Category: Healthcare

• Review Greater Anchorage Area Borough v. Sisters of Charity and Barnes Hospital v. Collector of Revenue. Answer the following in a well-organized, two to three page essay.
• How did to courts take such similar cases and reach opposite conclusions?
• Which of the two interpretations do you find more persuasive?
• What about leasing hospital space to vendors such as a McDonald’s Restaurant? How might that affect tax exemption?

Defining a problem:

In your original post, you will identify a current developmental challenge or problem that an individual would experience in middle childhood or adolescence. Once you have identified the problem, you will discuss how an individual’s physical, cognitive, and socio-emotional development would be impacted by the specific problem or developmental challenge you identified.

Your original post should use the textbook AND one peer reviewed journal article to support your discussion of your identified problem or developmental challenge.

Global and Future Challenges: Emerging Environmental Health Problems (Persuasive Essay)

Background:

Environmental health challenges continue to evolve as our society advances technologically and industrially. These emerging threats often develop gradually, making them particularly dangerous as they can go unnoticed until significant harm has occurred. Understanding these challenges requires examining their origins, measuring their impacts, and developing evidence-based solutions.

Assignment Overview:

As an environmental health professional, you have identified a critical emerging environmental health challenge that requires immediate attention from key stakeholders. Your task is to write a (2500 words minimum) that will convince decision-makers to take action. This essay should tell a compelling story about the problem, its impact on human health, and how you can use current and emerging technologies to address it. Your essay should convince readers of the urgency of addressing this challenge while providing a comprehensive analysis of the problem and proposed solutions.

Topic Options:

Select one of these emerging environmental health issues that speaks to you:

• The hidden threat of antimicrobial resistance in our environment.
• Microplastics: The invisible invader in our food and bodies.
• PFAS: The “forever chemicals” in our daily lives.
• Climate change and the rise of vector-borne diseases.
• New industrial air pollutants in our changing economy.

Writing Your Essay:

Your essay should include these key sections:

Problem Identification and Background: Setting the Stage (500 words)

Tell the story of how this environmental health challenge emerged. What has changed in our world to make this a pressing issue? Use real examples and data to paint a picture that will resonate with your readers. Help them understand why they should care about this issue now.

Health Impact Analysis: The Human Cost (700 words)

Share the human impact of this challenge through both data (include visualizations or tables) and narrative. Who are the real people affected? What are their stories? How does this issue affect different communities? Include both personal stories and broader population health impacts. Consider including:

• A day in the life of someone affected by this issue.
• Real case studies from affected communities.
• Economic impacts on families and healthcare systems.
• Future generations’ stakes in this issue.

Measurement and Monitoring: Tools of the Trade (500 words)

Explain how we track, measure, and understand this problem. What technologies do we currently use? What new tools are on the horizon? Make this technical information accessible by relating it to real-world applications. Help readers understand both the possibilities and limitations of our current capabilities.

Solutions and Stakeholder Actions: The Path Forward (700 words)

Present your vision for addressing this challenge. What specific steps should stakeholders take? Why are these solutions practical and effective? Include:

• Short-term actions for immediate impact
• Long-term strategies for lasting change
• Cost considerations and potential funding sources
• Success stories from similar initiatives

Conclusion: (100 words)

• Restate urgency of the problem.
• Summarize key points.
• Call to action.

Essay Requirements:

• 2500 word essay minimum (does not include tables or images).
• APA Format to include proper heading and subheadings, APA reference list, APA in-text citation.
• Minimum of five credible (peer-reviewed) sources.
• Include data visualizations or tables to help support health impact analysis.

Submitting Your Assignment

Save your assignment with the following naming convention: username-SC415-section-unit9-assignment.doc (username is your school username, section is your course section). When you are ready to submit it, go to the Unit 9 Assignment Dropbox and submit.

please this is the second part of the first paper you on Medical-Surgical Practicum Site Health Process Issue Analysis.

