Task 3

Task 3

Competencies

705.4.1 : Health Policy

The graduate effectively interprets health policy initiatives.

705.4.2 : Health Legislation

The graduate analyzes strategies that impact health legislation.

Introduction

Healthcare does not operate in a vacuum. Trends that emerge in the national market are influenced by legislation, delivery of care, changes in payment methods, and social and economic conditions. Healthcare professionals monitor policy at the national level by reviewing legislative initiatives and analyzing rules and regulations. Understanding healthcare policy helps in facilitating grant reviews and in developing new program initiatives. Legislation may cause changes in the way hospitals and healthcare providers deliver patient care. It is beneficial for hospitals to incorporate the national trends, policy, and legislation in determining the appropriate path for selecting service lines. You will use the Service Line Development Case Study to complete this task. Imagine that you have received a memo asking you to identify national trends, policy, and legislation and to summarize the impact it will have on the new service line. The proposed service lines are the following:

Orthopedic center

Cardiovascular center

Cancer center

Requirements

Your submission must represent your original work and understanding of the course material. Most performance assessment submissions are automatically scanned through the WGU similarity checker. Students are strongly encouraged to wait for the similarity report to generate after uploading their work and then review it to ensure Academic Authenticity guidelines are met before submitting the file for evaluation. See for more information.

Grammarly Note:

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Microsoft Files Note:

Write your paper in Microsoft Word (.doc or .docx) unless another Microsoft product, or pdf, is specified in the task directions. Tasks may not be submitted as cloud links, such as links to Google Docs, Google Slides, OneDrive, etc. All supporting documentation, such as screenshots and proof of experience, should be collected in a pdf file and submitted separately from the main file. For more information, please see

You must use the rubric to direct the creation of your submission because it provides detailed criteria that will be used to evaluate your work. Each requirement below may be evaluated by more than one rubric aspect. The rubric aspect titles may contain hyperlinks to relevant portions of the course.

A. Identify current national healthcare trends and policy initiatives that may affect the healthcare organization evident in the attached Service Line Development Case Study.

1. Discuss how the identified trends impact the delivery of healthcare in the case study.

2. Discuss possible legislation that may result from these trends.

B. Acknowledge sources, using in-text citations and references, for content that is quoted, paraphrased, or summarized.

C. Demonstrate professional communication in the content and presentation of your submission.

File Restrictions

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File size limit: 200 MB

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Task 3

NOTES

1. There is no required format for this task.

2. There are no page minimums or maximums.

3. You are encouraged to include the headers from the rubric in the body of your paper.

4. You are the CEO of Trinity Community hospital. Keeping in mind the role you are

assuming in this course is important because your responses should reflect that you are

assuming the top-ranking Administrator in your hospital.

5. Yes, you are the CEO, but you are not a recognized expert. As such, to demonstrate your

due diligence, you will use references.

Step-by-Step Instructions

1. Go to the home page of the course.

2. Select Assessments.

3. Click View Task next to Task 3

4. The page should open to Task Overview. If the page does not automatically open to

Task Overview, Click on Task Overview.

5. Read the information on the page.

6. Scroll to the bottom of the page where you will see Supporting Documents and two

hyperlinks.

7. Download both Zip files. You will use the downloaded documents to develop the

responses to the task prompts.

A. Current national trends (This is a prompt that needs an answer).

Identify and discuss two (2) current national healthcare trends. In the task artifacts,

there is an email from Joint to the CEO that discusses three dierent trends: (1)

Hospital reimbursement, (2) Physician reimbursement, and (3) Physician shortage.

You may use two of the three current national healthcare trends provided for your

assessment OR choose 2 based on your independent research.

A1. Impact

Develop a discussion explaining how each trend is adversely impacting the

provision of medical services. The explanation of the impact should be clearly

supported by information from the task artifacts or external sources. External

sources will need to be cited with an in-text citation and a reference list.

A2. Legislation

Identify two proposed legislations, one for each trend. Each legislation should

not be legislation that has already been passed into law. You will provide the name

of each legislation, preferred is the name of the legislator proposing the trend,

discussing the goals/aims of the legislation, and including how the proposed the

legislation will mitigate or eliminate the trend.

Additional Notes:

1. Cite all external sources used to prepare your justification section

2. You do not need to cite any of the task artifacts, i.e. JC manual, polices, etc.

3. Use your Grammarly for Education account to review your document to be sure you do

not have any writing errors. All students have access using your WGU email to create the

account: https://gram.ly/DSDq or at https://www.grammarly.com/

4. Submit your document

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Please see attached documents for necessary attachments for this assignment