Managed Care Strategic Plan

Healthcare professionals face countless challenges. In fact, throughout this course, you have dealt with hypothetical situations that have given you experience addressing various challenges. Having a strategic plan to address managed care in its evolving state is important. Considering the moving parts of managed care and the evolution of various healthcare roles, a strategic plan is important to develop as you consider these concepts.

Week 8 Assignment: Design a Health Care Strategy

Activity Description

Imagine you are a healthcare leader whose role is to develop a department strategic plan suitable for the senior leadership team that will address those items intended to enhance the operational aspects of your department for the upcoming year.

Aside from the typical components of a healthcare strategy, this 3-year strategic plan should include the following:

Address challenges (e.g., day-to-day operational processing, conflict resolution, data reporting) and highlight the strategies to overcome them.
Consider any new healthcare reform(s) affecting your healthcare industry; also highlight your strategy to accommodate or comply with them.
Consider any technology that may be acquired and training required for staff.

Support your strategic plan with a minimum of seven scholarly sources. In addition to these specified resources, other appropriate scholarly resources, including older articles, may be included.

Length: 12-15 pages, not including title and reference pages, 5-7 scholarly references within the last five (5) years.

Your strategic plan should demonstrate thoughtful consideration of the ideas and concepts presented in the course by providing new thoughts and insights relating directly to this topic. Your response should reflect scholarly writing and current APA standards.

The following rubric applies to the grading for this Signature Assignment.

Grading Rubric
Criteria
	Content (15 points)	Points
1	Address challenges (e.g., day-to-day operational processing, conflict resolution, data reporting) and highlight the strategies to overcome them.	5
2	Consider any new healthcare reforms affecting your healthcare industry; also highlight your strategy to accommodate or comply with them.	5
3	Consider any technology that may be acquired and training required for staff.	5
	Organization (5 points)
1	Organized and presented in a clear manner. Included a minimum of seven scholarly references, with appropriate APA formatting applied to citations and paraphrasing.	5
Total		20