nstructions
Many health care leaders believe that physician-hospital alignment is one of the greatest challenges facing the U.S. health care system. Hospitals and physicians are faced with finding innovative ways to collaborate while taking advantage of their joint economic interests. Accountable care organizations (ACO), medical foundations, hospital-owned group practices, and joint venture initiatives can be potential solutions. Refer to Chapter 9, “Accountable Care Organizations and Physician Alignment,” listed in your reading link.
Part 1
Instructions
Define the concept of an integrated physician model.
Part 2
Instructions
Explain the importance of clinical integration in the strategic planning process. Once explained, demonstrate an understanding of the dynamics and controversies surrounding accountable care organizations and alternative approaches to the current health system.
Part 3
Instructions
Choose one of the models for hospital-physician integration and discuss the advantages and disadvantages for hospitals and physicians under this model (medical foundations, hospital-owned group practices, hospitalists, joint venture initiatives, equity-based joint ventures, etc.).
Part 4
Instructions
Summarize your final recommendation for a change management model to be used for this clinical integration. Support your recommendation with academic resources.
- Please complete the assignment in a Microsoft Word document.
- The body of your document should be at least 1,000 words in length.
- Quoting should be less than 10% of the entire paper. Paraphrasing is necessary.
- Students must cite and reference at least four credible sources.
- Review the writing resources for APA formatting and citation found in Academic Tools. Additional writing resources can be found within the Academic Success Center.
Minimum Submission Requirements
- Proper notification of any resubmission, repurposing, or reworking of prior work per the Purdue Global Student Coursework Resubmission, Repurposing, and Reworking Policy Resource.
- This assessment should be a Microsoft Word (minimum 1,000 words) document, in addition to the title and reference pages.
- Quoting should be less than 10% of the entire paper. Paraphrasing is necessary.
- Students must cite and reference at least four credible sources.
- Respond to the questions in a thorough manner, providing specific examples of concepts, topics, definitions, and other elements asked for in the questions. Your submission should be highly organized, logical, and focused.
- Your submission should provide a clearly established and sustained viewpoint and purpose.
- Your writing should be well ordered, logical, and unified, as well as original and insightful.
- Your submission must be written in Standard English and demonstrate exceptional content, organization, style, and grammar and mechanics.
- A separate page at the end of your submission should contain a list of references in APA format. Use your textbook, the Library, and the internet for research.
- Be sure to include references for all sources and to cite them using in-text citations where appropriate. Your sources and content should follow current APA citation style. Review the writing resources for APA formatting and citation found in Academic Tools. Additional writing resources can be found within the Academic Success Center.
- Your submission should:
- include a title page;
- be double-spaced;
- be typed in Times New Roman, 12 -point font; and
- be free of spelling or punctuation errors.
If the work submitted for this competency assessment does not meet the minimum submission requirements, it will be returned for revision. If the work submitted does not meet the minimum submission requirements by the end of the term, you will receive a failing score.