Healthcare

The purpose of this assignment is to assess how quality improvement can be used to reduce errors and improve patient safety. Human error is a concern that affects every aspect of health care and is one that providers must account for when creating systems and processes to ensure patient safety. The Systems Engineering Initiative for Patient Safety (SEIPS) was created as a quality improvement tool to better understand the elements that threaten safety and to recommend ways organizations can improve quality outcomes by reducing risk. In an essay of 1,000-1,250 words, evaluate the following aspects as they relate to SEIPS: Describe the seven types of errors that can occur in a health care environment. Provide examples of each. Are all these errors preventable? Describe measures that could have been implemented to improve patient safety and reduce the occurrence of each error you described. Discuss the framework of the SEIPS tool and how it is used within a health care environment. Compare the SEIPS tool with one other error-reduction strategy presented in the textbook and explain when each tool might be applied. Explain the positive effect that the SEIPS tool can have on the reduction of errors in high-risk health care settings. Discuss the relationship between CQI and SEIPS in producing quality outcomes for health care organizations. How does improving quality outcomes with a patient-centric focus help to promote a concern for the common good within the public arena? Prepare this assignment according to the APA guidelines

Your portfolio assignment focuses on a specific sector of healthcare and its relation to the current U.S. healthcare system. Choose one of the healthcare sectors listed below for your portfolio assignment. Once you have identified a sector, you should then select a facility that is located in your geographic area that represents this sector: Hospitals, Long-term care, Mental and behavioral health, Ambulatory care, For-profit/public healthcare, Psychological care, and Urgent care facilities. After choosing one of the areas above, you would interview a healthcare manager at the facility you selected. This can be done in person or over the phone. The steps would include: Selecting a manager or representative from a healthcare agency listed above. Approval of the individual selected by your instructor. 10 questions created and submitted for the interview. Interviewing the approved individual. Writing the analysis paper. You would write a paper with 1-2 pages with interview information and 5 additional pages with the analysis and recommendations. The paper must contain the following information: Describe the sector’s historical development and current role in healthcare delivery. Explain how the political influence in the U.S. healthcare system impacts how this sector provides healthcare to specific communities. Evaluate how quality, safety, and competition within this healthcare sector impact patient care. Examine what major challenges exist for this sector for the system over the next decade from healthcare reform and other factors. Discuss a minimum of three challenges and offer your recommendations on how healthcare leaders and administrators can manage them. Provide a conclusion summary of your findings and of the project experience.

Identify ways that Medicaid discounting can cause hardships on the type of facility that you selected. Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper that explores how Medicaid participation has affected organizational finances and what can be done to reduce any loss incurred. An academic paper includes the following: title page title of paper on page 2 5 space indent for paragraphs Intext citations throughout the paragraph. Intext citation is author’s last name and date within parenthesis Headings-Level I or Level II should be all that you need (see sample paper) Reference page-is its own page-this does not start at the end of the body of the paper but has its own page. References are to be APA formatted. Please refer to sample paper placed in Course Introduction and Materials Do not use Direct quotes unless you know how to format them. Deductions will occur for not formatting correctly. Cite 3 reputable references to support your assignment (e.g., trade or industry publications, government or agency websites, scholarly works, or other sources of similar quality). Format your assignment according to APA guidelines.

What are the advantages of healthcare organizations consolidating their services through mergers or alliances? What are the disadvantages or possible negative outcomes of such mergers or alliances?

