Assignment 1: Health Policy and Law Basics
Due Week 3 and worth 150 points
As a chief operating officer of a hospital, you have been tasked with opening a new ambulatory care center in your city.
Write a 2-3 page paper in which you:
- Specify whether you would utilize the professional autonomy, social contract, or free market perspective as the paradigm to design the structure of your new center. Debate at least two (2) advantages and two (2) disadvantages of your chosen perspective. Provide at least two (2) examples of your perspective in action to support your response.
- Analyze the key components of three (3) sources of law related to the effects that each source could potentially have on your healthcare organization’s new initiative.
- Use at least two (2) quality references. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic resources.
Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:
- Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
- Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.
The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:
- Describe the evolution of hospitals and sources of law.
- Examine tort law and the criminal aspects of health care.
- Use technology and information resources to research issues in healthcare policy, law, and ethics.
- Write clearly and concisely about healthcare policy and law using proper writing mechanics.
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Answer preview
Law of tort provides remedies to patients who have suffered harm by the careless acts of health officers. Hence, tort law is the body of laws that enables patients to get compensation for wrongs committed against them (Hariharan, Jonnalagadda, Walrond & Moseley, 2006). Issues in health policy include questions like; state governments or federal must control health care policy, both parties support which systems and should hospitals get paid more than doctors and operation centers. Law execution of moral matters are the off the duty life, keeping law and ones’ privileges, the vital forces, acting independently and cases of reporting.
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