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Assignment 2: LASA 1 The Value of a Quality Assurance Department Incrisis hospital has been concerned with the increased number of calls from patients regarding their quality of care from a variety of departments, including its emergency room, and its surgery, oncology, and X-ray/lab departments. Incrisis is a 100-bed acute facility and was established in 2006. The human resource department hired you as a consultant to review the quality of care issue and make a recommendation on creating a quality assurance department. Develop a 10- to 15-slide PowerPoint presentation to provide to the board of directors. The presentation should cover the following topics: The link between cost and quality in healthcare. Cite at least two studies conducted in the past five years supporting your response. The role health insurance plays in cost, quality, and healthcare consumer expectations. The various customers (e.g., patients, families, providers, insurance companies) and the healthcare quality from their perspective. At least three current business initiatives driving healthcare quality. The role that national policy plays on the quality of healthcare. A clear explanation of why the quality assurance department should be created. Include Speaker Notes. Submit the PowerPoint presentation to the M3: Assignment 2 Dropbox by Wednesday, July 26, 2017 . Assignment 2 Grading Criteria Maximum Points Discussed the link between cost and quality in healthcare and cited two studies. 28 Described the role health insurance plays in cost, quality, and healthcare consumer expectations. 24 Identified the customers and defined healthcare quality from their perspective. 32 Identified three business initiatives driving healthcare quality. 24 Articulated the impact of national policy on the quality of healthcare. 24 Demonstrated an understanding of the principles and practices of healthcare quality by making a recommendation to create a quality assurance department. 24 Style (4 points): Tone, audience, and word choice Organization (12 points): Introduction, transitions, and conclusion Usage and Mechanics (12 points): Grammar, spelling, and sentence structure APA Elements (16 points): In-text citations and references, paraphrasing, and appropriate use of quotations and other elements of style 44 Total: 200 .
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Assignment 2 LASA 1The Value of a Quality Assurance DepartmentI.docx
Assignment 2: LASA 1
The Value of a Quality Assurance Department
Incrisis hospital has been concerned with the increased number of calls from patients regarding their quality of care from a variety of departments, including its emergency room, and its surgery, oncology, and X-ray/lab departments.
Incrisis is a 100-bed acute facility and was established in 2006. The human resource department hired you as a consultant to review the quality of care issue and make a recommendation on creating a quality assurance department.
Develop a 10- to 15-slide PowerPoint presentation to provide to the board of directors.
The presentation should cover the following topics:
The link between cost and quality in healthcare. Cite at least two studies conducted in the past five years supporting your response.
The role health insurance plays in cost, quality, and healthcare consumer expectations.
The various customers (e.g., patients, families, providers, insurance companies) and the healthcare quality from their perspective.
At least three current business initiatives driving healthcare quality.
The role that national policy plays on the quality of healthcare.
A clear explanation of why the quality assurance department should be created.
Submit the PowerPoint presentation to the
M3: Assignment 2 Dropbox
by
Week 3, Day 7
.
Assignment 2 Grading Criteria
Maximum Points
Discussed the link between cost and quality in healthcare and cited two studies.
28
Described the role health insurance plays in cost, quality, and healthcare consumer expectations.
24
Identified the customers and defined healthcare quality from their perspective.
32
Identified three business initiatives driving healthcare quality.
24
Articulated the impact of national policy on the quality of healthcare.
24
Demonstrated an understanding of the principles and practices of healthcare quality by making a recommendation to create a quality assurance department.
24
Style
(4 points): Tone, audience, and word choice
Organization
(12 points): Introduction, transitions, and conclusion
Usage and Mechanics
(12 points): Grammar, spelling, and sentence structure
APA Elements
(16 points): In-text citations and references, paraphrasing, and appropriate use of quotations and other elements of style
44
Total:
200
.
Assignment 2 LASA 1The Value of a Quality Assurance DepartmentI.docx
Assignment 2: LASA 1
The Value of a Quality Assurance Department
Incrisis hospital has been concerned with the increased number of calls from patients regarding their quality of care from a variety of departments, including its emergency room, and its surgery, oncology, and X-ray/lab departments.
Incrisis is a 100-bed acute facility and was established in 2006. The human resource department hired you as a consultant to review the quality of care issue and make a recommendation on creating a quality assurance department.
Develop a 10- to 15-slide PowerPoint presentation to provide to the board of directors.
The presentation should cover the following topics:
The link between cost and quality in healthcare. Cite at least two studies conducted in the past five years supporting your response.
The role health insurance plays in cost, quality, and healthcare consumer expectations.
The various customers (e.g., patients, families, providers, insurance companies) and the healthcare quality from their perspective.
At least three current business initiatives driving healthcare quality.
The role that national policy plays on the quality of healthcare.
A clear explanation of why the quality assurance department should be created.
Submit the PowerPoint presentation to the
M3: Assignment 2 Dropbox
by
Wednesday, July 1, 2015
.
Assignment 2 Grading Criteria
Maximum Points
Discussed the link between cost and quality in healthcare and cited two studies.
28
Described the role health insurance plays in cost, quality, and healthcare consumer expectations.
24
Identified the customers and defined healthcare quality from their perspective.
32
Identified three business initiatives driving healthcare quality.
24
Articulated the impact of national policy on the quality of healthcare.
24
Demonstrated an understanding of the principles and practices of healthcare quality by making a recommendation to create a quality assurance department.
24
Style
(4 points): Tone, audience, and word choice
Organization
(12 points): Introduction, transitions, and conclusion
Usage and Mechanics
(12 points): Grammar, spelling, and sentence structure
APA Elements
(16 points): In-text citations and references, paraphrasing, and appropriate use of quotations and other elements of style
44
Total:
200
.
Assignment 2 LASA 1The Value of a Quality Assurance Department.docx
Assignment 2: LASA 1
The Value of a Quality Assurance Department
Incrisis hospital has been concerned with the increased number of calls from patients regarding their quality of care from a variety of departments, including its emergency room, and its surgery, oncology, and X-ray/lab departments.
Incrisis is a 100-bed acute facility and was established in 2006. The human resource department hired you as a consultant to review the quality of care issue and make a recommendation on creating a quality assurance department.
Develop a 10- to 15-slide PowerPoint presentation to provide to the board of directors.
The presentation should cover the following topics:
The link between cost and quality in healthcare. Cite at least two studies conducted in the past five years supporting your response.
The role health insurance plays in cost, quality, and healthcare consumer expectations.
The various customers (e.g., patients, families, providers, insurance companies) and the healthcare quality from their perspective.
At least three current business initiatives driving healthcare quality.
The role that national policy plays on the quality of healthcare.
A clear explanation of why the quality assurance department should be created.
Submit the PowerPoint presentation to the
M3: Assignment 2 Dropbox
by
Wednesday, October 23, 2013
.
Assignment 2 Grading Criteria
Maximum Points
Discussed the link between cost and quality in healthcare and cited two studies.
28
Described the role health insurance plays in cost, quality, and healthcare consumer expectations.
24
Identified the customers and defined healthcare quality from their perspective.
32
Identified three business initiatives driving healthcare quality.
24
Articulated the impact of national policy on the quality of healthcare.
24
Demonstrated an understanding of the principles and practices of healthcare quality by making a recommendation to create a quality assurance department.
24
Style
(4 points): Tone, audience, and word choice
Organization
(12 points): Introduction, transitions, and conclusion
Usage and Mechanics
(12 points): Grammar, spelling, and sentence structure
APA Elements
(16 points): In-text citations and references, paraphrasing, and appropriate use of quotations and other elements of style
44
Total:
200
.
Assignment 2 LASA 1The Value of a Quality Assurance Departmen.docx
Assignment 2: LASA 1
The Value of a Quality Assurance Department
Incrisis hospital has been concerned with the increased number of calls from patients regarding their quality of care from a variety of departments, including its emergency room, and its surgery, oncology, and X-ray/lab departments.
Incrisis is a 100-bed acute facility and was established in 2006. The human resource department hired you as a consultant to review the quality of care issue and make a recommendation on creating a quality assurance department.
Develop a 10- to 15-slide PowerPoint presentation to provide to the board of directors.
The presentation should cover the following topics:
· The link between cost and quality in healthcare. Cite at least two studies conducted in the past five years supporting your response.
· The role health insurance plays in cost, quality, and healthcare consumer expectations.
· The various customers (e.g., patients, families, providers, insurance companies) and the healthcare quality from their perspective.
· At least three current business initiatives driving healthcare quality.
· The role that national policy plays on the quality of healthcare.
· A clear explanation of why the quality assurance department should be created.
Submit the PowerPoint presentation to the M3: Assignment 2 Dropbox by Wednesday, October 23, 2013.
Assignment 2 Grading Criteria
Maximum Points
Discussed the link between cost and quality in healthcare and cited two studies.
28
Described the role health insurance plays in cost, quality, and healthcare consumer expectations.
24
Identified the customers and defined healthcare quality from their perspective.
32
Identified three business initiatives driving healthcare quality.
24
Articulated the impact of national policy on the quality of healthcare.
24
Demonstrated an understanding of the principles and practices of healthcare quality by making a recommendation to create a quality assurance department.
24
Style (4 points): Tone, audience, and word choice
Organization (12 points): Introduction, transitions, and conclusion
Usage and Mechanics (12 points): Grammar, spelling, and sentence structure
APA Elements (16 points): In-text citations and references, paraphrasing, and appropriate use of quotations and other elements of style
44
Total:
200
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The Value of a Quality Assurance DepartmentIncrisis hospital has.docx
The Value of a Quality Assurance Department
Incrisis hospital has been concerned with the increased number of calls from patients regarding their quality of care from a variety of departments, including its emergency room, and its surgery, oncology, and X-ray/lab departments.
Incrisis is a 100-bed acute facility and was established in 2006. The human resource department hired you as a consultant to review the quality of care issue and make a recommendation on creating a quality assurance department.
Develop a 10- to 15-slide PowerPoint presentation to provide to the board of directors.
The presentation should cover the following topics:
The link between cost and quality in healthcare. Cite at least two studies conducted in the past five years supporting your response.
The role health insurance plays in cost, quality, and healthcare consumer expectations.
The various customers (e.g., patients, families, providers, insurance companies) and the healthcare quality from their perspective.
At least three current business initiatives driving healthcare quality.
The role that national policy plays on the quality of healthcare.
A clear explanation of why the quality assurance department should be created.
Assignment 2 Grading Criteria
Maximum Points
Discussed the link between cost and quality in healthcare and cited two studies.
28
Described the role health insurance plays in cost, quality, and healthcare consumer expectations.
24
Identified the customers and defined healthcare quality from their perspective.
32
Identified three business initiatives driving healthcare quality.
24
Articulated the impact of national policy on the quality of healthcare.
24
Demonstrated an understanding of the principles and practices of healthcare quality by making a recommendation to create a quality assurance department.
24
Style
(4 points): Tone, audience, and word choice
Organization
(12 points): Introduction, transitions, and conclusion
Usage and Mechanics
(12 points): Grammar, spelling, and sentence structure
APA Elements
(16 points): In-text citations and references, paraphrasing, and appropriate use of quotations and other elements of style
44
Total:
200
.
Assignment 2 LASA 1The Value of a Quality Assurance Departm.docx
Assignment 2: LASA 1
The Value of a Quality Assurance Department
Incrisis hospital has been concerned with the increased number of calls from patients regarding their quality of care from a variety of departments, including its emergency room, and its surgery, oncology, and X-ray/lab departments.
Incrisis is a 100-bed acute facility and was established in 2006. The human resource department hired you as a consultant to review the quality of care issue and make a recommendation on creating a quality assurance department.
Develop a 10- to 15-slide PowerPoint presentation to provide to the board of directors.
The presentation should cover the following topics:
The link between cost and quality in healthcare. Cite at least two studies conducted in the past five years supporting your response.
The role health insurance plays in cost, quality, and healthcare consumer expectations.
The various customers (e.g., patients, families, providers, insurance companies) and the healthcare quality from their perspective.
At least three current business initiatives driving healthcare quality.
The role that national policy plays on the quality of healthcare.
A clear explanation of why the quality assurance department should be created.
.
