Week 1 Discussion
Supporting Lecture
Building a Foundation of Excellence
Discussion Questions
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By the due date assigned, respond to the assigned discussion questions and submit your responses to the appropriate topic in this Discussion Area. Respond to the assigned questions using the lessons and vocabulary found in the reading.
Content:
Healthcare organizations must evaluate the strategic cultural foundation, including whether the state of healthcare is sustainable with the recognized shifts of organizational environments. The strategic foundation of performance focuses on key areas of operations, including financial operations, human capital, governance, growth, and quality and service within clinical management. The implementation of evidence based practice requires an operational infrastructure of key functions.
Tasks:
Provide a brief description of the functions of operational leadership.
How would a department leader in a healthcare organization fulfill the purpose and functions that sustain the organization infrastructure?
What role does evidence based practice play in the operational infrastructure of key functions?
Provide a substantive (300–500 words) initial discussion posting addressing each of the components in the discussion question. Justify your answers with research, examples, and reasoning.
Before the end of the unit, begin commenting on at least two of your peers’ responses. At a minimum, your responses to other initial posts must be 100 to 200 words each. You can ask technical questions or respond generally to the overall experience. Be objective, clear, and concise. Always use constructive language, even in criticism, to work toward the goal of positive progress. Submit your responses to the appropriate topic in this Discussion Area.
Week 2 Discussion
Contains unread posts
Supporting Lecture
Activities in Environmental Care Management
Discussion Questions
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Content:
The environmental care management service plays a critical role in key functional areas of activities within a healthcare organization. The purpose of the environment care management system is to integrate facility operational support in critical functions which includes areas of facility planning and operations, clinical engineering, and maintenance services, including environmental services, guest services, and supply services.
Tasks:

Discuss how the following environment of care management departments: maintenance, environmental services, plant operations, dietary and guest service play a critical role within a healthcare organization. Provide two examples of functions from each department.
Provide a rationale of at least one example of support and one example of a challenge, each department faces in environment care management.
Provide a substantive (300–500 words) initial discussion posting addressing each of the components in the discussion question. Justify your answers with research, examples, and reasoning.
Before the end of the unit, begin commenting on at least two of your peers’ responses. At a minimum, your responses to other initial posts must be 100 to 200 words each. You can ask technical questions or respond generally to the overall experience. Be objective, clear, and concise. Always use constructive language, even in criticism, to work toward the goal of positive progress. Submit your responses to the appropriate topic in this Discussion Area.
Week 3 Discussion
Contains unread posts
Supporting Lecture
Meeting the Expectation of Clinical Performance Excellence
Discussion Questions
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By the due date assigned, respond to the assigned discussion questions and submit your responses to the appropriate topic in this Discussion Area. Respond to the assigned questions using the lessons and vocabulary found in the reading.
Content:
Hospital leaders may be encouraged to build a framework that enables the organization to deliver heath service in response to community and patient needs by integrating services among many groups. The Institute of Medicine reports on healthcare quality by making recommendations, that in order to improve healthcare quality, healthcare should be safe, effective, patient centered, timely, efficient, and equitable. The Affordable Care Act attempts to restructure strategies of cost containment and the delivery of safe equitable quality health care and outcomes.
Tasks:
Discuss the impact of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) on the IOM’s six dimensions of health care performance.
Identify the impact of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) on the uninsured rate in the American healthcare system.
Analyze how healthcare providers reference evidence based practice in the discussion of the impact of the ACA on the IOM’s six dimensions of health care performance.
Provide a substantive (300–500 words) initial discussion posting addressing each of the components in the discussion question. Justify your answers with research, examples, and reasoning.
Before the end of the unit, begin commenting on at least two of your peers’ responses. At a minimum, your responses to other initial posts must be 100 to 200 words each. You can ask technical questions or respond generally to the overall experience. Be objective, clear, and concise. Always use constructive language, even in criticism, to work toward the goal of positive progress. Submit your responses to the appropriate topic in this Discussion Area.
Week 4 Discussion
Discussion Questions
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By the due date assigned, respond to the assigned discussion questions and submit your responses to the appropriate topic in this Discussion Area. Respond to the assigned questions using the lessons and vocabulary found in the reading.
Content:
Medicare and Medicaid have long demonstrated America’s commitment to protecting its disabled, poor, and elderly citizens from the economic consequences of serious illness. The primary goal of the PPACA is to improve health and reduce health care costs. The provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) met the needs of the underserved by providing coverage and access to healthcare providers.
Tasks:
What is Medicare and Medicaid? Explain the associated benefits and differences in these programs.
Discuss the provisions of the implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA)?
Why are states so concerned with Medicaid changes? Identify the benefits and challenges with the implementation of the PPACA.
What role should the government play in providing Americans with health care and what role should be the marketplace’s role?
Provide a substantive (300–500 words) initial discussion posting addressing each of the components in the discussion question. Justify your answers with research, examples, and reasoning.
Before the end of the week, begin commenting on at least two of your peers’ responses. At a minimum, your responses to other initial posts must be 100 to 200 words each. You can ask technical questions or respond generally to the overall experience. Be objective, clear, and concise. Always use constructive language, even in criticism, to work toward the goal of positive progress. Submit your responses to the appropriate topic in this Discussion Area.
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Week 5 Discussion

Review the following lecture:
Identifying A Marketing Brand
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Before the end of the unit, begin commenting on at least two of your classmates’ responses. You can ask technical questions or respond generally to the overall experience. Be objective, clear, and concise. Always use constructive language, even in criticism, to work toward the goal of positive progress. Submit your responses in the Discussion Area.
The standard practice in strategy and marketing is to lay out a vision of future events which are precise enough to be captured in an environment analysis. In developing marketing and strategy plans, healthcare leaders must understand the issues in the external environment including the general environment challenges affecting business operations and the health care industry specific to trends and advancement in evidence-based practices.
Tasks:
Discuss the marketing and strategy using the Four P’s for a hospital’s emergency department. Include in your response:
What strategies are framed by the utilization of evidence-based medicine?
How does the Four P’s of market and strategy plan promote the vision and mission of the organization?
How does the Four P’s play a role in organizational operational infrastructure?