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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 (6-8) 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 six to eight (6-8) page paper in which you:

  1. Examine the existing procedure 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.
  1. Specify the importance of continuing to evaluate patients, as stipulated by the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA), during the emergency.
  2. Detail three (3) measures that you would use in order to maintain the electronic medical record system during the emergency.
  1. 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.
  1. Analyze the extent to which this emergency might affect the quality of care provided to the patients and the unimpeded operation of the organization.
  1. 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:

  • Analyze the impact of healthcare financing and health insurance on healthcare access, quality, and cost.
  • Examine information management and health care records and how the legal reporting requirements impact health care.
  • 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 and law.
  • Write clearly and concisely about healthcare policy and law using proper writing mechanics.

Grading for this assignment will be based on answer quality, logic / organization of the paper, and language and writing skills, using the following rubric.

Points: 200

Assignment 5: Public Health Preparedness

Criteria

Unacceptable

Below 60% F

Meets Minimum Expectations

60-69% D

Fair

70-79% C

Proficient

80-89% B

Exemplary

90-100% A

1. 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.

Weight: 20%

Did not submit or incompletely examined the existing procedures related to at least four (4) of the ten (10) essential public health services. Did not submit or incompletely focused on the principal effects that these procedures will have on your hospital during the emergency.

Insufficiently examined the existing procedures related to at least four (4) of the ten (10) essential public health services. Insufficiently focused on the principal effects that these procedures will have on your hospital during the emergency.

Partially examined the existing procedures related to at least four (4) of the ten (10) essential public health services. Partially focused on the principal effects that these procedures will have on your hospital during the emergency.

Satisfactorily examined the existing procedures related to at least four (4) of the ten (10) essential public health services. Satisfactorily focused on the principal effects that these procedures will have on your hospital during the emergency.

Thoroughly examined the existing procedures related to at least four (4) of the ten (10) essential public health services. Thoroughly focused on the principal effects that these procedures will have on your hospital during the emergency.

2. Specify the importance of continuing to evaluate patients, as stipulated by the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA), during the emergency. Weight: 16%

Did not submit or incompletely specified the importance of continuing to evaluate patients, as stipulated by the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA), during the emergency.

Insufficiently specified the importance of continuing to evaluate patients, as stipulated by the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA), during the emergency.

Partially specified the importance of continuing to evaluate patients, as stipulated by the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA), during the emergency.

Satisfactorily specified the importance of continuing to evaluate patients, as stipulated by the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA), during the emergency.

Thoroughly specified the importance of continuing to evaluate patients, as stipulated by the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA), during the emergency.

3. Detail three (3) measures that you would use in order to maintain the electronic medical record system during the emergency.

Weight: 18%

Did not submit or incompletely detailed three (3) measures that you would use in order to maintain the electronic medical record system during the emergency.

Insufficiently detailed three (3) measures that you would use in order to maintain the electronic medical record system during the emergency.

Partially detailed three (3) measures that you would use in order to maintain the electronic medical record system during the emergency.

Satisfactorily detailed three (3) measures that you would use in order to maintain the electronic medical record system during the emergency.

Thoroughly detailed three (3) measures that you would use in order to maintain the electronic medical record system during the emergency.

4. 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.

Weight: 18%

Did not submit or incompletely defended your position on the decision to accept health insurance during the emergency as a potential source of income for the facility. Did not submit or incompletely provided support with at least three (3) examples that illustrate your position.

Insufficiently defended your position on the decision to accept health insurance during the emergency as a potential source of income for the facility. Insufficiently provided support with at least three (3) examples that illustrate your position.

Partially defended your position on the decision to accept health insurance during the emergency as a potential source of income for the facility. Partially provided support with at least three (3) examples that illustrate your position.

Satisfactorily defended your position on the decision to accept health insurance during the emergency as a potential source of income for the facility. Satisfactorily provided support with at least three (3) examples that illustrate your position.

Thoroughly defended your position on the decision to accept health insurance during the emergency as a potential source of income for the facility. Thoroughly provided support with at least three (3) examples that illustrate your position.

5. Analyze the extent to which this emergency might affect the quality of care provided to the patients and the unimpeded operation of the organization.

Weight: 13%

Did not submit or incompletely analyzed the extent to which this emergency might affect the quality of care provided to the patients and the unimpeded operation of the organization.

Insufficiently analyzed the extent to which this emergency might affect the quality of care provided to the patients and the unimpeded operation of the organization.

Partially analyzed the extent to which this emergency might affect the quality of care provided to the patients and the unimpeded operation of the organization.

Satisfactorily analyzed the extent to which this emergency might affect the quality of care provided to the patients and the unimpeded operation of the organization.

Thoroughly analyzed the extent to which this emergency might affect the quality of care provided to the patients and the unimpeded operation of the organization.

6. 3 references

Weight: 5%

No references provided

Does not meet the required number of references; all references poor quality choices.

Does not meet the required number of references; some references poor quality choices.

Meets number of required references; all references high quality choices.

Exceeds number of required references; all references high quality choices.

7. Clarity, writing mechanics, and formatting requirements

Weight: 10%

More than 8 errors present

7-8 errors present

5-6 errors present

3-4 errors present

0-2 errors present

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Explanation & Answer

Attached.

Public Health Preparedness
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Introduction

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Discussion
a. Four essential public health services for terror threat preparedness
b. Importance of evaluating patients as stipulated by the EMTALA
c. Measures to maintain electronic medical record (EMR) system during the
emergency
d. The decision to accept health insurance during the terror emergency
e. The extent to which terror exigency might affect quality of care given to
casualties and the unrestrained activity of the facility

III.

Conclusion


Running head: PUBLIC HEALTH PREPAREDNESS

Public Health Preparedness
Student’s Name
Institutional Affiliation

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PUBLIC HEALTH PREPAREDNESS

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Public Health Preparedness
Introduction
Public health emergencies such as terrorism require a harmonized response at
organizational, national, and international level. Public health systems should have the ability to
foresee and prepare for exigencies by yielding a powerful set of systemized response actions,
tabletop activities, and toolkits. Public health exigency preparedness refers to the ability of
public health and care systems, persons, and societies to avert, safeguard against, swiftly
respond, and recuperate from health extremities, specifically those whose timing, magnitude, or
incalculability intimidate regular abilities. Preparedness requires a synchronized and ongoing
procedure of planning and execution that count on calculating accomplishment and taking
remedial actions. A public health exigency preparedness requires a full range of averting,
alleviating, and recovery actions. Preparedness also requires operational capacities, which the
capacity to swiftly implement preparedness activities. Preparedness is not fixed thus needs
progressive advancements, including persistent testing of plans through exercises and drills.
Discussion
Four Essential Public Health Services for Terror Threat Preparedness
A terrorist threat is a warning to the national security meaning that impacts will be felt in
the health sector. Therefore, measures to deal with the situation are imperative in order to protect
safety and health of the community. Public health preparedness for an exigency reaction is an
imperative component for managing a public health institution. A public health facility head
should have an excellent exigency reaction policy that can guarantee the institution achieves its
goal of protecting the well-being of the population during a terrorist attack. Preparedness is
important and aids in saving lives and ensuring sufficient recovery procedures during and after

PUBLIC HEALTH PREPAREDNESS

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an attack. In order to have sufficient public health preparedness for a terrorist attack, an
institutional manager should adopt adequate strategies and schemes that guarantee proper
surveillance to notice and react swiftly. This requires a manager to a manager to consider
prevailing procedures relating to the 10 essential public health services. Considering the existing
techniques is imperative in guaranteeing that a health facility sticks to its chief responsibilities of
safeguarding the health of the public an...

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