USTICE, EQUITY, DIVERSITY, AND INCLUSION IN BEHAVIORAL HEALTH QUALITY MANAGEMENT AND COMPLIANCE
[WLOS: 1, 2, 3, 4] [CLOS: 1, 2, 5]
Prior to beginning work on this assignment,
Review the video, Demonstrating Quality Care in Tele-Behavioral Health
Review the webpage, Health Care Equity Certification Resource Center
Review the document, Behavioral Health Care Accreditation
Review the document, National Patient Safety Goals® Effective January 2024 for the Behavioral Health Care and Human Services Program
Review the NCQA’s document, Behavioral Health Quality Framework: A Roadmap for Using Measurement to Promote Joint Accountability and Whole-Person Care: A White PaperLinks to an external site..
Review the video, Applying the Behavioral Health Quality Framework: How Joint Accountability Can Improve Care
Review Chapters 12 and 13 of your course textbook, Behavioral and Mental Health Care Policy and Practice.
For this assignment, you will be the president or CEO of the behavioral health organization you described in your Week 3 Addressing Access and Equity Challenges for Medicare and Medicaid Participants journal. As the senior administrator, you were asked to prepare a comprehensive report. The purpose of the report was to determine your organization’s preparedness for a JCAHO or NCQA accreditation site visit. Assume you and your administrative team have already prepared the comprehensive report. For this assignment, you will create an excerpt from the executive summary and an annotated bibliography that will be written to accompany the report. Executive summaries are prepared to summarize the key points of a comprehensive report. Since, in practice, executive summaries are written after the comprehensive report is completed, to prepare for your executive summary, you should create an outline and notes for yourself with the information you would include if writing a comprehensive report.
Minimally, assume that your board has eight members, each with one of the following academic degrees: bachelor’s in finance, bachelor’s in marketing and communication, master’s in business administration, master’s in organizational leadership, master’s in strategic fundraising and philanthropy, master’s in social work, doctorate in psychology, and a doctorate (MD or DO) with a specialization in psychiatry. Therefore, be careful that the terminology you use is clear and does not assume the reader has a background in mental health jargon.
In addition, research at least 10 peer-reviewed journal articles or chapters in a scholarly book published in the last 10 years to include in your annotated bibliography. Resources assigned in any week in this course may be utilized along with new resources that you locate. Blogs and sources listed as “credible” in the Scholarly, Peer-Reviewed, and Other Credible table but are not peer-reviewed journal articles or scholarly books may not be used. Review the University of Arizona GlobalCampus Writing Center’s resources APA: Formatting Your References List. and APA: Citing Within Your Paper. for guidance on correct APA formatting.
In your paper, organize your work in the following manner and use the subheadings provided:
Executive summary excerpt (two to three pages)
Create a headline that gives the name of your organization and its mission statement.
Compose an opening paragraph written in a professional tone that also captures the reader’s attention. In the opening paragraph,
Clearly and briefly explain what your organization does.
Integrate a short story, surprising fact, or insightful quote from a consumer relevant to the purpose of the report and incorporate a justice, equity, diversity, or inclusion component relevant to type types of diversity in the clientele your organization serves.
Describe the purpose of the report in the concluding sentence, explicitly including language relevant to determining your organization’s preparedness for a JCAHO or NCQA accreditation site visit.
The content in the body of your executive summary will vary based on the nature of your organization; however, the information must be presented in bullet points and address the following:
JCAHO accreditation
Explain at least five accreditation standards relevant to your organization’s services. Be sure to cite the specific standard to be addressed and discuss compliance indicators relevant to your organization.
Discuss at least one outcome for each accreditation standard, including how it is defined and measured in your organization.
Integrate evaluative criteria relevant to justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion for the clientele your organization serves and at least one group underserved by your organization.
NCQA accreditation
Explain at least five accreditation standards relevant to your organization’s services. Be sure to cite the specific standard to be addressed and discuss compliance indicators relevant to your organization.
