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Assignment 5: Public Health Preparedness
You have just been hired as a new Vice President of quality and safety for a full-service 600-bed government healthcare organization. Within your first month on the job, the national security threat level has been raised to Imminent, which means there is a credible, specific, and impending terrorist threat against the United States, and your facility may be directly impacted. The Chief Executive Officer has requested an immediate six to eight-page report of your proposal for handling such a situation.
Note: You may create and /or make all necessary assumptions needed for the completion of this assignment.
Write a 6-8 page paper in which you:
- Examine the existing procedures related to at least four (4) of the ten (10) essential public health services. Focus on the principal effects that these procedures will have on your hospital during the emergency.
- Specify the importance of continuing to evaluate patients, as stipulated by the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA), during the emergency.
- Detail three (3) measures that you would use in order to maintain the electronic medical record system during the emergency.
- Defend your position on the decision to accept health insurance during the emergency as a potential source of income for the facility. Provide support with at least three (3) examples that illustrate your position.
- Analyze the extent to which this emergency might affect the quality of care provided to the patients and the unimpeded operation of the organization.
- Use at least three (3) quality references. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic resources.
Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:
- Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
- Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.
The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:
- Examine information management and health care records and how the legal reporting requirements impact health care.
- Analyze the impact of healthcare financing and health insurance on healthcare access, quality, and cost.
- Analyze the influence of health policy and health reform on healthcare access, quality, and cost in the U.S.
- Analyze tort reform and healthcare quality.
- Use technology and information resources to research issues in healthcare policy, law, and ethics.
- Write clearly and concisely about healthcare policy and law using proper writing mechanics.
- Attached is the Grading Rubic advising what is needed for an A+ Paper
- NO PLAGIARIZERS
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PUBLIC HEALTH PREPAREDNESS
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PUBLIC HEALTH PREPAREDNESS
Introduction
The essential service of public health was made to help in understanding what public
health is, to help understand the role public health plays in the large healthcare system and to
compare the performance of public health and its health outcomes. They provide a benchmark
which can be used to improve some practices in public health. With the services, health
organizations can identify their weakness and work on improving them. To support this ten
principles health organizations put into consideration certain guidelines and employ monitoring
tools. The ten essential public health services can be divided into:
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Assessment
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Policy Development
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Assurance.
Existing procedures related to the ten essential public health services.
The procedures which are listed in the essential service of public health are implemented
in my healthcare organization in various ways discussed below.
Monitoring and evaluation of the health status are done to help identify problems which
affect the community. Through this, the organization can identify disease trends and provide
health resources to the affected area. People in the field of interest are given information about
the imminent risk and their help status assessed. This is done by the creation of a system used to
report diseases, public health profiles, and survey methods. The health organization does its
survey between two to four years to obtain data on its population. This data is then used for
organization monitoring and planning and evaluation of changes needed in health.
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PUBLIC HEALTH PREPAREDNESS
Informing, educating and empowering people about issues related to their health are also
organized by the organization. Education activities are arranged to make the people aware of the
identified risk. Programmes meant to promote health are organized, and people are told how they
will handle health problems. It is mainly done online through the media or put on billboards and
vehicles. The organization establishes partnerships with other organizations in the area like
schools, workplaces, and churches.
The organizations inv...
