Unit Outcomes: Identify the difference between projects, programs, and operations. Identify project management process groups and knowledge areas. Examine common project management processes and their interactions. Course Outcome: Analyze the Project Management Framework to identify relationships between process groups and knowledge management areas. Purpose This assignment calls for you to analyze the relationship among the process groups, knowledge areas, and management processes. Assignment Instructions Build […]

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid are beginning to penalize hospitals who have patients readmitted in a certain time period (Readmission Reduction Program). Your Supervisor has come to you as to a manager of Quality Improvement and asked you how your hospital can better understand your readmission rates. Write a descriptive analysis plan outline based on PDCA process description that can offer insight in the organization readmission […]

Emerging Issues in Health Care ManagementSelect one emerging health issue from Chapter 17 in your textbook: Vaccine Preventable DiseasesBioterrorismHuman TraffickingViolence in Health Care SettingsMedical TourismPresent a 12 – 15 slide PowerPoint on the emerging health issue you picked. The number of slides exclude the title and reference pages. Substantial Speaker Notes are required throughout the entire presentation. Below you will find articles with more info on speaker notes.Discuss the potential impact of the […]

Based on insights that you have gained throughout this course and the Learning Resources from this week, complete the following in 400 words: Describe what you think is the most pertinent health policy issue with the potential to transform the way health care is delivered. Provide a rationale for the implementation of a policy brief from a legal, ethical, and operational perspective. Be specific and […]

Part 1 In this module, you have investigated the Deepwater Horizon oil spill uploaded below and finished your planning document. Now that you have finished your research, what was the most interesting thing you discovered about your issue? Explain why you found this information interesting. In what ways was your topic relevant to you personally? Part 2 Complete the speaker note draft that is uploaded […]

Theme 2: Learning Activity Lung cancer is the second most common cancer among men and women in the USA.  You are hired as a manager-planner by one of the hospitals. The organization is interested in establishing a community outreach program promoting smoking cessation and lung cancer screening. The Board of Directors requested your services in processing the data collected through the prospective cohort study among male and female […]

Theme 2: Learning Activity Lung cancer is the second most common cancer among men and women in the USA.  You are hired as a manager-planner by one of the hospitals. The organization is interested in establishing a community outreach program promoting smoking cessation and lung cancer screening. The Board of Directors requested your services in processing the data collected through the prospective cohort study among male and female […]

It may seem to you that healthcare has been a national topic of debate among political leaders for as long as you can remember. Healthcare has been a policy item and a topic of debate not only in recent times but as far back as the administration of the second U.S. president, John Adams. In 1798, Adams signed legislation requiring that 20 cents per month […]

When you are faced with the task of writing my essay, you delay working on the assignment because it doesn’t seem too difficult. However, you find yourself trapped as soon as you start looking for reliable resources. You have to spend several hours in the library, since you discover new challenges as you dig deeper. If you manage to go through the research and writing […]

WHAT WE WROTE ABOUT    2. On business, capitalism, competition, creative destruction, innovation and economic growth (Modules 3 and 4) No unread replies.55 replies. This is a graded discussion forum set up for discussing the nature and consequences of capitalism, and capitalistic competition. Note that some of the issues covered in this discussion forum overlap with issues from our 1st discussion board (particularly as it […]