Public Health

Imagine that you are a senior consultant at Practical Health Care Consulting. Your supervisor has instructed you to spend three months at Caring Angel Hospital to help improve the quality of care, add value to the organization, improve employee morale, design an efficient organizational chart, create a strong team environment, and create the hospital’s competitive advantage. The hospital has traditionally made losses year after year. Furthermore, it is not performing well financially, and the banks are not willing to lend large sums of money for more effective marketing.

As you settle into your observations, you notice that your patients are still hopping from one specialized hospital to another in search of various specialized treatments. You also notice that the seats are not comfortable in the waiting area, and the patients continuously show up for appointments on the wrong dates. The nurses and the employees are not smiling during patient conversations, and everyone looks for ways to blame others for failures in the patient treatment process. Everyone seems to work alone and hide what they do from their colleagues.

At the end of the 3-month period, you must provide a report with your recommended strategies designed to help Caring Angel Hospital achieve its goals.

Note: You may create or make all necessary assumptions needed for the completion of this assignment.

Requirements
Write a 5-7 in which you:

Propose the major steps that Caring Angel Hospital could take to achieve each of the following goals:
Improve the quality of care.
Add value to the organization.
Improve employee morale.
Design an efficient organizational chart.
Create a strong team environment.
Create the hospital’s competitive edge.
Recommend one approach that the hospital could use for acquiring a larger market share given the prevailing financial circumstances. Support your recommendation with specific examples.
Propose at least two value-added services that Caring Angel Hospital could offer to strengthen its value proposition. Support your proposal with at least two examples of the advantages of these value-added services to the hospital.
Use at least four quality sources to support your writing. Choose sources that are credible, relevant, and appropriate. Cite each source listed on your source page at least one time within your assignment.
Use the Strayer University Online Library to find four recent quality academic resources that are current (within the last five years) for this assignment.
Propose a plan to improve the operations, working environment, competitive edge, and value-added services of a hospital.

PUBLIC HEALTH

 

Imagine that you are a hospital administrator at Sunlight Hospital in California. The main complaint among the patients is the quality of care. The hospital board has become aware of this issue and wants to see it addressed. Your job is to understand the state of the hospital, create value, increase efficiency, and turn the facility into a local hospital of choice. Whenever you are making visits to various wards to meet the employees and the patients, you hear how the patients love the hospital, but they would like to see certain improvements in care. The employees seem to be very busy executing their duties and not interacting much with the patients. The hospital board has asked you to compile a report of your findings and suggested strategies for achieving the hospital’s current goals.

Note: You may create or make all necessary assumptions needed for the completion of this assignment.

Write 4-6 pages in which you:

Identify five measurements of quality of care in a hospital, and explain the major reasons why you believe these measurements matter to patients in their process of choosing a hospital for emergency or inpatient care.
Determine four main features in health care organizations that can be used to design a successful quality improvement plan. Describe the manner in which the features can lead to failure or success of quality of care in Sunlight Hospital.
Propose the main reasons why the quality of care would add value to and create a competitive advantage for Sunlight Hospital. Provide a rationale for your response.

Public Health

 

write a 1.5-page public comment on an active (or recently active) public health policy issue. All new rules and regulations, or revisions to existing rules and regulations at the federal level must, by law, open for public comment for a certain period of time. For this assignment, you will search for an active public comment opportunity that is related to public health. You will then take a position on the proposed rule or regulatory change, and support your position with research. You do not have to actually submit your comment, though you are definitely encouraged to do so.

You may write as yourself, or you may take on a role of a person in a particular organization/ stakeholder group.

Evidence-based advocacy is important for regulatory decision-making. Public comments are an opportunity to communicate with government agencies and legislators directly in which you can assert a position or make specific recommendations, based on evidence, to promote the public’s health. These public comments are an essential part of the policy making process and aid agencies in their work.

