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1Running Head: ETHICS AND PROFESSIONALISMEthics and Professionalism in HealthcareNameInstitutionDate

2ETHICS AND PROFESSIONALISMQuestion #11.Operations managers are in charge of overseeing the proper provision of services and ensuring that all the activities in the organization are running well and smoothly. In the year 2006 Vidant Health experiences a series of errors in their operations (Wynn et al., 2014). This lead to the death of a patient. After that incident, there was a need for a system improvement and implementation. The facility’s service delivery system was improved to a point where it won the John M. Eisenberg Patient Safety and Quality Award in 2013. The system also saw a reduction in severe events within the facility and improvement in the core Medicare and Medicaid services. Development of the system and its implementation is credited to the operations managers within the facility.2.Vidant Health’s actions have illustrated the ethical principles of justice by ensuring equality, fairness and entitlement to good quality healthcare; beneficence by ensuring that the facility’soperations promote good healthcare which is evident in the statistics provided; nonmaleficence by ensuring that an incident like that of 2006 where a patient died does not happen and again; and autonomy by ensuring that all staff are well-trained to act intentionallyand with understanding when discharging their services. The facility rolled out specific changes that also involve transparency, leader and physician engagement, and patient-family partnership that are aimed at ensuring that these principles are upheld.3.The Vidant Healthcare facility’s mission states that the facility aims at “improving the health and well-being of Eastern North Carolina,” while the vision statement indicates that the facility aims at “becoming the national model for rural health and wellness by creating a premier, trusted health care delivery and education system” (Vidanthealth.com,2018). It values are founded on integrity, compassion, education, accountability, safety,

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