An Interview with the Chief of Infectious Disease at Kaiser Permanente's North California Hospital

Select a health care organization in your community to conduct an interview with an appropriate risk management employee. The organization can be your current employer, or a different health care facility in your community. Acute care, urgent care, large multi-provider private medical clinics, assisted living facilities, and community/public health clinical facilities are all ideal options to complete the requirements of this assignment. Make sure to select an individual who can provide sufficient information regarding how that organization manages risk within its facility to answer the questions below.
In your interview, address the following:
Identification of the challenges the organization faces in controlling infectious diseases.
Risk management strategies used in the organization's infection control program, along with specific examples.
How the facility's educational risk management program addresses key professional issues, such as prevention of negligence, malpractice litigation, and vicarious liability.
Policies the facility has implemented that address managing emergency triage in high-risk areas of health care service delivery.
Strategies the facility utilizes to monitor and maintain its risk management program.
Post-interview, compose a 750-1,000 word summary analysis of the interview to include the questions above as well as the following elements:
A brief assessment of the organization's risk management program, including what works well and what could work better (the pros and cons).
Action steps you would take to improve the program. Select one area and provide your rationale and possible steps required to implement your suggestion.
Cite appropriate references as needed to support your statements and rationale.
Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guides
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Challenges the organization faces in controlling infectious diseases are identified comprehensively. The submission further incorporates analysis of supporting evidence insightfully and provides specific examples with relevance. Level of detail is appropriate
An explanation of risk management strategies used in the infection control program with specific examples is present and comprehensive. The submission further incorporates analysis of supporting evidence insightfully and provides specific examples with relevance. Level of detail is appropriate.
A description of how the educational risk management program of the facility addresses key professional issues is present and comprehensive. The submission further incorporates analysis of supporting evidence insightfully and provides specific examples with relevance. Level of detail is appropriate
An explanation of the policies the facility has implemented that address managing emergency triage in high-risk areas of health care service delivery is present and comprehensive. The submission further incorporates analysis of supporting evidence insightfully and provides specific examples with relevance. Level of detail is appropriate.
A description of the strategies the facility utilizes to monitor and maintain its risk management program is present and comprehensive. The submission further incorporates analysis of supporting evidence insightfully and provides specific examples with relevance. Level of detail is appropriate.
Brief assessment of the risk management program of the organization is present and comprehensive. The submission further incorporates analysis of supporting evidence insightfully and provides specific examples with relevance. Level of detail is appropriate
An inventory of action steps regarding program improvement ideas inclusive of rationale is present and comprehensive. The submission further incorporates analysis of supporting evidence insightfully and provides specific examples with relevance. Level of detail is appropriate
hesis is comprehensive and contains the essence of the paper. Thesis statement makes the purpose of the paper clear.
Clear and convincing argument presents a persuasive claim in a distinctive and compelling manner. All sources are authoritative
Writer is clearly in command of standard, written, academic English
All format elements are correct.
Sources are completely and correctly documented, as appropriate to assignment and style, and format is free of error.