Professional Development Assignment Use clear headings that allow your professor to know which bullet you are addressing on the slides in your presentation. Support your content with at least four (4) citations throughout your presentation. Make sure to reference the citations using the APA writing style for the presentation. Include a slide for your references at the end. Follow best practices for PowerPoint presentations (an example is located in the Resources tab) related to text size, color, images, effects, wordiness, and multimedia enhancements. Title Slide (1 slide) For a hospital to operate efficiently and effectively, the three important influences in its governance, medical staff, board of trustees, and administration, must work together in reasonable harmony. What factors contribute to the tension that usually exists among them? (4 slides). Organizations such as the LeapFrog Group represent a growing trend to survey and report on the quality of hospital care and to make the findings available to the public. What are your opinions about the public's readiness to deal with having this information available and using it to make choices about medical care? (2-3 slides) Hospitals are facing unprecedented financial challenges from entrepreneurial physician initiatives that are establishing competitive, free-standing diagnostic and treatment centers and specialty hospitals. What are the advantages and disadvantages to these developments from a patient perspective? (2-3 slides) References (1 slide) Always review your rubric for assignment expectations. If you have questions or need assistance with slide development and presentations, contact your class instructor. Assignment Expectations Length: 10-12 slides; answers must thoroughly address the questions in a clear, concise manner Structure: Title slide with title, student's name, university name, and due date Introduction/Objectives slide to identify topics for the presentation Body of presentation: a minimum of one slide to address each topic for the assignment Conclusion slide to summarize the key points of the presentation References: a minimum of one slide to acknowledge resources used Slide design: select a professional slide design with a background color and lettering that is easy for an audience to see. Include illustrations throughout the presentation to provide visual interest for the audience and to provide emphasis for the slide topic. Avoid full sentences on the slides. Use no more than 6 bullet points on a slide and no more than 6 words for each bullet point. Include citation/s information on the slide, as appropriate, to acknowledge the resource for the material. Include at least three (3) scholarly sources to support your information. Speaker Notes: include speaker notes for each slide to explain/address the content on each slide. Speaker notes should be detailed and thorough to discuss the material on the slide.

Stand-Alone Hospital or Another Healthcare OrganizationFor this project, you are to evaluate an existing strategic initiative, or program (e.g., addition of a hospital wing, opening of a new location, closing of an existing branch) for an actual/real stand-alone hospital or other independent healthcare organization (you may select a hospital, large medical group, nursing home, or an ambulatory care facility) within your community.For the purpose of the assignment, assume that you are the Director of Strategic Planning for this organization, and the CEO has assigned you the responsibility for assessing (1) where the program is in its life cycle and (2) making an informed decision as to the best way forward strategically; i.e., should the organization expand the program, continue the current strategy it employs, change certain aspects of operational strategy, fully maintain the program as is, merge the program with an existing one, or close the program? The summary of your assessment will be presented to the Board of Directors, CEO, COO, and CFO.Write a paper that proposes the process you would implement for assessing this project.The paper should include the following:Executive SummaryIntroduction:A brief description of the current program.Alignment with the organization's mission, vision, and goals that support the project.Assessment: An evaluation of various factors that affect the feasibility and project development.Justification for the project via a robust assessment of the internal and external environment, using at least two tools discussed in our course; such as SWOT+PEST, Five Forces, BCG, etc.Consideration of organizational restrictions and constraints, mission, vision, values, capabilities, strengths, and weaknesses.Consideration of organizational issues, context, and multiple perspectives and dimensions are considered.Implementation: Provide a summary of your recommendations and strategies for implementation.Realistic strategies and tactics identified with sufficient detail.Articulates the who, what, when, where, and why.Considers organizational restrictions and constraints, mission, vision, values, capabilities, strengths, and weaknesses.Relevant forces are adequately considered.Program Evaluation: A brief discussion of how you will evaluate and benchmark the project post-implementation.Specifies measures that would be tracked and trended post-implementation to ensure the action was effective and efficient.Organizational issues, context, and multiple perspectives and dimensions are considered.Infographic depicting the various strategic development stages you will employ, as learned in Module 5Conclusion: This brief summary should pull together your assessment and recommendations and leave the audience with a clear sense of your results and the next steps in light of the overall vision of the organization.The paper should be:8-12 pages (not including the required cover and reference pages),Be supported with a minimum of seven recent (within the past three to six years), scholarly sources to substantiate your position in the matter,Including an annotated bibliography. Each source referenced should be accompanied by a brief (approximately 150 words) descriptive and evaluative paragraph clarifying why the reference is included in the student's research. The annotation should inform the reader of the relevance, accuracy, and quality of the sources cited.See the CSU-Global Online Research and Writing Lab's Tips for Annotated Bibliographies (Links to an external site.).Be formatted according to the CSU Global Writing Center (Links to an external site.), andThe Infographic should be on one page. It should have notes within or an addendum highlighting the various aspects of strategic analysis that you undertook.

Discuss corporate structure and how it affects the effectiveness of governance. Determine various roles of governance within organizations and how they should interact within a team setting (e.g., board meetings, committee meetings, oversight, compliance meetings). Describe concerns to consider when developing and strengthening a team culture. For example: Team members working independently or at cross-purposes, also known as "turf battles," that can slow or impede the accomplishment of project purposes. The tone of meetings and interactions that can be seen as negative, manipulative, directive, or secretive. Research a current federal or state compliance topic, such as the Center for Medicaid Services (CMS). You are required to select a topic other than the Affordable Care Act. Provide an example of an organization's failure to properly apply governance concepts. Describe how you would apply principles of servant and values-based leadership skills to integrate governance concepts and strategies to improve health care operations. Use 4 to 5 peer-reviewed resources to support your response. Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required. This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion. You are required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite. A link to the LopesWrite technical support articles is located in Class Resources if you need assistance. Benchmark Information This benchmark assignment assesses the following programmatic competencies: MS Health Care Administration 1.2 Differentiate among various forms of governance. Health Organizations: Theory, Behavior, and Development Johnson, J. A., & Rossow, C. C. (2019). Health organizations: Theory, behavior, and development (2nd ed.). Burlington, MA: Jones and Bartlett Learning. ISBN-13: 9781284109825