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The future picture of health care will be painted by the changes that will continue to occur. Key stake holders have identified a variety of issues that must be resolved to ensure the Americans receive the best possible health care at the best value for their health care dollars. This will require managers to think through how they will face and address the challenges that these critical issues pose. We’ve discussed throughout this course the key issues and now it is your turn to practice taking on one of these issues as a manager in a health care environment of your choosing.

Choose one of the critical issues from following

  • Health care quality
  • Treatment of chronic conditions
  • Equal access to care
  • Emergency preparedness
  • Global health pandemics
  • Aging patient population
  • Changing demographics
  • End of life care
  • Provider shortages
  • At risk populations
  • Health literacy
  • Adequate preventative care
  • Effective mental illness management & treatment

develop a solution for the critical issue of your choosing. describe  in a  persuasive letter to be published to a professional journal justifying the solution you propose for that issue. describe  in a  letter as if you are a health care manager in a health care organization of your choosing, to an audience of health professionals.

a few paragraphs arguing for your proposition, and a strong closing statement. Closely follow the guidelines in the required reading document

How to Write an Op-Ed and Letter to the Editor

  • Address the letter directly to the audience of health professionals.
  • Introduce yourself as a health care manager and explain what type of health organization you represent.
  • Frame and define the issue. Your letter should reflect to the audience that you are well-versed in the history and background of the issue, know the stakeholders involved, and use language that represents you are knowledgeable in critical issues of health care.
  • Present your proposed resolution plan for this issue.
  • Support why you believe your solution will be successful demographically, financially, and institutionally, using evidence-based research.
  • Use communication strategies to create buy-in from key stake holders such as individual providers, institutional providers (i.e. hospitals), Congress, pharmaceutical companies etc.