Respond to both:

1. Learnscapes for Healthcare Delivery: Learnscapes Four Expansion The Board of Directors of the Health Care System is thinking of expanding services to include a home health agency in the community. They have charged the CEO to ask you, their health care consultant, to help determine whether or not to develop this service. You must analyze overall health care trends, population trends, disease trends, local trends and competitors, utilization of services, and other factors to determine whether or not to recommend opening a home care service. The recommendation will include specific data on services provided, staff required, financial concerns, and a plan to build patient referrals. Review the entire Learnscape and then submit your recommendation to this forum on whether or not Bright Road should expand into Home Health. Back up your recommendation with the analysis gained from staff. Discuss all recommendations by all students throughout the week.

2. Learnscapes for Health Care Finance: Learnscapes Four To Move or Not To Move In this scenario you are the newly appointed CEO for the Continuing Care Retirement Community that is under the large Hospital System. A board retreat is coming up and you must help the board with a critical decision: relocate the facility to a more suburban area, or stay in its current, metropolitan area location. By gaining a solid understanding of the key target ratios that the Board is responsible for, most importantly the growth rate in equity (GRIE) you may find that a more financially feasible alternative should be considered. Discuss your role as you helped the Board decide reach the decision to reolocate to a suburban area or stay in their current urban area. Who did you meet with? What decisions were made and why did you make them?