Develop a plan for complying with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act in a hospital setting. Employees can become knowledgeable about SOX's major provisions through training from top executives, who must also comply with the act. Organizations should observe for conflicts of interest. The long-term care industry implements ethical policies derived from regulations to qualify for Medicare/Medicaid funding. Facilities must follow federal and state laws regarding resident care. Organizations evaluate principles like quality of life based on moral motivations like beneficence and nonmaleficence. Malpractice suits require proving deficient care or quality of life, regardless of intent to harm.

1. [From 10$/Pg] Malpractice Law Suits Include
[From 10$/Pg] Malpractice Law Suits Include Develop a plan for compliance with the
Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) in a hospital setting. How can employees become knowledgeable
with the major provisions of SOX? How can top executives comply with the major
provisions? How can conflicts of interests in the organization be observed? Concept of
Respondeat Superiorhttps://www.ama-assn.org/delivering-care/ethics/contracts-deliver-
health-care-serviceshttps://www.concordnow.com/blog/healthcare-contracts-and-
management/ Pozgar, G. (2012). Legal aspects of health care administration (12th ed.).
Jones & Bartlett Learning. (for the 2 attachments) Economic MotivationsThe long-term care
industry implements a great deal of ethical applications, that are derived from state and
federal regulations. For-profit organizations incorporate “care bylaws” into policies and
procedures and any changes are generally related to the workforce via addendums within
the organizational personnel employee handbook. Interestingly, regarding the long-term
care industry, specific laws governing the ethical care of residents becomes enacted through
federal and state mandates, such laws, applications to improve both principles, beneficence
and nonmaleficence are to a vast degree enforced by federal and state agencies and must be
followed by the individual long-term care facilities; furthermore, long-term care
organizations cannot change such laws, policies, and procedures. Yet, the federal and state
agencies can and do change these laws according to statistical incidence such as falls rates,
medication errors, and reluctance to comply pertaining to yearly facility inspections.
Another poignant and specific difference relates to appointment vs. election. Miller (2006)
cites, “health care entities ultimate responsibility centers on establishing ethical goals and
moral polices, select the chief executive, and appoint medical staff members” (p.30). With
this said, regarding the long-term care industry, a specific and mandatory reason for an
organization to be interesting in ethical applications of care would center on state and
federal compliance. This in itself would fall under an economic reason; along with this, the
bottom line for the organization to operate would be to institute such ethical policies in
order to become and maintain eligibility for Medicare and Medicaid funding.Moral
MotivationsBeauchamp and Childress (2009) suggest that health care organizations and
their quality of life perceptions are intertwined within ever changing and emerging
platforms of ethical applications that are based on moral motivation. Therefore, long-term
care organizations are constantly evaluating and revaluating quality of life principles that
are based on moral motivation. The morals intertwined within caring for individuals,
specifically the elderly have taken on a distinct set of relationships that are emergent upon

2. nonmaleficence and the principles of respect for individual autonomy and justice. Long
term care organizations are interested in being ethical in terms of their commitment to
caring for the elderly, their disease progressions, and end of life aspects because the
definition of care centers on the moral staple, not to inflict harm. The opposite would be
negligence and is classified as the absence of care, a departure from professional standards
that determine specific and due care (Beauchamp & Childress, 2009). It is important to note
that malpractice law suits include one common entity called “duty,” meaning caregivers
have a duty to take care of their patients in two specific areas, quality of care and quality of
life aspects. Both of these areas must be proven to be deficient, yet the deficiency does not
always need to be intentional, thus a lack of intent to harm does not relieve the caregiver
from their duty to care for their patients.ReferenceBeauchamp, T. & Childress, J.
(2009). Principles of biomedical ethics. (6th ed.). New York: Oxford University Press.Miller,
R. D. (2006). Problems in health care law. Sudbury, MA: Jones and Bartlett Publishers.