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Identify the various committees of a HCO (Health Care Organization) board and evaluate the function of each committee. Please first read “Physicians on Hospital Boards: Time for New Approaches” (2011, February) and then discuss the Joint Commission requirement: “Joint Commission requires that medical staff members to be eligible for full membership” on the hospital board—but does not mandate that any medical staff officer or other physician be a voting or nonvoting board member.
Reference:
Physicians on Hospital Boards: Time for New Approaches. (2011, February).
Retrieved from http://www.greatboards.org/newsletter/2011/
GreatBoards-reprint-2011-Physicians-on-Hospital-Boards.pdf
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committee
A group of persons convened for the accomplishment of some specific purpose, typically with formal protocols; a guardian; someone in charge of another person deemed to be unable to look after himself or herself.
various committees of HCO are
committees of board
functions of various committees
1.Medical Executive Committee
The duties of this committee usually include:
• Accounting to the Board of Directors for patient/resident care. • Acting on reports and recommendations offered by other committees.
• Coordinating the activities of the medical staff.
• Making recommendations on medical issues.
• Recommending appointment, reappointment,and corrective action of medical staff.
2. Ethics Committee
Ethics Committee is an advisory group appointed by the University Hospital Medical Executive Board. It reviews, on request, ethical or moral questions that may come up during a patients care. Committee members include doctors, nurses, social workers, an attorney, a chaplain etc.
Responsibilities of the Hospital Ethics Committee
To act as patient advocate on bioethical issues..
Develop and recommend hospital and other clinical policies and guidelines that define ethical principles for conduct within the hospital.
The committee will provide advisory consultation and review in cases where ethical dilemmas are perceived by the patient/patients family.the physician/medical team, or other hospital or clinic staff. The primary responsibility will be to encourage dialogue, educate, identify issues offer viable options
, The committee will educate hospital and clinic personnel, patients, and their families about hospital policies regarding ethical issues.
3.The Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee
The Pharmacy and Therapeutics (P & T) Committee is an important medical staffadvisory group. As the primary, formal communication link between the pharmacy andmedical staff, the P & T Committee is of particular importance to the department ofpharmacy services.
All matters of use of medications within the institution, including pharmacy programs,must be reviewed and approved through the committee.
Medication formulary data is reviewed through the committee and recommendations areoffered to the medical staff.
An active involvement in the committee by the department of pharmacy services is vitalin order to develop a contemporary and progressive institutional pharmacy program.
4.The Infection Control Committee
Every healthcare facility uses interdisciplinary task forces such as the SafetyCommittee and the Infection Control Committee to minimize patient and employee risk Representation may include: physicians, nursing staff, infection control practitioners,quality assurance personnel, risk management personnel as well as representativesfrom microbiology, surgery, central sterilization, environmental services, etc. .
The duties of this committee typically include: • Monitoring equipment currently in use. • Evaluating new products being considered or already ordered. • Providing information about equipment and products to involved employees.
5, safety Committee/ Employee Hospital waste managementHealth Committee
Typically composed of representatives Hospital acquired infection, transfusionfrom the occupational health unit, transmitted diseases, rising incidence ofsafety manager, human Hepatitis B, and HIV, increasing land andresources, and employees from the water pollution lead to increasing possibilityvarious departments. of catching many diseases.
The duties of this committee usually This usually includeinclude:• Developing and reviewing policies and 1. Segregation of wasteprocedures for safe and healthy work conditions 2. Collection of bio-medical wastefor employees. 3. Transportation• Developing and evaluating all safety and 4. Treatment of hospital wastehealth programs, including implementation of 5. Safety measuresthe Exposure Control Plan for Bloodborne 6. Measures for waste minimizationPathogens.• Establishing and implementing procedures forworkplace safety inspections.• Establishing procedures for investigating andrecording all workplace accidents, illnesses.
6.Budget/Finance and Audit Committee
Typically composed of representatives from the Board of Directors, chief executive officer,chieffinancial officer, and various departmental directors.
The duties of this committee usuallyinclude:• Monitoring the financial status of the health care facility.• Advising the Board of Directors concerning financial policies.• Reporting to the Board of Directors on the effectiveness of resource allocations.
7.TUMOUR BOARD BLOOD BANK COMMITTEE
The Role of the Tumor Board and Need for Blood Bank Community&Objectives:
As a blood transfusion service
1. To formulate integrated, deals with different functions coordinated, and comprehensive related to donors and patients, it is hospital-wide policies on the imperative to keep in mind the management of patients with safety of both donors and cancer in the hospital. recipients. The blood transfusion
2. To monitor and continually service has to be planned and improve the quality of care to organized in such a way that it patients with cancers. fulfils its ideal aims and objectives i.e.
3. To conduct educational and Recruitment of blood donors - training programs for concerned voluntary & replacement staff so as to facilitate implementation of hospital policies Care of donor, donated unit and the on management of cancer patients. recipient
4. To promote research on
Maintain adequate blood stock oncology that will continually
8. BUDGET/FINANCE AND AUDIT INFORMATION SYSTEMS COMMITTEECOMMITTEE
Typically composed of the director representatives from the Board of of information systems and Directors, chief executive officer, chief representatives from the various financial officerand This committee usually include: departmental directors.
The duties
• Evaluating and recommending of this committee usually clinical computer systems.
include: • Providing training on clinical
• Monitoring the financial status of computer systems. the health care facility.
• Advising the Board of Directors
• Responding to requests for concerning financial policies. assistance with computer
• Reporting to the Board of applications Directors on the effectiveness of resource allocations..
9. MEDICAL RECORD COMMITEE
In most of the hospitals,the quality review of the midical record is done by a medical record committee. Functions: 1) Reviewing the medical records for timely Complition. Clinical relevance Adequacy of the file for use in quality review activities and medico-legal documents The whole course of treatment
2)Reviewing the security and integrity of MRD
3)Checking the retrivel system of department for easy and quick retrival. Role of MRD :-to maintain records of hospital To ensure completeness, be self regulating,to avoid any deficiencies and errors in future.formulate policies, coordinate andmonitor hospital-wide activities on specified areas of responsibility.Hospital Committee General functions: Areas of responsibility Report to Formulate policies Coordinate MonitorExecom (Executive Quality services and Board of DirectorsCommitttee) organizational directionMancom (Management Quality services and ExecomCommittee) operational managementQuality Council Quality services and quality Hospital Director management systemCommittee on Medical Quality medical services Hospital DirectorServices rendered by physiciansBioethics Committee Bioethical matters in patient Medical Director carePharmacy and Therapeutic Drug therapy Medical DirectorCommitteeInfection Control Committee Infection control Medical DirectorWaste Management Waste management Operations Officer orCommittee DirectorMedical Audit and Tissue Outcome in patient care suchCommittee as mortality, morbidity, and Medical Director tissue reviewTumor Board Cancer management Medical DirectorMedical Records Committee Medical records (assistance most needed)Credentials Committee Credentialing of physiciansBlood Transfusion Committee Blood transfusion.
Reference
https://www.slideshare.net/priyankaphonde/types-of-committees-governing-health-care-teams
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