Assessment 1• Proposing a New InitiativeResearch an economic.docx
Assessment 1
• Proposing a New Initiative
Research an economic opportunity that might be available within your health care setting that will provide ethical and culturally equitable improvements to the quality of care. Then, write a 2–4-page proposal for an initiative to take advantage of that opportunity, supported with economic data and an analysis of the prospective benefits.
Note: Each assessment in this course builds upon the work you have completed in previous assessments. Therefore, you must complete the assessments in the order in which they are presented.
Master's-level health care practitioners are charged with the responsibility of constantly scanning the external environment for shifts in the supply of, and demand for, services. Concurrently, leaders must examine their organization's strategic direction and determine whether adjustments must be made to current service offerings, whether equipment updates are needed, whether staffing models should be changed, and whether other decisions must be made. Each decision that is proposed must be evaluated in terms of the organization as a system, alignment with the organization's mission and strategy, available internal resources, potential contract and payer source implications, and the short- and long-term economic effects at both the micro and macro levels.
Health Care Supply and Demand
The following multimedia animation illustrates elastic and inelastic demand curves, with changes in price.
Medical Care Demand Elasticities.
The following multimedia simulation presents the many concerns of stakeholders about the potential effects on an existing hospital system of a proposed mobile clinic for veterans with PTSD.
Vila Health: A New Mobile Clinic.
The following multimedia self-check activities will aid you in defining terms commonly used in discussions of health care economics.
The Demand for Health.
U.S. Health Care System Issues.
Understanding supply and demand in health care can be crucial to effective cost management and fiscal responsibility. This author explains the concept well by the use of examples and strategies for success.
Indresano, R. (2016). How to rebalance the supply-demand scales in healthcare. Retrieved from https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/patient-engagement/how-to-rebalance-the-supply-demand-scales-in-healthcare.html
The following article addresses the how and why behind the concept of spending efficiently in health care organizations. Examining the costs and benefits of economic opportunities is the key to success for leaders that know how to do more with less.
Doi, S., Ide, H., & Takeuchi, K., Fujita, S., & Takabayashi, K. (2017). Estimation and evaluation of future demand and supply of healthcare services based on a patient access area model. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 14(11), 1367–1381.
Health Care Costs
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Assignment 2 LASA 1The Value of a Quality Assurance DepartmentI.docx
Assignment 2: LASA 1
The Value of a Quality Assurance Department
Incrisis hospital has been concerned with the increased number of calls from patients regarding their quality of care from a variety of departments, including its emergency room, and its surgery, oncology, and X-ray/lab departments.
Incrisis is a 100-bed acute facility and was established in 2006. The human resource department hired you as a consultant to review the quality of care issue and make a recommendation on creating a quality assurance department.
Develop a 10- to 15-slide PowerPoint presentation to provide to the board of directors.
The presentation should cover the following topics:
The link between cost and quality in healthcare. Cite at least two studies conducted in the past five years supporting your response.
The role health insurance plays in cost, quality, and healthcare consumer expectations.
The various customers (e.g., patients, families, providers, insurance companies) and the healthcare quality from their perspective.
At least three current business initiatives driving healthcare quality.
The role that national policy plays on the quality of healthcare.
A clear explanation of why the quality assurance department should be created.
Submit the PowerPoint presentation to the
M3: Assignment 2 Dropbox
by
Week 3, Day 7
.
Assignment 2 Grading Criteria
Maximum Points
Discussed the link between cost and quality in healthcare and cited two studies.
28
Described the role health insurance plays in cost, quality, and healthcare consumer expectations.
24
Identified the customers and defined healthcare quality from their perspective.
32
Identified three business initiatives driving healthcare quality.
24
Articulated the impact of national policy on the quality of healthcare.
24
Demonstrated an understanding of the principles and practices of healthcare quality by making a recommendation to create a quality assurance department.
24
Style
(4 points): Tone, audience, and word choice
Organization
(12 points): Introduction, transitions, and conclusion
Usage and Mechanics
(12 points): Grammar, spelling, and sentence structure
APA Elements
(16 points): In-text citations and references, paraphrasing, and appropriate use of quotations and other elements of style
44
Total:
200
.
Assignment 2 LASA 1The Value of a Quality Assurance DepartmentI.docx
Assignment 2: LASA 1
The Value of a Quality Assurance Department
Incrisis hospital has been concerned with the increased number of calls from patients regarding their quality of care from a variety of departments, including its emergency room, and its surgery, oncology, and X-ray/lab departments.
Incrisis is a 100-bed acute facility and was established in 2006. The human resource department hired you as a consultant to review the quality of care issue and make a recommendation on creating a quality assurance department.
Develop a 10- to 15-slide PowerPoint presentation to provide to the board of directors.
The presentation should cover the following topics:
The link between cost and quality in healthcare. Cite at least two studies conducted in the past five years supporting your response.
The role health insurance plays in cost, quality, and healthcare consumer expectations.
The various customers (e.g., patients, families, providers, insurance companies) and the healthcare quality from their perspective.
At least three current business initiatives driving healthcare quality.
The role that national policy plays on the quality of healthcare.
A clear explanation of why the quality assurance department should be created.
Submit the PowerPoint presentation to the
M3: Assignment 2 Dropbox
by
Wednesday, July 1, 2015
.
Assignment 2 Grading Criteria
Maximum Points
Discussed the link between cost and quality in healthcare and cited two studies.
28
Described the role health insurance plays in cost, quality, and healthcare consumer expectations.
24
Identified the customers and defined healthcare quality from their perspective.
32
Identified three business initiatives driving healthcare quality.
24
Articulated the impact of national policy on the quality of healthcare.
24
Demonstrated an understanding of the principles and practices of healthcare quality by making a recommendation to create a quality assurance department.
24
Style
(4 points): Tone, audience, and word choice
Organization
(12 points): Introduction, transitions, and conclusion
Usage and Mechanics
(12 points): Grammar, spelling, and sentence structure
APA Elements
(16 points): In-text citations and references, paraphrasing, and appropriate use of quotations and other elements of style
44
Total:
200
.
Assignment 2 LASA 1The Value of a Quality Assurance Department.docx
Assignment 2: LASA 1
The Value of a Quality Assurance Department
Incrisis hospital has been concerned with the increased number of calls from patients regarding their quality of care from a variety of departments, including its emergency room, and its surgery, oncology, and X-ray/lab departments.
Incrisis is a 100-bed acute facility and was established in 2006. The human resource department hired you as a consultant to review the quality of care issue and make a recommendation on creating a quality assurance department.
Develop a 10- to 15-slide PowerPoint presentation to provide to the board of directors.
The presentation should cover the following topics:
The link between cost and quality in healthcare. Cite at least two studies conducted in the past five years supporting your response.
The role health insurance plays in cost, quality, and healthcare consumer expectations.
The various customers (e.g., patients, families, providers, insurance companies) and the healthcare quality from their perspective.
At least three current business initiatives driving healthcare quality.
The role that national policy plays on the quality of healthcare.
A clear explanation of why the quality assurance department should be created.
Submit the PowerPoint presentation to the
M3: Assignment 2 Dropbox
by
Wednesday, October 23, 2013
.
Assignment 2 Grading Criteria
Maximum Points
Discussed the link between cost and quality in healthcare and cited two studies.
28
Described the role health insurance plays in cost, quality, and healthcare consumer expectations.
24
Identified the customers and defined healthcare quality from their perspective.
32
Identified three business initiatives driving healthcare quality.
24
Articulated the impact of national policy on the quality of healthcare.
24
Demonstrated an understanding of the principles and practices of healthcare quality by making a recommendation to create a quality assurance department.
24
Style
(4 points): Tone, audience, and word choice
Organization
(12 points): Introduction, transitions, and conclusion
Usage and Mechanics
(12 points): Grammar, spelling, and sentence structure
APA Elements
(16 points): In-text citations and references, paraphrasing, and appropriate use of quotations and other elements of style
44
Total:
200
.
Assignment 2 LASA 1The Value of a Quality Assurance Departmen.docx
Assignment 2: LASA 1
The Value of a Quality Assurance Department
Incrisis hospital has been concerned with the increased number of calls from patients regarding their quality of care from a variety of departments, including its emergency room, and its surgery, oncology, and X-ray/lab departments.
Incrisis is a 100-bed acute facility and was established in 2006. The human resource department hired you as a consultant to review the quality of care issue and make a recommendation on creating a quality assurance department.
Develop a 10- to 15-slide PowerPoint presentation to provide to the board of directors.
The presentation should cover the following topics:
· The link between cost and quality in healthcare. Cite at least two studies conducted in the past five years supporting your response.
· The role health insurance plays in cost, quality, and healthcare consumer expectations.
· The various customers (e.g., patients, families, providers, insurance companies) and the healthcare quality from their perspective.
· At least three current business initiatives driving healthcare quality.
· The role that national policy plays on the quality of healthcare.
· A clear explanation of why the quality assurance department should be created.
Submit the PowerPoint presentation to the M3: Assignment 2 Dropbox by Wednesday, October 23, 2013.
Assignment 2 Grading Criteria
Maximum Points
Discussed the link between cost and quality in healthcare and cited two studies.
28
Described the role health insurance plays in cost, quality, and healthcare consumer expectations.
24
Identified the customers and defined healthcare quality from their perspective.
32
Identified three business initiatives driving healthcare quality.
24
Articulated the impact of national policy on the quality of healthcare.
24
Demonstrated an understanding of the principles and practices of healthcare quality by making a recommendation to create a quality assurance department.
24
Style (4 points): Tone, audience, and word choice
Organization (12 points): Introduction, transitions, and conclusion
Usage and Mechanics (12 points): Grammar, spelling, and sentence structure
APA Elements (16 points): In-text citations and references, paraphrasing, and appropriate use of quotations and other elements of style
44
Total:
200
...
The Value of a Quality Assurance DepartmentIncrisis hospital has.docx
The Value of a Quality Assurance Department
Incrisis hospital has been concerned with the increased number of calls from patients regarding their quality of care from a variety of departments, including its emergency room, and its surgery, oncology, and X-ray/lab departments.
Incrisis is a 100-bed acute facility and was established in 2006. The human resource department hired you as a consultant to review the quality of care issue and make a recommendation on creating a quality assurance department.
Develop a 10- to 15-slide PowerPoint presentation to provide to the board of directors.
The presentation should cover the following topics:
The link between cost and quality in healthcare. Cite at least two studies conducted in the past five years supporting your response.
The role health insurance plays in cost, quality, and healthcare consumer expectations.
The various customers (e.g., patients, families, providers, insurance companies) and the healthcare quality from their perspective.
At least three current business initiatives driving healthcare quality.
The role that national policy plays on the quality of healthcare.
A clear explanation of why the quality assurance department should be created.
Assignment 2 Grading Criteria
Maximum Points
Discussed the link between cost and quality in healthcare and cited two studies.
28
Described the role health insurance plays in cost, quality, and healthcare consumer expectations.
24
Identified the customers and defined healthcare quality from their perspective.
32
Identified three business initiatives driving healthcare quality.
24
Articulated the impact of national policy on the quality of healthcare.
24
Demonstrated an understanding of the principles and practices of healthcare quality by making a recommendation to create a quality assurance department.
24
Style
(4 points): Tone, audience, and word choice
Organization
(12 points): Introduction, transitions, and conclusion
Usage and Mechanics
(12 points): Grammar, spelling, and sentence structure
APA Elements
(16 points): In-text citations and references, paraphrasing, and appropriate use of quotations and other elements of style
44
Total:
200
.
Assignment 2 LASA 1The Value of a Quality Assurance Departm.docx
Assignment 2: LASA 1
The Value of a Quality Assurance Department
Incrisis hospital has been concerned with the increased number of calls from patients regarding their quality of care from a variety of departments, including its emergency room, and its surgery, oncology, and X-ray/lab departments.
Incrisis is a 100-bed acute facility and was established in 2006. The human resource department hired you as a consultant to review the quality of care issue and make a recommendation on creating a quality assurance department.
Develop a 10- to 15-slide PowerPoint presentation to provide to the board of directors.
The presentation should cover the following topics:
The link between cost and quality in healthcare. Cite at least two studies conducted in the past five years supporting your response.
The role health insurance plays in cost, quality, and healthcare consumer expectations.
The various customers (e.g., patients, families, providers, insurance companies) and the healthcare quality from their perspective.