Prepare a strategic leadership report for the new leadership describing the organization’s mission, vision, goals, and objectives and its relationship to the external environment. Introduction: For this assessment, prepare a strategic leadership report for the new leadership describing the organization’s mission, vision, goals, and objectives and its relationship to the external environment. Include the importance of strategic leadership and effective communication for alignment with the strategic direction. Overview: Professionalism, social accountability, and community stewardship are essential qualities in a healthcare administration context. Communication styles can differ, with differing outcomes. Understanding one’s interpersonal communication style and the ways in which it affects the vision, mission, and goals of the organization can impact the organizational outcomes and the effectiveness of communication with stakeholders. Vila Health’s organizational leadership has recently changed. For this assessment, prepare a strategic leadership report for the new leadership describing the organization’s mission, vision, goals, and objectives and its relationship to the external environment. Include the organizational culture, environment, communications, and financial forecasts. Instruction: Prepare a strategic leadership report that addresses the following: Explain the importance of strategic leadership and methods to a healthcare organization. Describe methods a leader may use to align the mission, vision, and goals of individual stakeholders to the mission, vision, goals, and objectives of the organization. Describe effective communication strategies a leader may choose to employ when communicating the strategic vision of the organization to key stakeholders. Explain why leaders must align the organizational culture with the internal and external environments. How can leaders accomplish this? Describe ways an organization can use financial forecasts to guide organizational leadership. Additional Requirements: The deliverable for this assessment applies professional skills in HRM to workplace situations that you will likely encounter in your day-to-day work. As part of your learning, focus on the development of effective professional communication skills for the workplace. Your assessment should meet the following additional requirements: Length: Your writing should be 35 pages plus a reference page. Organization: Make sure that your writing is well organized, using headings and subheadings to organize content for the reader. Font and font size: Use Times New Roman, 12 point. Resources: Include provided scenario information and references that support your analysis. References must provide insight into the relationships between the scenario’s common competencies and objectives. Evidence: Support your assertions with data and in-text citations. See Health Administration Master’s Program (MHA) Library Guide for initial searching ideas. APA formatting: Format resources and in-text citations according to current Evidence and APA citation standards. Written communication: Convey purpose in an appropriate tone and style, incorporating supporting evidence and adhering to organizational, professional, and scholarly writing standards. Use spell-check and other tools to ensure correct spelling and grammar. Competencies Measured: By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and scoring guide criteria: Competency 1: Analyze organizational vision, mission, culture, and strategy relative to the external environment. Explain the importance of strategic leadership to a healthcare organization. Describe methods a healthcare leader may use to align the mission, vision, and goals of individual stakeholders to the mission, vision, goals, and objectives of the organization. Explain why leaders must align the organizational culture with the internal and external environments and describe methods for completing that alignment. Competency 2: Assess personal leadership competencies relative to the organizational need. Describe effective communication strategies a leader may choose to employ when communicating the strategic vision of the organization to key stakeholders. Competency 4: Examine how financial forecasts guide organizational leadership. Describe how an organization can use financial forecasts to guide organizational leadership. Competency 5: Communicate effectively using professional standards embracing diversity, equity, and inclusion. Demonstrate effective communication through writing and proper use of APA style with no significant errors.

