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Introduction
Each year, close to 100,000 hospital deaths is caused by medical errors. Faith Community Hospital is facing the problems or the medial errors issues associated with failing to follow organizational processes, concerns dealing with ethics and poor communication systems.
Background
Faith Community Hospital is a spiritual medical provider whose mission is to promote health and well?being to the people in the communities in which they serve through a comprehensive continuum of services provided in collaboration with insurance companies, regulators and others who share the same vision. Faith Foundation is the governing body of the Hospital. The Faith Foundation is made up of the board of directors, doctors and other hospital staff. The major problems are not with the Faith Foundation but with the hospital.
There are many causes, influences and issues relating to the problem that Faith Community is experiencing. Every organization has an organizational process or a set of policies and procedures to assist employees with the operations of the business. The incident where staff members did not follow Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) directives even though they were in place proves that the staff is not following the organizational processes.
Another issue relating to the organizational process is the relationships or collaborations with insurance companies and other regulations agencies. Faith Community has no control over how and when the hospital gets paid. Premium costs have increased from $217 to $240 per patient per day. It appears that the lack of control over collaborations is aiding to the breakdown of the organizational processes which could eventually lead to medical errors.
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