The Department Of Health And Human Services Office Of Inspector General

Policies and procedures are set of guidelines and rules put in place by the government to ensure the safety of children and young people while they are in care. It is important that anyone working with children and young people is fully aware of policies and procedures put in place in their setting and also aware of their role in implementing these policies and procedures. Policies and procedures definite what an organisation does and how they do it in order to provide a safe environment for children and young people during their time in care.

In accordance with this the hospital makes sure we follow guidelines laid down by Joint commission Standards. The compliance includes four areas…Information management, Infection control, Communication and Medication Management. The Goal here is patient safety and providing patients with safe and effective care of the highest quality and value.

Human Resources Services Administration (HRSA) Bureau of Health Workforce (BHW) is a program that was created to help America build a health care workforce. The Bureau of Health Workforce is eager to improve the public health by expanding access to quality health services and working to achieve health equity (“Bureau of Health Workforce”). May 2014 was the month and year HRSA was created (“Bureau of Health Workforce”). The Bureau of Health Workforce was developed through the department of Health and Human Services. The Bureau of Health Workforce combines programs that were already administered through the Bureau of Health Professions and the Bureau of Clinician Recruitment and Service “Bureau of Health Workforce”.

In a childcare setting these are the policies and procedures that I have looked at: Nappy changing policy and procedure, positive behaviour policy and procedure, supervision of children on outings and visits policy and procedure, safeguarding children and child protection policy and procedure, information sharing policy and procedure, whistle blowing policy and procedure.

Willow Bend Hospital’s compliance does indeed have multiple deficiencies and is in need of review as many were updated in 2009 and 2010. All information on deficiencies would be found on the latest updated version of the Joint Commission Information Standards. This should be located within the Corporate Compliance/Risk Manager’s office. As this information is not currently available to this writer without a subscription and fee, I must use the information available to me. So expansion and explanation of policy details are limited.

In any organization, it is important to have the written procedures, standard policies, and general rules of behavior to serve as the ground work for a great relationship.

The Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) is required by federal law to ensure federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) are reimbursed no less than their Prospective Payment System (PPS) rate for services provided in the Medicaid and CHIP programs (42 U.S.C. 1396a).

The Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals will be examined in this investigative research paper. Their mission according to their website, “is to protect and promote health and ensure access to medical preventive and rehabilitative services for all citizens of the State of Louisiana.” Their organizational goals are to provide quality services. As well protect and promote health, develop and stimulate services by others. Lastly, in order to fulfill its mission utilize available resources in the most effective matter. The Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals is led by an appointed structured leadership with years of experience. An important issue is the Affordable Care Act and it influence on Louisiana health care. The Honorable Governor Bobby Jindal is an outspoken opponent of Affordable Care Act and has composed is own version in Louisiana. The impact of ACA will be assessed. The Office of Public Health Center for Community and Preventive Health will be assessed on how it is organized to accomplish its statutory objectives.

Numerous organisations provide guidance to address a range of issues, in a health and social care setting for example; staff members adhere to protocols and guidelines. These are formal sets of instructions about what should happen within the organisation as well as providing guidance about what to do in particular circumstances. It is also used to provide detailed step-by-step instructions or rules by which organisations agree to be bound. In this essay I will begin by describing the advantages and the disadvantages of having protocols and guidelines in place, weighing up whether or not they are a useful way to ensure good quality care.

The advancement of these types of compliance plan guidance’s is established on our trust that a health care professional can use internally restraint to more proficiently observe adherence to appropriate decrees, regulations and plan requirements. Foundations for an Effective Compliance Program: This compliance guidance for physician practices includes features that the OIG has persisted to be the foundation for an effective compliance program:

The NYC Health Department of health and mental hygiene, serves at New York City and covers all the five boroughs which are Manhattan, Staten Island, Brooklyn, Queens, Bronx. It is located at an urban center. This department functions about 8 million diverse populations with different cultural, ethnic and economic background. The major industries in NYC are Financial services, Health Care, Technical Services, Retail Trade and Food service, Manufacturing. The characteristics of this urban center is that it’s an international city with mixed groups of cross culture. This city has people from different backgrounds and is known as an immigrant land with broad-based. Also, New York City is known as the wealthiest city with growing job opportunities in all different fields. (New York City Population)

Healthcare professionals are faced with making multi-faceted decisions on a daily basis. These decisions are not just limited to clinical matters, but they include the total patient care experience. Because of emerging healthcare trends and complex health law and ethics, it is imperative that healthcare administrators have a professional organization that they can belong to. “The

The leaders in the National Institute of Health play an important role is shaping the agencies different research plans and activities. The NIH is made up of twenty different centers and institutes each focusing on a different body system or disease of the body requiring their own research agenda.

Having an effective ethics and compliance in health care training course for employees within a company is a positive effort to keep not only the company running strong and efficient, but also developing standards for other companies to follow who are trying to create a more applicable format for corporate regulations. According to federal guidelines, designated and regulated by the Office of Inspector General (OIG), a company in compliance to federal healthcare standards will have effective education of employees, investigation measures, discipline and enforcement measures, intervention of violation standards, strong internal audit standards, compliance officers and staff, and lastly, written company standards and policies that is freely available to all employees.

While the ACA makes health insurance required by law increasing the number of people in the U.S. who have health insurance, it also has elements which do not completely benefit the patient, provider or insurance completely and is therefore “watered down.” There are many reasons for this. One of the reasons is that the ACA had a lot of money that was spent on lobbyists. This was illustrated in the ACA video shown in class. From that video it became known that Obama had to have “buy-ins” with many congress people for them to vote for the ACA bill. There were several congress people with ties to special interest groups, lobbyists and corporations. Parts of the ACA were therefore negotiated in order to satisfy multiple groups resulting in a “watered-down” product. Another important element was the fact that public health is not properly funded to address many of the health care needs such as disease prevention with only a small percentage of funding going to public health. This emphasizes the point that there is minimal importance given to this sector in health care. Lastly, the ACA faced the challenge due to the same opposition and concerns from the past. Concerns such as maintaining privatized insurance, paying the cost of this reform on the nation, and increasing the burden on employers.