HCA 675

HCA 675 Week 7 Discussion Question 1 (Graded) Your hospital has been placed on alert for receiving patients from a local explosion at a large factory. Reports from the scene are spotty in terms of numbers killed or injured, and you do not know how many patients you may be getting. News reports are calling for casualties in the 100s, but local fire responders are sending in conflicting reports. You need to know what your ED will be receiving, so you can determine whether to close surgery to elec...

HCA 675 Week 8 Discussion Question 1 (Graded) What are the major positives that you see in the PPACA legislation? What are the major negatives that you see in the PPACA legislation? Provide rationale for your answer. HCA 675 Week 8 Discussion Question 2 (Graded) What are your thoughts about the emerging accountable care organizations? In what ways do you think they will affect the current health care delivery system? How do you think the practice patterns of primary care physicians will ch...

HCA 675 Week 8 Assignment, Impact of PPACE on Health Care

HCA 675 Week 5 Discussion Question 1 (Graded) What do you see as the conflicts between customizing patient care to the needs of an individual patient and standardizing care based on research? HCA 675 Week 5 Discussion Question 2 (Graded) Discuss the concept of “waste” from the Deming perspective. How do you think it could apply to hospitals and other health care entities?

HCA 675 Week 4 Discussion Question 1 (Graded) What are the differences you see between a culture of accountability, where people are held accountable for the mistakes they make, and the Just Culture approach, where mistakes are not punished, but seen as methods of learning? What are the pros and cons of each? HCA 675 Week 4 Discussion Question 2 (Graded) What are the risks of revealing mistakes in an open culture, as a way of being transparent with patients and families? What are the risks...

HCA 675 Week 6 Assignment, Reflection

HCA 675 Week 6 Assignment, Personal Change

HCA 675 Week 4 Assignment, Process of Care

HCA 675 Week 5 Assignment, Standardization of Health Care

HCA675 Week 2 Discussion Question 1 (Graded) What are the pros and cons of a DRG payor system, and a capitated payor system? If you were a health care czar, which one would you favor and why? HCA 675 Week 2 Discussion Question 2 (Graaded) Discuss the impacts of a large portion of the population being uninsured and how this affects the health care system. If this continues, how do you anticipate that the health care system will respond to it? What are the ethical issues and the practical...