Create service delivery strategies.

Directions

Strategy can take several forms. Healthcare organizations will use directional strategy, adaptive strategy, market entry strategy, and/or competitive strategy at any time. How do these strategies aid in achievement of a higher-level strategy? Using APA 6th edition format, write a two page paper summarizing the rationale behind each of the strategic alternatives. Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of each of the strategic alternatives. Include at least two references.

Adaptive Strategic Alternatives

This assignment will assess Competency 6: Determine the link between action plans, budget, and strategy.

Directions

Making decisions about the type or scope of operations is an adaptive strategy. This would be how a healthcare organization decides to recommend expansion, reduction or maintaining operations. Using APA 6th edition format, write a two page paper discussing adaptive strategic alternatives for a healthcare organization. Summarize the importance that the strategy selected needs to fit the situation. Include at least two references.

Strategy to Action Plan

This assignment will assess Competency 6: Determine the link between action plans, budget, and strategy.

Directions

The strategy selection is complete: now the organization must implement the strategy into an action plan. What budgetary impact could be involved in this process? Using APA 6th edition format, write a two page paper describing some of the difficulties involved in converting strategy into an action plan within a healthcare organization. Discuss some of the effective ways to overcome barriers when implementing an action plan. Include at least two references

Research Paper

. Develop a Comprehensive Strategic Plan based on a health care facility of your choice.Please make every attempt to present your paper using APA writing style guidelines

Here are some tips for writing your paper:

Internal Data:

• A good place to find internal data would be in the organization's annual report.
• These annual reports are public information so you will not be working with any "private" information.
• Some annual reports give financial data for multiple years. This is ideal because you can then calculate trends.
• Check to see whether the facility publishes their annual report on their web site.
• Some organizations publish annual reports from a few years, so if one report does not include past year data, you can get it by researching past year annual reports.
• You may find other documents on the web site that will help you with your internal analysis.

External Data:

• External data is not specific to any one facility, so this shouldn't be difficult to find.
• City, county, and chamber of commerce web sites would be a good place to start.

Strategic Planning Paper Outline

1. Introduction
2. Executive Summary
3. Internal Analysis
   • System Background
   • The Management Team
   • Trends/Issues
   • Organizational Culture
   • Information Technology (IT)
   • Financials
   • Human Resources
4. External Analysis
   • General Environment
   • Trends/Issues
   • The local health care market; the general external market
   • Payor mix
5. SWOT Analysis
6. Mission, Vision, Values and Goals statements
7. The Future
   • Services to increase, decrease, maintain, end, or start
   • Organizations outlook: Changes in financial status or operations, changes in human resources, changes in organizational structure
8. Brief Summary
   • Summary of what your plan proposes and why
   • Argument of why and how the organization will be better off for following your plan