Management and Organization for Healthcare

Instructions:

You are working for a community-based patient advocacy group. Your boss sends you an email asking for publicly available information that your organization can compile for consumers. Your boss wants to know about accrediting agencies and provider report cards that exist for various types of public and private healthcare institutions (hospitals, managed care plans, long term care facilities, etc.).

Reply to your boss with a one page email that describes the types of accrediting agencies and provider report cards that currently exist. Be sure to include examples and hot links so that your boss can readily follow up on this information if she so chooses.

No Plagiarism! Provide references and cite in text where used.

suggested outline:

• Start with a greeting. This can be something as simple as “Good morning”. You can use a fictional name or leave this out since you were not provided with one.
• In the body of your email you will want to describe the types of accrediting agencies. Do not forget to include to Joint Commission this is important.
• End with a sign-off. This can be something like “Thank you for your time”.
• Do not forget to include your references.