Risk Management Plan to Assist a Newly-Founded Healthcare Organization
Assume that the sample risk management program you analyzed in Topic 1 was implemented and is now currently in use by your health care employer/organization. Further assume that your supervisor has asked you to create a high‐level summary brief of this new risk management program to share with a group of administrative personnel from a newly created community health organization in your state who has enlisted your organization's assistance in developing their own risk management policies and procedures.
Compose a 1,250‐1,500 word summary brief that expands upon the elements you first addressed in the Topic 1 assignment. In this summary brief, address the following points regarding your health care organization and its risk management program:
Explain the role of your organization's MIPPA-approved accreditation body (e.g., JC, ACR, IAC) in the evaluation of your institution's quality improvement and risk management processes.
Describe the roles that different levels of administrative personnel play in healthcare ethics and establishing or sustaining employer/employee-focused organizational risk management strategies and operational policies.
Illustrate how your organization's risk management and compliance programs support ethical standards, patient consent, and patient rights and responsibilities.
Explain the legal and ethical responsibilities health care professionals face in upholding risk management policies and administering safe health care at your organization.
Relate how your organization's quality improvement processes support and contribute to its overall journey to excellence.
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Role of the Organization’s MIPPA-Approved Accreditation Body
John Hopkins Hospital (JHH) is accredited by the Joint Commission (JC), which plays a vital role in shaping the hospital's approach to patient safety. In the current risk management plan, JHH makes sure that it sticks to JC's National Goals for Patient Safety (JHH Official, 2022). For instance, the correct identification of patients is the topmost priority of JC (JC Official, 2022). Similarly, it emphasizes precision in treating and identifying the risks facing the patients (JC Official, 2022).
JHH has integrated its risk management program into the accreditation body's framework for patient safety. By empowering the family, the hospital makes sure that each patient is identified accurately since feedback and acknowledgment from the family are used as a confirmatory technique at different levels. Similarly, the family remains engaged at each checkpoint during the patient's journey to ensure accurate identification of risk to be able to make informed choices. The exposure to the patient database also enables families and patients to adopt an optimal path with full responsibility for risks.
Role of Administrative Personnel
In cooperation with The Johns Hopkins University General Counsel's Office, a team of attorneys at the hospital oversees the matters relevant to ethical compliance in different areas (John Hopkins Medicine, 2022). Besides, there are three administrative offices dedicated to managing the risks associated with the program and ensuring proper compliance with ethical and legal obligations. The Corporate Compliance Department ensures patient and employee safety. It also emphasizes the need for "doing the right thing" in cases where the organization is faced with any critical dilemma (JHH Corporate Compliance Department, 2022). Department of Health, Safety, and Environment plays a vital role in facilitating the environment for ethically compliant practices. This department is mainly responsible for surveillance and monitoring services (JHH Health, Safety, and Environment Department, 2022). In this way, it helps evaluate the program’s effectiveness on the grounds of compliance. Besides, there are administrative committees formed to ensure HIPPA compliance in matters of patient privacy and informed consent. Hence, the hospital has a proper administrative framework to support its risk management program’s flawless execution.
Risk Management and Compliance Program’s Support for Ethical Standards, Patient’s Consent, and Patient’s Rights and Responsibilities
When it comes to patients’ concerns, it’s equally important to establish strong integration between the support personnel and patients to achieve the required outcomes. The risk management program at hand holds high regard for ethical standards relevant to patients. As mentioned earlier, the program involves empowering the patients and families. Therefore, the risk management plan's core purpose is to ensure that the treatment plans are tailored to the patients' preferences.
One of the most complicated considerations in the treatment plan is informed consent. Research shows that the patient's lack of knowledge while obtaining the consent is often taken for granted (Vansweevelt & Glover-Thomas, 2020). JHH bridges this gap by using the latest technology to help patients and families access the database. Besides, the database interface enables the users to find information across the most frequently searched queries. For instance, patients can access the record of different options used for the same treatment with results. The outcomes and risks attached to each option are available via the database. In addition, the staff at each stage of the treatment communicates with the patients and/or family the progress update and key risks attached to the upcoming procedure. In this way, the patients are kept updated all along, and their decisions and choices come out of their understanding of the choices and aptitude. The hospital strives to keep the patients' unfamiliarity with the technical, medical, and healthcare knowledge from...