You can look for comment solicitations in the following places:

Regulations.gov

The Federal Register

The Federal Digital System https://www.regulations.gov

https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/browse/collection.action?collectionCode=FR

https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/search/home.action

New York State:

https://ocfs.ny.gov/main/legal/regulatory/pc/

https://ocfs.ny.gov/main/legal/regulatory/pccon/

Instructions:

You can choose any regulation, at any agency at the state or federal level to write to as long as the regulation is appropriate to allow you to demonstrate knowledge about public health policy. Commenting on a regulation that is currently open to public comment is encouraged, however, if you cannot find one currently open you want to respond to you may choose a regulation that was open for public comment within the last year or so. You are not required to actually submit your comment to the agency, though you are certainly encouraged to do so.

In your public comment, you should identify the regulation you are commenting on (and provide the link), demonstrate knowledge of the issues under consideration by the agency, take a clear position, make a strong case for your position using evidence to describe the public health problem and potential impact of your recommendation, and recognize and respond to potential criticisms/arguments against your recommendation.

Public health

Determine the health priorities of the selected population

  1. Complete a Program Plan Outline in the form of a PPT – Based on those health priorities, develop program goals and objectives (at least 3) and associated activities based on a health behavior theory or multiple health behavior theories and models.
  2. Based on the selected population, explain how the program activities are culturally sensitive and appropriate.

Public health

 

 

 

You will notice that there is not a chapter in the book titled “Public Health.” As you conduct your own research
on the topic of Public Health in the US, you will find that the topics that we have covered are intertwined with
public health issues and initiatives (I am looking for you to identify those connections).
Please provide a brief history of Public Health over time.
Provide insight to how Health Care Systems interact with Public Health initiatives and public policy.
Identify current events in the areas of Public Health, and how current events (such as: recent elections,
legislation, public policy, or the economy) may impact Public Health initiatives.
Review the concept of evidence-based public health strategies (and provide examples).
Identify cultural and religious impacts on public health initiatives.
Please be sure to investigate various segments of public health such as:
• Community wellness initiatives.
• Environmental risks.
• Public health education.
• The economics of public health initiatives.
• Governmental agencies such as the FDA, and their impact on public health, healthy food, and
pharmaceutical approval.
• Demonstrate your understanding of the regulation and enforcement of healthcare law & policy through
local, state and federal agencies, there responsibilities; and how that affects the application of policies
and standards-of-care at the provider level.
Your paper should have an introduction, and a summary-conclusion.
Demonstrate your knowledge of course content, public health, and make recommendations for improvement for
the US health care system.

Public Health

 

Why is Public Health important to you? How will you benefit from a Public Health Certificate? Identify a Public Health Issue (Mental Health, Homelessness, Maternal mortality rate) that affects the US and discuss briefly. At least 1-1/2 pages, APA format

 

Medical, public health, and human services model of service delivery.

 

You read about the medical, public health, and human services model of service delivery. In this discussion, compare and contrast the different models of delivery. Explain the differences between the three service delivery models.

In your responses to your classmates, build on their initial posts and explain which service model is most appealing to you and why.

 

 

 

 

Public health

 

1. Identify the 4 conditions which must be met in order for a “bloodborne pathogen” to spread.
2. How can you minimize the risk of spreading a disease when giving care when visible blood is involved?
3. How do you obtain consent to help a Responsive or Unresponsive victim?
4. Before you act, what are the 7 limitations to consider before moving one or more persons?
5. Name and describe “when to use it” the 5 Emergency Moves in chapter 4.
6. Name and describe the Anatomic Terms which refer to “directions and locations” when discussing where a
person is experiencing signs and symptoms from an injury or illness..
7. Name and describe the 5 “positions” you may have to describe a person’s position to the EMS.
8. Name and describe the 5 Body Cavities in discussed in Chapter 4.
9. Name and Explain the “primary function’s” of the 8 Body Systems discussed in Chapter 4 and NAME AN
INJURY OR ILLNESS related to each Body System.