At least three current business initiatives driving healthcare quality.
The role that national policy plays on the quality of healthcare.
A clear explanation of why the quality assurance department should be created.
.
Assessment 1• Proposing a New InitiativeResearch an economic.docx
Assessment 1
• Proposing a New Initiative
Research an economic opportunity that might be available within your health care setting that will provide ethical and culturally equitable improvements to the quality of care. Then, write a 2–4-page proposal for an initiative to take advantage of that opportunity, supported with economic data and an analysis of the prospective benefits.
Note: Each assessment in this course builds upon the work you have completed in previous assessments. Therefore, you must complete the assessments in the order in which they are presented.
Master's-level health care practitioners are charged with the responsibility of constantly scanning the external environment for shifts in the supply of, and demand for, services. Concurrently, leaders must examine their organization's strategic direction and determine whether adjustments must be made to current service offerings, whether equipment updates are needed, whether staffing models should be changed, and whether other decisions must be made. Each decision that is proposed must be evaluated in terms of the organization as a system, alignment with the organization's mission and strategy, available internal resources, potential contract and payer source implications, and the short- and long-term economic effects at both the micro and macro levels.
Health Care Supply and Demand
The following multimedia animation illustrates elastic and inelastic demand curves, with changes in price.
Medical Care Demand Elasticities.
The following multimedia simulation presents the many concerns of stakeholders about the potential effects on an existing hospital system of a proposed mobile clinic for veterans with PTSD.
Vila Health: A New Mobile Clinic.
The following multimedia self-check activities will aid you in defining terms commonly used in discussions of health care economics.
The Demand for Health.
U.S. Health Care System Issues.
Understanding supply and demand in health care can be crucial to effective cost management and fiscal responsibility. This author explains the concept well by the use of examples and strategies for success.
Indresano, R. (2016). How to rebalance the supply-demand scales in healthcare. Retrieved from https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/patient-engagement/how-to-rebalance-the-supply-demand-scales-in-healthcare.html
The following article addresses the how and why behind the concept of spending efficiently in health care organizations. Examining the costs and benefits of economic opportunities is the key to success for leaders that know how to do more with less.
Doi, S., Ide, H., & Takeuchi, K., Fujita, S., & Takabayashi, K. (2017). Estimation and evaluation of future demand and supply of healthcare services based on a patient access area model. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 14(11), 1367–1381.
Health Care Costs
The following article provides a good example of the impact that the current health care environme.
Long term careAssignment 1. Challenges in Long-Term Care.docx
Long term care
Assignment 1.
Challenges in Long-Term Care
Your instructor will assign you a research article relating to the current challenges in the long-term care continuum and their impact on the current long-term care industry. Read the assigned research paper and research the South University Online Library and the Internet to learn more about the topic. After you have completed your review, create a 1- to 2-page synopsis in a Microsoft Word document addressing the main challenges discussed in the paper. Be sure to incorporate the following:
Introduction and background of the research paper
Stakeholders interested in the study
Challenges in the long-term care continuum
Impact of the challenges on the long-term care system (specifically on staffing, funding, and regulation)
Recommendations to address the challenges
Support your responses with examples.
Cite any sources in APA format.
Submission Details
Assignment 2 Grading Criteria
Maximum Points
Provided introduction and background of the research paper.
10
Identified stakeholders interested in the study.
5
Analyzed the challenges in the long-term care continuum.
10
Described the impact of the challenges on the long-term care system.
10
Recommended solutions to address the challenges.
10
Used correct spelling, grammar, and professional vocabulary. Cited all sources using APA format.
5
Total:
50
Assignment 2.
Course Project: Long-Term Care Facilities I
Choose two long-term care facilities—one from nursing facilities, assisted living, or subacute care and another from adult day care, home health care, or hospice care—on which you would want to base your research work. Research the South University Online Library and the Internet to read about your chosen long-term care facilities.
Assume you are responsible for the management and administration of the two facilities. You have to orient the newly appointed manager by providing an overview on managing long-term care. You also need to discuss the programs of the two facilities. From this perspective and based on your research about the facilities, prepare a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation of 10
–
15 slides including the following:
What are the various multidisciplinary departments (teams) included in your facilities?
Who comprise the target population being served by the various programs provided by your chosen facilities?
What are the major staffing and human resource issues faced by your chosen facilities?
What are the significant trends in long-term care likely to impact the operation of the various programs provided by your chosen facilities, and what is your plan of action to overcome them?
What are the various forms of cooperation and integration existing in your chosen facilities? Discuss the nature of management, financing, and quality issues related to integration and cooperation in the facilities?
Support your responses with examples.
Use the Notes section of the slides to provide additional information.
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Assessment 2Quality Improvement Proposal Overview .docx
Assessment 2
Quality Improvement Proposal
Overview:
Write a quality improvement proposal, 5–7 pages in length, that provides your recommendations for expanding a hospital's HIT to include quality metrics that will help the organization qualify as an accountable care organization.
Health care has undergone a transformation since the release of the Institute of Medicine's 2000 report
To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System.
The report highlighted medical errors as a contributing factor leading to poor patient outcomes. The Institute of Medicine challenged organizations to implement evidence-based performance improvement strategies in order to improve patient quality and safety. Multiple governmental and regulatory agencies, such as the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Agency for Healthcare Quality and Research (AHRQ), vowed to strengthen and improve incentives for participation, safety, quality, and efficiency in accountable care organizations (ACOs).
Health information technology (HIT) performs an essential role in improving health outcomes of individuals, the community, and populations. Health organizations, consumer advocacy groups, and regulatory committees have made a commitment to explore current and future opportunities that HIT offers to continue momentum to meet the Institute of Medicine's goal of improving safety and quality.
Understanding HIT is important to improving individual, community, and population access to health care and health information. HIT enables quick and easy access to information for both patients and providers. Accessible information has been shown to improve the patient care experience and reduce redundancies, thereby reducing health care costs.
This assessment provides an opportunity for you to make recommendations for expanding a hospital's HIT in ways that will help the hospital qualify as an ACO.
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria:
Competency 2: Explain the relationship between care coordination and evidence-based data.
Recommend ways to expand an organization's HIT to include quality metrics.
Identify potential problems that can arise with data gathering systems and outputs.
Competency 3: Use health information technology to guide care coordination and organizational practice.
Describe the main focus of information gathering in health care and how it contributes to guiding the development of organizational practice.
Competency 4: Communicate effectively with diverse audiences, in an appropriate form and style, consistent with applicable organizational, professional, and scholarly standards.
Write clearly and concisely, using correct grammar and mechanics.
Support main points, claims, and conclusions with relevant and credible evidence, correctly formatting citations and references using APA style.
Reference
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HSA 405 – Assignments and Rubrics © 2013 Strayer University. All.docx
HSA 405 – Assignments and Rubrics
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Assignment 2: Health Insurance and Quality
Due Week 4 and worth 150 points
Imagine that you are the clinic manager of an urgent care center. Recently, your center has seen an increase in complaints regarding long wait times, inadequate or incomplete information from staff during visits, and the relatively small number of insurance types accepted at the facility.
Write a two to three (2-3) page paper in which you:
1. Examine at least three (3) examples of quality initiatives that could increase patient satisfaction and potentially reduce healthcare cost. Support the response with examples of the successful application your chosen quality initiatives.
2. Defend your position on the decision to accept Medicare or Medicaid as potential pay sources for your urgent care center. Provide support with at least two (2) examples that illustrate your position.
3. Use at least two (2) quality references. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify 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:
Analyze the impact of healthcare financing and health insurance on healthcare access, quality, and cost.
Determine the factors that affect healthcare quality in healthcare organizations.
Use technology and information resources to research issues in healthcare policy and law.
Write clearly and concisely about healthcare policy and law using proper writing mechanics.
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: 150
Assignment 2: Health Insurance and Quality
Criteria
Unacceptable
Below 60% F
Meets Minimum Expectations
60-69% D
Fair
70-79% C
Proficient
80-89% B
Exemplary
90-100% A
1. Examine at least three (3) examples of quality initiatives that could increase patient satisfaction and potentially reduce healthcare cost. Support the response with examples of the successful application
Did not submit or incompletely examined at least three (3) examples of quality initiati.
Unit outcomes addressed in this AssignmentExplain the need to mea.docx
Unit outcomes addressed in this Assignment:
Explain the need to measure consumer satisfaction
Discuss the need to involve patients in the CQI process
Outline the uses of risk-adjusted data
Examine benchmarking and why it is important in CQI process
State the professional and institutional responses for addressing quality issues in health care
Course outcomes assessed/addressed in this Assignment:
HA425-1: Explain the historical evolution of health care quality improvement programs.
HA425-2: Demonstrate an understanding of operational management theory.
HA425-3: Examine strategic and tactical planning issues relevant to marketing, opportunity assessment, and external environment analysis.
HA425-4: Compare quality management techniques used to improvement operations such as Continuous Quality Improvement, Total Quality Management, and proactive quality improvement measures.
HA425-5: Examine the critical role of quality improvement and quality assurance in community, state and national health care environments.
Imagine yourself as just being appointed the Chief Patient Experience Officer of your hospital. You have been charged by the board and CEO of the hospital to create a new systems approach for the hospital that will meet the patient’s needs, priorities and expectations in a manner that exemplifies the values of respect, compassion, justice, and community pride. Your plan should include a method of determining who the customer is, what the customer wants, how the hospital will meet those needs and desires, how you will measure customer satisfaction, and the data capture modalities you will use, such as qualitative or quantitative methods to obtain the information. Also, how you will communicate the results of this new program to the world.
Instructions
Create a PowerPoint presentation at least 10 slides in length that discusses your planned proposal. Each process should be outlined in 2–4 slides. Include detailed speaker’s notes that describe your program, which should include your answers to the questions below. Be sure to include references and citations from at least five sources. Your PowerPoint presentation needs to be visually appealing, to catch your audience's attention, as your goal is to promote your program to the health care organization groups and people attending.
Outline the current customer experience efforts and how these efforts could be improved with an organized effort.
Explain how Affordable Care Act provides financial incentives in the form of performance-based bonuses or penalties based on the efficiency, effectiveness, and satisfaction with hospital services.
Thoroughly analyze how your new systems approach for the hospital will satisfy all stakeholders and how we will improve results, measure success, and communicate the results to the world? Provide a step-by-step plan for implementation of your proposal.
Describe how the new systems approach for the hospital will meet the patient’s needs, priorities and .
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PREPARATION
Consider the hospital-acquired conditions that are not reimbursed for under Medicare/Medicaid. Among these conditions are specific safety issues such as infections, falls, medication errors, and other safety concerns that could have been prevented or alleviated with the use of evidence-based guidelines. Hospital Safety Score, an independent nonprofit organization, uses national performance measures to determine the safety score for hospitals in the United States. The Hospital Safety Score Web site and other online resources provide hospital safety scores to the public.
Read the scenario below:
Scenario
As the manager of a unit, you have been advised by the patient safety office of an alarming increase in the hospital safety score for your unit. This is a very serious public relations matter because patient safety data is public information. It is also a financial crisis because the organization stands to lose a significant amount of reimbursement money from Medicare and Medicaid unless the source of the problem can be identified and corrected. You are required to submit a safety score improvement plan to the organization's leadership and the patient safety office.
Select a specific patient safety goal that has been identified by an organization, or one that is widely regarded in the nursing profession as relevant to quality patient care delivery, such as patient falls, infection rates, catheter-induced urinary infections, IV infections, et cetera.
DELIVERABLE: SAFETY SCORE IMPROVEMENT PLAN
Develop a 3–5 page safety score improvement plan.
Identify the health care setting and nursing unit of your choice
in the title of the mitigation plan. For example, "Safety Score Improvement Plan for XYZ Rehabilitation Center."
You may choose to use information on a patient safety issue for the organization in which you currently work, or search for information from a setting you are familiar with, perhaps from your clinical work.
Demonstrate systems theory and systems thinking as you develop your recommendations.
Organize your report with these headings:
Study of Factors
Identify a patient safety issue.
Describe the influence of nursing leadership in driving the needed changes.
Apply systems thinking to explain how current policies and procedures may affect a safety issue.
Recommendations
Recommend an evidence-based strategy to improve the safety issue.
