Health Care Quality

We should address these issues by first acknowledging that there is a problem, but we should also recognize changing quality of care will be much harder since there is not just one hospital/clinic involved, but hundreds of thousands. A national movement should be initiated to make Americans aware that our healthcare system is ranked 72nd in population health according to the World Health Organization and that something must be done. Surveillance for medical errors should be increased and standard care should be enforced so individuals are not getting various treatments when they have the same illness (of course there will be some variation which will be determined on a case by case basis). Good quality of care includes emphasis on preventive medicine, seeing the same physician, monitoring healthcare workers’ performance, minimizing medical errors, and enforcing reporting of these errors so medical sites can prevent future mistakes.