Homework: Addressing Issues in Health Care
The purpose of this homework is to examine how to identify, prioritize, and address a potential problem within the health care environment.
Write a 1,200 to 1,400 words paper that examines how to address a problem within the health care environment, including risk mitigation and implementation of new compliance requirements.
a. Describe how would you go about establishing that a potential concern is a problem that should be further investigated. Discuss any specific triggering event you should use in order to initiate the continuous quality improvement process.
b. Explain what tools would be utilized to identify the problem, develop the solution, track the implementation, and summarize the findings (i.e., benchmarking).
c. Once you have established that the identified concern is an issue worth addressing, discuss how you would go about prioritizing this problem compared to other problems. Consider the scarcity of resources, labor costs, capital investment needs, the approval process within your organization, and where you are in the budget cycle.
d. Discuss who would be considered stakeholders or vested parties and how you intend to mitigate risk when implementing new compliance requirements.
Format your homework according to the give formatting requirements:
a. The answer must be double spaced, typed, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
b. The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the homework, the course title, the student's name, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
c. Also include a reference page. The references and Citations should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.