Systematic Evaluation of Encompass Health Corporation
Complete a systematic evaluation of a unit, facility, or organization with which you are familiar, in an attempt to identify the need to address the economic health care issue.4-5PAGES
Background and Context
As a master’s-level health care practitioner, you may sometimes be tasked with the need to complete a systematic evaluation as a way of improving your organization’s outcomes. In this assessment, you will have a chance to practice these skills by completing a systematic evaluation of a unit, facility, or organization that you are familiar with in an attempt to identify the need to address the economic health care issue that you presented in the previous assessment. This systematic evaluation is often referred to as a needs analysis. Understanding how to do a needs analysis will be key as you advance through your career in the health care environment.
Instructions
You will be assessed on the following criteria:
- Summarize your chosen economic issue and its impact on your work, organization, colleagues, and community.
- Reiterate your rationale for pursuing this issue, as well as the gap contributing to it that you identified in your previous assessment.
- Identify any socioeconomic or diversity disparities that exist with how your chosen economic issue impacts any particular groups or populations.
Use at least one piece of evidence to support this disparity (public health data, aggregated data from an organization, or other scholarly resources).
- Explain the findings of evidence-based or scholarly sources regarding the need to address your chosen issue and pursue potential change or implementation plans.
For example, if your implementation plan includes the need for increased staffing, you might want to research errors or patient falls that occurred as a result of high patient and low staff ratio in the literature.
Use at least four evidence-based or scholarly sources that are relevant to your chosen topic to support your explanation.
- Explain the predicted outcomes and opportunities for growth as the result of the proposed change or implementation plan.
Outcomes and opportunities for growth should focus on economic considerations.
- Convey purpose, in an appropriate tone and style, incorporating supporting evidence and adhering to organizational, professional, and scholarly writing standards.
Competencies Measured
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and scoring guide criteria:
- Competency 1: Analyze the effects of financial and economic factors (such as cost-benefit, supply and demand, return on investment, and risks) in a health care system on patient care, services offered, and organizational structures and operation.
Summarize the chosen economic issue and its impact on your work, organization, colleagues, and community.
- Competency 2: Develop ethical and culturally equitable solutions to economic problems within a health care organization in an effort to improve the quality of care and services offered.
Identify any socioeconomic or diversity disparities that exist with how your chosen economic issue impacts any particular groups or populations.
- Competency 3: Justify the qualitative and quantitative information used to guide economic decision making to stakeholders and colleagues.
Explain the findings of evidence-based or scholarly sources regarding the need to address your chosen issue and pursue potential change or implementation plans.
- Competency 4: Develop ethical and culturally equitable economic strategies to address dynamic environmental forces and ensure the future security of an organization’s resources and its ability to provide quality care.
Explain the predicted outcomes and opportunities for growth as the result of the proposed change or implementation plan.
- Competency 5: Produce clear, coherent, and professional written work, in accordance with Capella writing standards.
Convey purpose, in an appropriate tone and style, incorporating supporting evidence and adhering to organizational, professional, and scholarly writing standards.
Economic Issue: The rising cost of healthcare
Impact: The rising cost of healthcare has a significant impact on my work, organization, colleagues, and community. As a health care practitioner, I am acutely aware of the financial burden that healthcare expenses place on individuals and families. This, in turn, affects their ability to access necessary medical services, leading to poor health outcomes and increased costs.
Rationale and Gap: The primary reason for pursuing this issue is to address the gap in access to affordable healthcare services. The increasing cost of healthcare is a major barrier to access for many individuals, particularly those from lower-income households. This leads to disparities in health outcomes and exacerbates existing health inequalities.
Socioeconomic and Diversity Disparities: The rising cost of healthcare disproportionately affects low-income households and communities of color. According to a report by the Commonwealth Fund, minority communities are more likely to face barriers to accessing quality healthcare, including cost. Furthermore, the report found that nearly one in four low-income households of color had trouble paying medical bills in the past year, compared to one in six of all U.S. households.
Evidence: The report by the Commonwealth Fund serves as evidence of the disparities that exist in access to affordable healthcare services. It highlights the need for policies and programs that address the root causes of these disparities and improve access to quality care for all individuals, regardless of their income or race/ethnicity.
In conclusion, the rising cost of healthcare is a critical issue that affects my work, organization, colleagues, and community. Addressing this issue is essential to improving health outcomes and reducing health inequalities. Through a systematic evaluation, we can identify the socioeconomic and diversity disparities that exist in access to healthcare and work towards addressing these gaps.