Overview:
Health care leaders are charged with the responsibility of scanning the external environment constantly for shifts in supply and demand of services. Concurrently, leaders must examine strategic fit with the current organizational directional strategy and determine if adjustments need to be made for current service offerings, updates in equipment, changes in staffing models, and a variety of other decisions. Each decision that a department leader or senior executive proposes must be evaluated in terms of the organization as a system, alignment with the mission and strategy, available internal resources, potential contract and payer source implications, and the economic short- and long-term effects at both the department and organizational levels.
As an emerging health care leader, you will have the opportunity in this assignment to evaluate an economic initiative in terms of both the impact to your current or desired department or service line, as well as to the overall organization.
To complete this analysis:
- Select a health care economic decision topic that affects your current or desired work setting.
- Conduct research using the Capella library and government Web sites to determine economic supply and demand decision-making factors such as trends, local demand for services, and costs versus reimbursements.
- Analyze the dilemma in terms of supply and demand data at a national level, an organizational or local marketplace level, and in terms of your department or service line.
- Write an executive overview of the problem that includes a supply and demand discussion (at a national, regional or local marketplace, and organizational and department levels), and salient points regarding estimated future supply and demand, profitability, sustainability, and organizational alignment or strategic fit.
Requirements
- Length of paper:2-5 double-spaced, typed pages. Your paper should be succinct yet substantive.
- APA formatting:Resources and citations are formatted according to current APA style and formatting.
- Resources: Use evidence from authoritative, scholarly literature to support your recommendations.