Background: Over the past few weeks, the class has reviewed several topics including the key aspects of workforce ma

Background:

Over the past few weeks, the class has reviewed several topics including the key aspects of workforce management, health policy, and information technology. Applying the information reviewed this week on finance and economics, we will explore how each of these weekly topics are connected from a healthcare administrators’ viewpoint. During each of our weekly readings, information was obtained on the importance of healthcare workforce structures, how policy is created, the significance of quality as well as change management, read about the foundational components of healthcare finance, and learned about the core elements of economics. Based on each of these areas that we have read about during class, discussed during our weekly discussions, and from your own research, you will provide insight to each of these topics, applying the information to the scenario below, for this week’s assignment

Assignment Scenario: Role Playing as a Healthcare Administrator for Your Desired Healthcare Setting

Step 1: Identify your desired healthcare setting and healthcare administrator role for the scenario.  You may elect one of the Options listed below or define your own role within your own healthcare setting.  It is important to note that your selected healthcare facility is part of a large healthcare system and you are one of the many administrators that the system has but you will be playing the role of the executive leader for your specific healthcare setting within your organization’s large healthcare system.

(Examples: Licensed Nursing Home Administrator for a Skilled Nursing Facility with 120 Beds, 70 short-stay rehabilitation beds and 50 long-stay resident beds that is part of a multi-state healthcare system or laboratory director for a 80 bed critical access hospital that is part a larger healthcare system that offers the entire continuum of care within 2 states)

Step 2: Based on your selected healthcare setting and role from Step 1, you will be presenting information at the next executive leadership meeting. Each administrator for your organization will be presenting information to the healthcare system’s executive leadership team, and you are required to complete the strategic planning report as part of your presentation. You will use the Strategic Planning Report Template, provided below, to prepare for this upcoming meeting. Each topic will need to be sufficiently addressed with supporting evidence that will assist the executive leadership team in preparing for next year’s budget and related to updating the strategic plan for your facility.

Assignment Requirements:

Complete the Strategic Planning Report using the Word document template provided within this assignment prompt. You will complete this report for the meeting, ensuring that each question provides the executive leadership team with the appropriate amount of details with supporting external evidence, so your facility’s budget and strategic plan are ready for the upcoming fiscal year. You will need to include at least three APA formatted references from the last five years with correlating in-text citations for the report. Please ensure that that an APA 7th edition cover page, the report, and an APA 7th edition reference page are provided.

Click this hyperlink to access the template:  Strategic Planning Report Template (IN attachments)

Healthcare Setting and Role Options: 

Option 1: Licensed Nursing Home Administrator (LNHA) for a Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) with 120 Beds: 70 short-stay rehabilitation beds, each dually licensed for Medicare and Medicaid, and accepts major managed care insurance plans for short-stay rehabilitation. Your SNF also has 50 long-stay resident beds that are licensed for Medicaid, Private Pay, or Long-Term Care Insurance. Your SNFs average daily census (ADC) is 60 short-term patients with 45 long stay residents, resulting in a total of 105 patients/residents for your ADC. Your facility is one of 30 SNFs within your nonprofit healthcare system and is located within the state of Florida.

Option 2: Laboratory Director for a 25-bed critical access hospital (CAH) with swing beds for post-acute care to provide skilled nursing services, has an average length of stay of 3.5 days, offers a birthing center, provides cancer and infusion services, and has a connected assisted living facility. Your CAH is one of seven CAHs for your nonprofit healthcare system which is located within a rural Illinois town.

Option 3: Practice Manager for a mid-sized primary care clinic that has three to five physicians with each physician seeing approximately 20 patients per day, accepting all payor-sources. Your practice is in rural area in the state of Virginia and operates in one of the nine states for your nonprofit healthcare system.

Option 4: Ambulatory Director for a multispecialty ambulatory surgery center (ASC) that is Medicare-certified, and accepts private insurance, located in state of Maryland with an average daily census of 17, and is one of the 40 ASCs for your nonprofit healthcare system.

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