Reference no: EM132114592

Question: As the president of the 300-bed hospital which serves a diverse population of 50,000 citizens, it is the president's responsibility to create a plan of action to help address and treat patients of the county who might become ill in the next 48-72 hours.

The first task you will undertake is to research the disease, its course of treatments, and cures to help effectively treat the potential outbreak. Once you have done so, you will create a presentation that you can give to the county board and CDC showing how your hospital will combat the disease, treat patients, and develop strategies to prevent the spread of the outbreak.

As the president, you will need to work with internal and external vendors on ensuring that the hospital has enough resources and that more resources can be ordered and delivered as quickly as possible. You will need to reach out to and gain assistance from other healthcare organizations in the area to help you track, treat, and control the spread of the disease. Â As the leader of the hospital, you will have to make decisions on how to properly manage the shortage of beds, doctors and nurses, and resources that may occur due to the outbreak.

Instructions: Create an executive summary addressing how best to successfully manage the problem outlined in the scenario. This plan has two parts. First is the executive summary followed by a PowerPoint presentation with audio.

Step 1 - Write an Executive Summary covering the following:

• Develop an action plan to share with the hospital staff and CDC local office to address and contain the outbreak in an effective and efficient manner at the hospital.

• Outline the process of developing alliances and partnerships to help treat and contain the outbreak through the use of efficient and effective approaches to the healthcare delivery systems.

• Analyze the organizational decisions needed to be undertaken as a leader; that would play a part in addressing and containing the outbreak along with the use of limited resources.

• Determine the best leadership style to use to effectively bring together multiple departments and agencies to work together as one team in containing and treating the outbreak.

• Summarize innovative processes needed to address the outbreak given the shortage of resources and time to implement a strategy.

• Outline any ethical considerations that should be addressed as part of the strategy in treating and containing the outbreak due to the shortage of resources such as money, manpower, and medicine.

• Write a conclusion on the process changes needed to help improve reaction time and containment from the standpoint of the hospital.

Step 2 - Create a PowerPoint presentation

PowerPoint made up of at least 12 slides covering your findings and suggestions in dealing with the outbreak and containment of the disease

1. Executive summary addressed the problem and touched on several areas of concerns that might arise in the undertaking of treating and containing the outbreak.

2. Executive summary outlined the importance of cross-functionality of teams

3. Executive summary discussed the importance of organizational decisions and briefly touches on how those decisions are affected by leadership system and the need for buy-in of different teams.