Health Care

Health Care

Locate an example of a policy or guideline from an external source to a healthcare organization. Explain how this policy or guideline may be a constraint to a healthcare organization’s planning, or how it may shape the healthcare organization’s philosophy. For example, given that the American Academy of Pediatrics offers guidelines on child vaccinations, these guidelines might impact the ability of the healthcare organization to deliver services to newborns and infants. Using a similar example, as well as the characteristics of effective plans as your framework, discuss how proper planning can help organizations in their future decision making.
Guided Response: Review several of your classmates’ posts. Provide a substantive response to at least two of your peers.  In commenting on the policies that your classmates have presented, describe the relationship between the political environment and health care decision making.  Why are they so interconnected?

Discussion 2… 200 words

The control process involves three phases that are cyclic: establishing standards, measuring performance, and correcting deviations. Examine the manner in which health care leaders progress through each phase of the control process to manage organizations.  What is the management function of controlling as related to performance improvement?  What tools are used to measure and monitor performance?  Please describe at least two functions and two tools in your response.

Guided Response: Review several of your classmates’ posts. Provide a substantive response to at least two of your peers who chose opposite functions or performance management tools. In what ways were your approaches similar, and it what ways did they differ?

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Discussion Question 1

Policies that might affect the healthcare systems in an organization are if the employees are forced to take insurance policies. The organization might put policies in place that will force each employee to take up a mandatory insurance health policy. The employees will have no choice but to accept. This will affect the healthcare system in that the employees will be forced to only visit specific hospitals when they are sick (Brown, 2002). They will have to visit the hospital accept the insurance cover that they have. Thus, this will limit …………..

APA

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