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Assignment 1: The Primary Care Clinic

Due Week 4 and worth 160 points

You
are the manager of a new primary care clinic located about twenty five
(25) miles outside of a small city (population of 50,000). With five (5)
family physicians, two (2) nurse practitioners, two (2) physicians’
assistants (PAs), and twenty (20) clinical support staff consisting of
RNs, LPNs, and CMAs, the clinic provides primary care services to a
diverse community of people living and working outside the city limits.
Originally a rural area, the community has been growing and now includes
promising opportunities in employment, education, and comfortable
living spaces for young families. However, there are still many
residents who struggle to make ends meet with older farms that have
belonged to families for generations.

The
central city includes two (2) large acute care facilities, and one (1)
tertiary care facility that is known for its excellent pulmonary care.
Both acute care hospitals provide the usual services such as labor and
delivery, outpatient surgery, chronic diseases care, etc. and have fully
equipped ancillary departments, such as lab and radiology. Up until
this point, the residents have used the facilities’ emergency
departments for routine illnesses and conditions when their private
physicians were not readily available.

Write a five to seven (5-7) page paper in which you:

1. Analyze
   some of the key social, political, and economic factors that have led
   to the proliferation of urgent care facilities and primary care
   practices over the last 20-30 years.
2. Create a comprehensive mission statement for the clinic, and discuss how it will facilitate the provision of quality services.
3. Analyze
   and discuss one (1) or more directions the clinic might take to grow
   its business. Determine what factors you would consider when deciding
   what services to provide in-house and which ones to affiliate with other
   institutions.
4. Decide
   how you will determine if the clinic is meeting its goals. Identify
   three (3) performance measurements you could use to evaluate the success
   of the clinic’s services. Begin by naming a goal, and then identify a
   quantifiable measurement you could use for each to determine if you are
   coming close or falling short of the goal.
5. Determine
   how you would then address whatever opportunities for improvement seem
   to exist and what processes you would put in place.
6. Use at least three (3) quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites do not qualify as quality resources.
7. Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
   1. Typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
   2. Include a cover page containing the
      title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the
      course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the
      required page length.
   3. Include a reference page. Citations
      and references must follow APA format. The reference page is not
      included in the required page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

• Analyze
  the critical management issues, purpose, functions, and performance
  measures of different departments within healthcare organizations.
• Examine
  the political, economic, and social forces that have influenced the
  organizational foundations of the United States healthcare system.
• Explain how public policy has shaped the development of the U.S. healthcare system.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in health services organization management.
• Write clearly and concisely about health services organization management using proper writing mechanics.