Healthcare Management Practices

Capstone Project

For this course project, you will select a hypothetical hospital that is failing in your area. You will prepare a report on how you will examine the challenges faced by the hospital and recommend ways to turn the hospital around to make it successful.

You will proceed with the project as guided and provide vital information from your research and real-life experience to fill in gaps where necessary. By the end of the first week, you should submit a complete outline and topic for the project.

You have recently graduated from MIU with a bachelor’s degree in healthcare management (BHCM). After going to a job fair, a medium-sized hospital group has called you back to look over its systems. Your first job is to do a complete analysis of the systems.

For the Unit 1 Capstone Project, address the following in your analysis:

Executive summary
Nature of healthcare delivery in the United States
Brief statement on challenges facing healthcare organizations and the need to alleviate them
Brief statement on recommendations and conclusion
Challenges facing hospitals
Rising cost of care
Cybersecurity
Staff shortages
Poor patient outcomes
Poor public perceptions
Managerial issues
Bad debts
Regulations
Managerial perspectives
Classical
Behavioral
Scientific
Submission Details

Research and present a detailed outline on these items.
Your work should consist of a 3-page report with at least 5 references cited in APA style.
Submitting your assignment in APA format means, at a minimum, that you will need the following:

Title page: Remember the running head. The title should be in all capitals.
Length: 3 pages minimum
Abstract: This is a summary of your paper, not an introduction. Begin writing in third person.
Body: This begins on the page following the title page and abstract page and must be double-spaced (be careful not to triple- or quadruple-space between paragraphs). The typeface should be 12-pt. Times Roman or 12-pt. Courier in regular black type. Do not use color, bold type, or italics, except as required for APA-level headings and references. The deliverable length of the body of your paper for this assignment is 3 pages. In-body academic citations to support your decisions and analysis are required. A variety of academic sources is encouraged.
Reference page: References that align with your in-body academic sources are listed on the final page of your paper. The references must be in APA format using appropriate spacing, hanging indent, italics, and uppercase and lowercase usage as appropriate for the type of resource used. Remember, the Reference page is not a bibliography but a further listing of the abbreviated in-body citations used in the paper. Every referenced item must have a corresponding in-body citation.