Assignment :
Part 1: Healthcare Quality
Assume that you are a quality officer who is responsible for one (1) of the state's largest healthcare organizations. You have been told that the quality of patient care has decreased, and you have been assigned a project that is geared toward increasing quality of care for the patients. Your Chief Executive Officer has requested a six to eight page (6-8) summary of your recommended initiatives.
Note: You may create and /or make all necessary assumptions needed for the completion of this assignment.
Write a 6 to 8 page paper in which you:
Analyze three (3) quality initiatives for your organization.
Determine the supporting factors that would aid in the reduction of healthcare cost in your organization without reducing quality of care for the patients.
Differentiate between quality in a free market healthcare system and in single-payer government system with three (3) examples for each.
Specify three (3) common law quality initiatives that are still found in 21st century healthcare organizations.
Defend your position on the importance of healthcare quality for your organization. Provide support with at least three (3) examples that illustrate your position.
Assemble a plan to protect patient information that complies with all legal requirements.
Use at least three (3) quality references.
Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic resources.
Your assignment must follow the formatting requirements:
Typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format.
The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:
Describe the evolution of hospitals and sources of law.
Examine tort law and the criminal aspects of health care.
Analyze the impact of healthcare financing and health insurance on healthcare access, quality, and cost.
Determine the factors that affect healthcare quality in healthcare organizations.
Examine information management and health care records and how the legal reporting requirements impact health care.
Assess the legal implications of ethical decisions that impact consent for treatment, right-to-die, and patient rights and responsibilities.
Use technology and information resources to research issues in healthcare policy and law.
Write clearly and concisely about healthcare policy and law using proper writing mechanics.
Part 2: Voice Mail Follow-Up
Your supervisor has asked to you write a brief email on the vacation policy changes to be distributed to staff. You have just finished up and have sent your newly constructed email to the staff. Now, you must call your supervisor and leave a voice mail response updating him or her that you have sent out the new vacation policy email to staff.
Note: You will need to use a sound recorder such as Sounder Recorder on PC or Quicktime on Mac.
Leave a follow-up reply voice mail for your supervisor when you have completed the email in which you:
Inform your supervisor that you have completed the email.
Confirm to which employees you sent the email.
Confirm the date and time when you sent the email.
Target the appropriate professional audience.
Use appropriate rate, volume, and pitch for professional audience.
Speak for clarity, including articulation, pronunciation, and fluency.
Meet three to five (3-5) sentence minimum requirement.
The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:
Demonstrate understanding of the basic fundamentals of communication.
Develop and practice communication skills, including verbal, nonverbal, listening, writing, interpersonal, perception, and critical thinking.
Use various electronic communication platforms in academic and professional work.
Relate to the interpersonal and organizational dynamics that affect communication in organizations.
Analyze and assess effective communication.
Use correct sentence mechanics, grammar, spelling, punctuation, and style.
Use technology and information resources to research issues in communications.
Write clearly and concisely about communications using proper writing mechanics.