Assignment 5: Public Health
Preparedness
Due Week 10 and worth 200 points
You have just been hired as a new Vice President of
quality and safety for a full-service 600-bed government healthcare
organization. Within your first month on the job, the national security
threat level has been raised to Imminent, which means there is a credible,
specific, and impending terrorist threat against the United States, and your
facility may be directly impacted. The Chief Executive Officer has requested an
immediate six to eight-page report of your proposal for handling such a
situation.
Note: You may create and /or make all necessary assumptions needed for the
completion of this assignment.
Write a 6-8 page paper in which you:
1.
Examine the existing procedures related to at least
four (4) of the ten (10) essential public health services. Focus on the
principal effects that these procedures will have on your hospital during the
emergency.
2.
Specify the importance of continuing to evaluate
patients, as stipulated by the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act
(EMTALA), during the emergency.
3.
Detail three (3) measures that you would use in
order to maintain the electronic medical record system during the emergency.
4.
Defend your position on the decision to accept health
insurance during the emergency as a potential source of income for the
facility. Provide support with at least three (3) examples that illustrate your
position.
5.
Analyze the extent to which this emergency might
affect the quality of care provided to the patients and the unimpeded operation
of the organization.
6.
Use at least three (3) quality references. Note:Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic resources.
Your assignment must follow these formatting
requirements:
·
Be 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. Check with your professor for any
additional instructions.
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Include a cover page containing the title of the
assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the
date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required
assignment page length.
The specific course learning outcomes associated
with this assignment are:
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Examine information management and health care
records and how the legal reporting requirements impact health care.
·
Analyze the impact of healthcare financing and
health insurance on healthcare access, quality, and cost.
·
Analyze the influence of health policy and health
reform on healthcare access, quality, and cost in the U.S.
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Analyze tort reform and healthcare quality.
·
Use technology and information resources to
research issues in healthcare policy, law, and ethics.
·
Write clearly and concisely about healthcare policy
and law using proper writing mechanics.
