COMPARES AND CONTRASTS THE COMPETING VISIONS OF HEALTH CARE ADMINISTRATION AMONG STAKEHOLDERS, IDENTIFIES THE AREAS WHERE THEY CONFLICT, AND DISCUSSES HOW THOSE CONFLICTS COULD BE SEEN IN THE DELIVERY SYSTEM.

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Write a paper of 1,000–1,200 words that compares and contrasts the competing visions of health care administration among stakeholders, identifies the areas where they conflict, and discusses how those conflicts could be seen in the delivery system.Refer to the assigned readings listed below to incorporate specific examples and details into paper.Prepare this assignment according to the APA 
“Back to Basics: Implementing Evidence-Based Practice,” by Spruce, from AORN Journal (2015).
Measuring Costs to Community-Based Agencies for Implementation of an Evidence Based Practice,” by Lang, J., Connell, C., Lang, J.M., and Connell, C.M., from Journal of Behavioral Health Services & Research(2017).
The Future of the Affordable Care Act and Insurance Coverage,” by Glied and Jackson, from American Journal of Public Health (2017).

DEVELOP CODES OF PROFESSIONAL CONDUCT WHICH SUPPORT SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY IN HEALTHCARE FIELD.

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In this unit, you become the sole owner of a healthcare organization. You would like to increase marketing potential while maintaining social responsibility within your field. As a new owner, you are not afforded a budget to hire a marketing expert and must develop the marketing strategy and subsequent collateral materials yourself. Your objective for this unit it to develop a marketing package that promotes your healthcare organization. By the end of this unit, you will become the subject matter expert on developing and deploying a marketing strategy for a healthcare organization.

Submit your marketing package as one (1) Word document. To do this, you will need to use Page Break and copy/paste functions.
Your final submission must include each of the following:
Professional letter from you to the local Chamber of Commerce introducing your new healthcare organization to the community. This is your opportunity to make a good, first impression, so be sure to incorporate the elements you would want to promote.
Identify the 5 P’s of healthcare marketing in your organization
Create mission and vision statements
Develop codes of professional conduct which support social responsibility in your select healthcare field
Record a 30-second radio announcement (Develop a 30-second radio announcement script). You will provide the audio link to your instructor on a separate page in your marketing package.
Design a print advertisement (e.g., billboard, bus, newspaper, etc.). You will provide the print advertisement that you create on a separate page in your marketing package.
All materials in your marketing packet must be completely original. Copying and pasting work from other sources for this assignment is strictly prohibited. Remember, you are developing a marketing package for your own healthcare organization; make it unique.
Although the use of APA formatting is not required for this assignment, proper grammar, spelling, and punctuation are expected.

PLAGIARISM IS HIGHLY UNACCEPTABLE!
This is worth 250 points!

factors that have contributed to dramatic growth in health care spending over the past 50 years

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You are the Chief Operating Officer of a large healthcare system, composed of acute, long term care, and community based organizations in addition to long term care managed care plans. Given your current studies in health policy and management, the Chief Executive Officer of this large healthcare system has requested that you prepare a high-level briefing for the system’s Board of Directors in which you describe: (a) factors that have contributed to dramatic growth in health care spending over the past 50 years; and (b) how health care payment and delivery models are transforming to promote greater accountability for cost and quality in the health care system. Please conclude your memo with your analysis of the most promising approaches for constraining cost growth while maintaining or improving quality, as well as the limitations or open questions that accompany new reimbursement and delivery models that are intended to promote “accountable care.” 
The memo must be four pages in length. Please include references to course readings as well as any relevant outside sources that support your analysis. Citations and a references page (not included in page length) are required. **You must use a recognizable memorandum format for this exercise—and it is recommended that subject areas be segmented using sub headers.  Include your institution’s logo on the first page of the memo (fictitious).  Be creative.

DISCUSS THE FRINGE BENEFIT LEVEL CHANGE AS A KEY COMPONENT OF THE OPERATING BUDGET FOR ANY HEALTHCARE ORGANIZATION. WHY IS IT SO IMPORTANT?

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1.While the operating budget process is underway in June, the capital budget process must also begin. Describe what should be happening in the capital budget process during June of each year.

Your response must be at least 200 words in length.

2. Review the commonly used approaches to budgeting for service volumes in a healthcare organization. Select any three of these and describe them.

Your response must be at least 200 words in length. 

3. Discuss the fringe benefit level change as a key component of the operating budget for any healthcare organization. Why is it so important?

Your response must be at least 200 words in length. 

4. Healthcare budgeting is critically impacted by business compliance issues such as corporate compliance and accreditation. Discuss key compliance and accreditation issues that are affecting U.S. hospitals at this point in our history.

Your response must be at least 200 words in length. 

 Berger, S. (2014). Fundamentals of health care financial management: A practical guide to fiscal issues and activities (4th ed.). San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass. 

DETERMINE GUIDELINES FOR TECHNOLOGY USE IN THE FIELD OF HEALTH INFORMATION MANAGEMENT.

