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Choose a type of healthcare delivery system to study from the list below. Prepare a 2-3 page paper which includes information about a specific hospital organization within your chosen delivery system.  Explain why you chose the organization as the basis of your paper. In your paper, include the types of consumers (patients) that would use the services of the chosen facility, how those individuals would access the healthcare system and the effect and needs of insurance. Compare and contrast your chosen healthcare delivery system to one other type of delivery system from the list with regards to the populace that would use it, how it is paid for, and your current thoughts on its effectiveness. Include your definition of “health” and how your definition would be met with your chosen healthcare system. Include a minimum of two (2) authoritative references using in-text citations and a reference list.

1. For-profit hospital
2. Not-for-profit hospital
3. Health maintenance organization
4. For-profit ambulatory surgical center

Submit the 2-3 page paper 

Use the following information to ensure successful completion of the assignment:

• Use at least two additional scholarly research sources published within the last 5 years. Provide citations and references for all sources used.
• Doctoral learners are required to use APA style for their writing assignments. The APA Style Guide is located in the Student Success Center.
• This assignment uses a rubric. Please Review the rubric prior to the beginning to become familiar with the      expectations for successful completion.
• You are required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite. Please refer to the directions in the Student Success Center.

Directions:

For a specific focus of patient practice (e.g., acute care hospital, clinic, primary care, long-term care, home health), select a particular disease process. Chose a topic of concern such as providing elements of care for a specific disease process or an administrative problem. This topic must be in need of progression or process improvement. Once identified, summarize the literature supporting proposed change. Identify an action plan to introduce change and potential barriers to implementing change. Finally, describe how you would propose evaluating the change.

Your case report must include the following:

1. Introduction with a problem statement.
2. Brief synthesized review.
3. Description of the case/situation/conditions.
4. Proposed solutions describing the validity      and reliability of the research you have read.
5. Conclusion.

Team Dynamics and Effective Organizational Communication in Health Care, and Cultural Competence in Health Care”  Please respond to the following:

• From the first e-Activity, suggest the major reasons why a well-integrated communication process is important for the performance of any organization and the major reasons why such a process is particularly important in health care organizations. Support your response with at least (2) examples of communication methods used within the researched health care facility in your community.
• From the second e-Activity, explore the concept of “cultural competence”, and justify its necessity as a permanent structure of the U.S. health care system. Support your response with at least (2) examples of the possible adverse effects on a health care facility of not practicing cultural competence.