Risk Management for Health Care Organization

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The risk manager will adhere to the Joint commission requirements for reporting sentinel events for accredited hospitals. “Accredited hospital are to identify and respond to any sentinel event in a timely and through manner.”( Radtke, K., & Milton, C. (2003). The Requirements include a credible root analysis and the development of an action plan that reduces risk and improves patient safety measures. The process of the root analysis should find risk in areas like performance but should focuses primarily on systems and processes. The focus should not be limited to the level of individual performance. While doing the analysis, it should progress from special causes then to clinical processes and will conclude in common causes. The analysis should be within the organizations processes and systems, and can assist in identifying improvements that should be put into place to prevent such an event from happening again. If the root analysis shows that the occurrence was unpreventable and there are no such measures to be improved to avoid the event from reoccurring. The root analysis is to help assist in the process of developing a plan of strategies to help reduce the risk of it happening again.” (Joint Commission ,2010)

A suitable plan should address responsibility of the implementation of action which would also include testing of the plan, time lines and the strategies for measuring the effectiveness” . When an on site survey is required the surveyor will assess the compliance of the hospital related to sentinel events. The time in allowance for sentinel reporting according to compliance with the joint commission is a 15 to 45 day response to adverse events. Failure of the hospital to meet the timeline in response to an event will...

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