Risk Management and Quality Management Teshiya Camacho HCS/451 December 5, 2012 Mike Anderson Risk Management and Quality Management Questions | Risk Management | Quality Management | How does the leadership and governance of a health care organization influence the development and implementation of risk-management and quality-management policies? | By protecting the company’s assets, this is important for planning and organizing it also helps with preventing any sort of risks that may come about to patients. Also it will emphasize cost effective ways of going about the business. | Ensuring that desired level of quality is brought out and makes sure that all the participants are conducting themselves within the required procedures. This will generate profits due to its cost effective nature.This will also ensures that the public health care organization grows by showing its viability.
4). The Southern New Jersey Planned Parenthood prenatal clinic has a partnership with Cooper Medical Center. By joining forces with the Cooper Medical Center patients can receive prenatal care at the Southern New Jersey prenatal clinic and deliver their babies at a reputable health care facility by trained medical residents. This partnership is valuable to the health care marketing strategy because both organizations can coordinate and help guide an individual's health care needs without the potential of conflict, jealousy, or competition. Each organization benefits from wider exposure, more referrals, and marketing that is more efficient (McCord, 1999-2012, para.
Performance measures indicate where an organization needs to make improvements in order to provide quality care. Consumer/patient satisfaction is the ultimate guide that indicates if an organization’s ongoing QI Plan is effective. One of the driving forces behind management in an organization is the overall basic aspect of performance measures. Quality Improvement process is based on customer/patient satisfaction and measures how the health care organization accommodates or exceeds consumer/patient
With values in service excellence, quality and safety, growth and profitability, and staff achievement, it’s important to remain knowledgeable of the national trends in healthcare as it may have a larger impact in how Trinity may deliver healthcare to the orthopedic, cardiovascular, and cancer centers. Another large trend seen in healthcare is the shift from fee-for-service model to a fee-for-value based system. In the current fee-for-service system reimburses providers for healthcare, where physicians and healthcare professionals have incentives to provide more for the patient in the form of tests ordered and procedures made. The fee-for-value system works on an equation of quality over cost over time, which provides patients with safe, appropriate, and effective care with enduring results at reasonable costs. (Binder, 2014).
Health Care Marketing Analysis Paper HCS/539 May 21, 2012 Russell L. Zage Abstract This paper is providing the study of the health Care marketing plan of the St. Andrew’s Hospital of diabetes. Four P’s of the marketing, the relationship of the organization’s marketing and its partners. It will also discuss the marketing done on the basis of demographic, psychographics, and the data from the general area. Four P's of Marketing There are four P’s of the marketing. These are product, price, place, and promotion Product The product mean goods, services offer by organization and are they distinctive, superior, easier to use.
This paper will address the foundational frameworks of QI, the various stakeholders’ definition of quality, the various roles of clinicians and patients in QI. This paper will also address why quality management is needed in health care industry, accrediting and regulatory organizations involved in QI. The Foundational Frameworks of QI The foundational framework of QI is a continuous process that focuses on multiple relationships such as implementing improvements and improvements in processes. Some areas that organizations may concentrate their improvement efforts on are the reduction of medication errors, reduction of emergency room wait times or clinical measures such as breast cancer screenings or HIV testing. Walter Shewhart developed the Plan, Do, Study Act cycle used as the basis for planning and direction performance improvement efforts (Ransom, Joshi, Nash, & Ransom, 2008).
The goals focus on the Institute of Medicine’s description of needed objectives. It outlines their plan to achieve quality within that facility. It further discusses steps needed to be taken in order to realize the objectives with good information describing why each step is crucial in the process. This article provides a great outline for why quality control is needed within any healthcare setting and a source of possible solutions in order to realize the goal. The authors have strong backgrounds in the medical field as directors in managing care as well as planning strategies (Anderson, Amarasingham, & Pickens, 2007).
2) Examples from clinical practice are utilized in order to demonstrate that assessing the outcomes of APN practice can be incorporated into daily practice as part of ongoing initiatives and the value of APNs can be formally acknowledged. 3/4) APNs in the clinical setting play an important role in managing patient care in a variety of ways including direct patient care, education, research, and administration. The use of quality indicators to demonstrate the outcomes of APN practice represents a valuable way not only to highlight the impact of APN care, but also to work in tandem with institutional-based initiatives to promote best outcomes for patients. By delineating their outcomes of their care APNs can bring additional recognition to the value of their role. Meyer, S. 1) The purpose of this study was to examine patient and economic outcomes between 2 groups of adult patients for whom postoperative cardiovascular care was directed by either a cardiovascular surgeon (CV) alone or a CV surgeon in collaboration with an
Quality Management Assessment Tacia Palmer HCS/451 Roger Arbuckle February 18, 2013 Introduction Quality management in the health care aims at ensuring that patients, who seek their services, obtain an exceptional provision of health care. According to Reichert (2011), every health care giver aims at providing quality services to their clients compelling them to employ quality management. Health care organizations perform this task to exhibit their dedication to providing the best care for their clients. Quality management application in health care businesses ensures that doctors and administrators benefit from the identification of ways to enhance internal procedures in order to ensure quality services for their patients. The major
Therefore, doctors, physician assistants, nurses, pharmacists, and the individual themselves are in fact what makes up the the health care industry that needs to reduce the risks from using medicines and to get the most benefit out of them. In order to make medicine use safer, one must speak up about their past and present because the more information a health care organization knows about them, the better they can plan the care that’s right for them. Another important factor that FDA effects in the health care industry is finding the correct facts. Before the health care organization can decide on a prescription or OTC medicine, one must know understand as much about it as possible. The most important factors to identify are brand and generic names, active ingredients, inactive ingredients, uses, warnings, possible interactions, side effects, possible tolerance, dependence, or addiction, overdose, directions, storage instructions, and expiration