Assignment 3: Legal Ethics, Patients’ Rights, and HIV / AIDS Due Week 9 and worth 200 points As the head health care administrator at USA Community Hospital, you are required to review compliance reports on issues relating to the ethical conduct of the professional staff at your hospital, patient review registries, and standard procedures surrounding the ethical treatment of patients with HIV / AIDS. Intermittently, complaints surface from patients with HIV / AIDS concerned with ethical treatment and denial of services. Note: You may create and / or make all necessary assumptions needed for the completion of this assignment. Write a six to eight (6-8) page paper in which you: Devise a plan to investigate the validity of patients’ claims of denial of services. This plan should include, but not be limited to, establishing mechanisms to address service denial claims, a human resources component, and a review of related policies and procedures.  Analyze the primary way in which different staffing levels may play pivotal roles in upholding ethical conduct, including treating patients with dignity. Justify your position. Formulate a plan to relate the primary legal ramifications to the professional staff regarding ethical treatment of the hospital’s HIV / AIDS patients.  Devise a community relations plan that tout’s the hospital’s unique ways of serving persons with HIV / AIDS, including a focus on de-stigmatizing those afflicted. Use at least five (5) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not quality as academic resources. Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements: Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions. Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.  The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are: Examine the various applications of the law within the health care system. Identify the principles and legalities of ethical issues within the health care system.  Identify a plan that addresses legal and ethical issues in a health care policy. Use technology and information resources to research issues in health care policy, law, and ethics. Write clearly and concisely about health care policy, law, and ethics using proper writing mechanics. Click here to view the grading rubric for this assignment. Grading for this assignment will be based on answer quality, logic / organization of the paper, and language and writing skills, using the following rubric. Points: 200 Assignment 3: Legal Ethics, Patients’ Rights, and HIV / AIDS Criteria Unacceptable Below 70% F Fair 70-79% C Proficient 80-89% B .

1. Assignment 3: Legal Ethics, Patients’ Rights, and HIV / AIDS
Due Week 9 and worth 200 points
As the head health care administrator at USA Community
Hospital, you are required to review compliance reports on
issues relating to the ethical conduct of the professional staff at
your hospital, patient review registries, and standard procedures
surrounding the ethical treatment of patients with HIV / AIDS.
Intermittently, complaints surface from patients with HIV /
AIDS concerned with ethical treatment and denial of services.
Note: You may create and / or make all necessary assumptions
needed for the completion of this assignment.
Write a six to eight (6-8) page paper in which you:
Devise a plan to investigate the validity of patients’ claims of
denial of services. This plan should include, but not be limited
to, establishing mechanisms to address service denial claims, a
human resources component, and a review of related policies
and procedures.
Analyze the primary way in which different staffing levels may
play pivotal roles in upholding ethical conduct, including
treating patients with dignity. Justify your position.
Formulate a plan to relate the primary legal ramifications to the
professional staff regarding ethical treatment of the hospital’s
HIV / AIDS patients.
Devise a community relations plan that tout’s the hospital’s
unique ways of serving persons with HIV / AIDS, including a
focus on de-stigmatizing those afflicted.
Use at least five (5) quality academic resources in this
assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not quality
as academic resources.
Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

2. Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size
12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references
must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your
professor for any additional instructions.
Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the
student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the
date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in
the required assignment page length.
The specific course learning outcomes associated with this
assignment are:
Examine the various applications of the law within the health
care system.
Identify the principles and legalities of ethical issues within the
health care system.
Identify a plan that addresses legal and ethical issues in a health
care policy.
Use technology and information resources to research issues in
health care policy, law, and ethics.
Write clearly and concisely about health care policy, law, and
ethics using proper writing mechanics.
Click
here
to view the grading rubric for this assignment.
Grading for this assignment will be based on answer quality,
logic / organization of the paper, and language and writing
skills, using the following rubric.
Points: 200
Assignment 3: Legal Ethics, Patients’ Rights, and HIV / AIDS
Criteria
Unacceptable
Below 70% F
Fair
70-79% C

3. Proficient
80-89% B
Exemplary
90-100% A
1.
Devise a plan to investigate the validity of patients’ claims of
denial of services. This plan should include, but not be limited
to, establishing mechanisms to address service denial claims, a
human resources component, and a review of related policies
and procedures.
Weight: 20%
Did not submit or incompletely devised
a plan to investigate the validity of patients’ claims of denial of
services. Did not submit or incompletely included, but did not
limit to, establishing mechanisms to address service denial
claims, a human resources component, and a review of related
policies and procedures.
Partially devised
a plan to investigate the validity of patients’ claims of denial of
services.
Partially
included, but did not limit to, establishing mechanisms to
address service denial claims, a human resources component,
and a review of related policies and procedures.
Satisfactorily devised
a plan to investigate the validity of patients’ claims of denial of
services.
Satisfactorily
included, but did not limit to, establishing mechanisms to
address service denial claims, a human resources component,
and a review of related policies and procedures.
Thoroughly devised
a plan to investigate the validity of patients’ claims of denial of
services.
Thoroughly
included, but did not limit to, establishing mechanisms to

