Assignment:
Defining Healthcare Settings and Integrated Delivery System.
Unit Outcomes addressed in this Assignment:
1. Recognize legal and regulatory issues in healthcare
2. Understand the basic uses of financial information in decision making.
3. Identify the role of finance in health care organizations
Course outcome assessed/addressed in this Assignment:
Question-1: Describe the current financial environment in healthcare and its influence on decision making.
Utilizing your textbook and the Kaplan Resource Library:
Question-2: Briefly describe the following healthcare settings:
• Hospitals
• Ambulatory care
• Home health care
• Long-term care
• Integrated delivery systems
Question-3: What benefits are attributed to integrated delivery systems?
Question-4: What are the challenges/drawbacks to implementing integrated delivery systems?
Requirements
1. Responses to the questions should be written in a clear, detailed manner andobserve the conventions of Standard American English (correct grammar,punctuation, etc.).
2. Follow APA formatting for the title and reference page, as well as APA formattingwithin the paper itself (Times New Roman 12-point font and properly double spaced).