Strategic Planning in Healthcare

 The writing assignment covers chapters 8, 9 10, 11,12 and 13

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Required Readings: Course Text- Essentials of Strategic Planning in Healthcare, Jeffrey P. Harrison, 2nd edition, 2016, Health Administration Press Chicago, Illinois. ISBN: 978-1-56793-791-6.

• Based on Chapter 7, answer the following questions:

1. What is a healthcare business plan? What key sections are included in a healthcare business plan?
2. What are horizontal integration and vertical integration? How does vertical integration reflect a change of strategic direction for an organization?

• Based on Chapter 8, answer the following questions:

1. Who are key stakeholders in a healthcare organization? Provide an example of a motivating statement that might engage one of these groups.

• Based on Chapter 9, answer the following questions:

1. From your own experience as a patient, provide an example of high-value healthcare.
2. Discuss the three pillars of Donabedian’s model for healthcare quality assurance. Does this model have practical applications today, given the current focus on healthcare value?
3. Imagine you are a hospital executive and you want to improve your organization’s value proposition. What areas do you need to assess to develop an improvement plan?
4. Why is clinical integration important in the current healthcare environment

• Based on Chapter 10, answer the following questions:

1. Research shows the number of elderly Americans with chronic health conditions is growing significantly. What strategic implications does the increasing demand for skilled nursing care have for the nursing home industry?

• Based on Chapter 11, answer the following questions:

1. Name five areas in which CMC has some components of an IDS in place. Develop a list of five new areas or activities that CMC could successfully integrate into a health system

• Based on Chapter 12 answer the following questions:
  1. Imagine you are a hospital executive and you want to improve your organization’s value proposition. What areas do you need to assess to develop an improvement plan?
• Based on Chapter 13, answer the following questions:
  1. What is individualized medicine? What value it brings in a competitive market?
  2. What are the important characteristics of a PCMH? How could telemedicine be a part of the PCMH?