The document outlines assignments for a healthcare management course where students act as administrators of a fictitious organization to conduct environmental analysis, develop strategic approaches, and implement a strategic plan. Students are tasked with identifying external and internal factors affecting their organization, as well as creating mission and vision statements, strategic goals, and adaptive strategies. Various requirements such as specific page lengths and quality academic resources are emphasized throughout each assignment to ensure thorough understanding and application of strategic management principles.

1. HSA 599 Week 4 Assignment 1 Conducting an Environmental
Analysis
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Assignment 1: Conducting an Environmental Analysis
For all assignments assume that you are the administrator of a fictitious
organization of your choice. The organization can be any type of health
care organization such as a hospital, nursing home, rehabilitation center,
clinic, etc. As the administrator, you are faced with the challenges of
declining reimbursements from insurance providers and increasing
demands for patient services due to dramatic changes in the external
environment. Such changes include those imposed by the Patient
Protection and Affordable Care Act.
Your first step in evaluating the position of your organization will be
conducting an environmental analysis. The purpose of this is to
determine your organization’s ability to continue to provide quality care
and remain financially solvent in the face of these challenges.
Write a six to eight (6-8) page paper in which you:
Determine two (2) specific forces in the external environment that will
have the most impact on your organization. Provide a rationale for your
decision.

2. Determine two (2) specific internal factors that the organization’s
leaders need to consider in preparing for the future of health care and the
future of the organization. Provide a rationale for your decision.
Discuss the impact of both the identified internal and external forces on
the organization’s ability to develop a competitive strategy.
Recommend one (1) strategy that involves the organization’s managers
in implementing and maintaining the momentum of the strategic plan.
Use at least three (3) quality academic resources in this assignment.
Note: Wikipedia and other Websites to not qualify as academic
resources.
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HSA 599 Week 7 Assignment 2 Developing a Strategic Approach
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Assignment 2: Developing a Strategic Approach
Due Week 7 and worth 300 points
For this assignment, continue your role as the administrator of the
organization you created for Assignment 1.
Write a six to eight (6-8) page paper in which you:
1. Create a mission and vision statement for your organization.
Determine three (3) specific strategic goals that align with the ideals in
those two (2) statements.
2. Recommend one (1) specific adaptive strategy or combination of
adaptive strategies that would be most effective in ensuring that the
organization achieves its strategic goals. Support your recommendation
with examples of the successful application of the recommended
strategy or strategies.

3. 3. Outline three (3) service delivery and three (3) support components
that will be necessary elements of the organization’s value chain geared
toward achieving the strategic goals that you identified. Examine, in
detail, the main reasons why the delivery and support components of the
value chain that you identified are essential to the achievement of the
organization’s goals.
4. Suggest one (1) specific approach to maintaining the selected
adaptive strategy or strategies in order to ensure that the organization
achieves its mission and vision.
5. Use at least three (3) quality academic resources in this assignment.
Note: Wikipedia and other Websites to 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:
· Differentiate between strategic management, strategic thinking,
strategic planning, and managing strategic momentum.
· Examine the organizational value chain, including the components
of the service delivery and support activities.
· Analyze the roles of and the relationships among organizational
mission, vision, values, and strategic goals, and why they are called
directional strategies.
· Apply analytic skills to define strategic problems, generate and
evaluate strategic alternatives, and develop implementation tactics.
· Examine the nature of directional, adaptive, market entry, and
competitive strategies.

4. · Use technology and information resources to research issues in the
strategic management of health care organizations.
· Write clearly and concisely about strategic management of health
care organizations using proper writing mechanics.
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HSA 599 Week 10 Capstone Project Implementing a Strategic Plan
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Capstone Project: Implementing a Strategic Plan
Due Week 10 and worth 400 points
Building on Assignments 1 and 2, continue to develop a strategic plan
for the same organization (Note: Refer to the environmental analysis that
you completed as part of Assignment 1 and the strategies identified in
Assignment 2.)
Write an eight to ten (8-10) page paper in which you:
1. Select one (1) specific analytical tool that you can use to determine
whether or not the adaptive strategy or strategies selected for your
organization will be the most effective in helping the organization
achieve its goals. Propose the manner in which you would use this
analytical tool, and support your proposal with an example of its
proposed use.
2. Determine one (1) internal and one (1) external factor that you
discovered during the environmental analysis that could be a barrier to
the success of your proposed strategy or strategies. Recommend one (1)
solution to each of the barriers in question.
3. Determine the specific segment of the market that your
organization’s strategy or strategies will target.

5. 4. Recommend whether pre-service, point-of-service, or after-service
activities would be the most effective approach in marketing your
strategy or strategies to the organization’s target customers. Support
your recommendation with examples of such effectiveness.
5. Propose the most effective manner in which the organization can
support its strategic direction within its culture and structure.
6. Determine the most effective manner in which each of the following
strategic resources can be instrumental in helping the organization to
achieve its strategic goals: finance, human resources, facilities, and IT.
Provide a specific example relevant to each resource to support your
response.
1. Evaluate how well the strategic plan you have developed aligns with
the organization’s mission and vision. Recommend three (3) specific
strategies to track the effectiveness of your strategic plan.
2. Use at least three (3) quality academic resources in this assignment.
Note: Wikipedia and other Websites to 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:
· Apply analytic skills to define strategic problems, generate and
evaluate strategic alternatives, and develop implementation tactics.
· Differentiate between value-adding service delivery strategies and
value-adding support strategies.
· Use technology and information resources to research issues in the
strategic management of health care organizations.

6. · Differentiate between the target customer segments and
positioning products within these segments as they apply to health care
organizations.
Write clearly and concisely about strategic management of health care
organizations using proper writing mechanics.
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7. · Differentiate between the target customer segments and
positioning products within these segments as they apply to health care
organizations.
Write clearly and concisely about strategic management of health care
organizations using proper writing mechanics.
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