Discuss at least one outcome for each accreditation standard, including how it is defined and measured in your organization.
Integrate evaluative criteria relevant to justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion for the clientele your organization serves and at least one group underserved by your organization.
Conclusions and recommendations: The conclusions and recommendations section must consist of one to two paragraphs and include the following:
Compose a statement that explicitly provides your determination regarding your organization’s preparedness for a JCAHO or NCQA accreditation site visit. Is your organization ready for one, both, or neither accreditation site visit(s)?
Explain the rationale for your conclusion. Your board is highly motivated for you to acquire and maintain both types of accreditation.
If you determine your organization is not ready for one or both types of accreditation visits, include recommendations of specific actions needed to become ready.
If you determine your organization is ready for one or both types of accreditation visits, include recommendations of actions that can be taken to exceed minimum accreditation standards in at least two specific areas.
Determine your organization’s strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities for addressing the justice, equity, diversity, or inclusion needs of the clientele your organization serves and at least one group your organization underserves.
Conclude by clearly stating one top priority next step for your organization related to preparation for an accreditation site visit.
Annotated bibliography: Search the University of Arizona Global Campus Library databases and the internet to find scholarly sources that inform the contents of your executive summary excerpt. Construct an APA-style annotated bibliography with a minimum of:
Ten peer-reviewed journal articles published within the last ten years. The sources must be specifically relevant to the services your organization provides, accreditation compliance, and justice, equity, diversity, or inclusion concerns your behavioral health organization needs to address for the clientele you serve.
Six credible professional website resources, three of which are pertinent to a JCAHO accreditation review and three of which are pertinent to an NCQA accreditation review. Relevant required or recommended sources for this course may be used.
Format each source exactly as it would be formatted for inclusion in an APA-formatted reference list. After each reference entry, compose a 100-200-word paragraph describing the main points applied to accreditation standards and justice, equity, diversity, or inclusion concerns your behavioral health organization needs to address. For assistance with writing your annotated bibliography, review the Annotated Bibliography webpage, which contains links to the tutorial, a sample, and a blank assignment template. Feel free to refer to this Annotated Bibliography Template. to get you started. However, make sure that your summaries address the requirements in this specific assignment.
The Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Behavioral Health Quality Management and Compliance paper
must be 5 to 7 double-spaced pages in length (not including title and references pages) and formatted according to APA as outlined in the Writing Center’s APA Formatting for Microsoft Word resource.
must include a separate title page with the following in title case:
title of paper in bold font
Space should appear between the title and the rest of the information on the title page.
student’s name
name of institution (The University of Arizona Global Campus)
course name and number
instructor’s name
due date
must utilize academic voice.
Review theresource for additional guidance.
must include an introduction and conclusion paragraph.
Your introduction paragraph needs to end with a clear thesis statement that indicates the purpose of your paper.
For assistance on writing Introductions & Conclusionsand Writing a Thesis Statementrefer to the Writing Center resources.
must use at least 10 peer-reviewed journal articles published within the last ten years.
The Scholarly, Peer-Reviewed, and Other Credible Sourcestable offers additional guidance on appropriate source types. If you have questions about whether a specific source is appropriate for this assignment, please contact your instructor. Your instructor has the final say about the appropriateness of a specific source.
To assist you in completing the research required for this assignment, review this Quick and Easy Library Researchtutorial, which introduces the University of Arizona Global Campus Library and the research process, and provides some library search tips.
must use at least 6 credible professional website resources, 3 which are pertinent a JCAHO accreditation review, and 3 which are pertinent to an NCQA accreditation review.
must document any information used from sources in APA Style as outlined in the Writing Center’s APA: Citing Within Your Paper guide.
may include a separate references page that is formatted according to APA Style as outlined in the Writing Center. A separate reference list is not required; however, the references in the annotated bibliography must follow current APA format.
