Requirements:

Each Baldrige Criteria Exercise will be based on the Malcolm Baldrige Healthcare Excellence Criteria. Each exercise will be directly related to the criterion and the work done should evidence research and understanding on the topic addressed, and an ability to make a scholarly application of the criterion. Each element of the exercise should be thoroughly addressed with the resulting paper submitted through the Submit Assignment button. The Baldrige Criteria Exercise assignment is due on Friday.

Healthcare Quality in the United States

Kelly Text:

Exercise $1\mathrm{.}1,$ page $16.$

Objective:

To identify opportunities for improving the current state of heathcare quality in the United States.

Instructions:

Go to the AHRQ websiteLinks to an external site.and find the most current version of the National Healthcare Quality and Disparities report.

Read the Executive Summary

Browse the rest of the report.

From your brief review of this report, summarize in one or two paragraphs the state of healthcare quality and disparities in the United States.

Choose two specific elements of healthcare needing improvement and explain why you selected these elements.