Quality Management Assessment Summary

Quality Management Assessment Summary

Introduction

The accurate and appropriate management system in any aspect allows the organization to reduce the potential risks and to reduce the costs to great extent. The risks and quality management system with the healthcare organization have very potential benefits. The most important benefit is that the patients are given the quality services and these further results in the decrease in mortality rate in the heath care organizations. The risk and quality management in the health care organizations reduces to greater extent the errors in providing the health services to the patients. The reduction in errors has significant direct impact upon the health betterments of the patients and upon the satisfaction level of the patients. The other potential benefits that are derived from the risk and quality management involve the following.

The compliance of policies and standards of quality care.

The timely detection of the weaknesses and errors in the provision of quality services to the patients. The timely detection of the errors and risks protects the health care organization from various types of costs and the risks of the deaths of the patients.

The appropriate and effective risk and quality management system allows the health care organizations to gather essential facts and figures that can be used to make improvement in the patient outcomes.

The risk and quality management system allows making reductions in the numbers as well as in the types of the adverse events during the provision of care services to the organizations.

The managers of the healthcare organizations have to consider various internal and external factors that may have significant impact upon the raising of risks factors in providing the care services to the patients. The managers in the healthcare organizations must develop the quality standards and policies so that the quality cares services can be provided to all the patients.

Discussion

The following section aims at discussing the executive summary that will include the addressing of various important issues in the health care organizations. The risks and quality management of the general health care organization and the particular health care organization will also be analyzed.

Executive summary

The purpose of the risk and quality management in health care organizations

The risk and quality management is very essential in any type of the business and the organization. Particularly in the health care organization, the importance of risk and quality management further increases. The risk management and the quality management serve various purposes to the health care managers. The purpose of risk management is to minimize the possibility of occurrence of risks that may have negative impact upon the provision of quality services and the health of the patients. The risk management involves minimizing of the risks and the development and implementation of such strategies that protect the organization from unnecessary costs. According to Florence, K. and Allen, D. (2003), the risk management aspect in the health care organization allows protecting the assets of the organization and the interests of various stakeholders. The authors have also proposed that risk management requires the ...