Explain the role of contingency planning in health care

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Question 1- Read Perspective 2-5 in your textbook on pages 63-65, on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). Consider all four of the scenarios presented in this perspective. Briefly explain and comment on each one. Which scenario do you feel would be best for health care in America by the year 2025? Why do you feel that the scenario you selected will be the best outcome for our nation, and why? What can you as a health care leader do to help make this scenario reality for your own community? Your response should be at least 500 words in length.

Question 2- Environmental analysis is not perfect, in fact far from it. What are the limitations of external environmental analysis in health care? Your response should be at least 200 words in length.

 

Unit VII

 

Question 1- Discuss the role of pre-service, point-of-service, and after-service strategies for effective implementation. Provide at least one example of each.

Your response should be at least 200 words in length.

 

Question 2- Present one example of a value-adding support strategy to facilitate each of the following types of health care strategies: directional, adaptive, market entry, competitive.Your response should be at least 200 words in length.

 

Question 3- Explain how competitive advantage can be gained from within the organization through service delivery strategies. Your response should be at least 200 words in length.

 

Question 4- Read Perspective 9-1 Enhancement of Health Care Quality Using Clinical Pathways on pages 350-351 in your textbook. Clinical pathways are bringing about important improvements in the quality of American health care. As a hospital CEO or Director of Quality Improvement, how would you go about implementing clinical pathways in your own health care organization? Would you anticipate any resistance to implementation? Who would this resistance come from, and why? Your response should be at least 500 words in length.

VIII

Question 1- How do situational analysis, strategy formulation, value-adding service delivery, value-adding support strategies, and action plans relate to one another in health care?

 

Your response should be at least 200 words in length

 

Question 2- How are strategies translated into action plans for health care organizations? Your response should be at least 200 words in length.

 

Question 3- Explain the role of contingency planning in health care. Should every health care organization formulate contingency plans? Why, or why not?

Your response should be at least 200 words in length.

 

Question 4-  Read Perspective 10-2: The Balanced Scorecard on pages 394-395 in your textbook. What is a “Balanced Scorecard” in modern health care delivery? What makes a successful Balanced Scorecard for a health care organization today? Your response should be at least 500 words in length.

Analyze the benefits and challenges of externally reported measures for health care providers and for patients

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The gold standard for defining quality measurement remains Donabedian’s three-element model of structure, process, and outcome” (Varkey, p. 30).

Although this model of quality measurement may apply to all kinds of clinical care facilities, you will focus on hospitals for this assignment so that you can make use of data on the CMS’s “Hospital Compare” Web site. Using this Web site, you will examine quality information for a particular hospital, and conduct some basic benchmarking analysis.

To prepare for this Application:

  • Visit the Hospital Compare Web site:http://www.medicare.gov/hospitalcompare/?AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1
    • Click on the links at the top titled “learn about the new organization of our Hospital Compare Measures” and review them briefly.
  • On the top left there is another tap titled “About Hospital Compare Data” that Shows information on Process of Care Measures, Outcome of Care Measures, and Outpatient Imaging Efficiency Measures.
  • As you consider this information, bring to mind the six dimensions of quality: Safety, effectiveness, patient-centeredness, timeliness, efficiency, and equity. Search…through step 3.
  • For the purposes of this assignment, go back to the 1st page and select a hospital by either entering the zip code for the hospital or the name of the hospital. When you’ve done that and clicked on Show Hospitals, you should have hospitals that you can compare. Follow the directions to review Patient Survey Results (HCAHPS survey results), Timely and Effective Care or Readmissions, Complications and Deaths.
  • Consider which organizations are most appropriate to compare for benchmarking purposes. Use the Hospital Compare website and compare your primary hospital’s data with data from another hospital – either one in the same area or one across the country, as you think appropriate.
  • After comparing the data, assess which measures you think are of the greatest concern and in need of improvement in your primary/original hospital. What is your rationale for this assessment? Select two or three measures to focus on for this assignment. Consider which dimensions of quality they relate to (safety, effectiveness, patient-centeredness, timeliness, efficiency, and/or equity).
  • Review this week’s Learning Resources, new the hospital’s Web site, and consider what other steps you would take to get a clearer picture of these quality issues.

The Assignment

Write a 1- to 2-page paper that addresses the following:

 

  • Identify the primary hospital you have selected.
  • Identify the measures you have chosen to focus on (those that are most in need of improvement or that otherwise warrant attention). Compare and contrast the characteristics of structure, process, and outcome measures, and explain which category or categories your chosen measure relates to.Also, indicate the dimensions of quality with which these measures are associated.
  • Briefly summarize the data, including your benchmarking analysis.
  • Analyze the benefits and challenges of externally reported measures for health care providers and for patients. Also, explain why benchmarking can be useful for identifying areas for improvement.

Explain how health care organizations use secondary data as a comparison to internal data

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You work at a small community-based hospital as a manager in the quality assurance department. One function of your job is to analyze internal data such as medical records, patient surveys, and incident reports to track trends and help improve patient care delivery. Your supervisor just came back from a seminar on quality benchmarking and has asked about your thoughts on analyzing secondary data from the health care industry as a way to benchmark and measure the organization’s quality performance against its peers. You have been asked to prepare a report on the use of both secondary data and internal data as way to improve quality in your organization. Complete the following:

  • Write a paper comparing and contrasting the collection of secondary data and their uses versus the analysis of current health care records and internal data such as incident reports and patient surveys.
  • Explain how health care organizations use secondary data as a comparison to internal data.
  • Assess the validity and reliability of primary and secondary data in conducting health care research.
  • Deliverable Length:  5-7 pages; min. 5 academic/professional sources published in the last 5 yrs.
  • In-text citations

The Affordable Health Care Act and a Capitalist Economy

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The Affordable Health Care Act and a Capitalist Economy

  • Many would argue that in a capitalistic economy, the government cannot provide goods and services as efficiently as the private sector. For example, most arguments for and against the Affordable Health Care Act center on the efficiency of the government in managing and operating a health care system. Do you think the government can provide goods and services to the public as efficiently as or better than the private sector? Support your conclusions with examples and applications.
  • In a free-market economy, firms face some degree of uncertainty, or risk. Some of this risk is controllable, and some is not. Identify the different types of risk that a business might encounter in the marketplace and identify whether they are controllable or uncontrollable. How can a business incorporate risk into the decision-making process?
  • Many would argue that in a capitalistic economy, the government cannot provide goods and services as efficiently as the private sector. For example, most arguments for and against the Affordable Health Care Act center on the efficiency of the government in managing and operating a health care system. Do you think the government can provide goods and services to the public as efficiently as or better than the private sector? Support your conclusions with examples and applications.
  • In a free-market economy, firms face some degree of uncertainty, or risk. Some of this risk is controllable, and some is not. Identify the different types of risk that a business might encounter in the marketplace and identify whether they are controllable or uncontrollable. How can a business incorporate risk into the decision-making process?
  • Justify your choices with valid assumptions and logically driven arguments. Cite any sources using APA format.