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Overview: Imagine you have been contracted to consult on the recent developments at the Featherfall Medical Center. Featherfall has been struggling of late; it has had a series of problems that have prompted your hiring. It has faced the following issues:  

1. Featherfall has recently violated several government regulations regarding the current state of its technology and how it is being used. The technology system is vastly out of date, and staff are not always using the technology that is in place or they are using the technology inappropriately. These problems have lost the institution lots of money for not meeting government regulations and have caused operational and ethical problems from inefficient and ineffective use of technology. 

2. The staff at Featherfall are not well-trained on the use of technology and do not communicate appropriately about technology use. The roles that pertinent to your consult are the health information management team, the clinical staff (doctors, nurses, etc.), and administrative staff. The health information management team uses proper coding practices, and the current technology system serves them well, despite its age. However, other roles in the hospital have had issues with the system. Clinical staff, for instance, have had record-keeping issues both due to lack of training on the system and the system itself being out of date. Administrative staff within the organization have taken issue with the lack of communication about the technology and its use between the various roles. When the current technology system was chosen many years ago, the needs of these various roles were not considered. 

In this milestone, you will submit a discussion of the history of healthcare information management/informatics and the current landscape in terms of technology.  Specifically the following critical elements must be addressed: 

I. Preparation for Consult: In this section of your final project, you will prepare for your consultation on the organization’s technology choice. To prepare, you will analyze the field of health information management for determining standard technologies and guidelines related to technology use in order to inform your technology selection. 
A. Analyze key historical events in the field of health informatics for how technology has been used that could inform the management of health information. Be sure to support your response with appropriate examples. 
B. Determine guidelines for technology use in the field of health information management that Featherfall could implement. Be sure to support your response with research. 
C. Determine the standard technologies currently used in the field of health information management. Be sure to support your response with research. For example, what record-keeping technologies are typically used in the field? 
D. Develop an overview of how the pertinent roles described at Featherfall would interact with technology. 
E. Describe the process you would use to evaluate new health information technology systems. Be sure that your process will evaluate new systems based on how they meet the needs of the organization and how they are compliant with health regulations and laws. 


Guidelines for Submission: This milestone must be 2–3 pages in length (plus a cover page and references) and must be written in APA format. Use double spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, and one-inch margins. All references cited in APA format. NO PLAGIARISM!!! Paper run through Turnitin App.

EVALUATE THE IMPACT THAT FEDERAL OR STATE HEALTH CARE POLICIES HAVE ON CONSUMER COSTS BOTH POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE EFFECTS.

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In response to federal policy and service requirements, health insurance plans are increasingly developing high-deductible insurance policies and narrow networks. These types of policies require the consumer to pay more out of pocket. To portray this in a positive light, this trend has been labeled as “consumer-based” to suggest that the consumer must pay more from their own funds, and thus, encourage consumers to make better health care choices. On the other hand, this could be labeled as a burden on the consumer.
Write a 350- to 525-word article that identifies and evaluates the impact that federal or state health care policies have on consumer costs. Explore both positive and negative effects.
Publish the article on your own social media account (e.g., LinkedIn, Facebook, etc.), or post it on a health care message board of your choice.
Include a citation of your article in your assignment.
Cite 3 reputable references to support your assignment (e.g., trade or industry publications, government or agency websites, scholarly works, or other sources of similar quality).

EXPLORE HOW QUALITY IMPROVEMENT PROGRAMS COULD BE SYSTEMATICALLY USED IN PUBLIC HEALTH SYSTEMS.

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As demands on the U.S. public health system continue to increase, more quality improvement strategies are needed to support the system and improve outcomes. Public health agencies, like leaders in other industries, are developing quality improvement approaches for application in public health settings. Bringing together local, state and national healthcare practitioners and other stakeholders in quality improvement and quality assurance efforts has yielded several best practices and lessons for public health stakeholders. However, more work is needed if quality improvement is to become standard practice in public health.
Instructions
In this assignment you will read the article “Quality Improvement in Public Health: Lessons Learned from a Multi-State Learning Collaborative.” You will list the major concepts within the article and explain the positive outcomes in the two case studies. Further explore the how quality improvement programs could be systematically used in public health systems and explain the goals, values, and vision that should be considered in implementing such programs. Finally, consider the future, after such programs have been created and findings have been determined. How would ensure that the findings are implemented and followed in public health and public health policy in the future? This paper should be at least 1000 words in length. The paper has at least three references. Your writing should be well ordered, logical and unified, as well as original and insightful. All sources used should be properly cited using APA formatting.
Requirements

List the major concepts within the article and explain the positive outcomes in the two case studies.
Explore how quality improvement programs could be systematically used in public health systems and explain the goals, values, and vision that should be considered in implementing such programs.
Consider the future, after such programs have been created and findings have been determined and how to ensure that the findings are implemented and followed in public health and public health policy in the future.
Please be sure to download the file “Writing Center Resources” from Course Resources to assist you with meeting APA expectations for written Assignments. 

DETERMINE WHAT ROLE HEALTH PLAYS IN DEVELOPING ECONOMIES.

