Stakeholders First respond to these initial questions Who are the typical stakeholders of a mental health services agency Describe in 2023
Stakeholders
First, respond to these initial questions:
Who are the typical stakeholders of a mental health services agency?
Describe in detail what their major interests are.
How might the interests of each of these stakeholders be in conflict?
Where do your positions on confidentiality fit in?
Then, thinking of these initial questions, find a news article online, published within the last five years, and covering a story from the United States that relates to the issues of healthcare compliance, where it appears that stakeholder interests are in conflict. Make sure it covers a topic or topics in which you have personal interest. Copy and paste the link into your journal submission, and respond to the following questions:
Summarize what the news article covered in relation to healthcare or mental healthcare compliance.
Who are the stakeholders as described in the article?
What conflict among stakeholders’ interests seems to be occurring?
What does the article say about compliance (if it, in fact, goes into any detail about this topic)?
Why did this particular article interest you?
Your journal entry may be informally written in first person and should consist of approximately 500 words.
12/03/2019 – AU Graduate
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Introduction: Introduction – Stakeholders and Conflicts
Welcome to ORG 5650 Contemporary Issues in Mental Health Care Compliance!
This week’s readings and assignments will introduce you to the fundamental concepts of health care compliance, accreditation, and quality management. During the week, we will examine the role of a management professional in the context of competing agendas and expectations from the various stakeholders in the healthcare system with an emphasis on potential ethical conflicts that may arise. We will develop a definition of quality in the context of health care and a history of quality management. We will also review concepts such as benchmarks in an effort to integrate data into the compliance and quality improvement process. The discussion will transfer the general compliance terminology and concepts to the mental health arena.
The materials in the course are foundations for a lobbying plan that you will develop by the end of Week 6. Take this opportunity to review the final project in Week 6, the lobbying plan. Reviewing it at this early stage will help you to see how the readings and assignments from week to week serve to prepare you for the final assignment as you move through the course.
Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this week, students will be able to:
Identify the basic components of health care compliance (stakeholders, regulations, accreditation, and quality management). (Aligns with CLOs 1, 2)
Analyze the potential ethical conflicts inherent to the management role in a mental health agency or organization. (Aligns with CLOs 3)
Overview
Assignment Due Format Value CLOs Post Your Introduction Day 1 (1st post) Discussion 1 N/A Ethical Conflicts Day 3 (1st post) Discussion 4 1, 2, 3 Stakeholders Day 7 Journal 4 1, 2, 3 Self-Check N/A Self-Check 0 N/A Total 9
Resources
Required References
Essock, S. M., Olfson, M., & Hogan, M. F. (2015). Current practices for measuring mental health outcomes in the USA: International overview of routine outcome measures in mental health. International Review of Psychiatry, 27(4), 296-305. https://doi.org/10.3109/09540261.2015.1014314
Kelly, T. A. (2009). Healing the broken mind: Transforming America’s failed mental health system: Ideas from a new book about transformation in the mental health system. Behavioral Healthcare, 29(10), 35.
Marbury, D. (2016). How behavioral health can benefit from population health strategies: breaking down silos remains critical for building continuity between primary care and behavioral health. Behavioral Healthcare, 36(3), 40, 42-43.
National Organization for Human Services. (2015). Ethical standards for human services professionals. Retrieved from http://www.nationalhumanservices.org/ethical-standards-for-hs-professionals (Links to an external site.)
Vargo, A. C., Sharrock, P. J., Johnson, M. H., & Armstrong, M. I. (2013). The use of a participatory approach to develop a framework for assessing quality of care in children’s mental health services. Administration And Policy in Mental Health, 40(4), 286-299. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10488-012-0419-7
Recommended References
Alemanno, A. (2016, June 3). Citizen lobbying: How your skills can fix democracy (Links to an external site.)[Video file]. Retrieved from https://youtu.be/WqNf2OPdu8c
Laptev, M. (2014, June 26). The realities of lobbying – a look beyond the smoke and mirrors (Links to an external site.) [Video file]. Retrieved from https://youtu.be/o8bbzYjLEvE
Moore, J. D. (1997). Setting standards. Journal of Mental Health Counseling, 27(44), I32.
Sharfstein, J. M. (2015). Dear health care lobbyists… The Milbank Quarterly, 93(1), 15-18. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0009.12099
Smucker, B. (1999). The non-profit lobbying guide (2nd ed.). Independent Sector: Washington, DC.