Course Project Assignment
The course project must include at least the following sections; you may want to include others if you deem them appropriate:
1. Introduction
2. Challenges and Problems (associated with your topic)
3. Review of the Literature
4. Critical Analysis of Challenges/Problems
5. Recommended Solutions
6. Implementation of Solutions
7. Justification of Solutions
8. Conclusion
9. References
Some possible course project topics for your consideration are listed below:
- Managed care impacts on healthcare finance
- The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and healthcare finance
- Hospital ownership types and impacts on healthcare finance
- Presenting hospital financial statements
- Strategic financial planning for healthcare organizations
- Financial management of home health care
- Financial management of ambulatory surgery
- Financial management of clinics
- Financial management of physician practices
- Flexible budgeting for healthcare organizations
- Capital budgeting for healthcare organizations
- Information management for healthcare organizations
- Principles and practices for hospital auditing
The course project must be seven to ten pages, double-spaced, not counting the cover page and the references pages. You must use at least five outside sources for your course project beyond the course textbook. Web resources and professional journal articles will be key sources in researching your topic.
All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying APA citations.
Book for project is Berger, S. (2014). Fundamentals of health care financial management: A practical guide to fiscal issues and activities (4th ed.). San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
Article Review
For this assignment, find a peer-reviewed article regarding health disparities and/or the social determinants of health. Write a review of the article that includes the following information:
- Briefly introduce and summarize the article.
- Identify the author's main points.
- Who is the author's intended audience?
- Were any specific issues addressed in the article? What were they?
- How does the information in the article apply to this course? Does it support the information in your textbook?
- How could the author expand on the main points?
The article must be at least three to five pages in length, not including the title and reference pages, and must be no more than five years old. The article used must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations. The assignment must be formatted using APA style.
Article Review is Book for Morrison, E. E., & Furlong, B. (Eds.). (2014). Health care ethics: Critical issues for the 21st century (3rd ed.). Burlington, MA: Jones & Bartlett Learning.
Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
1. The answer should be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
2. The response also include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
3. Also Include a reference page. The Citations and references should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.