healthcare

Assignment Overview

Given that each health care system and facility faces unique site-specific
risk challenges, a one-size-fits-all model does not exist in risk
management. Health care managers must consider all aspects of their
setting very carefully in terms of patient safety, mandatory regulations,
potential medical errors in the setting, existing and future
policies/procedures, as well as current and upcoming legislative acts that
affect health care provision in the setting.
This module’s Case Assignment challenges you to locate and read an
existing risk management and patient safety plan of a facility of your
choice, and then assess its components in light of the background
readings.
Case Assignment

Using the information in the required readings as well as some additional
research in peer-reviewed sources, complete your Case Assignment by
answering the following:
1. Choose a health care facility (hospital, physician’s office, freestanding
ambulatory clinic, etc.), and summarize each category of its risk
management and patient safety plan. This can be your current or
future-intended setting, or a facility that you locate through some
research online. What is defined/included in the components of the
plan? Who are the stakeholders responsible for the implementation of
each component?
2. Are the directives stated by the American Society for Health Care
Risk Management followed in the plan? If not, what seems to be
missing?
3. What could be added/clarified in the plan’s policies and/or procedures
to either further prevent risk or enhance patient safety? Be as specific
as you can in your assessment.

4. Does the facility have a dedicated Patient Safety Officer (PSO)? What
is the role and scope of a PSO’s daily work?