Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act

and Accountability Act (HIPAA) requirements (Gephart & Effken, 2013). Although non-clinical nurses tend to communicate with one another in this way than clinical nurses, emails and IMs promote the efficiency of work. Applications are available…

Olympic Medical Center has formed a strategic plan to help shape their vision for serving their community. The main key goal areas are quality, patient safety and satisfaction, community relationships, and organizational performance. Regardless of the ability to pay, each person in their community is welcome to receive health care services at Olympic Medical Center. Healthcare is subject to many outside control factors such as governmental regulations and payment systems such as Medicare,…

Rabei Alaisami September 26, 2016 MPHC 7101 Book review “Health Care Quality Improvement: Ethical and Regulatory Issues” This book is composed of 188 pages, and was published in 2007 in the United States of America with an ISBN 978-0-916558-30-7. The project that produced this book was funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and was done by The Hastings Center 21 Malcolm Gordon Road, Garrison, New York 10524. The Hastings Center project assembled a group of experts from a…

of age depended on others for activities of daily living, and often in institutional care. For this reason, an effective patient care and management depends on the team. To balance the need for representation with the need to keep the task force size manageable, first, I will make sure I hired competent trained individuals who are already trained in providing efficient quality care. I will work with a team that is interdependent in their tasks. For example, I will work with effective employees,…

public or against the public good (Pozgar, 2016, p. 240). Though not directly involved with patient care, a health services administrator should enhance the overall quality of life and well being of individuals under their organizations care. Following are legislations and acts passed to safeguard the rights of patients and set precedent, a standard, for all subsequent cases. Any healthcare organization…

Apparent authority can be the source of confusion for patients when faced with negligent hospital care. When providing quality care, independently contracted physicians can prove to be beneficial for the hospital (Showalter, 2015). However, when mistakes are made, determining the liable party can be confusing for all involved. Patients, especially those receiving ambulatory care, cannot receive consent and information on who is providing the care and assumes responsibility on the hospital…

Association (MNA) has been encouraging hospital chief executive officers and/or administrators to set a baseline minimum staffing standard or create policy to protect patient safety (Minnesota Nurses Association, 2017). In 2010, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) implemented a new model of healthcare delivery and payment that was designed to improve quality and reduce costs, but as a result, cost control pressures have been put on nurse staffing levels in order to reduce nurse labor hours and their…

Organizational Systems and Quality Leadership Task 2 A. Root Cause Analysis What is a root cause analysis (RCA)? It is a way to understand errors; why they happen, what caused them and how can we stop this error from happening again. Hospitals can use RCA to understands sentinel events. When applied successfully, RCA is an effective system- and team-oriented approach to learning from failures and triggering improvement, Ogrinc, G and Huber, S (2010). The next steps after the event are to set up…

been established for the past nine decades. Hendrick Medical center mission states that the staff will “deliver high quality healthcare emphasizing excellence and compassion consistent with the healing ministry of Jesus Christ” (Hendrick Health System, n.d.). The vision of Hendrick Medical Center is to “be a financially stable, regional health and medical system providing quality comprehensive services with optimal outcomes that meet the evolving needs of the citizens of the Big Country,…

Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH Act) of 2009 was established to promote electronic medical record (EMR) adoption and electronic health information exchange. Furthermore, incentives and penalties were fixed to invoke health organizations to install EMR programs and achieve meaningful use standards set forth by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). Overall, the HITECH Act and Meaningful use standards were created to improve quality of care, patient safety, and public…