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Assignment -
1. Healthcare Quality - Please respond to the following:
Examine two (2) well-known healthcare quality organizations that have taken two to three (2-3) measures to improve quality within the organizations themselves. Suggest one (1) additional measure that each organization could take to further improve healthcare quality. Justify your response.
Suppose you are a Quality Officer for a healthcare organization in your area. You have been tasked with creating a plan to reduce the increasing number of medical errors that occur within your organization. Specify two (2) quality initiatives that your organization could implement in order to reduce medical errors and their related costs. Determine the fundamental tenets of the Standard of Care that would influence quality in your organization. Provide a rationale for your response.
Student's Response: -
Examine two (2) well-known healthcare quality organizations that have taken two to three (2-3) measures to improve quality within the organizations themselves. Suggest one (1) additional measure that each organization could take to further improve healthcare quality.
Two or three measures to improve quality within the organizations themselves are the Joint Commission (formerly the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations), which may be best known for its review and accreditation of hospitals, the Joint Commission believes care processes and patient outcomes can be improved and sustained only through the gathering and analysis of performance data and by an organized and comprehensive approach to performance improvement. The National Committee for Quality Assurance, which accredits managed care organizations. The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) is an independent nonprofit organization in the United States that works to improve health care quality through the administration of evidence-based standards, measures, programs, and accreditation. (1 pg234)
Suppose you are a Quality Officer for a healthcare organization in your area. You have been tasked with creating a plan to reduce the increasing number of medical errors that occur within your organization. Specify two (2) quality initiatives that your organization could implement to reduce medical errors and their related costs. Determine the fundamental tenets of the Standard of Care that would influence quality in your organization.
Two quality initiatives that your organization could implement to reduce medical errors and their related costs are (1) Monitor vulnerable populations. While medical errors affect a wide variety of patients, certain patients and populations are statistically at greater risk, and (2) Promote integrated collaboration (2)
Joel B. Teitelbaum Essentials Health Policy and Law 3rd Edition (pg.234)
Four ways to reduce dangerous medical errors at your hospital.
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2. Liability and Quality - Please respond to the following:
As a healthcare administrator, you have been tasked with researching your hospital's compliance in the proper reporting of both medical and non-medical errors made by the staff. Compare the relationship of hospital's corporate liability with that of each employee's vicarious liability in the event of an error. Discuss the essential steps that your organization can take to reduce occurrences in both. Provide at least two (2) examples of the successful application of such steps to support your rationale.
Interpret the extent to which public reporting and value-based purchasing improve healthcare quality. Include a comparison of two to three (2-3) advantages to each reporting method. Support your response with two (2) examples of healthcare quality improvements that could have resulted from of an organization implementing each type of reporting method in question.
Student's Response:
My Health care organization has a compliance program that dedicated to preventing, correcting and investigating compliance related issues.
Provide training session
Good faith reporting of concerns
Evaluate ethical and organization risk
Decrease the likelihood of wrongdoing or recurrence which could to criminal and civil liability
Implementing these protocols throughout health system and having them in place can avoid violation under Federal Sentencing guidelines and US Department of Health and Human Services and OIG (Office of Inspector General)
Advantages: Implementation of monitoring , auditing and reporting activity
Conduct risk based on audits
Recommend updates to policies, procedure and controls
The compliance has to change and evolve in order maintain being effective for the organization. The compliance program is trying to be well round and responding to ethical standards, principals and values of the Health System.
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