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Assignment: Defining Healthcare Settings and Integrated Delivery System
Unit Outcomes addressed in this Assignment:
- Recognize legal and regulatory issues in healthcare
- Understand the basic uses of financial information in decision making.
- Identify the role of finance in health care organizations
Course outcome assessed/addressed in this Assignment:
Describe the current financial environment in healthcare and its influence on decision making.
Utilizing your textbook and the Kaplan Resource Library:
a. Briefly describe the following healthcare settings:
- Hospitals
- Ambulatory care
- Home health care
- Long-term care
- Integrated delivery systems
b. What benefits are attributed to integrated delivery systems?
c. What are the challenges/drawbacks to implementing integrated delivery systems?
Requirements
Responses to the questions should be written in a clear, detailed manner and observe the conventions of Standard American English (correct grammar, punctuation, etc.).
Follow APA formatting for the title and reference page, as well as APA formatting within the paper itself (Times New Roman 12-point font and properly double spaced).
The minimum page limit is 2 pages or 600 words.
The maximum page limit is 4 pages or 1,200 words.
Information should be summarized in your own words with appropriate APA formatting and citation style of in-text citations in the body of the text to acknowledge the source(s) of information.
Include at least one reference. The course textbook may count towards the reference requirement for this Assignment. All references will follow APA format.
Follow the conventions of Standard American English (correct grammar, sentence structure, punctuation, etc.).
Your work should display superior content, organization, style, and mechanics.
For additional support, utilize the Kaplan Writing Center and review the document entitled, "Writing Center Resources," found in Doc sharing.
Read the following in your text: (book: Fundamentals of Healthcare Finance, 2nd edition by Gapenski, Louis. C.
Chapter 1: "Introduction to Healthcare Finance"
Chapter 1 will introduce you to the role of healthcare finance today. You may not realize that in today's healthcare professions, healthcare finance is one of the top competencies required. Chapter 1 shares the importance of healthcare finance on both administrative and clinical positions in healthcare today while sharing vital information on legal and regulatory issues in the healthcare industry.
Chapter 2: "Healthcare Business Basics"
Chapter 2 will share with you how healthcare finance is a collaborative and inclusive effort to ensure that the goals of the healthcare organization are met. Healthcare finance impacts every department and employee within healthcare organizations. Chapter 2 also will introduce you to the legal forms of business and explain the differences between for-profit and not-for-profit businesses.
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