MHA516 Week 6: Team Assignment: Employee Training MHA516 Week 6: Select a health care facility or service (e.g., hospital, physician practice, long-term care facility, ambulance service, pharmacy, or skilled nursing facility) Select a culture, religion or ethnicity that requires specific health care accommodations. In this scenario, you are administrators at a hospital that has seen an […]

MHA516 Week 5: Benchmark Assignment: Policy Proposal MHA516 Week 5: Review your leadership structure, and identify the process by which you can propose a policy change and how that proposal would navigate through leadership to get approved. Identify a policy in your organization that you think could be created or amended to improve organizational governance, […]

MHA516 Week 4: Consumer and Provider Costs MHA516 Week 4: In response to federal policy and service requirements, health insurance plans are increasingly developing high-deductible insurance policies and narrow networks. These types of policies require the consumer to pay more out-of-pocket. To portray this in a positive light, this trend has been labeled as “consumer-based” […]

MHA516 Week 3: Accepting Medicaid Patients MHA516 Week 3: Select a health care facility or service that accepts Medicaid. Identify ways that Medicaid discounting can cause hardships on the type of facility that you selected. Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper that explores how Medicaid participation has affected organizational finances and what can be done […]

MHA516 Week 2: Congressional Budget Office: Options for Reducing the Deficit MHA516 Week 2: Download the report “Options for Reducing the Deficit: 2017 to 2026” from the Congressional Budget Office website. Read Ch. 5 of the report. Select one of the health options listed. Select a health care facility or service (e.g., hospital, physician practice, long-term […]

MHA505 Week 6: Systems Thinking on a National Level, Part 3 MHA505 Week 6: Assignment Instructions Write a 1- to 2-page paper that explains what issue you selected as a team, and what key elements of the diagram you discovered are pivotal toward affecting a productive solution. Include this paper with your diagram.   Cite […]

MHA505 Week 5: Root Cause Analysis MHA505 Week 5: Assignment Instructions Create either a 5 Whys or a Fishbone diagram for each of the two short-term opportunities and the one long-term opportunity you identified during your Gemba Walk. Work through each step of the 5 Whys or Fishbone processes to find the root cause(s) of […]

MHA505 Week 4: Gemba Walk MHA505 Week 4: Assignment Instructions Complete a Gemba Walk in your place of employment and document your observations. Refer to the SWOT analysis you conducted in Week Three to select the areas in need of improvement and narrow the list of places to conduct your Gemba Walk. While completing your […]

MHA505 Week 3: SWOT Analysis MHA505 Week 3: Assignment Instructions Complete a SWOT Analysis of your organization. Use the SWOT Analysis Worksheet and complete the following steps: Complete a preliminary walk around the organization to scan the environment for strengths, weaknesses, potential opportunities, and potential threats (e.g., workflows, products, personnel, processes). Follow up with additional research […]

MHA505 Week 2: Systems Thinking Diagram MHA505 Week 2: Assignment Instructions Identify the structural, behavioral, and intersectional (relationship) attributes of your current or most recent employer’s organization.   Create a detailed diagram that maps the stock, inflows, outflows, and feedback loops of the organization.   Click the Add Content button below to insert your assignment. […]