CMS Compare Data

CMS Compare Data

Question 1: Compare the information available for the hospital versus the nursing home. Do you consider the information to be about structure, process, and outcome? Or would you describe it as inputs, conversion process, and output?

On the website of the Evanston Hospital, the information which is present appears to be regarding the structure of the hospital services, the process employed by the hospital staff for the order of facilitating the patients with those services and the outcomes achieved by the provision of those services. All the key services employed and practiced at the hospital have been mentioned in detail including the spiritual care and music therapy, spiritual support from the chaplain, music therapy, language and communication services, mail and flowers, and newspapers and books. Whereas on the other hand, the website of the nursing home Westminster Place contains information which seems to be regarding the inputs, conversion process, and the output achieved. This may be depicted from the illustration of facts like the employment of the latest technology for keeping the residents secure and safe; the deployment of round the clock security cameras at all the entry ways as well as in the public areas; their pledge for incessantly enhancing the quality of their programs and services, and for focusing on the contentment of the residents who decide to live in their communities lead by their ascribed standing from CARF; and their staff being Medicare-certified in home health services and skilled nursing.

Question 2: Summarize the results for each facility. What have they done well? In what areas could they improve? Would you recommend this facility to a family member?

The Evanston Hospital and the Westminster Place nursing home may be recommended to a family member for the extensive and professional services offered by them. All these services appear to be professional, high quality, and apt to yield desirable outcomes, as illustrated on their respective websites;

Evanston Hospital

Spiritual Care and Music Therapy - this service offers two distinct facilitations; Music Therapists and the Chaplains. Both of these facilities work from their areas of expertise for a common cause, i.e., excellent quality care for the patients in the hospital together with their family members. It has been recognized at the hospital, for the order of providing high quality care to the patients, that all the patients should take receipt of comprehensive health care.

Spiritual Support from the Chaplain - this service ...