Vidant Health/Medical Center located in Greenville, NC

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Instructions

The organization that I am using for this assignment is Vidant Health/Medical Center located in Greenville, NC.

For this assignment, you will complete a TOWS matrix and portfolio analysis, and use any other appropriate analysis tools, to determine alternative strategies for your health care organization’s future success. Include the following elements:

  1. Incorporate the use of new methodologies from the knowledge-economy management approach that might be appropriate for this organization.
  2. Correlate recent research findings regarding strategy management into your approach.
  3. Synthesize operational and financial components in your strategic planning process.
  4. Incorporate your findings from your current environment analysis.
  5. Preface your newly revised strategic plan with the core assumptions regarding environmental opportunities and threats, organizational strengths and weaknesses, and organizational behavior dynamics that are foundational to the strategy.
  6. Determine the organizational structure that best facilitates the strategy—functional, divisional, or matrix.
  7. Include a brief description of the proposed strategy that reflects the choices made regarding:
    • Product domain.
    • Market domain.
    • Level of investment in the respective product and market domains.
    • Positioning approach for achieving competitive advantage.
    • Maneuvers that will be used to implement the positioning approach.
    • Distinctive competencies or assets that will be relied on to gain and sustain competitive advantage.

Requirements

  • Length of paper: 3–5 double-spaced, typed pages.
  • APA formatting: Resources and citations are formatted according to current APA style and formatting.
  • Resources: Use evidence from the literature to support your recommendations.
  • Number of resources: You are required to use a minimum of 10 peer-reviewed research resources throughout your compiled course project.

Below is an attachment of TOWS  Matrix Scoring Guide and also two papers’ that are part of my course project that could assist you if needed.

examine the overall state of health care costs in America, the different factors impacting the finances of health care organizations, and the effect of rising costs on all stakeholders

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Health Care Spending

No one is immune to the rising costs of health care. Consider the following news stories:

  • “In 2008, the average premium for a family plan purchased through an employer was $12,680, nearly the annual earnings of a full-time minimum wage job” (Halle & Seshamani, 2009, Introduction, para. 1).
  • “President Obama’s health care law is putting new strains on some of the nation’s most hard-pressed hospitals, by cutting aid they use to pay for emergency care for illegal immigrants, which they have long been required to provide” (Bernstein, 2012, para. 1).
  • “Doctors in America are harboring an embarrassing secret: Many of them are going broke. This quiet reality, which is spreading nationwide, is claiming a wide range of casualties, including family physicians, cardiologists and oncologists…Doctors list shrinking insurance reimbursements, changing regulations, rising business and drug costs among the factors preventing them from keeping their practices afloat” (Kavilanz, 2012, para. 1, 2, 5).

In this Discussion, you examine the overall state of health care costs in America, the different factors impacting the finances of health care organizations, and the effect of rising costs on all stakeholders.

To prepare:

  • Review the Learning Resources on the level of health care spending in the United States.
  • Consider the ramifications of continuing at this level of spending as well as issues involved with reducing spending.
  • Reflect on which stakeholders (payers, providers, and the general population) should be responsible for making decisions on health care spending.

Question: Post an assessment of the consequences (on payers, providers, and the general population) of continuing current levels of health care spending in the United States as well as the potential consequences of reducing the level of spending. Explain which stakeholders should make health care spending decisions and why.

the major regulations and agencies that oversee the health care industry

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Create a 7- to 10-slide Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation that identifies the major regulations and agencies that oversee the health care industry. A presentation format has been provided for this assignment; however, you may choose to format your presentation in another professional manner.

Include the following in your presentation:

Slide One: Title Slide

  • Title of presentation
  • Your name – Shawn Villaverde
  • Course and course number – HCE120
  • Due date – September 18, 2017
  • Your faculty’s name- Dr. Robert Smile

Slide Two: Introduction Slide

  • Describe the high-level details that will be covered during your presentation. Think of this as similar to a table of contents.

Slide Three: Health Care Agency

  • Identify one agency overseeing health care delivery within the health care industry.
  • Provide a website or alternative resource for this agency.
  • Provide an appropriate artifact that showcases this agency in action.
    • An artifact could be an image, video, or screenshot of the website’s homepage.

Slide Three: Health Care Agency

  • Identify whether the agency is available at the local, state, or federal level.
  • Identify an example of a health care structure that must comply with this agency.
    • Refer back to your Week Two assignment if necessary.

Slide Four: Health Care Agency

  • Describe the effect this agency has had on health care.

Slide Five: Health Care Regulation

  • Identify one regulation that has an impact on health care delivery within the health care industry.
  • Provide a website or alternative resource for the selected regulation.
  • Provide an appropriate artifact that showcases this regulation in action.
  • An artifact could be an image, video, screenshot of the website’s homepage.

