The Evening News for Health Care Administrators

You are to report "the evening news" in a class. Your news report must present a news item or current event that is pertinent to health care management (not just health). Please do not report a journal article - report "the news" from a newspaper, website, TV, or other source. Local news might be especially interesting. After you report the news, give your thoughts and opinions about how what you reported could affect health organizations and management of those organizations. Then finish by leading discussion of the news. In keeping with current trends in news reporting, you may make ‘the news' fun and entertaining. You may review work-in-progress with the instructor for preliminary feedback to improve your learning and performance. Schedule your news report for a specific class, and then do the following 3 things:

This assignment is to be written!!

a) Concisely state the news in your own words - e.g., who, what, where, when, why.

b) Explain how you think health organizations and health care management could be affected by what you reported. Describe at least 3 specific ways that health organizations and their management could be affected by what you reported. What should health care managers do?

c) Students will prepare a written list of 4 questions as part of this assignment.

Name: Date:

News:
Criteria Points Comments / Suggestions

Content (a. above)

Effects and action (b. above)
1 effect #1
2 effect #2
3 effect #3
4 what managers should do