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Assignment 2: Lending Institutions, Health Care, and Human Capital
Due Week 9 and worth 200 points
Use the Internet to research one (1) developing nation of your choice. Your research should include an examination of lending institutions, health care, and human capital, as well as the material covered by the Webtext and lectures in Weeks 6 through 9.
Write a three to four (3-4) page research paper in which you:

Explore whether or not funding from international lending institutions like the World Bank and the IMF are helping or hindering the social, economic, or political development of the country that you have selected. Support your response with examples.
Discuss, with examples, at least four (4) substantive ways in which a healthy population strengthens the economy of the country that you have selected.
Ascertain the degree to which the leadership of your chosen country has used foreign aid to improve its health care system. Support your response with concrete examples.
Use at least five (5) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia, blogs, and other nonacademic websites do not qualify as academic resources. Approval of resources is at the instructor’s discretion. Resources must also be within the last seven (7) years.

When referencing the selected resources, please use the following format:

Webtext Format:

Name of the author. Name of title. Retrieved from website url.

Example:

Soomo. Understanding Development [Webtext]. Retrieved from http://www.webtexts.com/courses/9218-cathey.

Lecture Format:

Name of the Author. Name of the lecture [lecture type]. Retrieved from lecture url.

Example:

Strayer University. (2013). Understanding Development [PowerPoint slides]. Retrieved from /bbcswebdav/institution/SOC/300/1136/Week1/lecture/story.html.

Internet Resources:

Author’s Name. (Date of publication). Title of the resource. Retrieved from website url.

Example:

Wuestewald, Eric. (2014). Portraits of people living on a dollar a day. Retrieved from http://www.motherjones.com/mixed-media/2014/04/living-on-a-dollar-a-day-photos-renee-byer-thomas-nazario.
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:

Determine how human capital is used and what effect gender disparity has on these decisions.
Determine what role health plays in developing economies.
Examine the role that the International Monetary Fund and World Bank play in transfers and the conditions they set to effect this funding.
Use technology and information resources to research issues in sociology of developing countries.
Write clearly and concisely about sociology of developing countries using proper writing mechanics.

SUMMARIZE HOW INFORMATICS HAS ASSISTED IN IMPROVING HEALTH CARE SAFETY IN ORGANIZATION AND AREAS WHERE GROWTH IS STILL NEEDED.

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The 1999 landmark study titled “To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System” highlighted the unacceptably high incidence of U.S. medical errors and put forth recommendations to improve patient safety. Since its publication, the recommendations in “To Err Is Human’ have guided significant changes in nursing practice in the United States.
In this Discussion, you will review these recommendations and consider the role of health information technology in helping address concerns presented in the report.
To prepare:

Review the summary of “To Err Is Human” presented in the Plawecki and Amrhein article found in this week’s Learning Resources.
Consider the following statement:

“The most significant barrier to improving patient safety identified in “To Err Is Human” is a “lack of awareness of the extent to which errors occur daily in all health care settings and organizations (Wakefield, 2008).”

Review “The Quality Chasm Series: Implications for Nursing” focusing on Table 3: “Simple Rules for the 21st Century Health Care System.” Consider your current organization or one with which you are familiar. Reflect on one of the rules where the “current rule” is still in operation in the organization and consider another instance in which the organization has effectively transitioned to the new rule.Post your thoughts on how the development of information technology has helped address the concerns about patient safety raised in the “To Err Is Human” report. Summarize how informatics has assisted in improving health care safety in your organization and areas where growth is still needed.

DISCUSS PLANS FOR RETIREMENT WITH A SPECIAL EMPHASIS ON INCOME AFTER RETIREMENT AND HEALTH INSURANCE

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COLLAPSE

The subjects of retirement and health insurance are much in the news these days. Discuss your plans for retirement with a special emphasis on income after retirement and health insurance. After a lifetime of paying Social Security and Medicare taxes in every payroll check, your grandparents and parents are counting on having Social Security and Medicare to help with the inevitable loss of income occuring at retirement.
Things may be different for your generation. Many are discussing privatizing Social Security and doing away with Medicare. Even Republican voters in the State of Florida are opposed to this plan. Read the report on a survey of Republican Primary Voters who objected 2:1 to plans to change these benefits (among Hispanic voters, opposition was even stronger with 4:1 voters opposing changes). Given what you know of the volatilty of the stock markets that are up one day and down drastically another, would you risk your retirement to the stock market? Would you risk your health on having the ability to pay for private health insurance when you retire?
Despite what you’ve heard, Social Security and Medicare can be saved. The generation entering the workforce today (The Millenials) are an even larger generation than the retiring Baby Boomer generation. As long as as many or more are paying into the system than those who are retiring, the programs can and should be saved. You never know how your life will turn out and it is essential to have a basic retirement cushion to live on. Moreover, it is your money after all. You have paid into both Social Security and Medicare with every paycheck since you started working.
What can you do now to help save Social Security and Medicare? Some believe it is essential to send politicians to Washington and Tallahassee who will protect those benefits. But it is not enough to save these benefits. What can you do to guarantee a comfortable retirement and good medical care in your old age?
Remember the criteria for the discussions:

100-200 word original post
50-100 word reply post
Covers every detail in the discussion description
Submitted on time