Healthcare Organizational Risk Management Discussion
Healthcare Organizational Risk Management Discussion
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS), and the Joint Commission (JC) require that health care organizations maintain risk management programs to address infection control. Detail three measures that your health care organization (or any health care organization) could implement, beyond what is currently in practice, to support the delivery of safe health care services and avoid the spread of infection (e.g., placing hand washing devices at all of the public entrances of the health care facility). Support your response with a minimum of two peer-reviewed references.
X2 Peer Reviewed references
Assignment paper: Organizational Risk Management Interview
The purpose of this assignment is to gain real-world insight into how risk management programs operate within health care organizations. You may fabricate an interview if you cannot find a Healthcare Organization Risk Manager person to interview.
Select a local health care organization (Houston,Texas)where you can conduct an interview with an employee who is involved in risk management processes. This organization can be your current employer or a different health care facility in your community. Acute care, urgent care, large multi‐provider private medical clinics, assisted living facilities, and community/public health clinical facilities are all ideal options to complete the requirements of this assignment. Select an individual (or fabricate one) who can provide sufficient information regarding how their organization manages risk within its facility to answer the questions below.
In your interview, address the following:
1.Risk management strategies used in the organization’s risk control program, along with specific examples.
2.How the facility’s educational risk management program addresses key professional, legal, and ethical issues, such as prevention of negligence, malpractice litigation, and vicarious liability.
3.Policies the facility has implemented that address how to manage emergency triage in high‐risk areas of health care service delivery (e.g., narcotics inventories, declared pregnancy policies, blood-borne disease sector, etc.).
4.Challenges the organization faces in managing and controlling high-risk health care (e.g., infectious diseases, nuclear medicine, abortion, class 4 narcotics/opioids, etc.).
5.Strategies the facility utilizes to monitor, evaluate, and maintain compliance within its risk management program.
After conducting the interview, compose a 750‐1,000 word summary analysis of the interview that includes the questions above, in conjunction with the interviewee’s responses. In addition, include the following elements in your response:
1.An assessment of the organization’s risk management program, including how it attends to high-risk health care and legal concerns.
2.Action steps you would take to improve one area of the organization’s risk management program, along with your rationale for doing so.
Cite appropriate references as needed to support your statements and rationale. Minimum x3 sources.
Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style, Times Roman style 12 size font.
