Risk Management Assessment Survey
Prairie Lakes Hospital serves the northeastern area of South Dakota. Prairie Lakes measure the progress made by accounting for all goals meet and adding additional goals for each care management initiative. This focus will improve the quality of health care provided to clients.
At one time risk management meant the management of any potential claims from potential malpractice, workers’ compensation, casualty, and property losses. This basically includes protection and prevention of accidents in any organization (MHHS, 2011). Currently risk management must take on a more global definition that includes the enterprise of financial management (McGuire, 1995). Prairie Lakes Hospital has taken steps to prevent losses by predicting potential problems and creating an action plan and teams of individuals to track any changes in a given area.
Risk managements purpose in health care is to protect patient safety, quality of services, staff and visitor protection, financial losses, risk detection and prevention (MHHS, 2011). Prevention of financial losses can be found done by evaluation of the hospitals finances on a regular basis. Overall risk management protects the organization’s assets and continually identifies and addresses the sources of all risks and losses of an organization.
Risk management’s goal is to protect the assets of an organization and work to identify and fix all areas and sources of risk. In the case of Prairie Lakes Hospital there goals for risk management are to reduce all forms of losses. One goal for risk management is to ensure that patients are receiving the care they need that includes the most current treatments and equipment. It is also important that the families of patients are able to have access to support for all areas of health care treatment (MHHS, 2011). An example is support groups, education