Assessment 1 Attached. Write a 46 page policy proposal and practice guidelines for improving quality and performance associated with the benchmark metric underperformance you advocated for improving in Assessment 1. Introduction: In advocating for institutional policy changes related to local, state, or federal healthcare laws or policies, health leaders must be able to develop and present clear and well-written policy and practice guideline proposals that will enable a team, a unit, or an organization as a whole to resolve relevant performance issues and bring about improvements in the quality and safety of healthcare. This assessment offers you an opportunity to take the lead in proposing such changes. As a master’s-level healthcare practitioner, you have a valuable viewpoint and voice to bring discussions about policy development, both inside and outside your care setting. Developing policy for internal purposes can be a valuable process toward quality and safety improvement and ensuring compliance with various healthcare regulatory pressures. This assessment offers you an opportunity to take the lead in proposing such changes as well. Instructions: Propose an organizational policy and practice guidelines that you believe will lead to an improvement in quality and performance associated with the benchmark underperformance you advocated for improving in Assessment 1. Be precise, professional, and persuasive in demonstrating the merit of your proposed actions. Requirements: The policy proposal requirements outlined below correspond to the scoring guide criteria, so be sure to address each main point. Read the performance-level descriptions for each criterion to see how your work will be assessed. In addition, be sure to note the requirements for document format and length and for supporting evidence. Explain the need for creating a policy and practice of guidelines to address a shortfall in meeting a benchmark metric prescribed by local, state, or federal healthcare policies or laws. Use your topic from Assessment 1 to complete this. What is the current benchmark for the organization and the numeric score for underperformance? How is the benchmark underperformance affecting the provision of quality care or the organization’s operations? What are the potential repercussions of not making any changes? What evidence supports your conclusions? Summarize your proposed organizational policy and practice guidelines. Identify applicable local, state, or federal healthcare policy or law that prescribes relevant performance benchmarks that your policy proposal addresses (using your Advocacy Issues topic from the AHA). Keep your audience in mind when creating this summary statement. Analyze the potential effects of environmental factors on your recommended practice guidelines. What regulatory considerations could affect your recommended guidelines? What resources could affect your recommended guidelines (staffing, financial, and logistical considerations, or support services)? Explain ethical, evidence-based practice guidelines to improve targeted benchmark performance and the impact the proposed changes will have on the targeted group. What does the evidence-based literature suggest are potential strategies to improve performance for your targeted benchmark? How would these strategies ensure performance improvement or compliance with applicable local, state, or federal healthcare policy or law? How can you ensure that these strategies are ethical and culturally inclusive in their application? What is the direct impact of these changes on the stakeholders’ work setting/job requirements? Explain why particular stakeholders and groups must be involved in further development and implementation of your proposed policy and practice guidelines. Why is it important to engage these stakeholders and groups? How can their participation produce a stronger policy and facilitate its implementation? Present strategies for collaborating with the stakeholder group to implement your proposed policy and practice guidelines. What role will the stakeholder group play in implementing your proposal? Why is the stakeholder group and their collaboration important for successful implementation? Organize content so ideas flow logically with smooth transitions. Proofread your proposal, before you submit it, to minimize errors that could distract readers and make it more difficult for them to focus on the substance of your proposal. Use paraphrasing and summarization to represent ideas from external sources. Be sure to apply correct APA formatting to source citations and references. Policy Proposal Format and Length It may be helpful to use a template or format for your proposal used in your current organization. The risk management or quality department could be a good resource for finding an appropriate template or format. If you are not currently in practice, or your organization does not have these resources, many appropriate templates are freely available on the Internet. Your policy summary statement should be succinct (about one paragraph). Overall, your proposal should be 46 pages in length. Supporting Evidence Cite 35 references to current and scholarly research, case studies, or best practice guidelines to support your analysis and recommendations. Competencies Measures: By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and scoring guide criteria: Competency 1: Analyze relevant healthcare laws, policies, and regulations; their application; and their effects on organizations, interprofessional teams, and professional practice. Explain and interpret for stakeholders the need for creating a policy and practice guidelines to address a shortfall in meeting a benchmark metric prescribed by local, state, or federal healthcare policies or laws. Competency 2: Lead the development and implementation of ethical and culturally sensitive policies that improve health outcomes for individuals, organizations, and populations. Summarize a proposed organizational policy or practice change guideline and analyze the potential effects of environmental factors on recommended practice guidelines.

