Assignment task: For this assignment you will be analyzing healthcare discharge data to determine if Willie Getwell Hospital continues to demonstrate improvement with the hospital's readmission numbers. Willie Getwell has been tracking their 30-day readmission data in preparation for compliance with upcoming changes to the CMS IPPS rules. They have recently set in place an organization-wide education and discharge medication verification program for their patients. You will imagine that you are the HIM Director who needs to gather the appropriate information to be shared with hospital leadership to gauge how the hospital continues to perform. Need Assignment Help?
You are provided an excel spreadsheet of information downloaded via a query from the hospital's database. This is your sample data of November and December records. You will need to apply the knowledge you gained from this class, in additional to the knowledge gained in previous courses. There are three attachments included here:
- The excel spreadsheet of Data
- Instructions Sheet and grading rubric- Use this one first to attempt the assignments
- Detailed step-by-step instruction sheet - You should ONLY refer to this one if you are not able to complete the analysis with the first set of instructions