Slide Six: Health Care Regulation

  • Identify whether the regulation is carried out at the local, state, or federal level.
  • Identify an example of a health care structure that must comply with this regulation.
    • Refer back to your Week Two assignment if necessary.

Slide Seven: Health Care Regulation

  • Describe the effect this regulation has had on health care.

Slide Eight: Conclusion Slide

  • Provide a summary of your presentation.
  • Review key points addressed in your presentation

Slide Nine: Reference Slide

  • Cite 3 peer-reviewed, scholarly, or similar references.
  • Format your references according to APA guidelines.

Note: Speaker notes are to be provided for each slide. Refer to the “Tutorial: Adding Speaker Notes to Microsoft® PowerPoint® Presentations” learning activity for more information on adding speaker notes.

Note: The University’s Center for Writing Excellence provides samples of different deliverables. Under Samples you will find a sample Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation to use as reference while creating your presentation.

Cite 3 peer-reviewed, scholarly, or similar references to support your presentation.

Format your assignment according to APA guidelines. Include; a title slide, detailed speaker notes, and a reference slide.

Click the Assignment Files tab to submit your assignment.

Describe the role of the nurse in end-of-life decision making with patients and their families

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OVERVIEW

Write an article for a community newsletter for a local retirement village that explains the laws, policies, and choices surrounding end-of-life health care decisions.

By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria:

  • Competency 1: Explain the effect of health care policies, legislation, and legal issues on health care delivery and patient outcomes.
    • Identify the primary policies that define current health care practices in regard to end-of-life health care decisions.
    • Explain the legislation that generated end-of-life health care policies.
  • Competency 2: Explain the effect of regulatory environments and controls on health care delivery and patient outcomes.
    • Explain the effect of end-of-life regulations and controls on patient outcomes.
  • Competency 3: Apply professional nursing ethical standards and principles to the decision-making process.
    • Describe the role of the nurse in end-of-life decision making with patients and their families.
    • Describe the ethical considerations that have influenced policy decisions in regard to end-of-life decisions.
  • Competency 4: Communicate in a manner that is consistent with expectations of nursing professionals.
    • Write content clearly and logically, with correct use of grammar, punctuation, and mechanics.
    • Correctly format citations and references using APA style.

    CONTEXT

    Nurses are at the bedside during the dying process; they spend entire shifts with patients and families; they develop trusting relationships; and they are competent to assess patient and family needs. Nurses gain a unique perspective that allows them to become aware when a patient is not responding to treatment. This perspective places nurses in a position to facilitate end-of-life decision making. (Adams, Bailey. Anderson, & Docherty, 2011, para. 4)

    Reference

    Adams, J. A., Bailey, D. E., Jr., Anderson, R. A., & Docherty, S. L. (2011). Nursing roles and strategies in end-of-life decision making in acute care: A systematic review of the literature. Nursing Research and Practice, 2011.

  • SUGGESTED RESOURCES

  • Internet Resources

    Access the following resources by clicking the links provided. Please note that URLs change frequently. Permissions for the following links have been either granted or deemed appropriate for educational use at the time of course publication.

    • American Nurses Association. (2016). Position statement: Nurses’ Roles and Responsibilities in Providing Care and Support at the End of Life. Retrieved from https://www.nursingworld.org/~4adf1c/globalassets/…

    ASSESSMENT INSTRUCTIONS

    Your manager asked you to prepare an article for a community newsletter for a local retirement village. The editor wants you to talk about the laws, policies, and choices surrounding end-of-life health care decisions

    PREPARATION

    Search the Capella library and the Internet for scholarly and professional peer-reviewed articles on end-of-life care. You will need at least three articles to use as support for your work on this assessment.

    DIRECTIONS

    Write an article of 750–1,000 words (3–4 pages) that discusses the laws, policies, and choices surrounding end-of-life health care decisions. Address the following in your article:

    • Describe the role of the nurse in end-of-life decision making with patients and their families.
    • Explain the legislation that generated end-of-life health care policies. Was the legislation an outcome of a specific medical case?
    • Identify the primary policies regarding current health care practices related to end-of-life health care decisions. How to these policies affect treatment decisions?
    • Explain the effect of end-of-life regulations and controls on patient outcomes. What effect does this have on the nurse-patient relationship?
    • Describe the ethical considerations that have influenced policy decisions in regard to end-of-life decisions.

    ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS

    Your article should meet the following requirements:

    • Written communication: Written communication should be free of errors that detract from the overall message.
    • References: Cite a minimum of three resources; a majority of these should be peer-reviewed sources. Your reference list should be appropriate to the body of literature available on this topic that has been published in the past 5 years.
    • APA format: Resources and citations should be formatted according to current APA style and formatting.
    • Length: 750–1,000 words or 3–4 typed, double-spaced pages, excluding title page and reference page. Use Microsoft Word to complete the assessment.
    • Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12-point.