Assessment 4
Building a Successful Health Organization Culture
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Write a 2-3 page report that identifies three evidence-based recommendations for health care organizational improvement for your selected organization, with the rationale for each.
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Introduction
As a leader of a health organization, you will need to keep abreast of research and best practices in the field to create a culture within the organization that supports innovation, sustainability, and a drive to customer-focused results.
For this assessment, you will review all of the information from your analyses in the other assessments and prepare evidence-based recommendations for health care organizational improvement.
Assessment 5 will give you the opportunity to synthesize all of the feedback on the different assessments and give a presentation of a complete case study and recommendations as if you were presenting to the company’s leadership team.
Scenario
In the process of analyzing your selected health care organization, you have explored strategic initiatives, organizational structure, current trends in the industry, and creating an innovative culture. There will always be the expectation that you have considered relevant data, benchmark measures, current research, and best practices when leading a health care organization.
Now is the time to synthesize all of the information from your analyses and research to prepare recommendations to the leadership team in a report format. Be thinking of how you will share this information in a presentation to the leadership team in Assessment 5.
Your Role
You are a senior leader of a health care organization, and you have done a complete analysis of the organization. The next step is to consider all of the research and data so that you can propose recommendations for improvements in a report to the organization that will drive health care results.
Requirements
Create a report that includes the following:
• Think critically to analyze evidence-based strategies to develop an effective organizational culture, using relevant data and measures such as benchmarks, research, and best practices.
• Synthesize data to make three recommendations that impact the culture of your selected health organization that is driving results for access, quality, and cost-effectiveness. Such recommendations should apply innovative, strategic, agile, responsive, sustainable, and/or evidence-based approaches to position the organization to systematically drive health care results into the future.
Deliverable Format
Report requirements:
• Ensure written communication is free of errors that detract from the overall message and quality.
• Use at least two scholarly resources beyond those used in this course, cited in APA format.
• Your report should be between 2–3 content pages, in addition to a title page and references page.
• Use 12 point, Times New Roman.
Related company standards:
Use a professional report format of your choice. Remember that you are preparing a professional document meant for executive leadership with limited time. Your report should follow the corresponding MBA Academic and Professional Document Guidelines (available in the MBA Program Resources), including single-spaced paragraphs. If you are new to this type of writing and document style, you may wish to use these sections as a way to organize your report:
• Title Page.
• Analysis of strategic initiatives, organizational structures, and current trends.
• Minimum three recommendations.
• Conclusion.
• References.
Evaluation
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies through corresponding scoring guide criteria.
• Competency 1: Analyze a health organization’s strategic initiatives and their ability to ensure access, quality services, and cost effectiveness.
o Describe the analysis of the strategic initiatives, organizational structures, and current trends that impact the health care organization.
• Competency 5: Recommend evidence-based strategies to develop an organizational culture in a health care setting that is agile, innovative, and responsive.
o Recommendation #1: Propose an evidence-based strategy to develop an organizational culture in a health care setting that is agile, innovative, and responsive.
o Recommendation #2: Propose an evidence-based strategy to develop an organizational culture in a health care setting that is agile, innovative, and responsive.
o Recommendation #3: Propose an evidence-based strategy to develop an organizational culture in a health care setting that is agile, innovative, and responsive.
• Competency 6: Communicate in a manner that is scholarly, professional, and consistent with expectations for professionals in health care administration.
o Communicate in a manner that is scholarly, professional, and consistent with expectations for professionals in health care administration.
Faculty will use the scoring guide to review your deliverable from the perspective of the health care organization’s leadership. Review the scoring guide prior to developing and submitting your assessment.
Use the resources linked below to help complete this assessment.
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Organizational Culture
You might want to check out the following resources for your research about health care organization culture:
• Croston, K. (n.d.). Changing healthcare using data: A case study of one small health system’s odyssey to achieve material improvements [Webinar]. Retrieved from https://www.healthcatalyst.com/webinar/changing-healthcare-using-data-a-case-study-of-one-small-health-systems-odyssey-to-achieve-material-improvements-nov-13-webinar/
• Hegwer, L. R. (2016, April 27). New structures, new roles for the future of health care. Leadership +. Retrieved from http://www.hfma.org/Leadership/Archives/2016/Spring/New_Structures,_New_Roles_for_the_Future_of_Health_Care/
• Wadsworth, J. (n.d.). The best organizational structure for healthcare analytics. Retrieved from https://www.healthcatalyst.com/best-organizational-structure-healthcare-analytics
• Healthcare Program Guide.
o The journal and organization links in this resource provide additional resources for course research and commonly referenced resources for work in the industry.
You might also want to view the following video on the Internet:
• Center for Evidence Based Management. (2017, March 5). What is evidence-based management and why do we need it? [Video] | Transcript. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwK7IgmygBc