Explain a strategy to collect information about the safety concern.
How would you determine the sources of the problem?
Explain a plan to implement a recommendation and monitor outcomes.
What quality indicators will you use?
How will you monitor outcomes?
Will policies or procedures need to be changed?
Will nursing staff need training?
What tools will you need to do this?
Additional Requirements
Written communication: Written communication should be free of errors that detract from the overall message.
APA formatting: Resources and in-te ...
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4508 Final Quality Project Part 2 Clinical Quality Measur.docx
4508 Final Quality Project
Part 2: Clinical Quality Measures for Hospitals
Overview
This activity focuses on Quality Measures for Hospitals. The activity uses online resources from
the CMS website. The Clinical Quality Measures for Hospitals activity focuses on the Hospital
Value Based Purchasing (VBP) Program
Background
The National Quality Strategy (NQS) was first published in March 2011 as the National Strategy
for Quality Improvement in Health Care, and is led by the Agency for Healthcare Research and
Quality on behalf of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Today, the NQS
serves as a guide for identifying and prioritizing quality improvement efforts, sharing lessons
learned, and measuring the collective success of Federal, State, and public‐ and private‐sector
healthcare stakeholders across the country.
The Aims of the NQS are threefold:
Better Care: Improve the overall quality by making health care more patient‐centered,
reliable, accessible, and safe.
Healthy People/Healthy Communities: Improve the health of the U.S. population by
supporting proven interventions to address behavioral, social, and environmental
determinants of health in addition to delivering higher‐quality care.
Affordable Care: Reduce the cost of quality health care for individuals, families,
employers, and government.
To align with this, CMS has set goals for their Quality Strategy. These include:
• Make care safer by reducing harm caused in the delivery of care
– Improve support for a culture of safety
– Reduce inappropriate and unnecessary care
– Prevent or minimize harm in all settings
• Strengthen person and family engagement as partners in their care
• Promote effective communication and coordination of care
• Promote effective prevention and treatment of chronic disease
• Work with communities to promote best practices of healthy living
• Make care affordable
CMS’s vision states that if we can find better ways to pay providers, deliver care, and distribute
information than patients can receive better care, health dollars are spent more wisely, and
there are healthier communities, a healthier economy, and a healthier county. It is with this in
mind that they have created multiple quality payment programs.
In January 2015, the Department of Health and Human Services made an announcement that
set in place measurable goals and a timeline to move the Medicare program towards paying
providers based on the quality of care rather than the quantity. This was the first time in the
history of the program that explicit goals were set. They invited private sector payers to match
or exceed these goals as well. These goals included:
1. Alternative Payment Models
a. 30% of Medicare payments tied to quality or value through Alternative Payment
models by the end of 2016 and 50% by the end of 2018
2. Linking Fee‐For‐Service payments to Quality/Value
a. 85% of all Medi ...
4508 Final Quality Project Part 2 Clinical Quality Measur
4508 Final Quality Project
Part 2: Clinical Quality Measures for Hospitals
Overview
This activity focuses on Quality Measures for Hospitals. The activity uses online resources from
the CMS website. The Clinical Quality Measures for Hospitals activity focuses on the Hospital
Value Based Purchasing (VBP) Program
Background
The National Quality Strategy (NQS) was first published in March 2011 as the National Strategy
for Quality Improvement in Health Care, and is led by the Agency for Healthcare Research and
Quality on behalf of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Today, the NQS
serves as a guide for identifying and prioritizing quality improvement efforts, sharing lessons
learned, and measuring the collective success of Federal, State, and public‐ and private‐sector
healthcare stakeholders across the country.
The Aims of the NQS are threefold:
Better Care: Improve the overall quality by making health care more patient‐centered,
reliable, accessible, and safe.
Healthy People/Healthy Communities: Improve the health of the U.S. population by
supporting proven interventions to address behavioral, social, and environmental
determinants of health in addition to delivering higher‐quality care.
Affordable Care: Reduce the cost of quality health care for individuals, families,
employers, and government.
To align with this, CMS has set goals for their Quality Strategy. These include:
• Make care safer by reducing harm caused in the delivery of care
– Improve support for a culture of safety
– Reduce inappropriate and unnecessary care
– Prevent or minimize harm in all settings
• Strengthen person and family engagement as partners in their care
• Promote effective communication and coordination of care
• Promote effective prevention and treatment of chronic disease
• Work with communities to promote best practices of healthy living
• Make care affordable
CMS’s vision states that if we can find better ways to pay providers, deliver care, and distribute
information than patients can receive better care, health dollars are spent more wisely, and
there are healthier communities, a healthier economy, and a healthier county. It is with this in
mind that they have created multiple quality payment programs.
In January 2015, the Department of Health and Human Services made an announcement that
set in place measurable goals and a timeline to move the Medicare program towards paying
providers based on the quality of care rather than the quantity. This was the first time in the
history of the program that explicit goals were set. They invited private sector payers to match
or exceed these goals as well. These goals included:
1. Alternative Payment Models
a. 30% of Medicare payments tied to quality or value through Alternative Payment
models by the end of 2016 and 50% by the end of 2018
2. Linking Fee‐For‐Service payments to Quality/Value
a. 85% of all Medi ...
This is assignment 1 that assignment 2 have to relate to. PLEASE..docx
This is assignment 1 that assignment 2 have to relate to. PLEASE.
Financial Statement Analysis
Student name
University
Professor
October 25, 2016
Financial Statement Analysis
Based on your review of the financial statements, suggest a key insight about the financial health of the company. Speculate on the likely reaction to the financial statements from various stakeholder groups (employee, investors, shareholders). Provide support for your rationale.
Health Management Associates, Inc. (NYSE: HMA) is the operator and owner-general acute care centers in the non-urban communities situated in the US, particularly in the Southwest. The organization was founded in 1977. The hospitals provide services such as oncology, emergency room care, general surgery, internal medicine, radiology, pediatric services, coronary care, and diagnostic care (
www.healthcaremanagement.com
).The company is also providing outpatient services like x-ray, respiratory therapy, one-day surgery, laboratory services, physical therapy as well as cardiology therapy. The mission of the Health Management is to provide America’s best local healthcare. They provide processes, capital finance, expertise, and people that can ensure that the local hospitals can accomplish their mission of delivering compassionate and high-quality healthcare that would substantially improve the lives of patients, the communities they serve, and the physicians providing the care
www.healthcaremanagement.com
)
With regard to the review of the current financial statement, HMA is in a dangerous financial state as a result of the present increasing debts and legal woes. The Office of the Inspector General, Justice Department, and the Department of Health and Human Services served the organization with summons regarding a software program that was used by ED doctors and the records from the emergency department. Some reports suggested that there was pressure from the company’s hospitals management to admit patients from emergency rooms so as to maximize profits. Paul Meyer, former compliance director, claimed that HMA’s fraudulent activities could attract government investigation (Britt, 2012).
The common stock of Health Management Associates was owned by almost 850 shareholders, as per the records of December 31, 2012, with hundreds of institutional investors included. HMA had expanded to include 70 hospitals situated in 15 states, with roughly 10,562 present licensed beds. In 2012, HMA realized about $5.9 billion in net revenue (Britt, 2012).
HMA gets payments for the services it renders from the federal government through the Medicare program, the states in which it functions under each Medicaid program, and commercial insurance, among others; and patients, encompassing deductibles and co-payments. Basically, deductibles and co-payments are part of the bill of patients for the medical services provided, which many government and private payers expect the patient to cater for. ...
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It has been reported that most healthcare facilities and plans employ quality improvement and risk managers to oversee risk and quality issues relating to physicians and support
staff (Judson & Harrison, 2021). Quality improvement and risk managers may also assume responsibility for compliance with federal, state, and other healthcare regulations. A
compliance plan is developed to help ensure that all government regulations are followed.
Considering the following section from the course scenario, you may agree with this perspective.
Seeking
Solution
s
All of these ethical violations resulted in St. Michael's Medical Center facing a massive lawsuit amounting to millions of dollars. The hospital has violated most of the regulatory
compliance standards set by agencies such as the following:
National Association of Healthcare Quality (NAHQ)
Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)
The Joint Commission (TJC)
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
Despite these agencies' fines, the hospital continues to endanger patients with poor quality healthcare outcomes.
St. Michael's Medical Center is now seeking a risk mitigation consultant to head the hospital as the new chief executive officer (CEO). You have been selected because of your
risk management background. You realize that the hospital could have avoided all of these problems if it had complied with regulations, trained its staff, and enforced internal
organizational policies. You are hired to put things in order and prevent future problems.
For this assignment, you will prepare a final presentation for the Board of Governors of St. Michael's Medical Center. For this presentation, you will prepare an 8slide PowerPoint
addressing the following:
What are some current risk areas in healthcare?
How do these risk areas affect the quality of care in patients?
How do patient safety issues influence organizational performance?
How are ethical and legal issues related to patient safety and organizational outcomes?
What are the organizational obligations for reporting risk?
How do patient outcomes relate to risk management?
What are the roles of external regulatory bodies—such as the OSHA, the NAHQ, TJC, and the CMS—and why are they significant to patient care and organizational
performance?
What quality management initiatives would you put in place to enhance St. Michael's Medical Center's image?
Reference
Judson, K., & Harrison, C. (2021). Law and ethics for healthcare professionals (9th ed.). New York, NY: McGrawHill Education.
Please submit your assignment.
Submitting your assignment in APA format means, at a minimum, that you will need the following:
Title slide: Remember the running head. The title should be in all capitals.
Length: 8 slides minimum
Body slides: This begins on the slide following the title slide and must be doublespaced (be careful not to triple or quadruplespace betw ...
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It has been reported that most healthcare facilities and plans employ quality improvement and risk managers to oversee risk and quality issues relating to physicians and support
staff (Judson & Harrison, 2021). Quality improvement and risk managers may also assume responsibility for compliance with federal, state, and other healthcare regulations. A
compliance plan is developed to help ensure that all government regulations are followed.
Considering the following section from the course scenario, you may agree with this perspective.
Seeking
Solution
s
All of these ethical violations resulted in St. Michael's Medical Center facing a massive lawsuit amounting to millions of dollars. The hospital has violated most of the regulatory
compliance standards set by agencies such as the following:
National Association of Healthcare Quality (NAHQ)
Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)
The Joint Commission (TJC)
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
Despite these agencies' fines, the hospital continues to endanger patients with poor quality healthcare outcomes.
St. Michael's Medical Center is now seeking a risk mitigation consultant to head the hospital as the new chief executive officer (CEO). You have been selected because of your
risk management background. You realize that the hospital could have avoided all of these problems if it had complied with regulations, trained its staff, and enforced internal
organizational policies. You are hired to put things in order and prevent future problems.
For this assignment, you will prepare a final presentation for the Board of Governors of St. Michael's Medical Center. For this presentation, you will prepare an 8slide PowerPoint
addressing the following:
What are some current risk areas in healthcare?
How do these risk areas affect the quality of care in patients?
How do patient safety issues influence organizational performance?
How are ethical and legal issues related to patient safety and organizational outcomes?
What are the organizational obligations for reporting risk?
How do patient outcomes relate to risk management?
What are the roles of external regulatory bodies—such as the OSHA, the NAHQ, TJC, and the CMS—and why are they significant to patient care and organizational
performance?
What quality management initiatives would you put in place to enhance St. Michael's Medical Center's image?
Reference
Judson, K., & Harrison, C. (2021). Law and ethics for healthcare professionals (9th ed.). New York, NY: McGrawHill Education.
Please submit your assignment.
Submitting your assignment in APA format means, at a minimum, that you will need the following:
Title slide: Remember the running head. The title should be in all capitals.
Length: 8 slides minimum
Body slides: This begins on the slide following the title slide and must be doublespaced (be careful not to triple or quadruplespace betw ...
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Assignment 2 Recipe for Success!Every individual approaches life .docx
Assignment 2: Recipe for Success!
Every individual approaches life and situations differently. We all use communication as a means to express ourselves. However, communication is as much about listening as it is about talking. Communication is a mutual exchange.
Everyone has had a disagreement with someone in which the other person may respond with “You aren’t listening to me!” or “You don’t understand me!” The fact is, you are not validating the other person or are perceived as someone who is not providing validation. Validation can defuse a potentially explosive scenario.
