Category: Health care administration

Analyze existing health policies that directly impact the community you profiled in the previous assessment , identifying their strengths, weaknesses, and areas for improvement. This policy analysis will help you formulate your CHAP report for publication in the next assessment.
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Introduction
An array of stakeholders, including patients and consumers, providers, payers, and the pharmaceutical industry, play a vital role in shaping the health care ecosystem. Their interrelated interests and demands drive the continuous evolution of health care systems and the development of new policies and practices. In this chapter, we will examine the relationships between these stakeholders, as well as their individual and collective contributions to the advancement of population health. Understanding the complex interplay between structure, systems, and stakeholders is crucial in fostering a culture of wellness and promoting the sustainable development of health care services for all.
When developing a community health assessment and plan (CHAP), it’s important to be aware of a variety of policies at the local, state, and federal levels. These can influence the type of data you may collect or use, the interventions you may choose, and how they may be implemented. By examining these relationships between your chosen priorities and public health policy, you will gain insights into how demographic, socioeconomic, and many other community factors must be taken into consideration when developing an effective and implementable CHAP.
For this second assessment, you will analyze existing health policies that directly impact the community you profiled in the previous assessment, identifying their strengths, weaknesses, and areas for improvement. You should consider each policy’s effectiveness in addressing health equity, accessibility, and affordability of health care services. This assessment will deepen your understanding of the role policy plays in shaping community health outcomes, and completing this policy analysis will help you formulate how you will write your CHAP report for publication in the next assessment.
Overview
When developing a community health assessment and plan (CHAP), it’s important to be aware of a variety of policies at the local, state, and federal levels. These can influence the type of data you may collect or use, the interventions you may choose, and how they may be implemented. By examining these relationships between your chosen priorities and public health policy, you will gain insights into how demographic, socioeconomic, and many other community factors must be taken into consideration when developing an effective and implementable CHAP.
For this assessment, you will analyze existing health policies that directly impact the community you profiled in the previous assessment, identifying their strengths, weaknesses, and areas for improvement. You should consider each policy’s effectiveness in addressing health equity, accessibility, and affordability of health care services. This assessment will deepen your understanding of the role policy plays in shaping community health outcomes, and completing this policy analysis will help you formulate how you will write your CHAP report for publication in the next assessment.
Preparation
Before you begin the assessment:
Review the top five community population health priorities that you identified in your previous assessment.
From the top five priorities, identify the top three. These are the priorities you will focus on going forward. Consider the factors that have made these the three top health priorities needed in the community you’re assessing.
Review Assessment 2 Template: Analysis of Data and Policies [DOCX].
You will use this provided template to record your community health profile data.
Review the Assessment 2 Tutorial.
This video walks you through the assessment template.
Review Assessment 2 Exemplar: Analysis of Data and Policies [PDF].
The exemplar is only for guidance; do not copy any information from the exemplar. All coursework must be original.
Instructions
Using the Assessment 2 Template: Analysis of Data and Policies [DOCX], complete the following:
List the top three priorities for the CHAP.
Provide a rationale for the choices.
Support the choices with credible sources.
Relate four or more relevant policies to their CHAP priorities with an insightful response.
Support the responses with credible sources.
Summarize the rationale for all top three population health priorities. Explain how at least one of the following applies:
Prevalence.
Burden.
Social determinants.
Any other variable that demonstrates deep understanding of the priorities.
Summarize the relevancy of the chosen health policies for the CHAP.
Demonstrate critical thinking via one or more of the following:
Reflect on the relationship between the health policies and the top three health priorities outlined in the CHAP.
Evaluate the impact of the health policies on the top three health priorities outlined in the CHAP.
Infer the consequences of the health policies on the top three health priorities outlined in the CHAP.
Any other explanation that demonstrates deep understanding of health policy.
Apply proper APA formatting and citation style as required.
Additional Requirements
Submit your assessment as an attachment in the submission area.
Your assessment should also meet the following submission requirements:
Written communication: Apply scholarly and professional communication skills consistent with expectations for the intended purpose. Offer academic citations or professional experiences as examples. Consider exploring the resources at the Writing Center and Academic Writer.
