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Course Project
The course project must include at least the following sections; you may want to include others if you deem them appropriate:
1. Introduction
2. Challenges and Problems (associated with your topic)
3. Review of the Literature
4. Critical Analysis of Challenges/Problems
5. Recommended Solutions
6. Implementation of Solutions
7. Justification of Solutions
8. Conclusion
9. References
Some possible course project topics for your consideration are listed below:
Managed care impacts on healthcare finance
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and healthcare finance
Hospital ownership types and impacts on healthcare finance
Presenting hospital financial statements
Strategic financial planning for healthcare organizations
Financial management of home health care
Financial management of ambulatory surgery
Financial management of clinics
Financial management of physician practices
Flexible budgeting for healthcare organizations
Capital budgeting for healthcare organizations
Information management for healthcare organizations
Principles and practices for hospital auditing
The course project must be seven to ten pages, double-spaced, not counting the cover page and the references pages. You must use at least five outside sources for your course project beyond the course textbook. Web resources and professional journal articles will be key sources in researching your topic.
All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying APA citations.
Book for project is Berger, S. (2014). Fundamentals of health care financial management: A practical guide to fiscal issues and activities (4th ed.). San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
Article Review
For this assignment, find a peer-reviewed article regarding health disparities and/or the social determinants of health. Write a review of the article that includes the following information:
Briefly introduce and summarize the article.
Identify the author's main points.
Who is the author's intended audience?
Were any specific issues addressed in the article? What were they?
How does the information in the article apply to this course? Does it support the information in your textbook?
How could the author expand on the main points?
The article must be at least three to five pages in length, not including the title and reference pages, and must be no more than five years old.
The article used must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations. The assignment must be formatted using APA style.
Article Review is Book for Morrison, E. E., & Furlong, B. (Eds.). (2014). Health care ethics: Critical issues for the 21st century (3rd ed.). Burlington, MA: Jones & Bartlett Learning.