DDHA 8600 Affordable Care Act Discussion

DDHA 8600 Affordable Care Act Discussion

DDHA 8600 Affordable Care Act Discussion

As a current or future healthcare administration leader, you will likely be involved in the generation of various reports, memos, and briefs for the board of your health services organization. Much like a business analysis case or other formal presentation, Executive Briefs are meant to capture pertinent information to help solicit decision-making and leadership strategies. For health services organizations, Executive Briefs should highlight implications for healthcare delivery and promotion of positive health outcomes as it concerns healthcare policies and law.

For this Assignment, select a health services organization for which you currently work or one with which you are familiar. Then, consider how the implementation of the ACA might impact the key operations of the health services organization you selected. Consider how your health services organization’s strategy may change based on the implementation of ACA. Think about some recommendations you might make to the board of your health services organizations in order to adhere to ACA mandates.

The Assignment: (2–3 pages)

• Describe the health services organization you selected and explain why.
• Explain how implementation of the ACA might affect how your health services organization performs key operations to include: financial, operational, and clinical components for health care delivery.
• Describe two recommendations to the board of how the implementation of ACA will be reflected in your health services organization’s strategy. Be specific and provide examples.
• Be sure to include peer-reviewed sources from the literature.

You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.

Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.

Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.

The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.