Health Policy

There are many roles played by healthcare committees because of the wide diversity of possible settings they can actually take part in. At St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Centre in Phoenix, this is a healthcare organization (HCO). (Sultz, 2006) It has two medical management committees, the risk management committee and the critical care committee. The role of the critical committee is actually to appraise the standards of critical care practice of several emergency and intensive care units in the hospital. This committee actually supports an endless improvement of the patient care at the hospital through the continuing and focused monitoring of the main quality signs. (Sultz, 2006)
The risk management committee normally directs the planning and the execution of all risk evading and management policies, processes, procedures and improvements that are related to reduction of risk activities, risk prevention, risk surveillance, unusual occurrences and risk control. (Sultz, 2006) Identification and analysis of the key risk factors by this committee normally avoids tendencies in patient injury outcomes and actually improves the health provider practice.
This committee normally influences the process of health policy making outside the healthcare organization through collaboration with HCO community in order to bring strength in the number of their voices heard. In the process of health policy making, these committees creates an environment that normally benefits the entire states with health policy initiative. (Singh, 2010) Furthermore, these committees are known to seek out interested stakeholders in the private sector to support their cause in the health care reform policies. In addition, these committees normally act as middlemen between the government and insurance agencies during health policy making process where they air the concerns and needs of the patients. (Singh, 2010)
It is normally worth to note that legal and ethical dilemmas normally pose a crucial