Devry HSM541 Week
8 FInal Exam Latest 2015 November

1. Question
: (TCO A). You are a healthcare
consultant hired by the Eastcoast Healthcare System to assist in evaluating an
organization’s strategic plan for the next 5 years. The plan will shape the
development of a comprehensive network of services for the community.
You’ve been asked to give a presentation to the board of
directors on options for restructuring the local delivery of healthcare
services. The hospital’s president has asked you to focus your presentation on
the common elements of a comprehensive delivery system and to highlight
innovative methods to restructure. The presentation will lay out the
requirements of an integrated healthcare delivery system and include how much
emphasis should be placed on what types of primary, secondary, tertiary, long-term
care, and palliative care services, and why.

Question 2. Question
: (TCO B). You are the
newly-hired Vice President of Human Resources for the Bayside Community Health
System. You’ve been on the job for just 3 months and have considerable
experience in human resource functions. You have responsibility for all of the
usual human resources functions, including the recruitment process, the
training and development functions, and the retention plan. In addition, you
have the additional departments of volunteers and the hospital chaplain
services.

You’ve identified a number of serious organizational issues
that are impacting the hospital. Turnover is high, there are many vacant
positions, and the organization has a very high number of positions that are
considered hard-to-fill positions because of national workforce shortages in
nursing, pharmacy, and radiology.

The board of directors and the president know that they have
serious human resource issues that will have to change in order for them to
compete in the local healthcare market as an employer-of-choice. As in any
healthcare organization, fiscal resources are limited, but the board is firmly
committed to investing in a well developed human resources plan to decrease
turnover and stem the ever-growing turnover and vacancy rates. The president
has asked you to attend the next board of directors meeting to share your plan
for addressing these serious issues. What will you tell them in your
presentation to address the retention and recruitment problems?

Question 3. Question
: (TCO C). You are the
administrator of a small nonprofit rural hospital. You have been approached by
a large for-profit healthcare system located about 75 miles away for talks
about a possible merger. You know that the for-profit system limits the amount
of Medicare and Medicaid patients treated for economic reasons. These
controversial decisions present not only a major breakdown in the healthcare
delivery system but also in the financing of healthcare for many individuals in
the U.S. Discuss the pros and cons of becoming part of this urban system.

Question 4. Question
: (TCO D). As the Executive
Director of the National Association for Managed Care Organizations, you know
that national healthcare reform will bring about revolutionary changes in your
member organizations. Public outcry for changes has been heard loud and long,
Congress is calling for reform, and providers are extremely frustrated with how
you pay and control the utilization of services.

You have been invited by a congressional panel to discuss
how the managed care industry can be overhauled to provide a more
customer-responsive product and address the issue of national healthcare costs.

What are the high-priority issues that will need to be
discussed to overhaul the managed care industry? What stakeholders must be
considered in the planning process?

Question 5. Question
: (TCO E). You are the new
director of human resources for a long-term care facility and have been charged
by your nursing home administrator to come up with a new healthcare benefits
plan that will improve healthcare services and provide them cost effectively.
You employ approximately 1,800 employees and provide traditional healthcare
services. You want to have wellness and prevention services covered so that you
can hopefully improve the health of your employees, thereby saving monies in
your illness coverage, as well as nonproductive time in sick days.

You are meeting with the administrator this afternoon. What
will you propose to revise the health plan and to take a more preventative and
wellness approach to employee benefits?

Question 6. Question
: (TCO F). You are the Corporate
Vice President for Quality for the Patient-First Healthcare System, a national
system of acute care hospitals located throughout the U.S. Your organization
has just approved additional monies for developing a new quality management
system. Each hospital has implemented its own quality management program. Some
of the programs demonstrate stellar results and high levels of patient
satisfaction, whereas other hospitals have less impressive results.

Your focus as the corporate VP for quality is to develop a
corporate quality improvement program that will be standard throughout all of
the company’s hospitals. It must also be responsive to any local needs or
issues. How will you craft that plan?
What will you include in your plan? Include some specific examples of what you
might measure. How will you get buy-in from your individual organizations that
already have their own plan?

