Healthcare systems must address both internal and external influencing factors to assure safe, high quality, cost-efficient care and improve patient outcomes.

Healthcare systems must address both internal and external influencing factors to assure safe, high quality, cost-efficient care and improve patient outcomes.  Avoidable use and misuse of the Emergency Department are phenomena that directly impact organizational outcomes and efficiency.  The purpose of this assignment is to analyze the misuse of healthcare resources from a systems leadership perspective in order to propose viable solutions.

COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES

Through this assignment, the student will address the following course learning outcomes:

•             CO 1: Analyze the relationships among access, affordability, and availability of services within complex healthcare delivery systems. (PO #1)

•             CO 3: Contrast the revenue sources for reimbursement of healthcare delivery services within complex healthcare systems. (PO #2)

•             CO 4: Develop problem-solution strategies for a selected issue within the healthcare environment. (PO 5)

SUGGESTED DUE DATE

This assignment has a suggested due date of Sunday 11:59 pm MT at the end of Module5.

Final due date is Sunday 11:59 pm MT at the end of Module 7.

TOTAL POINTS POSSIBLE: 150 POINTS

ASSIGNMENT OVERVIEW

Investigate the issue of ER avoidable use as it portrays misuse of healthcare resources.  Create a 10 – 12 slide PowerPoint Presentation. Use a minimum of 4 current scholarly sources to support your work.  See rubric for specific, required content criteria within each section of the presentation:

•             Provide an introduction to the presentation

•             Present an overview surrounding the issue of ER avoidable use, and explain the impact on healthcare systems and individual patients.

•             Identify three specific underlying reasons for this misuse of healthcare resources, and discuss how each underlying issue is reflective of a gap or problem within the current healthcare system.

•             Propose one strategy to address or resolve one of the underlying issues, and discuss how the strategy will specifically address or resolve the issue.  Provide a detailed explanation of the resources necessary to operationalize the proposed strategy. 

•             Provide a conclusion to the presentation.