HS 230

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Unit 8 Assignment

Healthcare Leadership within Project Steering Committees

Unit outcome addressed in this Assignment:

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Describe why marketing is necessary in the health care arena.

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Apply the four P’s of marketing.

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Integrate ethical considerations when marketing health care.

Course outcome assessed in this Assignment:

HS230

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5:

Apply effective communication strategies to real life scenarios facing healthcare administrators in

regards to stakeholders.

HS230

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6:

Discu

ss the human resource, marketing, operations, and financial functions common to healthcare

systems.

AHIMA CEE Curriculum Mapping

Domain

Subdomain

Competency

Domain VI. Leadership

Subdomain VI.A.

Leadership Roles

1. Take part in effective negotiating and use influencing

skills

Domain VI. Leadership

Subdomain VI.A.

Leadership Roles

3. Take part in effective communication through project

reports, business reports and professional

communications

Domain VI. Leadership

Subdomain VI.A.

Leadership Roles

5. Take part in enterprise

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wide committees

Domain VI. Leadership

Subdomain VI.F. Stra

tegic

and Organizational

Management

6. Collaborate in the development and implementation

of information governance initiatives

Assignment Requirements

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Please complete all parts in a Microsoft Word document.

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The body of your document should be at least 1200 words in length.

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Quoting should be less than 10% of the entire paper. Paraphrasing is necessary.

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Students must cite and reference at least 4 credible sources from the KU Library.

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Please be sure to download

the file “Writing Center Resources” from Doc Sharing to assist you with

meeting APA expectations for written Assignments.

Instructions

Imagine that you are an administrator for a large hospital. As part of your role within healthcare leadership, you

are involved in several committees for the organization. Please follow the instructions below in completion of

this multi

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part assignment.

Part

Competency Assessed

Instructions

1

Take part in effective

negotiating and use

influencing skills.

Imagine that you are a Chair for a project steering committee within a

large hospital system. The hospital has selected a vendor for a new EHR

and you have been tasked with managing the contract negotiations with

the vendor and managing the EHR implementat

ion throughout the

hospital. Differentiate three effective negotiating techniques used in

healthcare, and distinguish the various influencing skills that could be

fostered for change management.

2

Take part in effective

communication through

project repor

ts, business

reports and professional

communications.

Locate an official annual report for a hospital within your State or Region.

Typically, the annual report is in the form of a PDF file, and you should

be able to locate examples by searching the Interne

t for “hospital annual

reports PDF.” Once obtained, review the report carefully. Next, imagine

that you are an administrator and leader for the hospital, and you are

tasked with communicating the three (3) key highlights within the annual

report through a

professional communication with hospital staff members.

Select the key highlights from the report that you wish to communicate

and organize a summary of the annual report.

3

Take part in enterprise

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wide committees.

Using a hospital’s annual report that yo

u obtained via the Internet,

imagine that you are a healthcare executive who serves on an enterprise

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wide committee for the multi

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hospital health system. You have been

asked to lead the committee in making a decision. The CEO has asked

that the committee i

s unanimous with their decision. Examine two (2)

consensus

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building techniques that would facilitate the decision

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making

process. Support your techniques with evidence published by credible

sources; use the KU Library to find credible sources.

4

Collabora

te in the

development and

implementation of

information governance

initiatives.

Using a hospital’s annual report that you obtained via the Internet,

imagine that you are a healthcare executive who serves on an enterprise

–

wide committee for the multi

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hospit

al health system. You have been

appointed as Chair for a sub

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committee that will collaborate in the

development and implementation of information governance initiatives.

As Chair, you have decided that your first meeting’s agenda will review

two (2) issues

(from the annual report) that can be resolved through

information governance initiatives. Examine the issue in terms of

information governance and summarize your ideas on how the committee

will collaborate in developing and implementing solutions.