Objective: Your group is the executive leadership team of a hospital system of your choosing. Conduct an environmental assessment of the hospital and based on your assessment, identify the critical issues impacting the hospital? What is your strategy (mission and vision) and specific recommendations along with their implementations in order to improve these critical issues both externally and internally? Describe specifically how you would apply the 12 critical steps as the leadership team in order to improve the bottom-line and patient care.

Submit a PowerPoint presentation summarizing the key issues you identified, your strategy, recommendations and your perceived improvements (as if you were presenting to the hospital board) submitted as well.

1. With a slow recovering economy and emerging health care policy changes, there will be increasing pressure on all health care organizations to increase efficiency.

2. New payment models are a critical element for enabling health care system improvement.

Financial stability

4. New models of care that emphasize care coordination across hospitals and health systems, other providers, and the community are a critical element for quality improvement.

5. Quality is improving, but must be further accelerated.