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.

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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 (6-8) 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 six to eight (6-8) page paper in which you:
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.
Specify the importance of continuing to evaluate patients, as stipulated by the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA), during the emergency.
Detail three (3) measures that you would use in order to maintain the electronic medical record system during the emergency.
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.
Analyze the extent to which this emergency might affect the quality of care provided to the patients and the unimpeded operation of the organization.

Using the knowledge you gained from the readings, evaluate how a typical drug, when orally administered, may be handled differently by these two patients

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Using the knowledge you gained from the readings, evaluate how a typical drug, when orally administered, may be handled differently by these two patients:

Ms. Jones is a 30-year-old female personal trainer that is 5’ 4” tall weighing 110lbs. She regularly drinks socially and sometimes more than a bit when she meets with her bi-weekly book club.

Mr. Smith is a 65-year-old software tester who is 6’ tall and weighs 235lbs. He drinks only occasionally.

Assume no other significant medical history or issues with either patient. In your analysis, compare how the two patients will metabolize the drug considering weight, gender, distribution of body water and body fat, age, metabolic state, and alcohol use. Explain how these factors impact the pharmacokinetics of the drug (half-life, dosage, route of administration, and elimination of the drug). Evaluate the impact on the risk-benefits analysis of the use of this drug.

Speculate on the most damaging consequences of a malpractice case on a physician practice.

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Use Internet and / or Strayer Learning Resource Center to research articles (no older than five [5] years) on using technology to prevent medical malpractices. Next, discuss the overall manner in which using technology can help prevent malpractices. Speculate on the most damaging consequences of a malpractice case on a physician practice. Support your rationale. Imagine that you are the manager of a multi-specialty medical practice that is opening a new office and that you are involved in planning the layout and design of the new office. Determine three (3) functional areas that you think should be given priority with regard to the amount of space needed for efficient operations and patient flow in the new office. Justify your response.

Utilize the patient friendly health education materials available and disseminate take-home materials

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You are the newly hired Director of Performance Improvement at the Brownville Memorial Hospital. You were hired to improve the hospital’s compliance with federal, state, and local regulations. Additionally you are responsible to ensure that all standards related to quality assurance, patient protections, infection control, safety, risk management, and staff education are followed. You report directly to the hospital Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and you oversee the Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement (QAPI) staff.
The CEO wants the hospital to upgrade to a higher patient centered medical home (PCMH) recognition level in 18 months. He has given you your first project which is to improve patient and family ratings on the hospital satisfaction survey. As you review previous Press Ganey Satisfaction Surveys you note that patients and families consistently rated the hospital staff poorly on providing information that made it easy to understand and improve their health. Many survey comments stated that patients “found the health information they were given confusing and did not know how to act on it.”
Brownville is a 500 bed hospital situated in a large metropolitan area with more than 750,000 residents, many of whom are Black, Asian, and Hispanic. 35% of the residents are foreign-born and speak a language other than English at home. The median household income is $35,000 per year and more than 30% of residents did not graduate from high school. The hospital provides primary care, specialty care, and support services to area residents with a large direct patient care staff (including physicians, nurses, physician assistants, medical assistants, nursing assistants, social workers, therapists, technologists, technicians, phlebotomists, and pharmacists).
To begin your first project, you have decided to develop and implement a long-term staff education program that will focus on “health literacy.” You and your staff will be rolling out this program to all hospital staff members. The first activity will be a workshop for all existing and new staff. You will deliver the workshop in person to small groups (40 staff members) over the next 2 months.
Your key areas of concern are that all staff (address 2 key areas for assignment):
● communicate clearly with patients
● utilize the patient friendly health education materials available and disseminate take-home materials
● address language and cultural differences (with support from translation services available through telephone)
● help patients to remember how and when to take their medicines
● encourage patients to ask questions
Therefore, you will develop a 20-minute (maximum) workshop presentation that clearly explains health literacy, key communication principles, and addresses 2 of your key areas of concern. You have decided to give the CEO a preview of your workshop at your next meeting so that he knows that you are dedicated to performance improvement.