Consider your personal experiences and communication skills.
What are the skills you use to communicate and how do they impact your interactions with others?
How do you plan to manage conflict communication?
Do you set a goal for the outcome you are seeking to achieve?
Do you consider your audience?
What point of view do you try to convey?
What is your message or argument in communication?
Have you ever applied the principles above? Have they worked for you? If not, what has worked for you?
Write your responses in two to three paragraphs
.
Assignment 2 Secure Intranet Portal LoginBackgroundYou are the.docx
Assignment 2: Secure Intranet Portal Login
Background:
You are the security professional for a medium-sized manufacturing company. The organization would like to deploy a secure portal for in-house use only. The portal will be available from the company's intranet. The company is utilizing a Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) server to run the local intranet website. The portal will be created by in-house programming staff utilizing ASP.NET technology and scripting.
The management requires the login to be protected using Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS). In addition, the management would like to use an integrated login so that users do not have to remember or create a separate username or password for this portal login. The company is using a Windows Server 2012 Active Directory infrastructure. All users logging on to the portal also have existing active directory user accounts. The company also has an in-house Windows Server that serves as a local certificate authority for other existing web applications and services.
Tasks:
Create a 4- to 5-page report that will be shared with the company's board of directors, providing guidance and recommendations on how to best secure the web portal. Your report should cover the following aspects:
Describe what Windows-integrated authentication is and how it could potentially be used to provide secure access control to the portal.
Describe the use of Windows security groups and explain how a connection to active directory could be performed using the existing technology (existing IIS server and Windows Server 2012 Active Directory).
Describe how Windows certificate services work. Recommend a solution that would utilize the in-house Windows certificate authority server to provide a certificate to the new portal.
Explain how users can connect and log on to the portal in a secure fashion using secured socket layer (SSL) or HTTPS to ensure that all login credentials and activities on the portal are secure and encrypted.
Ensure that you write in a clear, concise, and organized manner; demonstrate ethical scholarship in accurate representation and attribution of sources; and display accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation.
Submission Details:
Create your report in a Microsoft Word document.
Save the document as M4_A2_Lastname_Firstname.doc.
By
Wednesday, June 14, 2017
, submit your document to the
M4 Assignment 2 Dropbox
.
Assignment 2 Grading Criteria
Maximum Points
Described what Windows-integrated authentication is and explained how it could potentially be used to provide secure access control to the portal.
20
Described the use of Windows security groups and how a connection to active directory could be performed using the existing technology (existing IIS server and Windows Server 2012 Active Directory).
20
Described how Windows certificate services work. Recommended a solution that would utilize the in-house Windows certificate authority server to provide a certificate to the ne.
Assignment 2 Research proposal1)Introduce the issue a.docx
Assignment 2: Research proposal
1)
Introduce the issue and then present it in question form.
2)
Explain briefly why you are interested in the issue (no need for details here since you have already discussed this in your personal experience paper)
3)
Describe what you already know about the issue. (its general context, history behind it, etc.)
4)
Explain what you need to learn to present an effective argument.
5)
Show your plans for conducting research about this topic.
read the attachment and wright two pages research proposal based on this steps above.
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Assignment 2 Required Assignment 1—The FMLA in PracticeThe Family.docx
Assignment 2: Required Assignment 1—The FMLA in Practice
The Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) was enacted in 1993 and entitles eligible employees of employers covered under it to take unpaid, job-protected leave for specific family and medical reasons. During this leave, group health insurance coverage continues under the same terms and conditions applicable if the employees had not taken leave.
You may access the latest rules covered under the FMLA at the following Web site:
U.S. Department of Labor. (n.d.)
Wage and Hour Division (WHD): Family Leave and Medical Act
. Retrieved from
http://www.dol.gov/whd/fmla/
In this assignment, you will analyze the FMLA policy of an organization to understand the policy's role and importance in employee management.
Tasks:
Click
here
to access and read a portion of the employee handbook of Widgets Inc. that outlines the company's FMLA policy statement. Analyze the handbook on the basis of FMLA guidelines. Identify a minimum of five errors or oversights that relate to the FMLA and list their solutions in a separate document.
In addition, in the same document, include answers to the following questions:
What are three alternative methods of calculating twelve weeks of leave within a twelve-month period? Which method do you believe is the best and why?
An employee should give as much notice as possible to his or her employer. The Department of Labor suggests a minimum notice of thirty days. What if an employee needs emergency FMLA leave? Is the employee still allowed to take FMLA leave, although he or she was unable to give the thirty-day notice?
What are the legal ramifications if the same position is not available to an employee on his or her returning from FMLA leave?
During an employee's FMLA leave, Widgets Inc. downsizes and closes the department in which the employee works. What will happen to the employee? What are the legal ramifications?
Submission Details:
Save your final document as M3_A2_Lastname_Firstname.doc and, by
Wednesday, February 1, 2017
, submit it to the
M3: Assignment 2 RA 1 Dropbox
.
Assignment 2 Grading Criteria
Maximum Points
Identified a minimum of five errors or oversights on the basis of the FMLA policy and suggested practical solutions for each.
56
Evaluated alternative methods of calculating twelve weeks of leave within a twelve-month period.
32
Explained the stand of the FMLA policy if an employee needs emergency FMLA leave without giving the thirty-day notice.
24
Explained the legal ramifications if the same position is not available to an employee on his or her returning from FMLA leave.
24
Explained the legal ramifications if a company downsizes and closes the department in which the employee works during the employee’s FMLA leave.
24
Wrote in a clear, concise, and organized manner; demonstrated ethical scholarship in accurate representation and attribution of sources; displayed accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation.
40
Total:
200
WIDGETS FAMILY LEAVE HANDBOOK.
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Assignment 1.
Challenges in Long-Term Care
Your instructor will assign you a research article relating to the current challenges in the long-term care continuum and their impact on the current long-term care industry. Read the assigned research paper and research the South University Online Library and the Internet to learn more about the topic. After you have completed your review, create a 1- to 2-page synopsis in a Microsoft Word document addressing the main challenges discussed in the paper. Be sure to incorporate the following:
Introduction and background of the research paper
Stakeholders interested in the study
Challenges in the long-term care continuum
Impact of the challenges on the long-term care system (specifically on staffing, funding, and regulation)
Recommendations to address the challenges
Support your responses with examples.
Cite any sources in APA format.
Submission Details
Assignment 2 Grading Criteria
Maximum Points
Provided introduction and background of the research paper.
10
Identified stakeholders interested in the study.
5
Analyzed the challenges in the long-term care continuum.
10
Described the impact of the challenges on the long-term care system.
10
Recommended solutions to address the challenges.
10
Used correct spelling, grammar, and professional vocabulary. Cited all sources using APA format.
5
Total:
50
Assignment 2.
Course Project: Long-Term Care Facilities I
Choose two long-term care facilities—one from nursing facilities, assisted living, or subacute care and another from adult day care, home health care, or hospice care—on which you would want to base your research work. Research the South University Online Library and the Internet to read about your chosen long-term care facilities.
Assume you are responsible for the management and administration of the two facilities. You have to orient the newly appointed manager by providing an overview on managing long-term care. You also need to discuss the programs of the two facilities. From this perspective and based on your research about the facilities, prepare a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation of 10
–
15 slides including the following:
What are the various multidisciplinary departments (teams) included in your facilities?
Who comprise the target population being served by the various programs provided by your chosen facilities?
What are the major staffing and human resource issues faced by your chosen facilities?
What are the significant trends in long-term care likely to impact the operation of the various programs provided by your chosen facilities, and what is your plan of action to overcome them?
What are the various forms of cooperation and integration existing in your chosen facilities? Discuss the nature of management, financing, and quality issues related to integration and cooperation in the facilities?
Support your responses with examples.
Use the Notes section of the slides to provide additional information.
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Assessment 2Quality Improvement Proposal Overview .docx
Assessment 2
Quality Improvement Proposal
Overview:
Write a quality improvement proposal, 5–7 pages in length, that provides your recommendations for expanding a hospital's HIT to include quality metrics that will help the organization qualify as an accountable care organization.
Health care has undergone a transformation since the release of the Institute of Medicine's 2000 report
To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System.
The report highlighted medical errors as a contributing factor leading to poor patient outcomes. The Institute of Medicine challenged organizations to implement evidence-based performance improvement strategies in order to improve patient quality and safety. Multiple governmental and regulatory agencies, such as the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Agency for Healthcare Quality and Research (AHRQ), vowed to strengthen and improve incentives for participation, safety, quality, and efficiency in accountable care organizations (ACOs).
Health information technology (HIT) performs an essential role in improving health outcomes of individuals, the community, and populations. Health organizations, consumer advocacy groups, and regulatory committees have made a commitment to explore current and future opportunities that HIT offers to continue momentum to meet the Institute of Medicine's goal of improving safety and quality.
Understanding HIT is important to improving individual, community, and population access to health care and health information. HIT enables quick and easy access to information for both patients and providers. Accessible information has been shown to improve the patient care experience and reduce redundancies, thereby reducing health care costs.
This assessment provides an opportunity for you to make recommendations for expanding a hospital's HIT in ways that will help the hospital qualify as an ACO.
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria:
Competency 2: Explain the relationship between care coordination and evidence-based data.
Recommend ways to expand an organization's HIT to include quality metrics.
Identify potential problems that can arise with data gathering systems and outputs.
Competency 3: Use health information technology to guide care coordination and organizational practice.
Describe the main focus of information gathering in health care and how it contributes to guiding the development of organizational practice.
Competency 4: Communicate effectively with diverse audiences, in an appropriate form and style, consistent with applicable organizational, professional, and scholarly standards.
Write clearly and concisely, using correct grammar and mechanics.
Support main points, claims, and conclusions with relevant and credible evidence, correctly formatting citations and references using APA style.
Reference
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HSA 405 – Assignments and Rubrics © 2013 Strayer University. All.docx
HSA 405 – Assignments and Rubrics
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Assignment 2: Health Insurance and Quality
Due Week 4 and worth 150 points
Imagine that you are the clinic manager of an urgent care center. Recently, your center has seen an increase in complaints regarding long wait times, inadequate or incomplete information from staff during visits, and the relatively small number of insurance types accepted at the facility.
Write a two to three (2-3) page paper in which you:
1. Examine at least three (3) examples of quality initiatives that could increase patient satisfaction and potentially reduce healthcare cost. Support the response with examples of the successful application your chosen quality initiatives.
2. Defend your position on the decision to accept Medicare or Medicaid as potential pay sources for your urgent care center. Provide support with at least two (2) examples that illustrate your position.
3. Use at least two (2) quality references. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify 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:
Analyze the impact of healthcare financing and health insurance on healthcare access, quality, and cost.
Determine the factors that affect healthcare quality in healthcare organizations.
Use technology and information resources to research issues in healthcare policy and law.
Write clearly and concisely about healthcare policy and law using proper writing mechanics.
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: 150
Assignment 2: Health Insurance and Quality
Criteria
Unacceptable
Below 60% F
Meets Minimum Expectations
60-69% D
Fair
70-79% C
Proficient
80-89% B
Exemplary
90-100% A
1. Examine at least three (3) examples of quality initiatives that could increase patient satisfaction and potentially reduce healthcare cost. Support the response with examples of the successful application
Did not submit or incompletely examined at least three (3) examples of quality initiati.
Unit outcomes addressed in this AssignmentExplain the need to mea.docx
Unit outcomes addressed in this Assignment:
Explain the need to measure consumer satisfaction
Discuss the need to involve patients in the CQI process
Outline the uses of risk-adjusted data
Examine benchmarking and why it is important in CQI process
State the professional and institutional responses for addressing quality issues in health care
Course outcomes assessed/addressed in this Assignment:
HA425-1: Explain the historical evolution of health care quality improvement programs.
HA425-2: Demonstrate an understanding of operational management theory.
HA425-3: Examine strategic and tactical planning issues relevant to marketing, opportunity assessment, and external environment analysis.
HA425-4: Compare quality management techniques used to improvement operations such as Continuous Quality Improvement, Total Quality Management, and proactive quality improvement measures.
HA425-5: Examine the critical role of quality improvement and quality assurance in community, state and national health care environments.
