Healthcare Laws for Effective Healthcare Leadership

Organizational Needs and Legal Considerations
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Contents Introduction  3 Healthcare Laws  3 How to Monitor and Assure Compliance with the Laws  4 Potential Gaps in the Proposed Initiative  4 Interventions to Close Gaps  5 Relevance of Succession Planning and Talent Development and Resources for Healthcare Competency Development 5 Conclusion  6 References  7
Introduction
The healthcare industry is heavily institutionalized and operates within highly regulated landscape. In order to ensure accountability and success in St. Matthew's House, it is essential to analyze the laws important for effective healthcare leadership, propose interventions to close any gaps in the leadership plan and understand the relevance of a succession plan and talent development to guarantee competency development. The paper explores the issues mentioned above in detail and proposes solutions to ensure leadership accountability for the long-term sustainability of the healthcare organization.
Healthcare Laws
Healthcare laws are a critical component of the healthcare system, playing a vital role in ensuring patient safety, privacy, and quality of care. In this vein, healthcare leaders at St. Matthew's House must meet the required guidelines to avoid facing legal penalties. Some of the laws include Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), Affordable Care Act (ACA), and Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA). HIPAA was enacted in 1996, and its main aim was to create confidentiality within and beyond healthcare facilities, as it provides rules for protected health information [PHI] (Edemekong et al., 2018). The ACA was enacted in 2010 to scale up healthcare insurance coverage and affordability as well as guarantee effective Medicare delivery (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2023). Accordingly, EMTALA was enacted in 1986 by congress and requires hospitals with an emergency unit to provide screening stabilization and transfer the patient regardless of their ability to pay for their services or insurance status (Shenoy et al., 2022). The penalties for its violation can range from fines or exclusion from Medicare.
How to Monitor and Assure Compliance with the Laws
Due to the heavy fines that St. Matthew's House may face for violating these laws, monitoring to ensure compliance is essential. One of the ways that can be used to monitor compliance is by having regular internal audits to confirm whether there are incidences of non-compliance applying to any of the laws and also make recommendations for changes. Another way to monitor is to perform a periodic risk assessment. A risk assessment helps show the vulnerabilities linked to the existing controls (Pascarella et al., 2021). By implementing these measures, it would be easier to identify whether there are risks of non-compliance among the facilities employees and propose measures to close the gaps. The hospital can also have policies in place for compliance. St. Matthew's House can ensure effective healthcare leadership while providing high-quality patient care by prioritizing compliance with these laws and establishing effective monitoring systems.
Potential Gaps in the Proposed Initiative
There could be a misalignment between the stated values and the actual culture of an organization. Organizational culture helps provide an organization with the required norms, beliefs, and meaning with which all the employees, including leaders, form a mutual understanding. The organizational culture significantly impacts the organization's ability to accept change. If the new initiative does not align with its culture, employees may find it difficult to change their ways and adopt them. This means that the proposed initiative must align with the organizational culture for easier implementation. Another gap relates to capacity. The new initiative may require newly trained personnel for its implementation, which, by extension, means that the organization has to hire new members who meet the requirements for the initiative's functionality.
The availability of resources for implementation is another significant gap that can hinder the adoption and success of the new initiative. It is important to note that implementing a new initiative can be costly. Some resources that might be required are financial incentives and hu...