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Unit 4 Assignment Unit outcomes addressed in this Assignment: ● Assess value-adding production of goods and services. Course outcomes addressed in this Assignment: HA540-2: Assess value-adding production of goods and services in order to optimize an organization’s performance. Instructions: In this Assignment, you will be assessing the quality of services provided by hospitals. Likewise, you will also assess how these hospitals can improve their organizational performance. ● Using the Medicare Hospital Compare website, research two hospitals varying in quality performance* ○ One hospital should display a high level of quality ○ One hospital should display a low level of quality ● Provide a general overview of each hospital (e.g., name, location, bed size, ownership, etc.) ● Discuss the quality performance differences between hospitals (e.g., survey results, deficiencies, complaints, services provided, value, etc.) ● Discuss how the first hospital is able to yield a high level of quality. ● Discuss opportunities for the second hospital to increase their level of quality. ● Synthesize how each hospital could potentially increase value to their existing services. ● Report your findings by using one (1) of the methods below: ○ 3-4 page paper excluding front and back matter (APA standards apply). ○ Internal organizational memorandum. ○ Infographic ○ Power Point presentation for a Board of Directors (10-12 slides; speaker notes as needed to support assertions). ○ 7-10 minute public service announcement (using a free online voice recorder such as vocaroo.com) ○ Video newscast (using a free online video recorder such as YouTube.com) (e.g., entertainment talk show, television commentary, interview-style, news reporting, etc.). ○ The use of first person is permitted for this Assignment (excluding option 1). APA formatting (e.g., title page, conclusion, reference page, etc.) should not be used. ● Although the use of APA formatting is not required for this Assignment, proper grammar, spelling, and punctuation are expected. *You can select any to hospitals published on the Medicare Hospital Compare website. You will need to research the database until you locate two hospitals that vary in performance measures. selection, consider researching hospitals in your community, previous places of residence, employers, competitors, or even hospitals you would like to network with someday.

(1) What is science and how does it explain things? (2) Tree-Ring dating (dendrochronology), one of the oldest and simplest form of dating techniques is still used today.  Why do you think this is so.  Fully explain and include a brief explanation of the process.

 

Instructions: For this Assignment, you will research the differences between clinical quality and customer service quality, specifically in long-term care. ● Using the Medicare Nursing Home Compare website, research one nursing home that has a reported customer complaint. ● Provide a general overview of the nursing home (e.g., name, location, bed size, ownership, etc.) ● Discuss the overall quality of customer service offered at the nursing home (as evident by customer complaint inspection results) ● Discuss the overall quality of clinical care offered at the nursing home (as evident by recent survey inspection results) ● Discuss appropriate techniques that you would use to improve quality of customer service offered at the nursing home ● Discuss appropriate techniques that you would use to improve quality of clinical care in the nursing home. ● Be sure to include details about the complaints that you found. ● Report your findings by using one (1) of the methods below: ○ 3-4 page paper excluding front and back matter (APA standards apply). ○ Internal organizational memorandum. ○ Infographic ○ Power Point presentation for a Board of Directors (10-12 slides; speaker notes as needed to support assertions). ○ 7-10 minute public service announcement (using a free online voice recorder such as vocaroo.com) ○ Video newscast (using a free online video recorder such as YouTube.com) (e.g., entertainment talk show, television commentary, interview-style, news reporting, etc.). ○ The use of first person is permitted for this Assignment (excluding option 1). APA formatting (e.g., title page, conclusion, reference page, etc.) should not be used. ● Although the use of APA formatting is not required for this Assignment, proper grammar, spelling, and punctuation are expected. Kaplan University School*You can select any nursing home published on the Medicare Hospital Compare website. To narrow your selection, consider researching nursing homes in your community, previous places of residence, employers, competitors, or even a nursing home you would like to network with someday.

The intention of this assignment is to develop your critical analysis skills around assessing a business environment. You will need to identify strengths and weaknesses in the company where you currently work, would like to work, or one in which you have an interest. Please review the concepts in Chapter 1, Chapter 3, and Chapter 4 of your textbook.

 

Write a three to four (3-4) page paper in which you:

 

1. Provide a brief description of an organization where you currently work, would like to work, or one in which you have an interest that you have chosen for this assignment.
2. Assess three (3) factors, either economic, social, or both, impacting the performance of the organization you selected. Then, select the two (2) factors that you believe are the most critical to pay attention to in order for the organization to remain competitive. Explain and support your reasons.
   • Tip: Check Chapter 1, page 4. Click here for help accessing a specific page number in your eBook.

 

3. Propose three (3) business actions to overcome the factors you identified in number 2.
4. Use at least two (2) quality academic resources you have located using the Strayer Learning Resources Center (LRC) / Strayer databases in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia does not qualify as an academic resource, and neither do web-based blogs.

 

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 format.
• Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, your name, your 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:

 

• Examine the private enterprise systems, drivers of change on the system, ethical and social responsibilities of business, and the requirements for success in today’s business environment.
• Analyze the factors that drive supply and demand, different types of market structures in a free enterprise system, and factors of stability in a nation’s economy.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in contemporary business.
• Write clearly and concisely about contemporary business using proper writing mechanics.

Response paper 1:

In what ways does Bellamy’s book, Looking Backward, reflect the optimism of 19th century modern America?

Your responses should be about 1 page long and include 2 direct examples from the work. Remember, these are graded and will make up part of you Attendance and Participation grade.

Hint:
Before answering, you may want to go back through the course text book or your lecture notes and recall why the United States was optimistic toward the end of the 19th century. After all, didn’t the US just get done fighting a long and bloody Civil War? What could they possibly be optimistic about?

And for Bellamy’s work, keep in mind it is not a prediction of the future. He is simply commenting on the conditions of 1880s Boston while contemplating what the world could look like. In part, that should help you answer the question above. Why does he think the world could look like it does in the year 2000? Explore some of the conversations Julian has with Dr. Leete. How does the world change so drastically?

 

Locate a secondary source on EBSCOHost published in the past year that will help you explore the problem you have raised in your Justification Report. (Use the “Cite” tool on the EBSCOHost Website to copy and paste the APA Reference information into your response so that your classmates and instructor can see the source.) Next, explain why you chose this source, and determine how it will help you to evaluate your alternatives (i.e. possible solutions offered) and arrive at a recommendation for your employer.

 

2.

This week, you are to add a graph to your Justification Report. Discuss how you’ll approach this part of your assignment, and state the main reasons why you feel that graphs are a necessary part of a formal report.

From Part 1 of this discussion, determine the main benefits of using graphs in the report presentation. Next, explain the matter in which a creatively constructed graph might help you to better manage and present your data.

 

Use the internet to search an example of an enthymeme in the media (e.g., internet, television, radio, newspapers, etc.) Next, explain the example you searched and identify the implied premise in the enthymeme example.

Why is end-user involvement important in health management information systems implementation? How can end users be more involved in the process?