Risk Management Program Part 2 - 5 pages

Running Head: RISK MANAGEMENT AND ANALYSIS PART 1 2

RISK MANAGEMENT AND ANALYSIS PART 1 2

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Risk Management and Analysis Part 1

Introduction

Within any healthcare organization, there are different prevalent risks to the community, the patient, the staff, and the healthcare organization at large. This means that risk management in any healthcare organization is of great significance to ensure there is proper development, assessment, close monitoring and implementation of the potential risks to totally prevent or minimize the exposure of risks (Allen‐Duck et al., 2017). This paper is focused on discussing the risk management program; the quality of care offered to the patients and their environment. Moreover, the focus population is a community setting. There is need to look into how the management program chosen will be of great significance in coming up with prevention strategies of falls in a community.

The Reduction and Prevention Program

The risk management plan chosen is the reduction and prevention program. The program was chosen to target the geriatric population that is in the community. The primary focus of the program is on ensuring the identification of different people in the community who are at risk of falls, and ensuring that there is proper implementation and provision of the evidence-based interventions. In ensuring there is there is a reduction of occurrence of falls, the process of prevention always comes first (Haddad et al., 2019). The rationale that led to the choice of fall prevention and the reduction program as a risk management plan is because falls pose risk to one’s health and independence. The geriatric individuals go through this. Among the geriatric population, falls are identified as the main cause of injuries and death. Moreover, they have an effect with regards to healthcare costs and health of the individuals. It is important to come to a realization that falls can be prevented. The program gives a clear picture of how falls can be prevented in a community setting, and thus geriatric population able to successfully maintain their health and independence.

The Process of Standard Administration

Risk management in a healthcare institution involves the identification of the context; the evaluation of relevant risks; the process of analyzing the identified risks; and the management of outlined risks. The process of identifying the context involves pointing out areas with high priority that need immediate risk management. This is with regards to the care offered to patients. The process of identifying different risks is an important step. This facilitates a clear understanding of risks in the immediate environment and within the healthcare services. (Simsekler et al., 2018). The comprehension of the already identified risks comes after analyzing the identified risks. This is achieved through the analysis of primary causes, the weight and magnitude of the already identified risks, and the necessary actions that can be taken to control the identified risk. Carrying an evaluation of the identified risks helps in the process of prioritization of severity. The analysis score makes this possible. Risk management is the final stage where different appropriate measures are implemented successfully to prevent and ensure minimization of risk occurrence (Moncada & Mire, 2017).

The healthcare department has a significant effect on individuals. This makes the quality of care offered to patients to be important. To compete effectively in the market, the organization has to improve its quality of care. The presence and integration of a risk management program in the healthcare organization is crucial to the care that patients receive. Through Total Quality Management programs patients experience low costs of payment; there is total customer satisfaction improved by the organization; and management of different risks in the organization is made possible (Mahoney et al., 2017). An organization that is able to successfully implement risk management by making use of the guidelines provided and evidence-based evidence successfully achieves risk management programs.

In the community of choice, the older population reported higher rates of falls compared to the younger population. This makes them a priority population and area to be looked into. The fall prevention and reduction program was successfully implemented to deal with the high rate of falls among the elderly people.

The Primary Agencies and Organizations

Some of the agencies that are responsible of regulating the provision of quality care include: The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Health Care Organizations (JCAHO) is focused on making sure that all the healthcare institutions provide quality care to all patients; the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is aimed at conducting research to ensure improvement in the quality of care provided to patients in healthcare institutions, and their safety too; the Joint Commission and Healthcare Quality Promotion (DHQP) is in charge of offering protection to all the patients, the different healthcare professionals and ensures quality care is promoted and the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) works toward making sure that different care plans are aligned quality standards (Jiménez-Rodríguez et al., 2018). The Joint Commission works toward ensuring that different healthcare organization are able to enhance the quality of care they provide; ensure the safety of different patients, and lower the chances of medical errors in healthcare institutions.

The Process of Evaluation and Compliance

The chosen risk management program aligns with the outlined requirements of the joint commission that works toward ensuring the safety of patients and offering of quality care. DHQP requirements are also met through the improvement of the safety of patients. Joint commission plays a significant role in ensuring that different healthcare institutions are able to prevent falls and different injuries associated to them (Lam et al., 2018). The fall prevention program makes all individuals aware through education on the significance of preventing falls. Safety information is communicated effectively to the community and different healthcare providers. It is important to note that the prevention of falls is everyone’s responsibility.

The Recommendations

There is need to integrate patient education on the risk of falls in the chosen program. The Joint Commission is in charge of offering support to raise awareness about the risk of falls. Different stakeholders are educated on the relevant prevention strategies of falls.

There is need for the fall prevention program to adopt the inter-professional approach. The Joint Commission through the inter-professional team is to be established to come up with a whole approach in dealing with reduction and prevention of falls.

Using the standardized tools to in the process of identifying the risk of falls in the community is of great significance in coming up with the best strategies. In other words, the more standardized the tools, the more accurate and valid the results will be.

There is need to reevaluate individuals who have been in a position to sustain falls, and look into different strategies that were put in place for this to be a success. Post-Fall management is of great significance too.

References

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Haddad, Y. K., Bergen, G., & Florence, C. (2019). Estimating the economic burden related to older adult falls by state. Journal of public health management and practice: JPHMP, 25(2), E17. Retrieved from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmc6314899/

Jiménez-Rodríguez, E., Feria-Domínguez, J. M., & Sebastián-Lacave, A. (2018). Assessing the Health-Care Risk: The Clinical-VaR, a Key Indicator for Sound Management. International journal of environmental research and public health, 15(4), 639. Retrieved from https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/15/4/639

Lam, M. B., Figueroa, J. F., Feyman, Y., Reimold, K. E., Orav, E. J., & Jha, A. K. (2018). Association between patient outcomes and accreditation in US hospitals: observational study. bmj, 363. Retrieved from https://www.bmj.com/content/363/bmj.k4011

Mahoney, J. E., Clemson, L., Schlotthauer, A., Mack, K. A., Shea, T., Gobel, V., & Cech, S. (2017). Modified Delphi consensus to suggest key elements of stepping on falls prevention program. Frontiers in public health, 5, 21. Retrieved from https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2017.00021/full

Moncada, L. V. V., & Mire, L. G. (2017). Preventing falls in older persons. American family physician, 96(4), 240-247. Retrieved from https://www.aafp.org/afp/2017/0815/p240.html

Simsekler, M. E., Ward, J. R., & Clarkson, P. J. (2018). Design for patient safety: a systems-based risk identification framework. Ergonomics, 61(8), 1046-1064. Retrieved from https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00140139.2018.1437224?casa_token=kknl5v3_yX4AAAAA:N5B1sf7ctHXaQBj21wxqZQJm9bWm_fF4T57VOBGnXmVdXUBuZz5HGLYXJHJ3vFSV5tuOdKnXHVzT9aXn