Accountability In Healthcare Delivery

Accountability is the ability for a hospital, and healthcare providers to explain, and justify the reasoning for the decisions made in a hospital setting to the public and the board of directors. When a hospital or healthcare provider agrees to make a decision, they must be able to provide concrete evidence explaining why the hospital, or healthcare provider needed to perform the act. The ability to provide evidence to the public and board of directors is the ultimate accountability of the hospital. If a hospital does not, or cannot account for the choices they have made, the patient or employees could file a law suit against the hospital. For example, if a hospital/healthcare providers are going to perform an esophageal surgery on Bethany, and the hospital did not follow the
The hospital/healthcare providers disregarded simple ethical codes, and the safety of the patient, Bethany. The purpose of accountability is to keep the hospital/healthcare providers from breaking ethical codes, and give safety to the patient, and employees. The hospital broke two ethical codes veracity and autonomy of the patient. Bethany was never given the appropriate information for a full understanding of the surgery, therefore Bethany could not give consent to the surgery. The hospital/healthcare providers failed to tell Bethany the truth about the surgery she was undergoing, they did not tell her the aftermath that would have followed the surgery. Accountability allows for people to say, “Why is this happening?” If a hospital was never held accountable for their actions patients and employees’ rights would be disregarded. For example, a pregnant woman came into the hospital to have a baby, and she told the nurse she did not want any black employees in the delivery room as she gave