Assignment: Health Care Environment

Assignment: Health Care Environment
Assignment: Health Care Environment
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Select a health care environment or delivery system and explores the issues related to that
particular environment (military, long-term care, acute care systems, etc.). Introduce the
organization/facility selected, the accreditation status, and the average daily census, services
provided, community it serves. How does this organization does fits into the US health system?
How does health policy impact this facility? Explain the facility’s governance, finances, and
reimbursement methods. What are the challenges faced by the facility due to new trends/policies.
Explain how the Affordable Care Act impacts the organization/facility.
This paper needs to follow APA guidelines, double-spaced and includes headings and should be
8-12 pages (not including the title page and reference page). A minimum of eight current (less
than five years) references from peer reviewed journals is required.
Grading Rubric:
Topic Point Value Points Earned
An overview on the type of facility researched including
community it serves
30
Governance/Financial Management/HR/Staffing/Patient
Population
40
Health Policy Impacts 30
Challenges Faced By the facility Due to New Trends 30
ACA Impact on Cost, Quality, and Access at the Facility 20
APA/Grammar/Spelling/Formatting 25
Total
175
Internet sources must be analyzed and documented the same as any other sources you utilize in the writing of a paper. Be careful that the material you are using is from a legitimate source; just because it is written does not make it true. No standard method for documenting Internet sources has emerged, but the citations should include the name of the author and title of the item the same information as any other source you might use. In addition, you must give the URL (Uniform Resource Locator) or web address for the item you are using. Finally, give the date that the item was written. If that information is not available, list the date on which you accessed the page.
Plagiarism
Plagiarism is the use of someone else’s ideas without giving proper acknowledgment. The term “plagiarism” includes, but is not limited to, the use, by paraphrase or direct quotation, of the published or unpublished work of another person without full and clear acknowledgment. It also includes the unacknowledged use of materials prepared by another person or agency engaged in the furnishing or selling of term papers or other academic materials.
The Modern Language Association’s MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers defines plagiarism as follows:
repeating another’s sentences as your own,
adopting a particularly apt phrase as your own,
paraphrasing someone else’s argument as your own,
presenting someone else’s line of thinking in the development of a thesis as though it were your own.
In short, to plagiarize is to give the impression that you have written or thought something that you have in fact borrowed from another.
Appearance
The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.
Please number the pages of your essay (except for the title page).
You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.
Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.
Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.
Final check list
Before handing in your paper, please check the following items:
The pages are numbered.
The paper includes citations and a bibliography.
You have spell-checked, grammar-checked, and proofread the paper.