Conduct an audit of the following safety management system elements at your organization or an organization with which you are familiar and have access to the required information: SAFETY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM ELEMENTS ANSI/AIHA Z10 SECTIONS COURSE TEXTBOOK CHAPTERS 1. Occupational Health and Safety Management System 3.1.1 8 2. Occupational Health and Safety Policy 3.1.2 8 3. Responsibility and Authority 3.1.3 8 4. Employee Participation 3.2 8 5. Review Process, Assessment, and Prioritization 4.1, 4.2 9 6. Risk Assessment 5.1.1 11 7. Hierarchy of Controls 5.1.2 14 8. Design Review 5.1.3 15 9. Management of Change 5.1.3 19 10. Procurement 5.1.4 20 11. Monitoring and Measurement 6.1 21 12. Incident Investigation 6.2 22 13. Audits 6.3 23 14. Corrective and Preventive Actions 6.4 23 15. Feedback to the Planning Process 6.5 23 16. Management Review 7.1, 7.2 24 Below, you will find some suggested sources for the objective evidence to support your evaluation: Documents: Organizational safety manuals and instructions, safe operating procedures, and job hazard analyses Records: E-mails or letters from management to employees, safety meeting minutes, mishap logs, audit reports, Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) citations, inspection reports, risk assessments, and training records Interviews: Management personnel, supervisors, and employees Observation: Walk through some workplaces to observe conditions for yourself. For each management system element, discuss the objective evidence you found or were unable to find. Evaluate the effectiveness of the organization’s implementation of each element against available reference sources and best practice information. Use the following four-tier evaluation scheme to rate each element: World Class: OHS performance Strong: Conforming/complete, may have minor gaps with action plans Moderate: Scattered non-conformances need to be addressed, positive trends/major elements in place Limited: Multiple or significant systemic non-conformances exist. Appropriate references include the course textbook; textbooks from other college-level courses; ANSI/AIHA Z10-2012; other published consensus standards like ANSI, ASSE, AIHA, ISO, and NFPA; OSHA standards and voluntary guidelines; and articles published in professional journals. Blogs, Wikipedia, About.com, Ask.com, and other unmonitored Internet resources are not considered scholarly references and should not be used. Please contact your professor if you have any questions about the appropriateness of a source. If an element is found to be less than World Class, provide recommendations for improvement. Be sure to use appropriate scholarly sources to support your recommendations. Provide a summary of the overall status of the organization’s safety management system, and comment on the degree of alignment between the safety management system and other management system efforts utilized at the facility. The Unit VIII Course Project must be a minimum of seven pages and a maximum of 10 pages in length, not including the title and reference pages. A minimum of five professional sources must be used.

