ROLE OF HEALTH CARE ADMNISTRATOR

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Introduction

 Whether in private medical-practice, nursing home, a corporation, or a

hospital health care administrator usually prays a very crucial role. The
administrator often deals with the business area of the medicine, while
providing the support required by their employers as they offer excellent
healthcare.
 Healthcare administrators are usually entrusted with various responsibilities.
Therefore healthcare administrators should be aware of legal, political,
including ethical aspects in healthcare management.
Overview Of Political, Ethical, And Legal
Aspects
 In an ethical aspect, four basic principles are recommended; autonomy: Patients
usually have their rights to determine their healthcare, Justice: the health care benefits,
including burden, needs to be distributed across society. Beneficence: doing good for
patients.
 Medical negligence, confidentiality, and informed consent are the central aspect of the
healthcare system that healthcare administrators should be aware of as a legal aspect
(Freshman, & Rubino, 2002).
 Like other commodity or resources, health is political. There are political groups either
internal or external that influence the health care operations. Health is political since
the living standards adequate for well-being, and health. It is an aspect of human rights
and citizenship.
How Legal, Political, And Ethical Aspects
Overlap, And Interface

 The ethical action, result to legal action; where in the process of practicing
what is moral in health care, administrator, end up doing was is required of
him by the law.
 Moral decision making is always in line with what law expects from health care
administrators.
 Informed consent, and confidential as legal aspect becomes more when an
administrator realizes that he or she is acting ethically (Pozgar, 2018).
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 Making morally upright decisions by health care administrators increases

their confidence in their work as they tend to think they are doing what is
required by the law.
 Politics may have negative or positive impacts. Negative influences like
health care disparities violating the legal aspect of health care, which ensures
equal medical care for all the patients.
Duties and Responsibilities in Health
Care Administration
 Risk management. These include; incident, events management, financing,
insurance including claim management, and emergency preparedness.
 Human resource management. For instance, it provides an outlet for the
employee's suggestions, including feedback, and overseeing admission.
 Policies and procedures include making of system, methods like drug
handling, IT security, data privacy, patient care, and worker health safety
policies (Pozgar, 2018).
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 Regulatory compliance. Involve conduction of investigation on risks, draft

plans for improvement practices, and monitor to ensure that programs follow
the required practices and standards.
 Ethic boards. They are involved in ethics planning, promoting ethics,
discouraging harassment, and offering staff education to nurture free
expression (Austin, et al. 1988)
Jobs or Titles in Health Care Settings.

 Compliance officer:
 Health compliance usually conducts audits, and investigations, in areas of
risk, and a draft plan for compliance practice improvement addressing the
risks (Kash et al., 2014).
 Compliance programs promote organizational adherence to state and federal
law.
 Compliance programs help in protecting practices that are against abuse,
fraud, waste, including potential-liability areas.
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 Risk managers:
 Comprises of the administrative systems, reports, and processes employed to
monitor, detect, assess, prevent, and mitigate risks.
 By applying risk management, the healthcare organizations, systematically, and
proactively safeguard the patient's safety, organization's assets, accreditation,
market share, and reimbursement level (Freshman, & Rubino, 2002).
 With risk management in healthcare, human lives are said to be on line. Risk
management may decide to reduce the risks on patients, also a liability and
financial risk.
 
Political, Ethical and Legal Issues Affecting
Staff, and Patients, also Patients Benefits.

 Different disciplines, including groups within the regulations, usually fight

over the right way of approaching the public policy imposing own-definitions
to the subject, including patenting the methodology.
 The government may decide to do or neglect to do concerning medical care,
resolving or attenuating conflicts about, rights, resources, and values.
 Health care is usually governed by rules, laws, regulations, including medical
standards (Kash et al., 2014). There are laws designed to protect individuals
during decision making concerning their healthcare.
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.
 There are also set responsibilities of healthcare professionals. The legal
standards set by the governmental-law. The legal actions which are to
applicable individuals present within a country or state (Freshman, & Rubino,
2002).
 Focus pertaining right, or wrong it encompasses decision-making determining
the impacts of the actions.
 Ethics in health care are vital as employees should recognize the healthcare
dilemma, ethical judgments, including decisions from their values, keeping
laws governing them.
Health Care Administrator’s Role In Regard to
Legal, Political, and Ethical Aspects.

 Monitoring, also ordering of the equipment, including supply need. These

include simple items like rubber gloves, to complex ones the like of radiology
equipment. If this role is mishandled, the health care facilities fail to meet
the required standards, and the patients suffer.
 Coordination of the daily tasks in an organization, including evaluation of the
staff, human resource tasks, employee schedules, payroll, and employee
relations (Purnell, 1999). If this fails, the quality of the organization’s
services decline.
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 Maintained Record maintenance, including information sharing. Files need to

be kept appropriately, whether in hard or soft copy. If this is mishandled, the
organization's activities, such as budgeting, may be done inaccurately.
 Educating patients and staff concerning new policies, for instance, health
insurance (Freshman, & Rubino, 2002). If this fails, patients are like to spend
a lot of money on health care, and at times leave a considerable debt in the
organization.
 Compliance with the laws and regulations governing the health system. For
instance, those found in HIPPA concerning health insurance. If this fails, it
means more spending on health care by patients.
conclusion

 It is vital for health care administrators to conversant with was is required in

their profession.
 . They should also be aware of crucial aspects such as political, legal. And
ethical issues in health care, primarily legal and ethical ones.
 If the health care administrator fails, it means the failure of the
organizations, which affects not only but also the staff in general.
 Health care administrators must be so keen on their duties and
responsibilities since they are the determiners of the organization's progress.
References

 Freshman, B., & Rubino, L. (2002). Emotional intelligence: a core competency

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perspectives. Journal of Healthcare Management, 59(1), 65-81.
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 Purnell, L. D. (1999). Health care managers' and administrators' roles,
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