Due Sunday

Government Audit Findings $-$ Titleville Health Care Department

Requirements

List potential criteria and sources of criteria you might use when planning for an audit of the health department. In other words, where would you go to determine best practices?

List potential effects that might be associated with the hospital failing to meet the stated criteria.

Identify potential causes that may have led to the effects you've previously identified.

Background

e City of Titleville, specifically the Titleville Health Department, provides a wide range of alth services in the city. These health services include $10$ excellent, full$-$service hospitals. It is ential that each Titleville hospital be prepared to provide the finest quality of care regardless he circumstances that may be prevailing.

eville hospitals must be prepared for bombing, plane crashes, civil unrest, and power ures. Management of the hospitals has been delegated to individual hospital administrators ted in each hospital. The administrators report to executives of the Titleville Health artment but are otherwise free to manage their hospital as circumstances dictate. Health artment executives' philosophy is management by exception. Administrators receive an Ial appropriation from the Health Department based on a budget they prepare and submit. pital operations, though managed by hospital administrators, are guided by standards plished by various accrediting bodies, by Federal Law, by State Public Health Law, by ville rules and regulations, and by policies and procedures promulgated by the Titleville th Department. Departments of Safety and Security are responsible for assuring the safety ecurity of all the hospitals' patients, visitors, personnel, property and equipment and are giver discretion in discharging this responsibility.