ASSIGNMENT Tell a Story: Please watch (Links to an external site.) The Loving Story documentary, read  (Links to an external site.)the summary of the court case, and individually complete 3 parts of the assignment as described below. You can discuss with your group although it is not required. Each Assignment Part is worth 5 points assigned as follows: 1 pt for spelling, grammar, punctuation, clarity. 2pts for appropriate focus of narrative on health care access. 2pts for quality of narrative. Part 1: Tell their Story (about 500 words; 5pts) How might inequalities have affected the Loving’s health care experiences? Prior to the US Supreme Court decision in favor of their case (about 1958 to 1967), what do you think the Loving’s experience would have been if one of them was sick?  What aspects of their health care experience might have changed in 1967, after the US Supreme Court ruled against the state of Virginia and in the Loving’s favor? In approximately 500 words, tell how you imagine their story might have gone, specifically, with regard to health care access before and after the state of Virginia was forced to recognize their marriage. Need an example? Would the Lovings have been able to fill and pick up prescriptions for each other? become beneficiaries on each other’s health insurance? visit with each other in the hospital?  Part 2: Tell your Story (about 500 words; 5pts) How might inequalities have affected your family’s health care experience in this time period (about 1958-1967)? Each of us comes from a family with our own narratives. What experiences did your family go through about 60 years ago, while the Loving’s case was being decided by the US Supreme Court? In approximately 500 words, relay, generally, what was going on for your family in the late 1950s to 1960s and, specifically, how their circumstances shaped access to health care for these family members. Note: you may need to talk to your family members to find a story to tell for his assignment. If that is a challenge for any reason (e.g., adoption, death, estrangement) please use your imagination to tell the story of what your family might have experienced. Need an example? Here’s what I know about my family’s experiences in this time period: I know that my mother was living in Honolulu, HI, US while my father completed his tour serving in the US Army in the Vietnam Conflict. I know that my parents-in-law were immigrating from Jamshedpur, India to Madison, Wisconsin, US for my father-in-law to start his PhD in Engineering. I could tell the story of my parents-in-law working to document their date of birth and vaccination history on the appropriate government forms in order to secure visas BEFORE the internet existed (I don’t know how they did it honestly). And/or I could relay a story about the health care available to military wives at Tripler Army hospital compared to the field medicine practiced in my father’s military unit. This is my story so I get to tell it how I want, as long as the story is about health care access,  contextualized by being personal and during the time period in which the Lovings fought their court battle, and I tell the story in about 500 words. Part 3: Compare/Contrast the stories (about 500 words; 5pts) How was your family’s story different from/similar to the Loving’s? Need an example? In the state of Virginia prior to 1967, neither my parents nor my parents in law would have been jailed for their marriage, as my parents were both white and my parents-in-law were both Southeast Asian, so neither marriage violated Virginia’s antimiscegenation law. Because my parents-in-law came to the US on student + dependents visas, they had access to health care through the University of Wisconsin. My mother-in-law was a licensed doctor in India but was unable to practice medicine in the US until completing her US license. While she was not able to practice medicine, her medical knowledge enhanced her ability to care for herself and my father-in-law. My mother received excellent care as a military spouse, and still talks about the excellent maternity care provided at Tripler Army Hospital, “the big pink hospital on the hill”. My father received ok field care while serving in Vietnam. His care when he returned should have been good, but issues within the VA system prevented optimal care. These issues, including systematic denial about certain pathologies resulting from service (e.g., neurologic damage attributable to Agent Orange exposure) and lack of portability of VA-based medical records, have finally improved in the last decade. (The text above is about 185 words. To fulfill the terms of the assignment, I would need about triple the length (185*3=555 words), remembering to maintain high-quality of narrative focus throughout). Charon R. Narrative Medicine: A Model for Empathy, Reflection, Profession, and Trust. JAMA. 2001;286(15):1897–1902. doi:10.1001/jama.286.15.1897 https://jamanetwork-com.proxy.lib.ohio-state.edu/journals/jama/fullarticle/194300

The paper will be a minimum of 4 and a maximum of 6 pages long not including a title and reference pages. A minimum of three APA-style references must be included in the paper. There should be an APA-format references page at the end of the presentation. Additionally, in-text citations should be included when appropriate. Reputable resources include peer-reviewed journal articles, textbooks, interviews with clinicians who deal with these pathologies on a daily basis, personal experiences, class lectures, and other scientific sources. The student should use a font size of 12, Times New Roman, and double-spaced throughout. The paper should be written with the text aligned to the left margin with 1” margins. • Description of the pathology • Normal anatomy of major body system affected • Normal physiology of body system affected • Mechanism of pathophysiology • Prevention • Treatment The paper needs to be 4 pages, I also need a title page and reference page.

Infectious and Chronic Diseases [WLOs: 1, 2] [CLOs: 3, 4, 5, 6] Prior to beginning work on this discussion, read Chapters 3 and 4 in the textbook, look at the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) web page on Public Health Policy  (Links to an external site.) , read the article How to Write a Health Policy Brief, and watch the movie Contagion. The full version of this movie is available for rent through Google Play, Netflix, YouTube, iTunes, and Amazon.com for $3.99 or less. This movie is about a contagious disease outbreak. Then, address the following questions, depending on your last name: Group A: Last Name A through H Do you believe an infectious disease of this nature is possible today or is this simply a Hollywood production for entertainment purposes? Explain your reasoning. Do you believe that a disease of a chronic nature could spread as quickly? Explain your reasoning.

