Attached is Case 3, Week 5 assignment and Powerpoint template
To prepare for this Assignment:
Review Case 3: Physician Care Services, Inc. from Week 5, and the Assignment you submitted at the end of that week.
Now, you will develop recommendations to improve productivity and patient satisfaction. Consider what you know of Lean Management and Six Sigma principles and practices. Based on this understanding, ask yourself: What would the president and medical director want to know before making any financial and organizational decisions?
The Assignment:
Based on the metrics you selected in Week 5, analyze opportunities for improvement using Lean Management and Six Sigma principles (2 pages).
Create a presentation with speaker notes, 5–7 slides in length (200–400 words per slide), that defines a culture of accountability and quality excellence and recommends how to foster this in the emergency department.
Scenario: You are a Practice Manager for a mid-sized primary care clinic that has three to five physicians with each physician seeing approximately 20 patients per day, accepting all payor-sources. Your practice is in rural area in the state of Virginia and operates in one of the nine states for your nonprofit healthcare system.
Discuss: 1. Cultural and Workforce Management Factors: Identify and discuss at least two cultural and workforce management factors that are influencing your facility. How do these cultural and workforce management factors influence your facility operations? Provide at least one recommendation to address one of the cultural and workforce management factors. Social factors: Risks of depression, domestic violence, or social isolation & Physical environment: Location of housing, freedom from gun violence, lead-poisoning risks in plumbing (Cultural and Workforce Management factors that can be discussed but not limited to: or any other applicable cultural and workforce management factor that may impact your facility within the next year.)
2. Regulatory Policy Factors: Identify and discuss at least two regulatory policy factors that are influencing your facility. How do these regulatory policy factors influence your facility operations? Provide at least one recommendation to address one of the regulatory policy factors. (Regulatory policy factors that can be discussed but not limited to: Joint Commission Accreditation requirement, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) rules/regulations, other federal regulations such as Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), privacy laws, state-based regulations, local regulations, or any other applicable regulatory policy factor that may impact your facility within the next year.)
3. Quality Initiatives and Change Management Factors: Identify and discuss at least two quality initiatives and change management factors that are influencing your facility. How do these quality initiatives and change management factors influence your facility operations? Provide at least one recommendation to address one of the quality initiatives and change management factors. (Quality initiative and change management factors that can be discussed but not limited to: Quality Assurance Performance Improvement (QAPI) goals, your facility’s change leadership style, your facility’s key quality measures, or any other applicable quality initiative and change management factor that may impact your facility within the next year.)
4. Administrator Summary (Conclusion) and Top 3 Recommendations: Summarize the importance of each of these factors to the executive leadership team and share your top three recommendations that should be considered. Your executive leadership team will consider your top three recommendations as your facility’s top priorities for the strategic plan.
Write a three to four (3-4) page paper in which you:
Identify at least four (4) key points of a relevant economic article from either the Strayer Library or a newspaper. The article must deal with any course concepts covered in Weeks 1-8.
Apply one (1) of the following economic concepts (supply, demand, market structures, elasticity, costs of production, GDP, Unemployment, inflation, aggregate demand, and aggregate supply) to the key points that you highlighted in Question 1.
Explain how the concept that you identified in Question 2 could affect the U.S. economy.
In your concluding paragraph, state whether you agree or disagree with the economic article identified in Question 1. Provide a rationale for the response.
Use at least three (3) quality resources in this assignment with one (1) being your article.
Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:
Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
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 and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.
The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:
Analyze the dynamics of supply and demand to anticipate market equilibrium.
Analyze the elasticity of demand and supply and its importance, and the effect of taxes or other public policies.
Describe the impact of various forms of competition on business operations with emphasis on perfect competition.
Use technology and information resources to research issues in principles of economics.\
Write four brief paragraphs that reflect on your writing process, use the questions below as a guide for each paragraph, but not include the questions themselves in your submission.
Paragraph 1
Reflect on the process of choosing a topic for your research paper.
Did you encounter any challenges because of your topic choice? Did you learn any surprising or interesting information? Having read the research and reported the research, which side do you agree with and why?
Paragraph 2
Look back at your outline assignment.
How closely does your final draft follow your outline assignment? If you made any changes, why did you make them? How did they make your essay stronger? Explain whether you found the outline to be a helpful tool and if you plan to use outlines in the future.
Paragraph 3
Think about the process of conducting research.
Describe any problems or successes you had as you researched. Did any particular search strategies work well? Did any particular search strategies disappoint you? Which databases and search engines worked well?What were the major barriers in your search for balanced and credible resources?
Paragraph 4
What issues, challenges, or realizations arose as you drafted and revised your essay?
How much time did you spend on the revision process? Which revision strategies did you use?