Assignment:Hired Healthcare Consultant

Assignment:Hired Healthcare Consultant

Assignment:Hired Healthcare Consultant

Question 7. Question
: (TCO G). You’ve just been
hired as the chief operating officer (COO) for a new orthopedic physician
practice. The new practice was created by two previously independent practice
groups that had fines for governmental regulatory violations, as well as
suspected fraudulent billing practices. You just received a subpoena to appear
in court and testify as to your role in the organization and knowledge of
billing practices.

All you know is that the clinic has recently purchased a new
electronic billing and medical records system that is HIPAA-compliant. One goal
of this electronic system is to address all areas of compliance and to clean up
any issues from the past. It is also intended to position the new organization
as an organization with an impeccable reputation for compliance. Articulate your
vision for this plan and the components that are required for its success. How
will you justify the expense associated with your plan? Keep in mind that you
have a newly formed organization and differing organizational cultures.

You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.

Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.

Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.

The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.

 

ADDITIONAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE CLASS

Discussion Questions (DQ)

Initial responses to the DQ should address all components of the questions asked, include a minimum of one scholarly source, and be at least 250 words.
Successful responses are substantive (i.e., add something new to the discussion, engage others in the discussion, well-developed idea) and include at least one scholarly source.
One or two sentence responses, simple statements of agreement or “good post,” and responses that are off-topic will not count as substantive. Substantive responses should be at least 150 words.
I encourage you to incorporate the readings from the week (as applicable) into your responses.
Weekly Participation

Your initial responses to the mandatory DQ do not count toward participation and are graded separately.
In addition to the DQ responses, you must post at least one reply to peers (or me) on three separate days, for a total of three replies.
Participation posts do not require a scholarly source/citation (unless you cite someone else’s work).
Part of your weekly participation includes viewing the weekly announcement and attesting to watching it in the comments. These announcements are made to ensure you understand everything that is due during the week.
APA Format and Writing Quality

Familiarize yourself with APA format and practice using it correctly. It is used for most writing assignments for your degree. Visit the Writing Center in the Student Success Center, under the Resources tab in LoudCloud for APA paper templates, citation examples, tips, etc. Points will be deducted for poor use of APA format or absence of APA format (if required).
Cite all sources of information! When in doubt, cite the source. Paraphrasing also requires a citation.
I highly recommend using the APA Publication Manual, 6th edition.
Use of Direct Quotes

I discourage overutilization of direct quotes in DQs and assignments at the Masters’ level and deduct points accordingly.
As Masters’ level students, it is important that you be able to critically analyze and interpret information from journal articles and other resources. Simply restating someone else’s words does not demonstrate an understanding of the content or critical analysis of the content.
It is best to paraphrase content and cite your source.
LopesWrite Policy

For assignments that need to be submitted to LopesWrite, please be sure you have received your report and Similarity Index (SI) percentage BEFORE you do a “final submit” to me.
Once you have received your report, please review it. This report will show you grammatical, punctuation, and spelling errors that can easily be fixed. Take the extra few minutes to review instead of getting counted off for these mistakes.
Review your similarities. Did you forget to cite something? Did you not paraphrase well enough? Is your paper made up of someone else’s thoughts more than your own?
Visit the Writing Center in the Student Success Center, under the Resources tab in LoudCloud for tips on improving your paper and SI score.
Late Policy

The university’s policy on late assignments is 10% penalty PER DAY LATE. This also applies to late DQ replies.
Please communicate with me if you anticipate having to submit an assignment late. I am happy to be flexible, with advance notice. We may be able to work out an extension based on extenuating circumstances.
If you do not communicate with me before submitting an assignment late, the GCU late policy will be in effect.
I do not accept assignments that are two or more weeks late unless we have worked out an extension.
As per policy, no assignments are accepted after the last day of class. Any assignment submitted after midnight on the last day of class will not be accepted for grading.
Communication

Communication is so very important. There are multiple ways to communicate with me:
Questions to Instructor Forum: This is a great place to ask course content or assignment questions. If you have a question, there is a good chance one of your peers does as well. This is a public forum for the class.
Individual Forum: This is a private forum to ask me questions or send me messages. This will be checked at least once every 24 hours.