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Essay Instructions: ? Workarounds are practiced in healthcare settings in the belief that the shortcuts save time.
? Describe workarounds practiced in a healthcare facility that is familiar to the student.
? Literature review of issues related to workarounds
? Discuss ethical, legal issues, risks to patients.
Propose solutions to workarounds
Use at least three published articles.

Essay Instructions: Lets say that you currently work for a healthcare facility like for example a doctors office.
write 1 page synopsis of a current care delicery issue. Design and discuss several 'team' approaches that could meet the specific healthcare need. Relate your own team experiences through examples and disclosures of what was effective in your past work environment and the practivality of the same success for current application. The assignment must be presented in a narrative form.

Essay Instructions: Introduction:

The accreditation process seeks to help organizations identify and resolve problems and to inspire them to improve the safety and quality of care and services provided. The process focuses on systems critical to the safety and the quality of care, treatment, and services.

For this task, you will assume the role of director of accreditation. You will review and analyze the materials (e.g., records, previous audit, trends, e-mails) provided in the case study to prepare for the audit. You will need to look across all departments and examine trends and patient care issues to determine readiness.

Task:


A. Complete a periodic performance review (PPR) as you determine the readiness for the accreditation audit of the healthcare facility in the attached ?Accreditation Audit Case Study? by doing the following:

1. Discuss the current compliance status of the healthcare facility.

2. Discuss any trends evident in the case study that may cause the organization to not be compliant with the Joint Commission standards for patient care.

3. Review the performance improvement standard regarding staffing in the healthcare facility?s patient care unit by doing the following:

a. Analyze the data to determine the staffing patterns of the patient care unit.

b. Develop a staffing plan to minimize the number of falls in the patient care unit.


B. If you use sources, include all in-text citations and references in APA format.


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Note: When using sources to support ideas and elements in a paper or project, the submission MUST include APA formatted in-text citations with a corresponding reference list for any direct quotes or paraphrasing. It is not necessary to list sources that were consulted if they have not been quoted or paraphrased in the text of the paper or project.

Note: No more than a combined total of 30% of a submission can be directly quoted or closely paraphrased from sources, even if cited correctly. For tips on using APA style, please refer to the APA Handout web link included in the APA Guidelines section.

Essay Instructions: You have just relocated to St.Louis and accepted the position of CHief Administrator for the #1 healthcare facility in terms of beds, budget size and facilities. The board of directors of the facility has asked you to present a strategic management paper based on the changing economics of your area. The board is expected you to address the nine economic and population questions listed below for the next 15 years.
Your paper should address each of the economic issues listed below from two perspectives: how the problem, issue or trend impacts the St. Louis area as well as how the same problem, issue or trend is/will be comparatively impacted on a national level. Substantiate St Louis viewpoints with researched facts about the demographics, psychographics and economics of the StL metro area. References must be no older than ten years.

1. Economic and population issues.

2. Discuss the four basic economic questions within the context of an older population adn demographics profile.

a. WHat combination of non-medical and medical goods and services should be produce in the macro-economy?

b. What particular medical goods and services should be produced in the health economy?

c. What specific health care resources should be used to produce the final medical goods and services?

d. Who should receive the medical goods and services?

3. As the population of the US and St.L grows olderk, how will the level and type of patient services change? Do you see more outpaitent care, more skilled nursing home care, increased hospitalization time, or other services meeting the medical needs of the medical population?

4. As changes occur in health care spending, how will you positively leverage the graying of America to increase the efficiency of your health care organization?

5. How will 3rd party reimbursements change? Do you see more private insurance, more public insurance, or increases in nationalized healthcare?

6. Do financial incentives and managment incentives have a place in the management of your faiclity in the future?

7. How will price elasticity and non-economic factors impact the demand for health care services?

8. Whata changes do you anticipate in Medicaid, Medicare, private insurance funding, and charity care? How will you steer your health facility to capitalize on these changes?

9. WHat strategies would you propose for profit maximization? Discuss three of them.