Order instructions

• For this Assignment, you will research the differences between clinical quality and customer service quality, specifically in long-term care.
• Using the Medicare Nursing Home Compare website, research one nursing home that has a reported customer complaint.
• Provide a general overview of the nursing home (e.g., name, location, bed size, ownership, etc.)
• Discuss the overall quality of customer service offered at the nursing home (as evident by customer complaint inspection results)
• Discuss the overall quality of clinical care offered at the nursing home (as evident by recent survey inspection results)
• Discuss appropriate techniques that you would use to improve quality of customer service offered at the nursing home
• Discuss appropriate techniques that you would use to improve quality of clinical care in the nursing home.
• Be sure to include details about the complaints that you found.

You can select any nursing home published on the Medicare Hospital Compare website. To narrow your selection, consider researching nursing homes in your community, previous places of residence, employers, competitors, or even a nursing home you would like to network with someday.

References: 

http://www.medicare.gov/nursinghomecompare/search.html

https://www.cms.gov/Medicare/CMS-Forms/CMS-Forms/downloads/cms2567.pdf

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nnhs.htm