Hcs 451 Risk And Quality Management Assessment Paper

Risk and Quality Management Assessment
Jennifer McKissick
HCS 451
February 8, 2015
Jodie Sapaugh

Risk and Quality Management Assessment
Chosen Organization
The organization that I have chosen is a hospital. A hospital is an organization providing treatment for patients with a staff and equipment specific for that hospital. The most common and most known type of hospital is the general hospital which has an ER for the major emergencies. . A district hospital is the major health care facility in its region, with large numbers of beds for intensive care long-term care. Specialized hospitals include trauma centers, rehabilitation hospitals, children’s hospitals, seniors ' hospitals, and hospitals for dealing with specific medical needs such as
HAI generally occur when a patient’s stay for extended amount of time, the physicians don’t use proper hand washing techniques or medical procedures and so on. This type of risk affects the quality of care to a patient directly. It generally means that the physician or staff may not have followed proper protocol in ensuring the patients safety (Betterhealth.gov.au, 2011). Another risk that hospitals take is patients who do not pay. In 1986 The Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) was passed, which in short states that emergency rooms have to stabilize and treat anyone who goes into an emergency room regardless if they have insurance or can’t pay (American College of Emergency Physicians, 2013). This also affects the quality of care given to those patients because the emergency rooms are required to only do the minimum to stabilize the patients. A third risk in a hospital is medication errors. These occur when either the pharmacist can’t read a physician’s hand writing on a prescription, or the physician does not know the patients medication history and so on. The quality outcome of the patient’s wellbeing is affected in this