Medicare and Medicaid Services
Medicare and Medicaid Services
Prepare a presentation of the policy proposal you developed in Assessment 2 for one of the stakeholder groups identified in your proposal. Inform the group about the future of organizational policy and practices, the current performance shortfalls, and the rationale for why the new policy and practices are needed. In addition, explain how the group will benefit from this change in order to obtain their buy in and support.
Introduction
Note: Each assessment in this course builds on the work you completed in the previous assessment. Therefore, you must complete the assessments in this course in the order in which they are presented.
Improving quality and outcomes is a key focus for health care organizations. With a focus on quality, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) publish publically reported data online and update it quarterly, which allows patients to compare hospitals on a wide range of metrics. These metrics can also be used to inform policy changes at local, state, and federal levels.
It is important that health care leaders be able to clearly articulate policy positions and recommendations and garner buy in and support from stakeholder groups for policy and practice changes in their organizations. Unfortunately, there is often a lack of effective communication. Consequently, it is important for health care leaders, when leading change, to ensure that clear and open communication is ongoing and informative.
An important aspect of change leadership is the ability to address diverse groups of stakeholders and create buy in and support for your ideas and proposals for change. This assessment provides you with an opportunity to demonstrate and hone these skills.
Demonstration of Proficiency
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria:
Competency 1: Analyze the effects of health care policies, laws, and regulations on organizations, interprofessional teams, and personal practice.
Analyze how proposed institutional policy or practice guidelines related to an existing health care policy or law would impact a stakeholder group.
Competency 3: Lead the development and implementation of ethical and culturally sensitive policies that improve health outcomes for individuals, organizations, and populations.
Propose an institutional policy or practice guidelines related to an existing local, state, or federal health care policy or law.
Advocate for how the proposal would improve quality and outcomes relevant to the stakeholder group.
Competency 4: Evaluate relevant indicators of performance, such as benchmarks, research, and best practices, for health care policies and law for patients, organizations, and populations.
Interpret for stakeholders the relevant benchmark metrics that illustrate the need for a policy or practice guidelines.
Competency 5: Develop strategies to work collaboratively with policy makers, stakeholders, and colleagues to address environmental (governmental and regulatory) forces.
Propose strategies for collaborating with a stakeholder group to implement and apply proposed institutional policy or practice guidelines related to a local, state, or federal health care policy or law.