Imagine yourself as just being appointed the Chief Patient Experience Officer of your hospital. You have been charged by the board and CEO of the hospital to create a new systems approach for the hospital that will meet the patient’s needs, priorities and expectations in a manner that exemplifies the values of respect, compassion, justice, and community pride. Your plan should include a method of determining who the customer is, what the customer wants, how the hospital will meet those needs and desires, how you will measure customer satisfaction, and the data capture modalities you will use, such as qualitative or quantitative methods to obtain the information. Also, how you will communicate the results of this new program to the world.
Instructions
Create a PowerPoint presentation at least 10 slides in length that discusses your planned proposal. Each process should be outlined in 2–4 slides. Include detailed speaker’s notes that describe your program, which should include your answers to the questions below. Be sure to include references and citations from at least five sources. Your PowerPoint presentation needs to be visually appealing, to catch your audience's attention, as your goal is to promote your program to the health care organization groups and people attending.
Outline the current customer experience efforts and how these efforts could be improved with an organized effort.
Explain how Affordable Care Act provides financial incentives in the form of performance-based bonuses or penalties based on the efficiency, effectiveness, and satisfaction with hospital services.
Thoroughly analyze how your new systems approach for the hospital will satisfy all stakeholders and how we will improve results, measure success, and communicate the results to the world? Provide a step-by-step plan for implementation of your proposal.
Describe how the new systems approach for the hospital will meet the patient’s needs, priorities and .
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PREPARATION
Consider the hospital-acquired conditions that are not reimbursed for under Medicare/Medicaid. Among these conditions are specific safety issues such as infections, falls, medication errors, and other safety concerns that could have been prevented or alleviated with the use of evidence-based guidelines. Hospital Safety Score, an independent nonprofit organization, uses national performance measures to determine the safety score for hospitals in the United States. The Hospital Safety Score Web site and other online resources provide hospital safety scores to the public.
Read the scenario below:
Scenario
As the manager of a unit, you have been advised by the patient safety office of an alarming increase in the hospital safety score for your unit. This is a very serious public relations matter because patient safety data is public information. It is also a financial crisis because the organization stands to lose a significant amount of reimbursement money from Medicare and Medicaid unless the source of the problem can be identified and corrected. You are required to submit a safety score improvement plan to the organization's leadership and the patient safety office.
Select a specific patient safety goal that has been identified by an organization, or one that is widely regarded in the nursing profession as relevant to quality patient care delivery, such as patient falls, infection rates, catheter-induced urinary infections, IV infections, et cetera.
DELIVERABLE: SAFETY SCORE IMPROVEMENT PLAN
Develop a 3–5 page safety score improvement plan.
Identify the health care setting and nursing unit of your choice
in the title of the mitigation plan. For example, "Safety Score Improvement Plan for XYZ Rehabilitation Center."
You may choose to use information on a patient safety issue for the organization in which you currently work, or search for information from a setting you are familiar with, perhaps from your clinical work.
Demonstrate systems theory and systems thinking as you develop your recommendations.
Organize your report with these headings:
Study of Factors
Identify a patient safety issue.
Describe the influence of nursing leadership in driving the needed changes.
Apply systems thinking to explain how current policies and procedures may affect a safety issue.
Recommendations
Recommend an evidence-based strategy to improve the safety issue.
Explain a strategy to collect information about the safety concern.
How would you determine the sources of the problem?
Explain a plan to implement a recommendation and monitor outcomes.
What quality indicators will you use?
How will you monitor outcomes?
Will policies or procedures need to be changed?
Will nursing staff need training?
What tools will you need to do this?
Additional Requirements
Written communication: Written communication should be free of errors that detract from the overall message.
APA formatting: Resources and in-te ...
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4508 Final Quality Project
Part 2: Clinical Quality Measures for Hospitals
Overview
This activity focuses on Quality Measures for Hospitals. The activity uses online resources from
the CMS website. The Clinical Quality Measures for Hospitals activity focuses on the Hospital
Value Based Purchasing (VBP) Program
Background
The National Quality Strategy (NQS) was first published in March 2011 as the National Strategy
for Quality Improvement in Health Care, and is led by the Agency for Healthcare Research and
Quality on behalf of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Today, the NQS
serves as a guide for identifying and prioritizing quality improvement efforts, sharing lessons
learned, and measuring the collective success of Federal, State, and public‐ and private‐sector
healthcare stakeholders across the country.
The Aims of the NQS are threefold:
Better Care: Improve the overall quality by making health care more patient‐centered,
reliable, accessible, and safe.
Healthy People/Healthy Communities: Improve the health of the U.S. population by
supporting proven interventions to address behavioral, social, and environmental
determinants of health in addition to delivering higher‐quality care.
Affordable Care: Reduce the cost of quality health care for individuals, families,
employers, and government.
To align with this, CMS has set goals for their Quality Strategy. These include:
• Make care safer by reducing harm caused in the delivery of care
– Improve support for a culture of safety
– Reduce inappropriate and unnecessary care
– Prevent or minimize harm in all settings
• Strengthen person and family engagement as partners in their care
• Promote effective communication and coordination of care
• Promote effective prevention and treatment of chronic disease
• Work with communities to promote best practices of healthy living
• Make care affordable
CMS’s vision states that if we can find better ways to pay providers, deliver care, and distribute
information than patients can receive better care, health dollars are spent more wisely, and
there are healthier communities, a healthier economy, and a healthier county. It is with this in
mind that they have created multiple quality payment programs.
In January 2015, the Department of Health and Human Services made an announcement that
set in place measurable goals and a timeline to move the Medicare program towards paying
providers based on the quality of care rather than the quantity. This was the first time in the
history of the program that explicit goals were set. They invited private sector payers to match
or exceed these goals as well. These goals included:
1. Alternative Payment Models
a. 30% of Medicare payments tied to quality or value through Alternative Payment
models by the end of 2016 and 50% by the end of 2018
2. Linking Fee‐For‐Service payments to Quality/Value
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Overview
This activity focuses on Quality Measures for Hospitals. The activity uses online resources from
the CMS website. The Clinical Quality Measures for Hospitals activity focuses on the Hospital
Value Based Purchasing (VBP) Program
Background
The National Quality Strategy (NQS) was first published in March 2011 as the National Strategy
for Quality Improvement in Health Care, and is led by the Agency for Healthcare Research and
Quality on behalf of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Today, the NQS
serves as a guide for identifying and prioritizing quality improvement efforts, sharing lessons
learned, and measuring the collective success of Federal, State, and public‐ and private‐sector
healthcare stakeholders across the country.
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Better Care: Improve the overall quality by making health care more patient‐centered,
reliable, accessible, and safe.
Healthy People/Healthy Communities: Improve the health of the U.S. population by
supporting proven interventions to address behavioral, social, and environmental
determinants of health in addition to delivering higher‐quality care.
Affordable Care: Reduce the cost of quality health care for individuals, families,
employers, and government.
To align with this, CMS has set goals for their Quality Strategy. These include:
• Make care safer by reducing harm caused in the delivery of care
– Improve support for a culture of safety
– Reduce inappropriate and unnecessary care
– Prevent or minimize harm in all settings
• Strengthen person and family engagement as partners in their care
• Promote effective communication and coordination of care
• Promote effective prevention and treatment of chronic disease
• Work with communities to promote best practices of healthy living
• Make care affordable
CMS’s vision states that if we can find better ways to pay providers, deliver care, and distribute
information than patients can receive better care, health dollars are spent more wisely, and
there are healthier communities, a healthier economy, and a healthier county. It is with this in
mind that they have created multiple quality payment programs.
In January 2015, the Department of Health and Human Services made an announcement that
set in place measurable goals and a timeline to move the Medicare program towards paying
providers based on the quality of care rather than the quantity. This was the first time in the
history of the program that explicit goals were set. They invited private sector payers to match
or exceed these goals as well. These goals included:
1. Alternative Payment Models
a. 30% of Medicare payments tied to quality or value through Alternative Payment
models by the end of 2016 and 50% by the end of 2018
2. Linking Fee‐For‐Service payments to Quality/Value
a. 85% of all Medi ...
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Financial Statement Analysis
Student name
University
Professor
October 25, 2016
Financial Statement Analysis
Based on your review of the financial statements, suggest a key insight about the financial health of the company. Speculate on the likely reaction to the financial statements from various stakeholder groups (employee, investors, shareholders). Provide support for your rationale.
Health Management Associates, Inc. (NYSE: HMA) is the operator and owner-general acute care centers in the non-urban communities situated in the US, particularly in the Southwest. The organization was founded in 1977. The hospitals provide services such as oncology, emergency room care, general surgery, internal medicine, radiology, pediatric services, coronary care, and diagnostic care (
www.healthcaremanagement.com
).The company is also providing outpatient services like x-ray, respiratory therapy, one-day surgery, laboratory services, physical therapy as well as cardiology therapy. The mission of the Health Management is to provide America’s best local healthcare. They provide processes, capital finance, expertise, and people that can ensure that the local hospitals can accomplish their mission of delivering compassionate and high-quality healthcare that would substantially improve the lives of patients, the communities they serve, and the physicians providing the care
www.healthcaremanagement.com
)
With regard to the review of the current financial statement, HMA is in a dangerous financial state as a result of the present increasing debts and legal woes. The Office of the Inspector General, Justice Department, and the Department of Health and Human Services served the organization with summons regarding a software program that was used by ED doctors and the records from the emergency department. Some reports suggested that there was pressure from the company’s hospitals management to admit patients from emergency rooms so as to maximize profits. Paul Meyer, former compliance director, claimed that HMA’s fraudulent activities could attract government investigation (Britt, 2012).
The common stock of Health Management Associates was owned by almost 850 shareholders, as per the records of December 31, 2012, with hundreds of institutional investors included. HMA had expanded to include 70 hospitals situated in 15 states, with roughly 10,562 present licensed beds. In 2012, HMA realized about $5.9 billion in net revenue (Britt, 2012).
HMA gets payments for the services it renders from the federal government through the Medicare program, the states in which it functions under each Medicaid program, and commercial insurance, among others; and patients, encompassing deductibles and co-payments. Basically, deductibles and co-payments are part of the bill of patients for the medical services provided, which many government and private payers expect the patient to cater for. ...
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It has been reported that most healthcare facilities and plans employ quality improvement and risk managers to oversee risk and quality issues relating to physicians and support
staff (Judson & Harrison, 2021). Quality improvement and risk managers may also assume responsibility for compliance with federal, state, and other healthcare regulations. A
compliance plan is developed to help ensure that all government regulations are followed.
Considering the following section from the course scenario, you may agree with this perspective.
Seeking
Solution
s
All of these ethical violations resulted in St. Michael's Medical Center facing a massive lawsuit amounting to millions of dollars. The hospital has violated most of the regulatory
compliance standards set by agencies such as the following:
National Association of Healthcare Quality (NAHQ)
Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)
The Joint Commission (TJC)
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
Despite these agencies' fines, the hospital continues to endanger patients with poor quality healthcare outcomes.
St. Michael's Medical Center is now seeking a risk mitigation consultant to head the hospital as the new chief executive officer (CEO). You have been selected because of your
risk management background. You realize that the hospital could have avoided all of these problems if it had complied with regulations, trained its staff, and enforced internal
organizational policies. You are hired to put things in order and prevent future problems.
For this assignment, you will prepare a final presentation for the Board of Governors of St. Michael's Medical Center. For this presentation, you will prepare an 8slide PowerPoint
addressing the following:
What are some current risk areas in healthcare?
How do these risk areas affect the quality of care in patients?
How do patient safety issues influence organizational performance?
How are ethical and legal issues related to patient safety and organizational outcomes?
What are the organizational obligations for reporting risk?
How do patient outcomes relate to risk management?
What are the roles of external regulatory bodies—such as the OSHA, the NAHQ, TJC, and the CMS—and why are they significant to patient care and organizational
performance?
What quality management initiatives would you put in place to enhance St. Michael's Medical Center's image?
Reference
Judson, K., & Harrison, C. (2021). Law and ethics for healthcare professionals (9th ed.). New York, NY: McGrawHill Education.
Please submit your assignment.
Submitting your assignment in APA format means, at a minimum, that you will need the following:
Title slide: Remember the running head. The title should be in all capitals.