APA formatting: Resources and citations are formatted according to APA style and formatting guidelines. Visit Evidence and APA for help with APA citations.
Competencies Measured
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and scoring guide criteria:
Competency 3: Compare and assess treatment and prevention models for promoting wellness and managing diseases in population health.
List the top three priorities, and provide a rationale for the choices.
Summarize the rationales for all top three population health priorities.
Competency 4: Explain the critical need for private and public health collaboration to ensure effective community health assessment, planning, and implementation of population health strategies.
Relate four or more relevant policies to their CHAP priorities with an insightful response.
Summarize the relevancy of the chosen health policies for the CHAP.
Competency 5: Communicate in a manner that is scholarly, professional, and respectful of the diversity, dignity, and integrity of others and is consistent with expectations for health care professionals.
Apply proper APA formatting and citation style as required.

Create a PowerPoint presentation (a maximum of 20 slides with detailed speaker notes) for senior leadership in which four organizational leaders analyze the impact of a health care organization’s new safety and quality dashboard.
Introduction
“Being in a position of leadership is the most important job of any health professional anywhere along the continuum of care” (Ledlow & Coppola, 2013, p. 3). Leaders and ultimately the boards of directors of health care organizations are accountable for the safety of those they serve. “National quality organizations and regulatory bodies . . . are growing in their emphasis on leadership accountabilities for safe, reliable care as well as excellence in the experience of care” (Youngberg, 2013, p. 39).
With this emphasis on leadership accountability for the delivery of safe, high-quality health care services, health care leaders need to be able to drill down on what exactly safety and quality mean in the health care environment. Likewise, they also need to be able to design measures that help to ensure their organizations are able to deliver those kinds of outcomes. Read Measurement Perspectives [PDF] to examine key elements related to this issue.
References
Ledlow, G. R., & Coppola, M. N. (2013). i>Leadership for health professionals (2nd ed.). Jones & Bartlett Learning.
Youngberg, B. J. (2013). Patient safety handbook (2nd ed.). Jones & Bartlett Learning.
Preparation
To successfully complete this assessment:
Review the Vila Health: Mercy Hospital Safety and Quality Dashboard [PDF], which contains the data you will use for this assessment.
Review the Analyze and Apply Dashboard Data Template [PPTX], which you will use to create your presentation.
Instructions
Base your assessment on the Vila Health: Mercy Hospital Safety and Quality Dashboard [PDF]. Note: You do not need to create a dashboard for this assessment. You are simply being asked to work with the one provided here.
The CEO has asked each of the organizational leaders below to prepare a joint PowerPoint presentation. In the presentation, you are to prepare a set of slides from the perspective of each of the following roles outlining their analysis of how the new numbers will inform their particular activities for the next quarter. The organizational leaders include:
The quality director.
The patient safety officer.
The risk manager.
Senior leadership.
Because of the quality director’s critical role in implementing the organization’s safety and quality strategic objectives, this individual will open the presentation and provide additional background about how the new dashboard was developed. This individual will also close the presentation. Use the following outline to organize your presentation. Be sure to include both the introduction and conclusion and address all the questions listed under these headings. Also, be sure to address each role and the corresponding questions.
Use the Analyze and Apply Dashboard Data Template [PPTX] to address the following:
Introduction (1–2 slides).
What is a safety and quality dashboard?
What role do safety and quality dashboards play in helping health care organizations drive their strategic safety and quality objectives?
Evidence-Based Actions to Improve (2–3 slides): Recommend evidence-based actions to improve a selected measure on a health care organization’s safety and quality dashboard.
What measure on the health care organization’s safety and quality dashboard was selected?
What evidence-based actions to improve the selected measure are being recommended?
Metrics Selection (3–4 slides): Describe how a health care organization chooses the metrics to include in its safety and quality dashboard.
How do health care organizations determine what they want to measure? Be sure to consider:
Pressures from regulators, payors, and the industry.
Self-identified improvement areas. For example, one organization’s safety and quality dashboard may highlight patient falls because its rate of falls is higher than the national average. This may also have resulted in increased costs to the organization.
