How Safe Is Your Hospital?

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Writing Assignment:
Instructions: Read and respond to the following three readings:
1. Consumer Reports (2012); How Safe Is Your Hospital?
2. Institute of Medicine report entitled To Err is Human; Executive Summary
3. Hammerling’s A Review of Medical Errors in Laboratory Diagnostics and Where We Are Today.
Your essay should address the laboratorians’ obligation to eliminate errors.
(2012). How Safe Is Your Hospital?
http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/magazine/2012/08/how-safe-is-your-hospital/index.htmhttp://www.consumerreports.org/cro/magazine/2012/08/how-safe-is-your-hospital/index.htm
Institute of Medicine (2000). To Err is Human – Building a Safer Health System.pdf
http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=9728&page=5http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=9728&page=5
Hammerling, J. A. (2012).
http://labmed.ascpjournals.org/content/43/2/41.fullhttp://labmed.ascpjournals.org/content/43/2/41.full
Adhere to the guidelines found in the syllabus if references other than the required readings or lectures are used, they must be cited according to APA format.
Free from plagiarism. Be sure to use proper sentence structure and correct grammar and spelling in your posts.
Postings must be own words; it is not permissible to “cut and paste”
Answers neither from websites nor to copy materials
400 words limit

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pet medicine industry

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This is an INDUSTRY ANALYSIS .
Our industry is pet medicine industry.
Our location is Spokane in Whshington state in US.
Analysys should be based on our location.
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What rights are enumerated in the text of the Fourteenth Amendment, and why were the promises made therein so important?

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DQ 1:

What rights are enumerated in the text of the Fourteenth Amendment, and why were the promises made therein so important?

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The year is 2005. You and your family live in California. It’s another Sunday afternoon and you drive out to Uncle Billy and Aunty Mary’s home for Sunday dinner with family and friends. While helping to set the table, you smell a strange odor from an upstairs bedroom. You investigate and find Aunty Mary in her bedroom smoking marijuana. She reports the sad news she and Uncle Billy had hoped to keep from the family: she has been stricken by a terrible disease.

According to California law, however, her doctor recently prescribed medical marijuana. To her surprise it has greatly helped to stimulate her failing appetite. Aunty Mary says, “I can’t believe I’m a dope-smoking-granny, but there you go. This helps me more than all those fancy medicines that made me sick to my stomach.” She expresses her gratitude to the California state legislature for making medical marijuana legal.

She knows that you are taking a course in the U.S. Constitution from the University of Phoenix. She also knows that the Supreme Court recently decided the case Gonzalez v. Raich that concerns California’s law permitting prescription of medical marijuana. She reports, “I tried to read the case, but it’s all gobbledygook and legalese to me. Why can’t they just write in plain English?”

So she asks you to help explain to her whether the federal Supreme Court’s decision will override the California law that permitted her doctor to prescribe the medical marijuana. She says, “Back in civics class in highschool, they told us all about living under two sovereign governments, and something about federalism. But it’s been so long…”

And she tells you, “I’m a tough old bird, so give it to me straight, can I keep puffing up here? Or do I have to go back to those nasty medicines?”39672.821721956

Action on IOM Report

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Action on IOM Report

The 1999 Institute of Medicine (IOM) report: To err is human:
Building a safer health system was a wake up call for both the general
public and healthcare providers regarding the problem and tragic consequences of
medical errors. According to the Report Brief: “At least 44,000 people, and
perhaps as many as 98,000 people, die in hospitals each year as a result of
medical errors that could have been prevented” (Institute of Medicine, 1999, p.
1). The report recommends a four-tiered approach as a strategy for addressing
this problem.

In this assignment, you will read the report and then evaluate how
the healthcare system has responded to each of the four recommendations made in
the report.

Institute of Medicine. (1999). To err is human: Building a safer
health system (Report Brief). Institute of Medicine of the National
Academies [Web page]. Retrieved from http://www.iom.edu/CMS/8089/5575/4117.aspx.

Use sources other than the textbook to find information about how
the U.S. healthcare system is acting on the four recommendations in the IOM
report. You may use journal articles, government reports, reports or findings of
public organizations, and other authoritative sources. The following are sources
of information on two of the recommendations:

  • The first recommendation about creating leadership refers to the Agency for
    Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). Use the AHRQ Web site http://www.ahrq.gov/.
  • The third recommendation about actions of oversight organizations,
    professional groups, and group purchasers of healthcare identifies the Leapfrog
    Group (http://www.leapfroggroup.org/).

Write your assessment in a 4-page report. Include an appropriate
introduction and conclusion. Write your assessment of action on the four
recommendations in the IOM report. Then, write an overall assessment of how the
U.S. healthcare system is performing in regard to patient safety, in response to
the IOM recommendations. Give examples of actions by the healthcare industry and
cite sources. Write your report in a Word document formatted in APA style.

Grading Criteria Maximum Points
Assessed the four IOM recommendations. 12
Summarized actions by the healthcare system in
response to the IOM recommendations.		 4
Analyzed the impact of these actions on patient
safety.		 8
Evaluated overall performance of the healthcare
system in regard to patient safety.		 12
Presented findings and evaluation in a report with
an introduction and a conclusion.		 8
Applied APA standards for writing style, spelling,
grammar, and citation of sources.		 4
Total 48