Length: 8 slides minimum
Body slides: This begins on the slide following the title slide and must be doublespaced (be careful not to triple or quadruplespace betw ...
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It has been reported that most healthcare facilities and plans employ quality improvement and risk managers to oversee risk and quality issues relating to physicians and support
staff (Judson & Harrison, 2021). Quality improvement and risk managers may also assume responsibility for compliance with federal, state, and other healthcare regulations. A
compliance plan is developed to help ensure that all government regulations are followed.
Considering the following section from the course scenario, you may agree with this perspective.
Seeking
Solution
s
All of these ethical violations resulted in St. Michael's Medical Center facing a massive lawsuit amounting to millions of dollars. The hospital has violated most of the regulatory
compliance standards set by agencies such as the following:
National Association of Healthcare Quality (NAHQ)
Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)
The Joint Commission (TJC)
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
Despite these agencies' fines, the hospital continues to endanger patients with poor quality healthcare outcomes.
St. Michael's Medical Center is now seeking a risk mitigation consultant to head the hospital as the new chief executive officer (CEO). You have been selected because of your
risk management background. You realize that the hospital could have avoided all of these problems if it had complied with regulations, trained its staff, and enforced internal
organizational policies. You are hired to put things in order and prevent future problems.
For this assignment, you will prepare a final presentation for the Board of Governors of St. Michael's Medical Center. For this presentation, you will prepare an 8slide PowerPoint
addressing the following:
What are some current risk areas in healthcare?
How do these risk areas affect the quality of care in patients?
How do patient safety issues influence organizational performance?
How are ethical and legal issues related to patient safety and organizational outcomes?
What are the organizational obligations for reporting risk?
How do patient outcomes relate to risk management?
What are the roles of external regulatory bodies—such as the OSHA, the NAHQ, TJC, and the CMS—and why are they significant to patient care and organizational
performance?
What quality management initiatives would you put in place to enhance St. Michael's Medical Center's image?
Reference
Judson, K., & Harrison, C. (2021). Law and ethics for healthcare professionals (9th ed.). New York, NY: McGrawHill Education.
Please submit your assignment.
Submitting your assignment in APA format means, at a minimum, that you will need the following:
Title slide: Remember the running head. The title should be in all capitals.
Length: 8 slides minimum
Body slides: This begins on the slide following the title slide and must be doublespaced (be careful not to triple or quadruplespace betw ...
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Wednesday, June 14, 2017
, submit your document to the
M4 Assignment 2 Dropbox
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20
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2)
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Evaluated alternative methods of calculating twelve weeks of leave within a twelve-month period.
32
Explained the stand of the FMLA policy if an employee needs emergency FMLA leave without giving the thirty-day notice.
24
Explained the legal ramifications if the same position is not available to an employee on his or her returning from FMLA leave.
24
Explained the legal ramifications if a company downsizes and closes the department in which the employee works during the employee’s FMLA leave.
24
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40
Total:
200
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Assignment 2 Research ProjectThis assignment consists of two pa.docx
Assignment 2: Research Project
This assignment consists of two parts. The first part consists of the third installment for the research paper and is worth 20 points out of the 200 points allotted for this assignment. The second part requires application of concepts learned in
Weeks 1–3
and is worth significantly more than previous assignments and more than the first part of the assignment.
Part I—Research Paper
This week, you will research laws or regulations related to the topic you selected. The information may require research of federal and/or state laws, as well as administrative agency laws. Compare the laws of two states, if applicable. For example, if you are writing about gender discrimination, compare the federal law with law from one of the states that also provides protection at the state level. State laws often provide more protection than the federal law. Summarize the information about the laws or regulations you found related to your topic.
Compile your response to Part I in a Microsoft Word document
Part II—Legal and Ethical Challenges in Business Organizations
Read the scenarios and the questions that follow. Identify the legal issue(s) and apply legal concepts and possible arguments for each question. After reading the scenarios, prepare a resolution for each question using laws, cases, examples, and/or other relevant materials. Consider using short headings (consult APA materials) to separate the topics. Summarize the facts; do not copy the scenarios into the paper. After you have answered the questions and before the conclusion, identify potential ethical issues and propose recommendations to help the organization avoid future occurrences of the legal and ethical issues discussed in the assignment. Support your answers with information from the textbook and at least five scholarly sources other than the text and course lectures.
Prepare an 8- to 12-page paper that identifies the legal issues and potential solutions and answers all questions presented, supported by relevant legal authority. Properly cite all sources using APA format. Do not exceed the page length by more than two pages, as the instructor is not required to read excess pages.
Compile your response to Part II in a Microsoft Word document
Overview
Famous Subs and Pizza Company (FSPC) is a publicly traded corporation headquartered in Tallahassee, Florida, operating restaurants in ten states. The company also owns a food processing and distribution facility in Jackson, Mississippi. Approximately 20% of the employees work full time; however, FSPC primarily hires part-time employees as delivery drivers, cooks, and sandwich makers. FSPC leases space for most of its restaurants in shopping centers, but the company owns a few of the properties, as well as its headquarters office and the distribution facility. The company has experienced explosive growth over the last three years, but the growth has been accompanied by an increase in legal issues. The CEO, C.
Assignment 2 Required Assignment 2—Implementation of Sustainability.docx
Assignment 2: Required Assignment 2—Implementation of Sustainability in an Organization
All consumers and firms affect sustainability in different ways, either directly or indirectly. In practicing sustainability, a firm could create value for consumers, investors, and other stakeholders, such as the community in which the firm operates within its value chain. In addition, a firm engaging in good sustainable practices can fulfill the needs of its customers, earn a profit, and preserve the environment. This assignment will allow you, as a consumer, to explore how you can impact sustainability.
Tasks:
Propose a sustainability investment plan to improve the performance of your work group or organization or an organization you hope to work for. The investment can be made in human resources, in expansion of tangible or intangible assets toward new uses, or in capital equipment or new technology.
Analyze how the investment plan achieves the following:
Contributes to the mission of the company
Expands rewards for all major components of the value chain, which should include the company, employees, suppliers, and customers
Generates wealth or value and is sustainable over time
Evaluates and anticipates risks associated with the investment
Organize your work to create a 2- to 3-page professional memo in a Microsoft Word document outlining your investment plan to the director and an 8- to 10-slide Microsoft PowerPoint presentation script with complete endnotes explaining your recommendations to employees in your work group. Follow APA standards for citation of sources.
Submission Details:
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Assignment 2 Required Assignment 1—Intercultural Employee Motivatio.docx
Assignment 2: Required Assignment 1—Intercultural Employee Motivation and Rewards
Culture plays a major role in the motivation of employees. Consider that though you have a mix of ethnicities on your team, you also need to be aware of cultural differences including gender, generation, and other categories of human differences.
Write an 8–10-page report on employee motivation, including a recommendation for an employee reward system that will meet the needs of the variety of cultural groups you manage based on the following motivation factors:
Job security
Professional development
Job performance
Goal setting
Employee recognition
Compensation
Discuss employee motivation as it relates to culture, and consider how you might develop a reward system that recognizes diversity and is equitable and legally sound. Support your recommendations with scholarly references.
Write an 8–10-page report in Word format. Apply APA standards to citation of sources. Use the following file naming convention: LastnameFirstInitial_M3_A2.doc.
.
Assignment 2 Rape and PornographyA long-standing question in the .docx
Assignment 2: Rape and Pornography
A long-standing question in the field of psychology concerns the relationship between exposure to sexually explicit material, pornography, and criminal behavior. One of the most significant issues focuses on the impact that pornography has on an individual’s propensity to commit rape.
Select
two
peer-reviewed journal articles to examine the correlation between rape and pornography.
Write a paper that includes the following:
Analyze the selected journal articles and identify any correlation between rape and pornography. Provide statistical information in support.
Synthesize your research and conclude, with reasons, whether pornography leads to sexual violence. If not, state the factors that contribute to sexual violence.
Analyze whether the regulation of pornography is warranted based on the evidence so far.
Give reasons for your responses. Support your statements with appropriate examples.
.
Assignment 2 Rape and Pornography Due Tuesday January 3rd, 2.docx
Assignment 2: Rape and Pornography Due: Tuesday January 3
rd
, 2017
A long-standing question in the field of psychology concerns the relationship between exposure to sexually explicit material, pornography, and criminal behavior. One of the most significant issues focuses on the impact that pornography has on an individual’s propensity to commit rape.
Select
two
peer-reviewed journal articles to examine the correlation between rape and pornography.
Write a paper that includes the following:
Analyze the selected journal articles and identify any correlation between rape and pornography. Provide statistical information in support.
Synthesize your research and conclude, with reasons, whether pornography leads to sexual violence. If not, state the factors that contribute to sexual violence.
Analyze whether the regulation of pornography is warranted based on the evidence so far.
Give reasons for your responses. Support your statements with appropriate examples.
Write a 3–4-page paper in Word format. Apply APA standards to citation of sources. Be sure to include a tile page and reference page in APA format.
.
Assignment 2 RA 2 Case ScenarioBackgroundThe defendant is a f.docx
Assignment 2: RA 2: Case Scenario
Background:
The defendant is a forty-year-old, single, black female charged with a first-degree assault. Specifically, she is alleged to have splashed liquid fire, a liquid drain cleaner, onto another woman's face, thus incidentally splashing five bystanders. Per the court order you received, Ms. Tyler was referred some time after the alleged crime for evaluation of her criminal responsibility. Her competency to stand trial (CST) was also at issue. At the time of the evaluation, Ms. Tyler was being held at the Southern County Detention Center. You met with Ms. Tyler. The defendant was informed that the results of the evaluation will be released to the court and that the results may be used against her in the court. Ms. Tyler gave her written consent to be evaluated.
Psychosocial History:
Only limited information is available regarding Ms. Tyler's background. She is a lifetime resident of the state. Her mother died of cancer at the age of seventy-nine years. Her father, L. Defendant, is eighty-four years old and is a retired farmer. Ms. Tyler has five living sisters, four living brothers, and two deceased siblings. Three of her sisters have received inpatient psychiatric treatment. One sister lives in Close Town, one in Europe with her husband who is in the military, and one sister died in a drowning accident. One brother committed suicide by hanging himself. There is no history of psychiatric problems among the other brothers.
Ms. Tyler has completed the tenth grade. She is literate. Ms. Tyler has worked on an assembly line for five years until 1988 when the factory closed. She then did an office-cleaning job. Her reasons for leaving this position are vague. She was unemployed for several years and was supported by her family. She lives in rent-free government housing. Her church pastor, A. Reverend, arranged for her to get employment at Helpful Industries through a vocational office at the State Psychiatric Hospital. She was employed at Helpful Industries for approximately two months prior to the incident. Ms. Tyler has never married. She has a thirteen-year-old son who lives with his father.
Psychiatric History:
Ms. Tyler denies any previous psychiatric treatment. Family members and individuals who know Ms. Tyler state that she has a long history of psychiatric symptoms such as loose associations and persecutory delusions. Ms. Tyler's sister, Ms. Sister, reports that Ms. Tyler has been violent in the past, threatening her niece with a knife. Her emotional difficulties were also apparently common knowledge among her congregation. As stated above, Ms. Tyler has a positive family history for psychiatric illness. Ms. Tyler is currently on haloperidol, an antipsychotic medication.
Ms. Tyler denies any alcohol or substance abuse. She states that she has one previous arrest for prostitution in 1975. She spent six months in jail for this offense.
Report of the Crime:
When asked to report what happened, Ms. Tyler st.
Assignment 2 RA 2 Characteristics of Effective Treatment Programs.docx
Assignment 2: RA 2: Characteristics of Effective Treatment Programs
Several types of intervention and treatment approaches have been presented in your course textbook. In addition, evidence-based treatment programs are presented on the recommended government website,
http://www.crimesolutions.gov/
. The Office of Justice Programs' Crime
Solution
s.gov uses rigorous research to determine what works in criminal justice, juvenile justice, and crime victim services. On Crime
.
Assignment 2 Pay Increase Demands of EmployeesYou are an HR manag.docx
Assignment 2: Pay Increase Demands of Employees
You are an HR manager with Spring Valley Laboratories. The organization pays its employees according to specific pay grades and ranges but maintains secrecy surrounding the specific numbers.
