Create a campaign speech that employs creative, innovative strategies to both identify and solve the problem.

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Read the following scenario, which is also Application 8.4 on page 146 of the course textbook.
“Alcohol and drug abuse are associated with crime on the streets, health problems, the breakdown of the family, and poor job performance. Identify and solve the problem…”
Create a campaign speech that employs creative, innovative strategies to both identify and solve the problem. The following components should be included:
• Your response should be a minimum of 3 pages.
• Write the speech for a specific target audience and with a clear goal and purpose that is evident from the content.
• Present a clear opinion and position on the issue presented in Application 8.4.
• Use logical and sound evidence to support your viewpoints. Your evidence must come from at least on outside source and follow APA guidelines.

Review the following broad definition of health care quality and answer the questions that follow: Health care quality occurs when: • patients can access a continuum of appropriate care and service in a timely manner, • patients are educated and actively participate in the planning and delivery of their care and service, • clinical outcomes are achieved with excellence, • patients achieve their care goals and optimum quality of life, • patient satisfaction outcomes are delivered with human dignity and compassion, • staff satisfaction outcomes reflect pride of achievement, and • Cost/utilization outcomes demonstrate social responsibility. 1. What are your thoughts on this definition of quality? What do you like? What do you dislike? What would you change? 2. What is included in this definition that is not found in many other definitions of health care quality? What is not included in this definition of quality? 3. Is this definition of health care quality realistic and feasible? Explain your answer.

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Review the following broad definition of health care quality and answer the questions that follow:

Health care quality occurs when:
• patients can access a continuum of appropriate care and service in a timely manner,
• patients are educated and actively participate in the planning and delivery of their care and service,
• clinical outcomes are achieved with excellence,
• patients achieve their care goals and optimum quality of life,
• patient satisfaction outcomes are delivered with human dignity and compassion,
• staff satisfaction outcomes reflect pride of achievement, and
• Cost/utilization outcomes demonstrate social responsibility.
1. What are your thoughts on this definition of quality? What do you like? What do you dislike? What would you change?
2. What is included in this definition that is not found in many other definitions of health care quality? What is not included in this definition of quality?
3. Is this definition of health care quality realistic and feasible? Explain your answer.

Explain key steps this organization may take to identify and manage their risks.

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Leaders in a health care organization have identified risk management as an opportunity for improvement for the upcoming year. The organization has hired you as a consultant to help assess the organization’s current status and define the future plan for addressing risks.
Resource: Risk Management Assessment Summary Grading Criteria and Sample Executive Summary located in the Center for Writing Excellence
• Navigate to the Center for Writing Excellence in the University Library.
• Under Writing Resources, click Tutorials & Guides.
• Under Samples, click Sample Executive Summary.
Select an organization type in the health care industry as the basis for this assignment. The organization may be your employer or a health care organization of particular interest to you. Types of health care organizations include, but are not limited to, the following:
• Hospital, nursing facility, physician office, emergency medical services, managed care organization, home health care, community health department or provider, pharmacy, laboratory, drug manufacturer, medical device manufacturer, durable medical equipment supplier, and electronic medical records software suppliers
Research the key concepts of risk management in health care and the factors that influence risk management for your chosen type of organization.
Write a 1,050- to 1,400-word executive summary in which you complete the following:
• Describe the purpose of risk management in health care organizations in general and in your chosen organization in particular.
• Explain key steps this organization may take to identify and manage their risks.
• Identify three typical or actual risks in your chosen organization. Describe how each risk might negatively affect your organization and its stakeholders.
• Summarize the types of education, training, or policies that would help this type of organization mitigate these risks.

Describe the purpose of quality management in health care organizations in general and in your chosen organization type in particular.

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Use the same organization type you selected for the Risk Management Assessment Summary in Week Two. Your role as a consultant continues as you relate risk management policies and practices to quality management. You must summarize a plan for the organization’s leadership that will serve as the foundation for developing a quality management program description for the organization.
– Resource: Quality Management Assessment Summary Grading Criteria
– Research key concepts of quality management in health care, factors that influence quality outcomes, and the relationship between risk management and quality management.
Write a 1,400- to 1,750-word executive summary in which you complete the following:
• Describe the purpose of quality management in health care organizations in general and in your chosen organization type in particular.
• Explain three to five key concepts of quality management. Comment briefly on why there are so many other names and terms used to describe quality management—continuous quality improvement, total quality management, performance management, and performance improvement—and if these distinctions are important. Explain the terminology your chosen organization type uses and why your organization uses them.
• Identify at least three of the organization type’s typical long-term goals and at least three typical short-term goals.
• Identify at least five factors—internal and external—that influence quality outcomes in your chosen organization type and describe how these factors might negatively affect quality outcomes in your organization.
• Identify three to five fundamental quality-management policies that should be implemented, how these relate to risk management, and how they will influence health outcomes.
• Explain the relationship between risk management and quality management in your chosen organization type and how these two disciplines relate to performance management.