MHA 516 University of Phoenix Health Sector Policy and Governance Paper
Assignment Content Due 7/3
Understanding cultural differences is a very important aspect of delivering health care to various populations who have immigrated to the United States from various parts of the world. Collaborating with others to explore these differences allows you to gather varying viewpoints on these differences and how they might impact health care delivery.
Part I:
Chapter 14 in The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down that discusses Hmong history (Ch. 8 to 14) to read individually.
Write a 350-word summary of the chapter that includes the following:
Identify the historical events or cultural practices in your selected chapter.
Examine and describe how these differences create disparities between U.S. health care and the Hmong in California.
Part II: Due 7/1
Chapter 14 – (Create a list of 3 to 5 critical cultural practices or factors that could impact health care program delivery to the Hmong community. Include a 2- to 3-sentence description to support your choices).
Part III: Reflection:
Write a 350-word summary explaining how the 3- to 5-key factors your team identified apply to the chapter you read. Describe how these factors impact the differences in disparities between U.S. health care and the Hmong in California.
Cite 3 reputable references to support your assignment (e.g., trade or industry publications, government or agency websites, scholarly works, or other sources of similar quality).
- Assignment Content Due 7/8
As demonstrated in the 2020 Census, the population of the United States continues to include greater percentages of immigrants. Many of these immigrants do not have private health insurance and thus rely on Medicaid. This has led to changes in the populations health care organizations must serve.
- Assume you are the administrator of a health care organization in a Texas city bordering Mexico that accepts Medicaid as a payor. Recent Medicaid policies and discounting have contributed to the organization’s failing bottom line. Many of your clients have recently immigrated to the United States and are on Medicaid.
You have been asked to prepare an executive summary to present to the board of directors detailing how Medicaid discounting causes hardships on your organization’s finances and the health populations you serve.
Write a 700- to 1,050-word executive summary.
Include the following in your executive summary:
Clearly identify the type of facility that you are leading.
Explain specific cuts that Medicaid has made in recent years.
Describe how Medicaid discounting causes hardships on your organization.
Evaluate the impact of federal or state health care policies are having on consumers’ costs. Explore both positive and negative effects.
Recommend changes you propose to help decrease the deficit from the perspective of your organization.
Recommend actions the organization can take to alleviate the negative effects of these changes but still meet the needs of various populations.
Cite 3 reputable references to support your assignment (e.g., trade or industry publications, government or agency websites, scholarly works, or other sources of similar quality).
Exam Content Due 7/15
As a health care manager, it is important to understand and explore methods to advocate for change within the industry through policy analysis. It is also important to be able to navigate the leadership structure of your organization, in order to understand how to structure a proposal for change and move it through the approval process.
Select a health care organization with which you work or are familiar.
Assume you are the director of operations for your selected health care organization.
Review your leadership structure and identify a process for which you can propose a policy change. Determine how that proposal would navigate through leadership to get approved.
Identify a policy in your organization that you think could be created or amended to improve organizational governance, operations, or compliance with federal or state regulations.
Write a 700- to 1,050-word executive summary that outlines your policy proposal ideas in which you do all the following:
Provide an analysis of how your policy change would improve the organization.
Evaluate what changes in the organization would need to be made to implement the policy change.
Explain how you would advocate for your policy change while using the approval processes in your organization.
Cite 3 reputable references to support your assignment (e.g., trade or industry publications, government or agency websites, scholarly works, or other sources of similar quality).
