All of the following are commonly recognized to be a right of each patient, except:
a. The right to considerate and respectful care
b. The right to receive a reasonable response to his/her requests
c. The right to communicate with a caregiver in the language of the patients choosing
d. For dying patients, the right to receive pain management. - ANSWER C.
Insurance companies and other payers have introduced pre-admission certification for
elective hospital stays in order to:
a. Cause physicians to reconsider need for service
b. Facilitate communication between hospital and the attending physician
c. Establish clinical necessity prior to service
d. Encourage the patient to obtain a second opinion - ANSWER C.
Guidelines produced by the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research:
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,a. Have been shown to decrease healthcare costs
b. Rarely need to be revised
c. Provide starting points for managing individual patients
d. Have been shown to improve the quality of care - ANSWER C.
CEO compensation should be based on:
a. The compensation arrangements with the prior CEO
b. Executive compensation in local corporations with similar gross revenues
c. Present salary plus cost-of-living adjustment
d. What the institution would have to pay for a similarly prepared person if that person were
employed elsewhere - ANSWER D.
An essential function of the governing board is to:
a. Approve the mission, vision, and long-range plan
b. Focus on strategic planning
c. Prepare the operating plan
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,d. Review performance of departmental activities - ANSWER A.
Members of the medical staff are eligible for full membership on the governing board in the
same manner as other individuals:
a. When not legally prohibited
b. When they do not actively practice in the organization
c. When they are not full-time employees
d. If they are not foreign nationals - ANSWER A.
Regarding the budget, the board:
a. Does not use the budget exercise as a way to improve quality and productivity
b. Gets involved in preparing budgets for all operational units
c. Decides which personnel are needed in top management
d. Establishes guidelines and makes final choices among competing opportunities -
ANSWER D.
The individual or group responsible for establishing policy, maintaining quality of care and
providing for institutional management planning is the:
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, a. Chief operating officer
b. Medical staff executive committee
c. Governing body
d. Chief executive officer - ANSWER C.
A correct statement regarding trustees serving as fiduciaries is that they can:
a. Be indicted for alleged theft of facility funds and the improper expenditure of facility
funds for personal reasons
b. Be released from responsibility by giving the audit committee final authority in high-risk
areas of financial matters, without any action by the whole board
c. Be held personally liable for wrongful acts or omissions by corporate officers or co-
trustees by virtue of their position as trustees
d. Waive their fiduciary responsibility as a community organization - ANSWER A.
Ultimate responsibility for the mission statement rests with the:
a. CEO and medical staff
b. Governing board
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a. The right to considerate and respectful care
b. The right to receive a reasonable response to his/her requests
c. The right to communicate with a caregiver in the language of the patients choosing
d. For dying patients, the right to receive pain management. - ANSWER C.
Insurance companies and other payers have introduced pre-admission certification for
elective hospital stays in order to:
a. Cause physicians to reconsider need for service
b. Facilitate communication between hospital and the attending physician
c. Establish clinical necessity prior to service
d. Encourage the patient to obtain a second opinion - ANSWER C.
Guidelines produced by the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research:
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,a. Have been shown to decrease healthcare costs
b. Rarely need to be revised
c. Provide starting points for managing individual patients
d. Have been shown to improve the quality of care - ANSWER C.
CEO compensation should be based on:
a. The compensation arrangements with the prior CEO
b. Executive compensation in local corporations with similar gross revenues
c. Present salary plus cost-of-living adjustment
d. What the institution would have to pay for a similarly prepared person if that person were
employed elsewhere - ANSWER D.
An essential function of the governing board is to:
a. Approve the mission, vision, and long-range plan
b. Focus on strategic planning
c. Prepare the operating plan
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,d. Review performance of departmental activities - ANSWER A.
Members of the medical staff are eligible for full membership on the governing board in the
same manner as other individuals:
a. When not legally prohibited
b. When they do not actively practice in the organization
c. When they are not full-time employees
d. If they are not foreign nationals - ANSWER A.
Regarding the budget, the board:
a. Does not use the budget exercise as a way to improve quality and productivity
b. Gets involved in preparing budgets for all operational units
c. Decides which personnel are needed in top management
d. Establishes guidelines and makes final choices among competing opportunities -
ANSWER D.
The individual or group responsible for establishing policy, maintaining quality of care and
providing for institutional management planning is the:
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, a. Chief operating officer
b. Medical staff executive committee
c. Governing body
d. Chief executive officer - ANSWER C.
A correct statement regarding trustees serving as fiduciaries is that they can:
a. Be indicted for alleged theft of facility funds and the improper expenditure of facility
funds for personal reasons
b. Be released from responsibility by giving the audit committee final authority in high-risk
areas of financial matters, without any action by the whole board
c. Be held personally liable for wrongful acts or omissions by corporate officers or co-
trustees by virtue of their position as trustees
d. Waive their fiduciary responsibility as a community organization - ANSWER A.
Ultimate responsibility for the mission statement rests with the:
a. CEO and medical staff
b. Governing board
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