Health Care Issue: Hospital Readmission- Exploring Approaches To Reducing Readmissions

PowerPoint Presentation Requirements

Include the following in your presentation:

A detailed, yet succinct, analysis of the health care issue—who, what, when, where, why. What is the ethical dilemma or issue resulting from executing a law?

Identification of the relevant laws.

Identification of the relevant industry regulations, any extenuating circumstances or gaps in meeting current or expected future regulations, and factors necessary for compliance.

Explanation of the need for intervention or change of the organizational approach.

Description of the policy that you believe needs to be initiated or changed to address or resolve this issue.

The approach or process for addressing the issue, including organizational improvement, risk management, and ethical considerations. Your ethics recommendation should analyze the ethical standard or principle related to the issue and propose some form of strategy, framework, or solution to address the issue, such as a guideline for decision making, an ethical code of conduct with associated action expectations, or an ethical model. Your recommendations should include at least three credible references cited using APA Style and Formatting guidelines to support your recommendations.

A concluding statement and summary of the issue, law, ethical principles, recommendations, and next steps. Ideally, the recommendations will address patient safety, culturally competent care, ethics committee or task force for future problem solving, risk-management considerations, et cetera.

Please follow The Health Care Policy PowerPoint Presentation Scoring Guide below:

1. Fully analyzes a current health care issue and its relationship to health care law and policy, explains key applicable laws which relate to the issue, and includes support for the need for change and a proposed policy change or addition.

2.Analyzes the regulatory and legal principles and concepts of a health care issue affecting both individual and organizational compliance with regulatory bodies. Includes gaps between current and future compliance and factors needed for compliance. Also includes at least five resources cited in APA format.

3. Thoroughly integrates health care policy and law concepts into a plan for organizational improvement, including credible references cited in APA format, which support rationale.

4. Proposes thorough, systems-based, risk management recommendations for the future, to address legal issues in a health care organization, including lessons learned and methods to minimize future risk and accompanying metrics to monitor progress.

5. Thoroughly applies a framework for decision making and managing the complexities of a health care law in an organization, including a strategy or framework for ethical decision making.

Materials:

http://www.mcg.com/content/webinar-exploring-approaches-reducing-readmissions

http://www.cms.gov/Medicare/Medicare-Fee-for-Service-Payment/AcuteInpatientPPS/Readmissions-Reduction-Program.html

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