you are in an official leadership position within your medical
facility, one of your responsibilities is to be a change agent to
improve patient care. How would you begin to institute change with
your staff? What methods do you believe would be most
effective?
David is a healthcare administration leader who manages the
operations of a long-term care facility. Within the past 6 months,
long-term care patients and residents have experienced an increased
number of hospital readmissions due to ongoing acute infections. In
striving to ensure effective healthcare delivery and patient
safety, David is seeking to use optimization as an analytic
technique to determine how to best implement workflow processes to
have clinical staff and physicians dedicate time to routine history
and full-body observation...
An essential aspect of healthcare financial management for any
medical facility is the year-end closing. What are the primary
accounts that must be addressed in the year-end closing
process?
You have a busy family physician within your healthcare
facility, and one day a nursing staff member hands you a phone
message in the middles of your busy day. The spouse of one of a
patient that has had care in your facility has called to discuss
concerns about the health of her husband, Sam. She informed a nurse
that she thinks that her husband is addicted to prescription pain
medications and would like to know if anyone else has...
Discuss the key legal investigations that may involve a
healthcare facility and its staff. Be sure to include the concepts
of subpoena duces tecum and subpoena ad testificandum in your
answer.
Your response must be at least 500 words in length.