Imagine you have been contracted to consult on the recent developments at the Featherfall Medical Center. Featherfall has been struggling of late; it has had a series of problems that have prompted your hiring. It has faced the following issues: Featherfall has recently violated several government regulations regarding the current state of its technology and how it is being used. The technology system is vastly out of date, and staff are not always using the technology that is in place or they are using the technology inappropriately. These problems have lost the institution lots of money for not meeting government regulations and have caused operational and ethical problems from inefficient and ineffective use of technology. The staff at Featherfall are not well-trained on the use of technology and do not communicate appropriately about technology use. The roles that pertinent to your consult are the health information management team, the clinical staff (doctors, nurses, etc.), and administrative staff. The health information management team uses proper coding practices, and the current technology system serves them well, despite its age. However, other roles in the hospital have had issues with the system. Clinical staff, for instance, have had record-keeping issues both due to lack of training on the system and the system itself being out of date. Administrative staff within the organization have taken issue with the lack of communication about the technology and its use between the various roles. When the current technology system was chosen many years ago, the needs of these various roles were not considered. In this milestone, you will submit a discussion of the history of healthcare information management/informatics and the current landscape in terms of technology. This milestone will set the stage for your project. Specifically the following critical elements must be addressed: Preparation for Consult: In this section of your final project, you will prepare for your consultation on the organizations technology choice. To prepare, you will analyze the field of health information management for determining standard technologies and guidelines related to technology use in order to inform your technology selection. Analyze key historical events in the field of health informatics for how technology has been used that could inform the management of health information. Be sure to support your response with appropriate examples. Determine guidelines for technology use in the field of health information management that Featherfall could implement. Be sure to support your response with research. Determine the standard technologies currently used in the field of health information management. Be sure to support your response with research. For example, what record-keeping technologies are typically used in the field? Develop an overview of how the pertinent roles described at Featherfall would interact with technology. Describe the process you would use to evaluate new health information technology systems. Be sure that your process will evaluate new systems based on how they meet the needs of the organization and how they are compliant with health regulations and laws.

Analysis of the healthcare Environment (Current event activity) Conduct a search of media sources to identify one recent news story and/or announcement related to the healthcare industry. The release (print, broadcast, recent TED Talk) can address any viable area such as patient care, hospitals and care facilities, pharmaceuticals, clinical research, mergers and acquisitions, policy, and employment. A minimum of 400 words. Provide a summary of the news story and its impact on healthcare. Be sure to include relevant information. Whos involved? Whos affected? What is the geographic location? (i.e., rural, urban, state(s), cities, etc.) What are the leading agencies or organizations involved? What are the options for resolution? How is the healthcare situation being handled? What chapter, term, and/or policy from the reading is applicable? Provide the title, Date*, Source (APA style references and/or citations). Provide a meaningful question and answer that can be shared with the class. The timely article is no older than February 01, 2026. Students will identify a weekly Healthcare article, current news story from a newspaper, magazine, broadcast radio, video, or podcast pertaining to the U.S. or global healthcare system. Student must submit typed responses to specific questions about the selected article.

I mentioned three thesis topics in my write-up As a community health student, my thesis explores critical and emerging issues in public health through an internet-based research approach. The study examines ethical challenges in large population studiesparticularly concerns around informed consent, privacy, and data protectionwhile also analyzing the growing role of digital public health technologies in improving surveillance, access, and service delivery. In addition, the research investigates why environmental health risks disproportionately affect low-income communities, focusing on structural inequalities, limited infrastructure, and policy gaps. Finally, it evaluates how climate-related displacement places strain on healthcare systems by increasing demand for services, disrupting continuity of care, and overwhelming already fragile health infrastructures. Together, these topics provide an integrated analysis of ethics, technology, environmental justice, and climate change within contemporary global public health.

This is a group assignment (Attachment: Case Study 2 doc). My portion is the green highlighted part. Attached you will find the instructions, references (Use the references for my sections) and/or any other good reference found to support this idea, case study outline and, a powerpoint outline. Attached you will find an example & grade rubric.

Please write the sections for a case study (2 pages) and power point bulletins from my sections.