What CQI tools did the organization use to obtain, measure, and report data?
What was the quality improvement team’s role in addressing the reported measures?
Quality Director (2–3 slides): Analyze a quality director’s areas of concern for a safety and quality dashboard.
Which metric on the dashboard would draw the quality director’s attention the most?
What does this dashboard metric mean and why is it important?
What three recommendations to leadership would help to address this metric?
What—if any—quality models could be used to increase the quality of patient care and outcomes for this metric? Consider PDCA, Six Sigma, Lean, Hoshin Kanri planning, et cetera.
Patient Safety Officer (2–3 slides): Analyze a patient safety officer’s areas of concern for a safety and quality dashboard.
Which metric on the dashboard would draw the patient safety officer’s attention the most?
What does this dashboard metric mean and why is it important?
What role does the patient safety officer play in improving this metric?
Risk Manager (2–3 slides): Analyze a risk manager’s areas of concern for a safety and quality dashboard.
Which metric on the dashboard would draw the risk manager’s attention the most?
What does this dashboard metric mean and why is it important?
What role does the risk manager play in improving this metric?
Senior Leadership (1 slide): Assess senior leadership’s role in setting a health care organization’s strategic safety and quality objectives.
What is the role of senior leadership—for example, CEO, COO, president, or senior VP—in driving safety and quality improvement initiatives?
What next steps might senior leadership take, given the dashboard findings and the quality director’s three improvement recommendations?
Conclusion (2–3 slides).
Which regulatory agencies may be concerned about the findings in this dashboard?
Why would regulators be concerned about these findings?
Why are safety and quality dashboards important for monitoring key metrics in health care organizations?
Your slides need to be concise and offer main ideas in bulleted format. Use the speaker notes to expand upon your findings as if they were the transcript of your presentation for the leadership team.
In the health care environment, it is unlikely for a presentation and speaker notes to be in APA style. Make sure your presentation is concise, organized, clear, and free of errors in grammar, punctuation, and spelling. Make sure the presentation addresses all the required headings and all of the questions under each heading.
Your senior leaders will want to know the sources of your information. Be sure to cite your sources in APA style in your speaker notes.
Please review the Analyzing and Applying Dashboard Data Scoring Guide to ensure you understand the grading requirements for this assessment.
Additional Requirements
Your assessment should also meet the following requirements:
Template: Use the Analyze and Apply Dashboard Data Template [PPTX] to complete this assessment.
Dashboard: Use the data included in the Vila Health Mercy Hospital Safety and Quality Dashboard [PDF].
Length: A maximum of 20 slides, including title and reference slides. Format your title and reference slides according to current APA format. Slides should be 3–5 bullet points, 5–7 words per bullet point, using size 24 font.
Speaker notes: Be sure to include these with your slides. They provide an opportunity for you to expand on the information you are highlighting in your slides. Speaker Notes should use size 12 font, be single-spaced, and feature indented paragraphs.
Number of references: A minimum of two references. In-text citations should be provided in the Speaker Notes section.
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 quality and performance improvement activities within the health care organization.
Recommend evidence-based actions to improve a selected measure on a health care organization’s safety and quality dashboard.
Competency 2: Explain the risk management function in the health care organization.
Analyze a risk manager’s areas of concern for a safety and quality dashboard.
Competency 3: Analyze the importance of patient safety in health care.
Describe how a health care organization chooses the metrics to include in its safety and quality dashboard.
Analyze a quality director’s areas of concern for a safety and quality dashboard.
Analyze a patient safety officer’s areas of concern for a safety and quality dashboard.
Competency 4: Apply leadership strategies to quality improvement in a health care organization.
Assess senior leadership’s role in setting a health care organization’s strategic safety and quality objectives.
Competency 5: Communicate in a manner that is scholarly, professional, and respectful of the diversity, dignity, and integrity of others and is consistent with the expectations for health care professionals.
Use correct grammar, punctuation, and mechanics as expected of an undergraduate learner.
Writing adheres to APA formatting rules and APA writing style with few or minor errors.
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