This is the second in a series of four assignments dealing with organizational policy readiness. This is an individual assignment that you will complete apart from your Health Policy Task Force group. We recommend you read over the entire suite of assignments relating to this topic so that you know what is coming up next. This individual assignment requires you to apply the stakeholder theory and the power/interest matrix that you learned about in your initial course in the MHA program.
You are already studying the new HAC Medicare policy mandated by the ACA to determine how Allen Care System can better comply with current HAC regulations and avoid penalties. As health care administrators, your Policy Task Force has taken time to identify the major stakeholders in the HAC policy issue, realizing that an organization must communicate with its stakeholders in a particular way. Some stakeholders may be instrumental in the success of your organization’s compliance with the policy or can be valuable in future advocacy for rule and policy modifications.
Ms. Dewitt, the CEO of the health system on whose policy task force you are serving, has asked each Health Policy Task Force member to suggest, individually, a plan for keeping stakeholders in the loop regarding the HAC issues you have been studying. As a start, she has identified four stakeholders based on their lying within certain quadrants of the stakeholder power matrix the Health Policy Task Force developed:
- High power/high interest: nurses
- High power/low interest: board members
- Low power/high interest: patients
- Low power/low interest: system business departments (non-clinical)
You may wish to retrieve from your records or recall the stakeholder power matrix from your first course in the MHA program to refresh your memory of how the matrix is constructed and used. You will not be able to access that course in Blackboard.
Given the power and interest of each group in regard to the HAC policy (both implementation and rulemaking), identify the issues that will guide later development of an organizational communication plan for each group. Your answers and plan can be in combined bulleted and sentence format as long as there is sufficient explanation.
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