Identifying a Local Health Care Economic Issue

Instructions: For this assessment, you will write a brief 2–3 page report about the health care economic issue that you have identified. In addition, you will also be asked to:
Address the reasons you selected the issue.
Identify how the issue impacts the work of you, your colleagues, and your organization.
Describe the gap that you see contributing to this issue.
Be sure to address each main point. Review the assessment instructions and scoring guide, including performance-level descriptions for each criterion, to ensure you understand the work you will be asked to complete and how it will be assessed. In addition, note the requirements for document format and length and for supporting evidence.
Overall, you will be assessed on the following criteria:
Describe a health care economic issue and how it impacts a specific community or population.
Note the data, information, or observations used to support your description.
Explain the rationale for choosing your health care economic issue.
Explain how the health care economic issue has affected your work, your organization, your colleagues, and your community.
Identify the gap that is contributing to the need to address the economic issue.
Cite at least one piece of evidence to support your identification of the gap. This could be public health data, a peer-reviewed journal article, or another scholarly source.
Convey purpose, in an appropriate tone and style, incorporating supporting evidence and adhering to organizational, professional, and scholarly writing standards.

Competencies Measured: By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and scoring guide criteria:
Competency 1: Analyze the effects of financial and economic factors (such as cost-benefit, supply and demand, return on investment, and risks) in a health care system on patient care, services offered, and organizational structures and operation.
Explain the rationale for choosing the health care economic issue.
Competency 2: Develop ethical and culturally equitable solutions to economic problems within a health care organization in an effort to improve the quality of care and services offered.
Describe a health care economic issue and how it impacts a specific community or population.
Competency 3: Justify the qualitative and quantitative information used to guide economic decision making to stakeholders and colleagues.
Identify the gap that is contributing to the need to address the economic issue.
Competency 4: Develop ethical and culturally equitable economic strategies to address dynamic environmental forces and ensure the future security of an organization’s resources and its ability to provide quality care.
Explain how the health care economic issue has affected your work, your organization, colleagues, and community.
Competency 5: Produce clear, coherent, and professional written work, in accordance with Capella writing standards.
Convey purpose, in an appropriate tone and style, incorporating supporting evidence and adhering to organizational, professional, and scholarly writing standards.
*Use the scoring guide to understand how your assessment will be evaluated.
Describe a health care economic issue and how it impacts a specific community or population.
Distinguished
Describes a health care economic issue and how it impacts a specific community or population. Notes the data, information, or observations used to support the description.
Criterion 2
Explain the rationale for choosing the health care economic issue.
Distinguished
Explains the rationale for choosing the health care economic issue. Reflects on how personal experiences and values informed the choice of issue.
Criterion 3
Explain how the health care economic issue has affected your work, your organization, colleagues, and community.
Distinguished
Explains how the health care economic issue has affected your work, your organization, colleagues, and community. Specifically notes ways in which the issue may be having greater impacts on diverse or lower socio-economic groups.
Criterion 4
Identify the gap that is contributing to the need to address the economic issue.
Distinguished
Identifies the gap that is contributing to the need to address the economic issue. Cites at least one piece of evidence to support the identification of the gap. This could be public health data, a peer-reviewed journal article, or another scholarly source.
Criterion 5
Convey purpose, in an appropriate tone and style, incorporating supporting evidence and adhering to organizational, professional, and scholarly writing standards.
Distinguished
Conveys clear purpose, in a tone and style well-suited to the intended audience. Supports assertions, arguments, and conclusions with relevant, credible, and convincing evidence. Exhibits strict and nearly flawless adherence to organizational, professional, and scholarly writing standards, including APA style and formatting.