Health Care Management
As the head
health care administrator at USA Community Hospital, you are required to review
compliance reports on issues relating to the ethical conduct of the
professional staff at your hospital, patient review registries, and standard
procedures surrounding the ethical treatment of patients with HIV / AIDS.
Intermittently, complaints surface from patients with HIV / AIDS concerned with
ethical treatment and denial of services.
Note: You may
create and / or make all necessary assumptions needed for the completion of
this assignment.
Write a six to
eight (6-8) page paper in which you:
Devise a plan to
investigate the validity of patients’ claims of denial of services. This plan
should include, but not be limited to, establishing mechanisms to address
service denial claims, a human resources component, and a review of related
policies and procedures.
Analyze the
primary way in which different staffing levels may play pivotal roles in
upholding ethical conduct, including treating patients with dignity. Justify
your position.
Formulate a plan
to relate the primary legal ramifications to the professional staff regarding
ethical treatment of the hospital’s HIV / AIDS patients.
Devise a
community relations plan that tout’s the hospital’s unique ways of serving
persons with HIV / AIDS, including a focus on de-stigmatizing those afflicted.
Use at least five
(5) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other
Websites do not quality 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.
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:
Examine the
various applications of the law within the health care system.
Identify the
principles and legalities of ethical issues within the health care system.
Identify a plan
that addresses legal and ethical issues in a health care policy.
Use technology
and information resources to research issues in health care policy, law, and
ethics.
Write clearly and
concisely about health care policy, law, and ethics using proper writing
mechanics.
