram, outpatient CT scans of chest that were double, outpatients who got cardiac imaging stress test before-low risk outpatient and outpatients with brain CT scans who got a sinus CR at the same time.
Payment & value of care
South Florida Baptist Hospital has a 3-star score in payment measures. There is a well laid plan for payment of heart attack patients, payment of heart failure, knee replacement, pneumonia patients. Pneumonia patient’s payment made for care during admissions continues for the next 30 days while hip/knee replacement starts at admission to the next 90 days. Medicare spending per Beneficiary (MSPB) measures if Medicare spends more, less or equal to its patient. The Medicare spending per Beneficiary measure is achieved by calculating the amount Medicare spends per patient.
Cons of publicly reporting data sets
Program Incongruence
The system doesn’t reflect the reality of patients, the kind of patients it admits. The system does not consider the social-economic differences and the errors in methodology result to major differences among hospitals.
Mission Deviation
Change of hospital focus from their main mission, treating the patients.
Workload
Creating a higher workload, stress and anxiety for the hospital staff.
Discouragement
Disappointing the staff from improving their own functionality and instead working on unsatisfactory score.
Judgmental nature
The system does not give strong measures to rank and differentiate one healthcare facility from the other. Majority of the patients say there may not be much difference between the hospitals with a difference of one-star rating. Due to re-admissions and infection rates, the system maybe erroneous.

Pros of publicly reporting data sets
Resource Management
The system helps hospitals recognize what they need to focus on to improve their services to patients experience. The hospitals are in a better position of resource management, such as improved planning, stewardship of healthcare resources and organizing.
Patients satisfaction
Now consumers are able to compare up to five hospitals general information in one table. safety score and other comprehensive scores of patients results, surgical operations, customer experience, number of readmissions, heart surgery, and general hospital practices.
Team work
Enhanced discipline in the hospital communication and coordination to focus on evaluation requirements.
Reliable Documentation
The system offers a clear and comprehensive medical record.
Hospital Image
With a higher score, the facility holds a reputation and prestige of high rank hence a great attractiveness to patients and insurance organizations.