Assessment 1 Instructions: Health Care Problem Analysis Proposal

Prepare a health care problem analysis proposal in outline format (3-10 pages) on a current, relevant health care
problem. Include the rationale for selecting the problem, a description of the how the problem is assessed and
measured for quality improvement purposes, a proposed industry measure of performance, action steps for
completing the project, and a description of the applicable leadership competencies.
Effective health care leaders simultaneously maintain internal organizational and external industry environmental
awareness. Leaders are challenged to focus on vision, mission, strategic direction, goals, and objectives while
remaining mindful of emerging trends that may affect an organization’s viability. Monitoring the external
environment for issues that may represent major challenges to an organization requires ongoing diligence. Health
care administrators must identify and prioritize issues affecting their organizations. Furthermore, leaders must select
methods and tools with which to analyze data for identification of potential solutions.
In this first assessment in your capstone course, you will have an opportunity to select a health care problem that is
relevant to your career interests and one that adds value to a current or future health care organization. By the end
of the course, you will be drawing from current scholarly and/or authoritative sources to provide evidence-based
recommendations to solve the problem.

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Demonstration of Proficiency
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the course competencies
through the following assessment scoring guide criteria:
Competency 1: Evaluate problems in health care organizations, and apply tools to improve quality and
outcomes.
Describe, using an authoritative source, how the selected health care problem is assessed and
measured for quality improvement purposes.
Describe how five American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE) leadership competencies apply
to the selected capstone project topic.
Competency 2: Analyze foundational elements of the U.S. health care system.
Identify a relevant problem along with the rationale for selecting the problem.
Competency 4: Analyze records and reports based on established benchmarks and organizational goals and
performance.
Propose an industry measure of performance, such as a benchmark, which pertains to the type of
organization selected for problem analysis.
Competency 5: Create comprehensive and useable data-driven actions plans, based on industry benchmarks.
Provide a bulleted list of the preliminary action plan steps to review the problem and propose
solutions.
Competency 6: Communicate effectively with diverse audiences, in an appropriate form and style, consistent
with applicable organizational, professional, and scholarly standards.
Create a clear, well organized, professional, and generally error-free outline that describes a relevant
health care problem.
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Preparation
To successfully complete this first assessment in your capstone course, you will need to conduct independent
research on current, relevant problems facing the U.S. health care system. The problem you select needs to meet
all of the following criteria:
1. The selected health care problem is likely to affect your current or desired future workplace, such as a
hospital, home health care agency, hospice, ambulatory clinic, et cetera.
2. Authoritative and scholarly health care literature addresses the problem of interest.
3. Data is available for the selected problem.
4. The current state can be articulated by describing major factors and the way in which these factors are
measured. For example, the selected problem can be analyzed by examining such data as average length of
stay (in days) and cost (dollars).
You may begin your research on current, relevant problems facing the health care industry by studying your
suggested resources for this assessment. In addition, you may want to consult the Health Care Administration
Undergraduate Library Research Guide to help you begin your search for scholarly and authoritative sources on
significant, contemporary problems in the health care industry.
Please ensure that the problem is relevant and of sufficient interest to your career goals since all future course work
is built upon the stated problem.
Instructions
For this assessment, you will construct a capstone health care problem analysis proposal on your selected topic. You
may wish to envision your current or future workplace as the potential site for presentation of the proposal. After
your proposal is constructed, you will receive feedback from your faculty member. Later in the course, in a separate
assessment, you will receive feedback from a practicing professional about the proposed approach to analyze data
relating to the problem.
The requirement for this assessment is to produce a proposal that has clear section headings and contains a flow of
logic. You may opt to use an outline format. Please avoid lengthy narrative paragraphs, as the proposal is
intended to be presented in an imaginary workplace. Busy executives will not have time to read paragraphs word
for word. Instead, expect that your audience will read the document by scanning. Your goal is to provide succinct yet
substantive information with sufficient depth to cover your selected problem. Remember to include a cover page,
table of contents, section headings, and reference list. The length of the proposal is based upon the breadth and
depth of your selected topic.
The following general steps in construction of your proposal contain additional specific information requirements.
Step 1: Identify a relevant problem along with the associated rationale for the selection of the problem. Be
sure to substantiate content with an authoritative source.
State the problem in a single sentence, tell why it is a problem, and add a citation from a current,
authoritative source. For example: Condition X if not addressed may result in Consequence Y (source,
year).
Step 2: Describe, using an authoritative source, how the selected health care problem is assessed and
measured for quality improvement purposes. Include relevant factors and associated units of measurement.
Select six current authoritative sources that apply to your selected problem. You may consider your
problem from an industry, organization, or specific professional level. Be sure to include any industry
standards, legal, and ethical considerations that relate to your problem.
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Summarize each of the six sources in a succinct sentence or two. Explain how each source directly
relates to the problem. Be sure to add an APA formatted citation for each.
Step 3: Propose an industry measure of performance, such as a benchmark, which pertains to the type of
organization selected for problem analysis.
State the major factors or performance indicators that directly relate to your problem.
Assign a unit of measurement to each factor (days, dollars, percentage, et cetera.)
Identify the authoritative source(s) used to determine the major factors you selected that relate to the
problem.
Identify which industry assessment tool or framework you will use to analyze the problem.
Step 4: Provide a bulleted list of the preliminary action plan steps to complete the capstone health care
problem analysis project. Examples include: conduct library search, formulate problem statement, identify
factors and units of measure, and so on.
Step 5: Describe one competency from each of the five American College of Healthcare Executives’ (ACHE)
domains that relate to your capstone health care problem analysis proposal.
Review the ACHE competency model:
Healthcare Leadership Alliance and the American College of Healthcare Executives.
(2018). ACHE healthcare executive competencies assessment tool. Retrieved
from https://www.ache.org/pdf/nonsecure/careers/competencies_booklet.pdf
Provide a short statement about how you practice one competency within each of the five ACHE
domains. Consider including a table such as the following within your outline. Note: You have been
provided with one example of how you might complete this for one competency within one domain.
You will need to complete the entire table—one competency within each of the five domains.