This week, you are tasked with developing a 12- to 15-page healthcare service proposal plan that introduces a newly designed product service or an upgrade to an existing healthcare service. You may choose a real-world or fictional healthcare organization. For example, you may choose one of the following:
- a hospital
- a long-term care facility
- home healthcare
- renal care organization
The Healthcare Service Proposal must contain the provided headers. Refer to the APA Style ElementsLinks to an external site. resource for guidance on formatting APA level headings.
Executive Summary
In your final paper,
- Develop a brief summary of the intended healthcare service.
- Refer to Writing an Executive SummaryLinks to an external site. for guidance.
Introduction
In your final paper,
- State the objectives of the proposed healthcare service, including marginal and average productivity.
- Explain how your healthcare service will achieve its intended objectives.
Strategic Effect
In your final paper,
- Analyze the role of public policy in your proposed service.
- What policies and processes should be in place to create an effective service?
- Develop a microeconomic model responsive to your target population’s specific healthcare service demands.
- For example, you might consider the current trend of the medical home model, which allows for care coordination, better communication among service providers, and convenience for patients.
- Explain how your healthcare service will serve a need for your target population.
Market Analysis
In your final paper,
- Identify the population demographics.
- Who are your competitors?
- Identify whether a real need for your proposed healthcare service exists in the community.
- Describe any competitors and if they exist in the present climate.
- Note: This requires an evaluation of the present socioeconomic and cultural trends influencing how people make decisions in healthcare.
- Compare and contrast economic challenges and incentives among healthcare organization models.
- This comparison requires understanding past challenges and incentives that other organizations have implemented.
Financial Analysis: This section includes the revenue, expenses, and net income.
In your final paper,
- Compare and contrast economic challenges and incentives by finding and describing multiple sources of public and private funding (e.g., grants, donations, awards, special projects) for this project.
- Describe the fixed and variable costs associated with short and long-term cost production for your healthcare service.
- Explain the annual maintenance and operation costs for your proposed healthcare service.
Outlook: This section examines future implications of your proposed healthcare service and how it will impact the community’s future health outcomes and the financial health of the services being provided.
In your final paper,
- Analyze economies and diseconomies that are germane to the provision of your proposed healthcare service.
- Describe adjustments you might need to make regarding the potential “unintended consequences.”
- Example: Baylor Hospital in Houston proposed and spent $250 million to create a brand-new hospital that currently stands empty because it was built during the U.S. economic downturn, the loan was no longer able to finance the construction, and the initial examination of its necessity did not play out as expected.
- Analyze social, legal, political, and technological issues that could affect your healthcare service proposal.
The Healthcare Production and Cost and the Workforce Market final paper
- must be 12 to 15 double-spaced pages in length (not including title and references pages) and formatted according to APA StyleLinks to an external site. as outlined in the Writing Center’s APA Formatting for Microsoft WordLinks to an external site. resource.
- must include a separate title page with the following in title case:
- title of paper in bold font
- Space should appear between the title and the rest of the information on the title page.
- student’s name
- name of institution (The University of Arizona Global Campus)
- course name and number
- instructor’s name
- due date
- title of paper in bold font
- must utilize academic voice.
- Review the Academic VoiceLinks to an external site. resource for additional guidance.
- must include an introduction and conclusion paragraph.
- Your introduction paragraph needs to end with a clear thesis statement that indicates the purpose of your paper.
- For assistance in writing Introductions & ConclusionsLinks to an external site. and Writing a Thesis StatementLinks to an external site., refer to the Writing Center resources.
- must use at least 6 scholarly sources that were published within the last 5 years in addition to the course text, including a minimum of three peer-reviewed sources from the University of Arizona Global Campus Library.
- The Scholarly, Peer-Reviewed, and Other Credible SourcesLinks to an external site. table offers additional guidance on appropriate source types. If you have questions about whether a specific source is appropriate for this assignment, please contact your instructor. Your instructor has the final say about the appropriateness of a specific source.
- To assist you in completing the research required for this assignment, refer to this Quick and Easy Library ResearchLinks to an external site. tutorial, which introduces the University of Arizona Global Campus Library and the research process, and provides some library search tips.
- You may also refer to the How to Use Library OneSearchLinks to an external site. tutorial, which explains keyword searching process in the library to find scholarly articles, or the Advanced Internet Search TechniquesLinks to an external site. tip sheet, which provides some tips and strategies to make finding credible online research in a search engine such as Google easier and more efficient.
- must document any information used from sources in APA Style as outlined in the Writing Center’s APA: Citing Within Your PaperLinks to an external site. guide.
- must include a separate references page that is formatted according to APA Style as outlined in the Writing Center.
- Refer to the APA: Formatting Your References ListLinks to an external site. resource in the Writing Center for specifications.