Relate strategic management principles and decision logic to current complex healthcare management challenges and formulate effective solutions

Analyze trending management issues to maintain lifelong learning in the rapidly evolving healthcare field.

Continue working with the Case described in week 3. Prepare a memorandum targeting the following:

What staff arrangements are available to meet the needs of out-of-facility appointments?

What staff arrangements are needed to:

-accommodate the the facility appointments(show the calculations);

-meet the needs of in-house appointments (show the calculations);

-reduce the number of out of facility appointments (justify);

Organizational plan to accommodate scheduled appointments, emergency appointments, and preventive appointments.

Describe the “rule of nines” as it relates to estimating body surface area affected by burns.

Which anatomical structures/tissues are involved in the immune system/storage of immune cells?

Describe the difference between active/passive immunity and natural/acquired immunity.  Give examples of each.

Describe the different types of hypersensitivity reactions and give examples of each.

What is the basic mechanism behind autoimmune disorders?

Describe the components of a bacterial cell (eg. Wall, membrane, pili, DNA, etc).

What are the differences between cocci, bacilli and spirochetes? Staph/strep?

What is a spore?

An oil company’s management has decided to consolidate its three divisions into one single regional office in San Francisco. This move would mean that over 150 employees would be transferred to San Francisco (a very expensive city to live in) from their current location. To overcome the pressures of both individual resistance and group resistance, the company has decided to use positive incentives to encourage employees to accept the change. The company has decided to begin implementing the following in order to increase the driving forces for change and reduce the forces against change:

increase the pay for those who accept the transfer

pay the moving expenses for those who decided to make the move

offer low cost mortgage funds to allow employees to buy new homes in San Francisco

counsel each employee individually to discuss their concerns and apprehensions about the move

1. According to Lewin’s Model of Change, which stage do you think the company is in? (1 mark)

2. What further recommendations can you suggest to ease the change process for the employees? Identify and explain 2 recommendations that you have thought of. (2 marks)

identify all the referential expressions in the text below and determine the correct referent for each. Assume that the computer attempts to identify reference by finding the most recent noun phrase. How well does this resolution rule work? Suggest a more effective rule.

The clinical text:
“The patient went to receive the AV fistula on December 4. However, he refuses transfusion. In the operating room it was determined upon initial incision that there was too much edema to successfully complete the operation and the incision was closed with staples. It was well tolerated by the patient.”

Directions: Calculate the negotiated reduction in payment based on the following information:

The New Patient Physical Exam code is 99385. The established rate for this code is $326.00, which is the price an uninsured person would pay out of pocket. Each insurance company negotiates different rates with health care providers as part of their contracts, which are called discounted rates. The rates paid by the insurance company for a service are based on the number of insurance clientele – or customers – that will use the in-network services offered by the provider.

In the following questions, you will be provided with the contracted rate for a New Patient Exam for each provider. You must select an amount from the dropdown list to identify the negotiated reduction in payment from the established rate of $326.00 for the New Patient Exam.

Group of answer choices

Aetna $170.11
[ Choose ] $108.37 $86.79 $155.89 $100.25 $141.90

Blue Cross Blue Shield FFS $239.21
[ Choose ] $108.37 $86.79 $155.89 $100.25 $141.90

Blue Cross Blue Shield PPO $225.75
[ Choose ] $108.37 $86.79 $155.89 $100.25 $141.90

Cigna HAS $217.63
[ Choose ] $108.37 $86.79 $155.89 $100.25 $141.90

Health Alliance Plan (HAP) HMO $184.10
[ Choose ] $108.37 $86.79 $155.89 $100.25 $141.90