Health Financial Management

 

  • Health Care Finance Interview
    Identify a leader in a health care setting who is responsible for  fiscal planning and financial management. This person may be solely  responsible for financial management or have multiple duties and  responsibilities that include fiscal planning and financial management.  Request an interview with that person. You may conduct your interview in  person, via teleconference, or via videoconference. Use the interview  guide you created for last week’s assignment. Also, use Basic Search: Strayer University Online Library  and other sources to locate publicly available financial information  for this organization. Use it as context for your interview.
    The Interview Guide you created in Week 2 should include 10  questions. Seven questions are provided for you. You should develop  three additional questions. You should ask the following seven questions  in addition to the three questions that you developed:
     
  1. Can you tell me about your role within your organization? What are  your duties and responsibilities? How long have you been in this role?
  2. Can you share with me all of your duties and responsibilities that involve fiscal planning and financial management?
  3. How does your organization approach strategic planning?
  4. How do you approach operational budgeting? How does your organization approach capital budgeting?
  5. What is the most expensive aspect of health care delivery?
  6. How is health care finance related to the cost of care, quality,  value, waste, performance improvement, regulatory compliance, provider  relationships, and insurance reimbursement?
  7. What cost-containment measures has the organization used?
  8. Write a 3–4 page paper in which you report your findings from your interview and research:
     
  9. Indicate the name and title of the person you interviewed. Share  some background about their organization. List the responsibilities and  scope of their role, and how long they have been in the role.
  10. Share the mission, vision, and strategic priorities of the organization.
  11. Provide some organizational background (location, size, focus,  services provided, demographics of patients served, for- or nonprofit  status, et cetera).
  12. Explain all of the financial-related tasks and responsibilities that your interviewee engages in.
  13. From your interviewee’s perspective, explain how health care  finance is related to the cost of care, quality, value, waste,  performance improvement, regulatory compliance, provider relationships,  and insurance reimbursement.
  14. Comment on the organization’s strategic planning process and its  relationship to financial management. Is there appropriate alignment?  Support your perspective.
  15. In a final paragraph, explain what you see as the most important aspect of financial management for health care administrators.
  16. The specific learning outcome associated with this assignment is:
     
  • Assess the relationships among health care costs, quality,  performance improvement, regulatory compliance, provider relationships,  and payors.
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Discussion 9

Although often difficult to define, leadership presents a pivotal aspect in any organization. Over the course of history, various leaders have embodied characteristics and qualities that have proved effective and ineffective within various situations. For example, a health director of a small clinic might exhibit a different leadership perspective than a director of staff for an intensive care unit at a large hospital. Though characteristics and qualities may vary among leaders, their primary goals for followers and organizations may be similar. Understanding the most appropriate leadership perspective may impact your future leadership perspective in the field of health care administration.

Post an explanation of how transformational leadership and transactional leadership relate to Trait Theory, Skills Approach, and behavior perspective. Then, explain under what circumstances a transformational leadership might be preferred and under what circumstances a transactional leadership might be preferred for the practice of health care administration. Provide an example and justify your response.

Career goals #6

Now that you have declared your concentration(s) for your degree, it is important to consider your rationale and practice communicating your choice in pursuing the BA.GST degree. In this discussion, assume you are meeting with your current employer or a potential employer who may offer you a job or someone who supports your personal goal. This person has just asked you to reflect on why you chose the BA.GST degree.

Develop a convincing response that addresses the following:

  • Restate your specific goal and describe the relevance of the BA.GST degree and your chosen concentration to that goal. Discuss how this background will effectively help you reach your goal.
  • Explain how a diverse educational background would make you an asset to any effort or organization.

Project: Scholar-Practitioner Project: Visual Representation of Health Care Administration Leadership Theory

Having a Health Care Administration Leadership Theory is essential to any health care administration leader. With a well-constructed theory, you integrate leadership perspectives into practice in order to offer solutions to health care administration problems. Also, with a visual representation of your theory, you may present another way to highlight your research with effective design and theory implementation.

For this Assignment, you complete another part of your Health Care Administration Leadership Theory based upon your understanding of leadership perspectives you have reviewed in this course. In addition, you must use a systems thinking approach in the development of your visual representation of your personal Health Care Administration Leadership Theory. 

This week you will provide a visual representation of your Health Care Administration Leadership Theory. It can be a table, schematic diagram, graph, or any other representation you choose. Please feel free to be creative. However, the focus MUST be on leadership.

Both the narrative explanation and the visual representation are included in the page count for the Assignment length. Remember, your theory can be based on those that we have examined in this course or that you have researched on your own. There is no wrong theory. What matters is the explanation of how it addresses the gap and uses systems thinking. While this does not have to be addressed now, keep in mind the last part of the Project will involve presenting a methodology that tests the developed theory empirically.

The Assignment (3–4 pages):

  • Provide a narrative explanation that shows how the developed theory can close the “gap” identified in the first part of the Project.
  • Explain how it incorporates systems thinking.

