For this assignment, imagine you have accepted an administrator position at a physicians practice. One of your first tasks is to gather your team to introduce yourself and discuss operational priorities for the practice at a lunch-and-learn.
Instructions
Using course resources along with a minimum of three peer-reviewed articles from the
Capella LibraryLinks to an external site.
, complete the assignment template linked below to address the items that follow. The Health Care Administration Undergraduate Program Library Guide has a section on
continuum of careLinks to an external site.
with suggestions on how to and where to search for peer reviewed articles on this topic as well background information links.
Describe where the physician practice and the hospital fall on the continuum of patient care.
Analyze how providers at each location try to return their patients to their highest level of functioning.
Explain how a physician practice communicates with the hospital to foster high-quality, efficient, and effective patient care.
Analyze three peer-reviewed articles that each discuss one of the topics above.
Description or summary presents the whatof the article, but analysis will pursue the question of so what?
Agenda.
Professional introduction (1 paragraph).
You have license to be creative as you imagine the background you would bring to a position like this one.
Refer to some of the scholarly sources you will summarize.
Continuum of Care.
Describe where the physician practice and the hospital fall on the continuum of patient care.
Analyze a peer-reviewed article that discusses where the physician practice and the hospital fall on the continuum of patient care.
Describe how a physicians practice maximizes patient care quality to return them to the highest level of function, addressing quality standards such as:
Positive patient experience.
Analyze a peer-reviewed article that discusses how a physicians practice maximizes patient care quality to return them to the highest level of function.
Operational Approach.
Analyze a peer-reviewed article that discusses how a physicians practice and the hospital system communicate to foster high-quality, efficient, and effective care.
Additional Requirements
Note: Please review the Managing Quality Across Various Health Care Settings Scoring Guide before you begin the assignment.
Competencies Measured
Describe the main topics of the lunch-and-learn session, including continuum of care, care quality, and operational approach.
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Managing Quality Across Various Health Care Settings
Your Name
School of Business, Technology, and Health Care Administration, Capella University
BHA4003: Present and Future State Developments within the United States Health Care System
Instructor
Date, Year
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Template Instructions (delete this page after reading)
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Review the assignment scoring guide before you complete this template so that you
understand the difference between “Distinguished,” “Proficient,” “Basic,” and “NonPerformance” grading levels.
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The headings in the template below are designed to correspond to the scoring criteria.
Please maintain these headings.
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Please delete these instructions and all other instructions [contained in brackets]
throughout the template prior to submitting this document for grading.
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Introduction
[Provide here a personal introduction you’ll share with your team to open the lunch-andlearn session. To engage your audience, be creative as you imagine an appropriate background
that makes sense for an administrative position like this one. You have license to combine your
own experiences with others that you make up.]
Agenda
[Using bullet points, preview the main goals of today’s lunch-and-learn session.]
Continuum of Care
Overview
[Describe where the physician’s practice and the hospital fall on the continuum of patient
care.]
Further Reading
[Summarize a peer-reviewed article that discusses where the physician’s practice and the
hospital fall on the continuum of patient care. Following this instruction are a template for the
citation and further explanation to guide your summary. Note that the first line of the source
citation is left-justified and the lines that follow, including the summary, are indented one tab
over.]
[Author’s last name, First name initial. Middle initial. (Year of publication). Title of the article.
Title of the Journal in Italics, volume number(Issue number), pages used. DOI number]
[Following your citation, summarize the main points of the article. Tab to move the first
line over so this summary falls in line with the hanging indent. The entire page is double-
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spaced with no extra space after the paragraph. Your references will be in APA7 format
with the hanging indent and in alphabetical order.
Care Quality
Overview
[Describe how a physicians practice maximizes patient care quality to return them to the
highest level of function, addressing quality standards such as maximizing value-based
reimbursement, positive patient experience, and maintaining operational efficiency.]
Further Reading
[Summarize a peer-reviewed article that discusses how a physicians practice maximizes
patient care quality to return them to the highest level of function. Following this instruction are
a template for the citation and further explanation to guide your summary. Note that the first line
of the source citation is left-justified and the lines that follow, including the summary, are
indented one tab over.]
[Author’s last name, First name initial. Middle initial. (Year of publication). Title of the article.
Title of the Journal in Italics, volume number(Issue number), pages used. DOI number]
[Following your citation, summarize the main points of the article. Tab to move the first
line over so this summary falls in line with the hanging indent. The entire page is doublespaced with no extra space after the paragraph. Your references will be in APA7 format
with the hanging indent and in alphabetical order.]
Operational Approach
Overview
[Describe how the physicians practice and the hospital system communicate to foster
high-quality, efficient, and effective care.]
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Further Reading
[Summarize a peer-reviewed article that discusses how a physicians practice and the
hospital system communicate to foster high-quality, efficient, and effective care. Following this
instruction are a template for the citation and further explanation to guide your summary. Note
that the first line of the source citation is left-justified and the lines that follow, including the
summary, are indented one tab over.]
[Author’s last name, First name initial. Middle initial. (Year of publication). Title of the article.
Title of the Journal in Italics, volume number(Issue number), pages used. DOI number]
[Following your citation, summarize the main points of the article. Tab to move the first
line over so this summary falls in line with the hanging indent. The entire page is doublespaced with no extra space after the paragraph. Your references will be in APA7 format
with the hanging indent and in alphabetical order.]
Conclusion
[Recap the main themes of your lunch-and-learn session, reiterating the goals of the
session and offering specific examples to demonstrate application of these ideas in everyday
practice.]
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References
[Lastname, C. (2018). Title of the source without caps except Proper Nouns or: First word after
colon. The Journal or Publication Italicized and Capped, Vol#(Issue#), Page numbers.]
[Lastname, O. (2019). Online journal using DOI or digital object identifier. Main Online
Journal Name, Vol#(Issue#), 159–192. doi: 10.1000/182]
[Lastname, W. (2021). If there is no DOI use the URL of the main website referenced. Article
Without DOI Reference, Vol#(Issue#), 166–212. http://www.mainwebsite.org]
[NOTE: The above references are SAMPLES ONLY. For more information and example related
to references, visit Capella’s Writing Center. You are responsible for submitting appropriate intext and reference page citations.]