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HCA 460 Week 1 Discussion 1 and 2

Part 1. Describe how facilities management is handled in your department.  Who handles facilities issues/concerns/requirements? 
Part  2. Discuss the importance of teamwork in facility management.  How can management be counterintuitive and what are the pros and cons of strongly managing teams vs. self-managed teams.

HCA 460 Week 1 Discussion 1

Part 1: What are the four components of space management planning? Briefly describe each one.

Part 2: Discuss how these four components have or have not contributed to your department’s ability to manage its current space effectively.

HCA 460 Week 2 DQ 1

Identify the main accrediting bodies for health care that govern all health care organizations. What oversight do these regulatory agencies provide? How does this protect organizations, health care workers, and patients?

HCA 460 Week 2 Discussion 1

Identify the main accrediting bodies for health care that govern all health care organizations. What oversight do these regulatory agencies provide? How does this protect organizations, health care workers, and patients?

HCA 460 Week 3 Discussion

Discuss how emergency preparedness is handled in your organization.  Who is responsible?  In your opinion do you have a strong emergency preparedness program?  Have any of the natural disasters that have occurred recently impacted or changed emergency management in your organization?

HCA 460 Topic 5 DQ 1

Explain the relationship between risk management and health care legislation. How does one affect the other?

HCA 460 Topic 5 DQ 2

Describe how a health care organization can reduce the risk for HIPAA compliance when transmitting patient information (via fax, e-mail, paper).

HCA 460 Topic 5 DQ 3

Discuss several areas of risk management within an organization, and the role they play in quality control.

HCA 460 Topic 6 DQ 1

You are asked to lead a quality improvement team to reduce the number of inaccurate ICD-10 code entries. What steps would you take to begin evaluation and who should you include in the project?

HCA 460 Topic 6 DQ 2

In the current literature, identify what are two of the top 10 safety concerns for hospitals. What steps can a health care facility take to reduce the risk for its organization?

HCA 460 Topic 6 DQ 3

You have been tasked with performing a root cause analysis on incomplete documentation of patient status at a health care facility. What steps would you take to evaluate the root cause and what stakeholders would you include?

HCA 460 Topic 7 DQ 1

Identify the top two litigious areas for your selected health care organization and provide examples on how risk can be managed for those areas.

HCA 460 Topic 7 DQ 2

You are managing a health care organization’s operational unit and a major HIPAA compliance issue occurred in which outbound faxes have been sent to 200 incorrect numbers. Who should you involve on your team? Explain the level of concern for this violation.

HCA 460 Topic 7 DQ 3

Explain the similarities and differences between risk management and quality management. Provide an example of each situation.

HCA 460 Topic 7 DQ 4

Your legal team has approached you to work on a team to resolve a lawsuit for incorrect medical coding which the patients claim has led to higher expenses. Explain how you can use some quality tools to research the situation for legal. Provide examples of how you would apply the tools.