This paper is a argumentative paper about why Im siding with the fact that everyone should be entitled to free health care. i need 7 sources. 4 of which should come from my schools database. please use these 4 sources the other sources can come from anywhere.  Monica Murphy Professor Shea English 101 27 July 2020 Annotated Bibliography Haviland, Graham. “Not So Different after All: The Status of Interpretive Rules in the Medicare Act.” University of Chicago Law Review, vol. 85, no. 6, Oct. 2018, pp. 1511–1543. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=132865027&site=ehost-live. In this article I learned about medicare laws and health care insurance. As well as administrative procedures in the United States of America. I learned about (APA) also known as Administrative Procedure Act. APA governs the process by which federal agencies develop and issue regulations. During my research  I  learned that The Medicare Act is not required to meet the same set of rules of the APA. This article has to do with medicare provision. Oberlander, J 2019, “Lessons From the Long and Winding Road to Medicare for All”, American journal of public health, vol. 109, no. 19 Sept 2019, pp. 1497–1500, viewed 27 July 2020, . In this article the author discusses the latest chapter in a long history of conflict over national health insurance. The author’s goal is to shed light on past struggles and rid healthcare politics of public and private insurance. He provides proof that the history of  U.S reform has critical lessons. He believes that medicare for all is an aspiration into legislation is doable.  Maxwell, Dick. “Inside National Health Reform.” Library Journal, vol. 136, no. 17, Oct. 2011, p. 99. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=66648153&site=ehost-live. In this article McDonough clearly explains the ACA’s inner workings, revealing so much insight on the issues and policies in the law yet unknown to most Americans. In his account of these historic events, McDonough informs us through the process from the 2008 presidential campaign to the moment in 2010 when President Obama signed the bill into law. At a time when the nation is taking a second look at the ACA, Inside National Health Reform provides the essential information for Americans to make informed judgments about this landmark law. DeMoro, Rose Ann. “Access to Guaranteed Health Care.” AMASS, vol. 16, no. 44, June 2012, p. 44. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=f6h&AN=76475142&site=ehost-live. The article discusses the debate on the ACA that would not make it very costly and leave 27 million Americans not covered by insurance. It cites examples of the continuing crisis including the 16% increase among americans going to emergency rooms for dental problems that cost 10 times  more compared to preventive health care, higher bills and lower quality care. It also notes that with Obamacare, more people will suffer.  I chose all these sources because it shed light on medicare laws and guidelines I was unaware of so much and needed to future educate myself. All in all i feel these source offered great information and gave me information on history as well.

The purpose of this assignment is to examine the role technology plays in health care ethics. Though technology, in its increasing ubiquity, largely serves to simplify and make more convenient many daily processes, the extent to which people use and are reliant on technology means that the potential for a vulnerable attack is also heightened. Health care technology has made massive strides in improving quality patient care, making telehealth more accessible to the masses, and cutting down on unnecessary costs. But the more data are digitized, the greater the probability of a breach. Imagine a scenario in which it was discovered that a company producing wearable fitness-tracking devices had been selling confidential consumer data to the consumers’ health insurance company. Based off of the data consumers had been entering in their fitness-tracking app, this third-party insurance company was then able to suggest health and life insurance plans that would best meet the needs of their clients. In a paper of 500-750 words, address the following points: How is this scenario an example of an ethics breach? In what ways were both entities responsible for violating consumer confidentiality? What consequences might both companies face as a result of this breach? Moving forward, what changes would the health insurance company need to implement in order to ensure that their communications with customers and corporations comply with HIPAA? Suppose that a customer had updated a health insurance plan based off of a recommendation made by the insurance company, founded on information received illicitly from the fitness-tracking company. If the customer had a medical emergency that required the use of that added health insurance coverage, is the insurance company still in the wrong? Is the fitness-tracking company still in the wrong? If the misuse of customer data helped to save a patient’s life, was there still a breach of ethics? Explain your position. How will a renewed commitment by both corporations to honor the confidentiality of customer information serve to promote the common good? How is ethical decision making within a business setting consistent with the Christian worldview (CWV)? Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required. This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion. You are required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite. Refer to the LopesWrite Technical Support articles for assistance. Benchmark Information This assignment assesses the following programmatic competency: BS Health Care Administration 2.3:      Identify appropriate practices regarding respectful and confidential communication in compliance with HIPAA.