1. The Joint Commission requires healthcare organizations to report SENTINEL EVENTS.

1. The Joint Commission requires healthcare organizations to report SENTINEL EVENTS. Hospital administrators then execute a root-cause analysis, determine best practices and implement changes to prevent a future incident. Sentinel events become public!

1) Define the termn: Sentinel event and

2) Give an example of a hospital Sentinel event a

2. The hospitals planning efforts usually led by the hospital CE0. Part of the Strategic planning process is the evaluation of the hospitals internal and external environnnents. As a future health Care Administrator, you will need to be skilled at SWOT analysis leadership

a. Define the term: SWOT

b. In performing a strategic swoT analysis of the hospital’s internal and external environments, it serves as the first step in creating the organizations strategic plan. State one example that describes a fictional 200-bed community hospital’s situation for each category: s, w, o and T. (examples are NOT given in your text so, you need to come up with your own example for each of the 4 swoT categories.) provide each example with a full sentence description. Here’s an example of what am looking for: w: This hospital does not employ hospitalists. By relying only on community providers to manage the inpatient course of their patients, the ALos of this hospital is above the national mean.

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W :

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3.

1- State the classic four (4) Ps of Marketing. (page 280-281)

2- Using the text and/or other references as guidance, describe in your own words how each of the (4) Ps apply to Hospital Markets using examples. Remember this is a 10 point essay!

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P2:

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4.

List four (4) roles/functions of the ethics committee in a hospital

5.

List four (4) principles of biomedical ethics that can be used as tools to resolve complex ethical dilemmas inherent to patient care.