4. address service denial claims, a human resources component,
and a review of related policies and procedures.
2.
Analyze the primary way in which different staffing levels may
play pivotal roles in upholding ethical conduct, including
treating patients with dignity. Justify your position.
Weight: 15%
Did not submit or incompletely analyzed
the primary way in which different staffing levels may play
pivotal roles in upholding ethical conduct, including treating
patients with dignity. Did not submit or incompletely justified
your position.
Partially analyzed
the primary way in which different staffing levels may play
pivotal roles in upholding ethical conduct, including treating
patients with dignity.
Partially
justified your position.
Satisfactorily analyzed
the primary way in which different staffing levels may play
pivotal roles in upholding ethical conduct, including treating
patients with dignity.
Satisfactorily
justified your position.
Thoroughly analyzed
the primary way in which different staffing levels may play
pivotal roles in upholding ethical conduct, including treating
patients with dignity.
Thoroughly
justified your position.
3.
Formulate a plan to relate the primary legal ramifications to the
professional staff regarding ethical treatment of the hospital’s
HIV / AIDS patients.
Weight: 20%
Did not submit or incompletely formulated

5. a plan to relate the primary legal ramifications to the
professional staff regarding ethical treatment of the hospital’s
HIV / AIDS patients.
Partially formulated
a plan to relate the primary legal ramifications to the
professional staff regarding ethical treatment of the hospital’s
HIV / AIDS patients.
Satisfactorily formulated
a plan to relate the primary legal ramifications to the
professional staff regarding ethical treatment of the hospital’s
HIV / AIDS patients.
Thoroughly formulated
a plan to relate the primary legal ramifications to the
professional staff regarding ethical treatment of the hospital’s
HIV / AIDS patients.
4.
Devise a community relations plan that tout’s the hospital’s
unique ways of serving persons with HIV / AIDS, including a
focus on de-stigmatizing those afflicted.
Weight: 20%
Did not submit or incompletely devised
a community relations plan that tout’s the hospital’s unique
ways of serving persons with HIV / AIDS, including a focus on
de-stigmatizing those afflicted.
Partially devised
a community relations plan that tout’s the hospital’s unique
ways of serving persons with HIV / AIDS, including a focus on
de-stigmatizing those afflicted.
Satisfactorily devised
a community relations plan that tout’s the hospital’s unique
ways of serving persons with HIV / AIDS, including a focus on
de-stigmatizing those afflicted.
Thoroughly devised
a community relations plan that tout’s the hospital’s unique
ways of serving persons with HIV / AIDS, including a focus on
de-stigmatizing those afflicted.

6. 5.
5
references
Weight: 5%
No references provided
Does not meet the required number of references; some or all
references poor quality choices.
Meets number of required references; all references high quality
choices.
Exceeds number of required references; all references high
quality choices.
6.
Writing Mechanics, Grammar, and Formatting
Weight: 5%
Serious and persistent errors in grammar, spelling, punctuation,
or formatting.
Partially free of errors in grammar, spelling, punctuation, or
formatting.
Mostly free of errors in grammar, spelling, punctuation, or
formatting.
Error free or almost error free grammar, spelling, punctuation,
or formatting.
7.
Appropriate use of APA in-text citations and reference section
Weight: 5%
Lack of in-text citations and / or lack of reference section.
In-text citations and references are provided, but they are only
partially formatted correctly in APA style.
Most in-text citations and references are provided, and they are
generally formatted correctly in APA style.
In-text citations and references are error free or almost error
free and consistently formatted correctly in APA style.
8.
Information Literacy / Integration of Sources
Weight: 5%
Serious errors in the integration of sources, such as intentional

7. or accidental plagiarism, or failure to use in-text citations.
Sources are partially integrated using effective techniques of
quoting, paraphrasing, and summarizing.
Sources are mostly integrated using effective techniques of
quoting, paraphrasing, and summarizing.
Sources are consistently integrated using effective techniques of
quoting, paraphrasing, and summarizing.
9.
Clarity and Coherence of Writing
Weight: 5%
Information is confusing to the reader and fails to include
reasons and evidence that logically support ideas.
Information is partially clear with minimal reasons and
evidence that logically support ideas.
Information is mostly clear and generally supported with
reasons and evidence that logically support ideas.
Information is provided in a clear, coherent, and consistent
manner with reasons and evidence that logically support ideas.