Support your Project with specific references to all resources and current literature used in its preparation. You are to provide a reference list for all resources, including those in the Learning Resources for this course.

CASE STUDY 7

 

You are to provide a paper (case studies) of a minimum of 2 pages and a maximum of 3 pages (not including your cover page, abstract, or reference page).

You need at least 3 references in addition to your text. The case study and the references are to be in APA format 

PLEASE INCLUDE ABSTRACT

 

Eddie is a loyal long tenured non-exempt employee working for the Director of Facilities. Her normal work hours at 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM with an hour for lunch. On most occasions, Eddie brings her lunch. She warms her lunch in the department’s kitchen, return to her desk to scan the web reading current news articles, shopping on QVC, reading people magazine and at times chatting with family members over the phone.   It is not uncommon that Eddie will answer the department phone, taking messages for her boss or dealing with vendors. There have been occasions when Eddie has even made copies of documents for some of the facilities workers. It only takes a few minutes to do these little things, Eddie is happy to help out and quickly returns to her lunch plans.

As the HR manager, does the company have a problem?  If so, what type(s) of a problem(s) do you have and how do you handle it?

Discussion 8

A Chinese proverb states, “In a broken nest, there are few whole eggs.” Within an organization, broken professional relationships may result in damage to the efficiency and effectiveness of the organization. For a leader, any “crack” or “break” in leadership may create future problems within the organization. With use of Leader-Member Exchange Theory and Social Network Theory, an effective leader may find that the creation of positive, professional relationships with subordinates is helpful in preventing breaks in relationships in order to guide an organization toward success. 

For this Discussion, reflect on the similarities and differences between Leader-Exchange Theory and Social Network Theory. Consider how you might integrate each theory into your own personal, unified leadership theory. Think about how you might use this theory in a health care administration scenario.

Post a brief comparison between Leader-Member Exchange and Social Network Theory. Then, explain how you might apply Leader-Member Exchange Theory and Social Network Theory into your personal, unified leadership theory. Finally, relate this personal, unified theory to a health care administration scenario with which you are familiar. Be specific and provide examples.

Support your postings and responses with specific references to the Learning Resources and the current literature.

HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEMS ACQUISITION AND IMPLEMENTATION

 

Create a workflow diagram of clinical and non-clinical data within an inpatient electronic medical record system. Include the departments for which this data would be captured and stored. For instance, chest x-ray reports would be captured in radiology department. You need to have a minimum of at least 10 data points. Make sure to explain the role of all data points. It is important that your data flows throughout your workflow diagram. For instance, you would not want your first data point to be the chest x-ray/radiology, then the next data point to be admissions (admission data would need to come first). You can create your workflow diagram using any workflow tool such as Smart Draw and Microsoft Word. You can also use PowerPoint if you prefer.

SLP Assignment Expectations

  1. Provide a workflow diagram of clinical and non-clinical data within an inpatient EHR. You need to have at least 10 data points with the associated department for which the data is collected/stored.
  2. Provide an introduction and conclusion paragraph where you discuss the importance of these data points.
  3. Your references and citations should be consistent with a particular formatting style such as APA.
  4. Provide references from at least 2 scholarly articles (peer-reviewed). Do not include information from non-scholarly materials such as wikis, encyclopedias, or www.freearticles.com (or similar websites). Use the following link for additional information on how to recognize peer-reviewed journals: http://www.angelo.edu/services/library/handouts/peerrev.php.
  5. For additional information on reliability of sources, review the following source:
    Georgetown University Library. (n.d.). Evaluating internet resources. Retrieved from https://www.library.georgetown.edu/tutorials/research-guides/evaluating-internet-content
  6. Your response should incorporate the outcomes of the module with the requirements of this assignment.
  7. Your workflow diagram must be a visual or graphical representation of the interaction of processes and/or how information (data) flows through an electronic medical record system.
  8. Use the following link for more details and information about workflow diagram: https://www.smartdraw.com/workflow-diagram/

Assignment: Professional Leadership Journal: Narcissism Assessment

This week’s self-assessment, located in your course text (Chapter 4, p. 138), includes one brief individual leadership assessment entitled “Narcissism.” 

For this Personal Leadership Journal, complete the “Narcissism” assessment. As a scholar-practitioner of health care administration leadership, what might the assessment reveal about your perspective on the topic of Narcissism? Consider how Narcissism may impact your role in the field of health care administration. 

The Assignment (2–3 paragraphs):

  • Explain new insights gained based on your results of the “Narcissism” assessment. 
  • Explain how these new insights might impact your current or future role as a health care administration leader.

Support your Assignment with specific references to all resources used in its preparation. You are to provide a reference list for all resources, including those in the Learning Resources for this course.

Test

I have a HR test which included 7 short answer questions and 16 multiple choice questions, and the time is one hour and 30 minutes

Test

I have a HR test which included 7 short answer questions and 16 multiple choice questions, and the time is one hour and 30 minutes