Healthcare and Life Sciences

Learning Team

Organizational Performance Management Table and Paper

Each Learning Team member must select a different type of health care organization to study for the purpose of this group assignment. You are encouraged to select a different type of organization from the one chosen in the Weeks Two and Three assignments. Note that you do not need to select a specific company. Group members compare their chosen organizations to complete the table and paper.

Options include, but are not limited to, the following: hospital, nursing facility, physician office, emergency medical services, managed care organization, home health care, community health department or provider, pharmacy, laboratory, drug manufacturer, medical device manufacturer, durable medical equipment supplier, and electronic medical records software supplier.

Resource: Organizational Performance Management Table and Paper Grading Criteria

Conduct a group discussion in your Learning Team forum. Address the following points:

• Summarize the type of health care organization you selected.
• Compare the main regulatory and accreditation standards that apply to each type of organization and identify standards that apply broadly to most or all types of health care organizations.
• Discuss the influence of regulatory and accreditation standards on performance-management systems.
• Discuss how the performance-management systems affect risk management and quality management in each type of organization.
• Identify key areas in the organization that will have direct responsibility for carrying out the day-to-day responsibilities associated with the regulations or standards.
• Identify other areas in the organization that will be indirectly affected by the regulations or standards.
• Outline what oversight activities you could put in place to ensure that the regulatory and accreditation requirements are being implemented and are achieving the desired results.

Collaborate to complete the University of Phoenix Material: Organizational Performance Management Table located on the student website.

Collaborate to write a 1,400- to 1,750-word paper in which you address the following points:

• Address the similarities and differences among the types of organizations.
• Propose how each organization will monitor performance, achieve regulatory and accreditation compliance, and improve overall organizational performance.
• Describe ways each organization will communicate with leadership to ensure alignment of organizational goals and gain buy-in from staff to achieve compliance with the standards and requirements issued by regulatory and accreditation bodies.
• Determine how compliance with the regulations and development of risk-management and quality-management systems for each type of organization contribute to the organization’s overall performance-management system.

Include at least four sources, three from the University Library and one from either the course textbooks or this week’s Electronic Reserve Readings. Prepare a list of all resources used in your research.

Format the paper and reference list consistent with APA guidelines. Include the Organizational Performance Management Table as an appendix to the paper.

HCS 451 Week 4 Organizational Performance Management Table and Paper

The following assignment options provide the opportunity for you to explore communication methods for different kinds of health care scenarios. The assignment options also allow you to examine the effects of HIPAA and other regulations on health care communication.

Select and complete one of the following assignments:

Option 1: Nursing Home Administrator

Option 2: Communications Coordinator

Read the following scenario:

As the administrator of a local nursing home, you have just received notification that the organization is being purchased by a national group. Because of new policies to be implemented, many of the residents will be displaced. To make the situation more challenging, some of these residents have difficulty communicating, have no local family, and have not indicated that they approve the release of their medical information. Arrangements must be made for these individuals.

Write a 1,050- to 1,400-word paper on the different types of communication methods for the health care organization described in the scenario.Include the following in your paper:

• The advantages and disadvantages of using traditional, electronic, and social media for health care communication
• The effects of HIPAA and other regulations on the use of these media for health care communication
• Cite a minimum of two sources, one from the University Library and the other from the course textbooks or Electronic Reserve Readings, to support your position.

Consider the following scenario:

You are the communications coordinator for a national drug manufacturer. Recently, there have been reports of significant negative effects caused by one of your medications that is used by a significant population. News reports have alleged that one of the individuals affected is a well-known public figure. You are tasked with addressing the news reports and the general public regarding this situation.

Write a 1,050- to 1,400-word paper on different types of communication methods for the health care organization described in the scenario.Include the following in your paper:

• The advantages and disadvantages of using traditional, electronic, and social media for health care communication
• The effects of HIPAA and other regulations on the use of these media for health care communication
• Cite a minimum of two sources, one from the University Library and the other from the course textbooks or Electronic Reserve Readings, to support your position.
• Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines

Week Three Health Care Financial Terms Worksheet

Understanding health care financial terms is a prerequisite for both academic and professional success. This assignment is intended to ensure you understand some of the basic terms used in this course.

Complete the worksheet below according to the following guidelines:

In the space provided, write each term’s definition as used in health care management. You must define the term in your own words.

In the space provided after each term’s definition, summarize a health care management scenario that illustrates the importance of the skill, concept, procedure, or tool to which the term refers. In the scenario, you may wish to consider the following:

Why is the skill, concept, procedure, or tool necessary for accurate record keeping, operational efficiency, excellent patient services, employee management, regulatory compliance, reducing costs, forecasting, and so forth?

What successes are enabled by an adequate understanding or appropriate application of the skill, concept, procedure, or tool?

What risks or failures are associated with an inadequate understanding or inappropriate application of the skill, concept, procedure, or tool?

Save the completed worksheet as a Microsoft Word document with your name in the file name.

Submit the file to your instructor.

Worksheet

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Term                                   Definition                                                               Scenario

Capital expenditure budget

Direct cost

Flexible budget

Operating budget

Responsibility center