Why do you feel that healthcare administrators must continue to be diligent in the focus on quality care for patients and communities?
Over time, there has been a fundamental shift away from a focus on quantity care to a more quality care model and healthcare institutions have a sharp focus on providing high-quality care and outcomes for their patients. Your interviewers want to know that any candidate they bring aboard to their Administrative Fellowship has this same sharp eye for quality measures and they ask this question to hear you talk a bit about your feelings on the importance of quality in healthcare.
While there are many ways you can take your answer to a question like this, you ideally want your answer to come down to the fact that quality in healthcare ultimately comes down to providing care to patients that are effective, affordable, and timely. If you have any passion for certain quality measurements in healthcare that you garnered during your schooling, don't hesitate to discuss that passion in detail. You'll also want to discuss the importance that administration plays in leading quality measurement and improvement efforts at any institution and that you'll look forward to this work as an Administrative Fellow.
"Overall, healthcare has evolved to put a keen focus on the needs of the patient and this is a value that I hold near and dear to my heart as well. As a future administrator and fellow with your organization, I would look forward to leading project teams that look at structural, outcome, and process measures to help make the best possible overall satisfaction and outcomes for your patients. My role would be very data-driven and rely on direct patient care staff to collect patient data. With data, I can, in turn, help make important process-driven changes."
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Anonymous Answer
Patient needs must be prioritized in healthcare. As the future administrator, I will lead data-driven project teams to ensure that patient satisfaction and outcomes are improved through structural, outcome, and process measures. Direct patient care staff will provide me with the necessary data to make critical process-driven changes.
Jaymie's Feedback
Healthcare is constantly evolving, and it's critical that administrators are agile and adapt to meet the needs of all patients in the community. You mentioned great strategies to help you monitor patient satisfaction and ensure you're providing quality care to all patients in the community.
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