Nancy Lopez, a highly skilled medical technician, discovers that a male employee whose qualifications, experience, and job profile are similar to Nancy's is getting a considerably better package than she. Nancy serves a notice to the executive director, John Morrison, and threatens to resign if the organization does not grant her an immediate pay increase.
John does not want to lose Nancy because she is a skilled employee who has performed well in her eight-month career with the organization. John writes you an e-mail and seeks your advice on the case. You check Nancy's employment records and find that Nancy was given the compensation package that she had asked for during her final interview. You also find that Nancy's package is toward the lower limit of the pay range applicable for her job position. Nancy's salary is due for review after four months.
Based on this information frame your response to John. The response should answer the following:
Is Nancy's case a situation where a pay increase is called for? Why or why not? Justify your response with facts.
Is Nancy's case eligible as a pay inequity grievance? Why or why not? Explain.
How should Spring Valley Laboratories handle the situation? Provide John with a detailed plan of how the situation should be handled.
What impact would granting or not granting Nancy an immediate pay increase have on other employees? Why?
Articulate your response to John's e-mail. Your response should be in e-mail format and approximately two pages in MSWord. Use structured text (bolding, headings, bulleted lists, tables/charts) where appropriate to improve communicating your points. Send your email response to the
M4: Assignment 2 Dropbox
by
Wednesday, April 19, 2017
. Ensure that the tone of your response is formal and appropriate for the audience and use references to support your response.
.
Assignment 2 Policy and Client Impact DevelopmentFor this assig.docx
Assignment 2: Policy and Client Impact Development
For this assignment
, you are expected to identify a sub-population within the field agency, then research and discuss with your field coordinator the state
(Idaho)
and federal policies that may impact the identified clients. Finally, discuss if there is a possibility for you to advocate on behalf of those clients.
The Assignment, submit a 2-3 page paper in which you:
o
Identify the subpopulation (Sexual Assault Victims)
o
Identify State and federal policies and discuss their impact on the clients identified
o
Provide suggestions for the agency
o
Discuss possibilities to advocate for the clients
References (use 3 or more)
Garthwait, C. L. (2017).
The social work practicum: A guide and workbook for students
(7th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson.
.
Assignment 2 Public Health Administration Modern medical an.docx
Assignment 2:
Public Health Administration
Modern medical and public health education was defined by two early 20
th
Century landmark documents: the
Flexner Report
and the
Welch-Rose Report
. These created two parallel and sometimes divergent systems. Review this 2008
NPR interview
about the Flexner Report and Pages 49-55 of the
Welch-Rose Report
. Then, expand your research to how (and if) medical care and public health intersect. Are they mutually supportive or do they operate in silos? Is there room for improvement?
Submit your critical analysis in a 4-5 page paper (not including your title page and references) with appropriate supporting references
.
Assignment 2 Nuclear MedicineNuclear medicine is a specialized br.docx
Assignment 2: Nuclear Medicine
Nuclear medicine is a specialized branch of modern medicine that exploits the process of radioactivity for imaging, diagnosis, and treatment. Many imaging techniques inject small amounts of radioactive material into the body, which are then tracked by a sensing device specific to the type of radiation emitted from that material. Radiation has also been used to destroy diseased tissue, typically beyond the reach of standard surgical techniques.
Using the readings for this module, the Argosy University online library resources, and the Internet, write a paper on nuclear medicine. Address the following:
Explain the scientific and technical concepts related to nuclear medicine. Consider the following questions when you construct your response:
What type of radiation is typically exploited in most nuclear medicine procedures?
How are patients prepared for nuclear medicine procedures?
What are the advantages and limitations of nuclear medicine?
What ailments are typically diagnosed and treated via nuclear medicine procedures?
Evaluate a minimum of three applications of nuclear medicine relating to any of the following topics:
Positron Emission Tomography (PET) scans
Gallium scans
Indium white blood cell scans
Iobenguane scans (MIBG)
Octreotide scans
Hybrid scanning techniques employing X-ray computed tomography (CT) or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
Nuclear medicine therapy using radiopharmaceuticals
Support your statements with examples. Provide a minimum of three scholarly references.
Write a 2–3-page paper in Word format. Apply APA standards to citation of sources. Use the following file naming convention: LastnameFirstInitial_M4_A2.doc.
By
Wednesday, April 19, 2017
, deliver your assignment to the
M4: Assignment 2 Dropbox
.
Assignment 2 Grading Criteria
Maximum Points
Demonstrated an understanding of the basic scientific and technical concepts of nuclear medicine.
28
Evaluated current or future applications of nuclear medicine with three real-world examples.
32
Provided at least three reliable references to support examples of current and future nuclear medicine applications.
20
Wrote in a clear, concise, and organized manner; demonstrated ethical scholarship in accurate representation and attribution of sources; displayed accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation.
20
Total:
.
Assignment 2 RA 1 Human Service Needs Assessment ReportOver the .docx
Assignment 2: RA 1: Human Service Needs Assessment Report
Over the past two decades, the terms "accountability" and "program evaluation" have become the focus within the human services arena. Due to budgetary constraints and decrease in availability of public funding, the competition for scarce resources has increased. This increased competition has subjected human services agencies to an intense examination where requests for resources are scrutinized carefully.
The first step to conducting a program evaluation is to conduct a
needs assessment
to determine and justify the reason for carrying out the evaluation of a particular program. A need can be defined as the gap between what is and what should be and can be experienced by an individual, a group, or an entire community.
Tasks:
Using at least 3–5 scholarly resources from the professional literature, research human service needs assessment. The literature may include the Argosy University online library resources, relevant textbooks, peer-reviewed journal articles, and websites created by professional organizations, agencies, or institutions (.edu, .org, or .gov).
Create a 7- to 9-page report in a Microsoft Word document, including the following:
Identify a program at a social agency or other human services program to which you have access and provide a description of the organizational context including the mission and objectives of the program and why an evaluation is being considered.
Conduct a
needs assessment
using concepts presented previously to confirm and explain the scope of the problem, the perceived versus actual gap in service, the affected population, whether the need is changing, and in what manner the need may be changing.
Identify possible resources to meet the perceived needs. Discuss what existing resources can be used, what additional information would be needed, and what sources for obtaining data you would use.
Identify the stakeholders who need to be included in the assessment and subsequent evaluation.
Analyze the interpersonal, political, and ethical considerations of interacting with decision makers and stakeholders who may have conflicting priorities and determine strategies for reconciling those priorities.
.
Assignment 2 Music Analysis 3 pages pleasePURPOSE The purp.docx
Assignment 2: Music Analysis 3 pages please
PURPOSE:
The purpose of this assignment is to use content analysis to critically analyze how one social issue/problem is discussed and represented in popular culture through music lyrics.
BACKGROUND:
There are many agents of popular culture though which the messages, themes and symbols of popular culture are produced and consumed. Media is a key agent of popular culture, and within it music is one mode for the production and consumption of popular culture. The music of the 1960s marked a key period of transition in the United States as themes of social problems and dissidence started to fill the radio waves. This assignment will allow you to explore one social issue or problem in music today.
See below (NOTE THAT THERE ARE TWO OPTIONS: OPTION 1 AND OPTION 2) for a detailed assignment description.
Option 1 Instructions:
1) Choose one social issue or social problem (i.e. drugs, the environment, war, teenage pregnancy, hate crimes, etc.).
2) Find at least 5 songs with lyrics that address your chosen social issue/problem. You will need to cite these songs using proper APA formatting (see below).
3) Analyze the songs for similarities and differences in how they address the social issue/problem. You may:
- look for themes within and among the songs (i.e. songs about war that talk about ‘ending war’
- consider the year the songs were copyrighted
- consider the genre the song fits in
- is the song directed at a particular audience? (think socio-demographic characteristics: age, race/ethnicity, gender, socio-economic status (SES), and sexuality)
- what type of vocabulary, words, grammar, euphemisms, vernacular is used for the lyrics?
- Consider the actual production of the song as well: tempo, emotion, male/female singer, individual singer/band, etc.
4) Find at least two sources that address music and your social problem (i.e. the sources are providing similar analysis or commentary on how your social problem is addressed through music). These may be popular sources (i.e. magazine articles or websites), but Wikipedia is not acceptable.
5) Find at least one peer-reviewed article (see attached Finding Peer Reviewed Journals guidelines) that discusses your social issue problem and how it is portrayed by the media (ideally this would be focused on your social issue and problem, but this may be difficult to find – so an article on TV, radio, internet, movies is OK).
6) Write-up your paper
a) Cover Page
b) Clearly identify your chosen social issue/problem.
a. Why are you interested in studying this?
c) Write-up your analysis of how this social issue/problem is addressed in the 5 songs you chose
a.
NOTE:
this is the majority of your paper. It is a ‘comparative critical’ analysis of how your chosen social issue/problem is addressed in these songs. It is NOT a summary of each song, and it should not include cutting and pastin.
Assignment 2 Methods of InquiryThe principle methods of inquiry.docx
Assignment 2:
Methods of Inquiry
The principle methods of inquiry are divided into two broad, distinct categories: those that reconstruct the past and those that discover or create new knowledge. Based on your reading answer the following questions:
What are methods of inquiry and how are they used in criminal investigation?
Describe the steps to reconstruct a case and use an example to illustrate the concepts.
Describe how reconstructing a crime scene can aid in understanding the fundamentals of criminal investigations. Keep in mind the fundamentals are identifying witnesses, offenders, connecting evidence from the scene to the offender and victim, and but not limited to apprehending the offender(s).
Requirements
APA format and Style
5 pages, include Title and Reference page
1 resource, can include textbook
Standard American English Grammar, sustained point of view throughout the writing
.
Assignment 2 Legislator Communication Friday 01072 Tasks.docx
Assignment 2: Legislator Communication Friday 01/07
2
Tasks:
This written assignment requires the student to investigate his/her local, state and federal legislators and explore their assigned committees and legislative commitments. The student is expected to investigate current and actual legislative initiatives that have either passed or pending approval by the house, senate or Governor’s office. The student will draft a letter to a specific legislator and offer support or constructive argument against pending policy or legislation. The letter must be supported with a minimum of 3 evidence based primary citations.
My state is Florida
.
Assignment 2 Last MileThe last mile is a term that is used to e.docx
Assignment 2: Last Mile
The "last mile" is a term that is used to explain how the end user ultimately connects to a network. Regardless of which Internet service provider (ISP) a business or an individual uses, a network's connectivity, signal, noise ratios, and other network components are often determined by the last mile provider. Usually, there is only one, which makes it nearly impossible to have any form of true redundancy. It is an important element to understand while you study networking.
In this assignment, you will research and study the concept of the last mile and T1 communications.
Tasks:
Develop a 4- to 5-page paper and address the following:
Evaluate the last mile connection in terms of a link that is used between an end user and an ISP.
Explain the last mile link options that are typically available to most end users (such as cable and digital subscriber line [DSL] services). Keep in mind that these options are usually missing in small rural communities.
Identify two to three of the more common connections and summarize their associated data rates, typical uses, and approximate costs. Obtain the exact cost information from at least one of the service providers.
Examine the role that T1 communications lines play in long-distance communications in conjunction with repeaters.
Compare different carriers used by service providers (such as a telecommunication company versus a cable service provider). Also, differentiate the types of equipment used as carriers by these service providers.
Note
: Your paper should utilize at least three scholarly or professional sources (beyond your textbook). Your paper should be written in a clear, concise, and organized manner; demonstrate ethical scholarship in accurate representation and attribution of sources (i.e., in APA format); and display accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation.
Submission Details:
By
Wednesday, March 1, 2017
, save your paper as M4_A2_Lastname_Firstname.doc and submit it to the
M4 Assignment 2 Dropbox
.
Assignment 2 Grading Criteria
Maximum Points
Evaluated the last mile connection.
20
Explained the last mile link options that are typically available to most end users.
20
Identified two to three of the more common connections and summarized their associated data rates, typical uses, and approximate costs.
20
Examined the role that T1 communications lines play in long-distance communications in conjunction with repeaters.
12
Compared different carriers used by service providers.
8
Wrote in a clear, concise, and organized manner; demonstrated ethical scholarship in accurate representation and attribution of sources; displayed accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation.
20
Total:
100
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