Benchmark Assignment - Risk and Quality Management Paper

Imagine you are a quality leader for a health care organization, and you have been asked to create a document for new employees to introduce the basic concepts of risk and quality management.

Write a 1,050- to 1,400-word paper in which you address the following:

• Explain basic concepts of quality improvement in the health care industry.
• Explain the concepts of risk and quality management in the health care industry.
• Analyze the information needed for decision-making processes in risk and quality management in the health care industry.
• Analyze 4 risk- and quality-management tools used in the health care industry by considering the following: 
  • What are the risk and quality management tools used in health care?
  • What is the purpose of each tool?
  • What are the advantages and disadvantages of the tools selected?
  • Explain challenges in making risk- and quality-management decisions in the health care industry.

Cite at least 4 peer- reviewed, scholarly, or similar references.

Format your paper according to APA guidelines.