Risk and Quality Management

Resource: Risk and Quality Management Assessment Summary Grading Criteria and Sample
Executive Summary located in the Center for Writing Excellence
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Risk and quality management provide different methods, tools, and techniques to health care
organizations to ensure that they provide quality health care. Leaders in a health care
organization have hired you as a consultant to help assess the organizations current status and
define a future plan for providing quality health care.
Select an organization type in the health care industry as the basis for this assignment. The
organization may be your employer or a health care organization of particular interest to you.
Types of health care organizations include, but are not limited to, the following:
Hospital
Nursing facility
Physician office
Emergency medical services
Managed care organization
Home health care
Community health department or provider
Pharmacy
Laboratory
Drug manufacturer
Medical device manufacturer
Durable medical equipment supplier

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Research the key concepts of risk and quality management in health care and the factors that
influence risk and quality management for your chosen type of organization.
Research the relationship between risk management and quality management.
Write a 1750 word executive summary in which you complete the following:
Describe your chosen organization.
Describe the purpose of risk and quality management in health care organizations in
general and in your chosen organization.
Describe the key concepts of risk and quality management in your chosen organization.
Explain steps the organization may take to identify and manage their risks.
Identify at least three typical or actual risks in the organization. Describe how the risks
might negatively affect the quality.
Identify at least three internal and external factors that influence quality outcomes in the
organization. Describe how these factors might negatively affect quality outcomes for
the organization.
Outline at least three of the organizations long-term goals and at least three short-term
goals.
Identify at least three fundamental risks and quality management policies that should be
implemented and how they will influence health outcomes.
Explain the relationship between risk management and quality management in the
organization and how these two disciplines complement each other.
Include at least four sources, two from the University Library and two from either the course
textbooks or this weeks Electronic Reserve Readings. Prepare a reference list of all resources
and websites used in your research.
Format the executive summary and reference list consistent with APA guidelines.