The CFO for your healthcare organization comes to you once again to ask for your assistance with budgeting. You are tasked with developing a budget for the open imaging center that is looking to forecast its next fiscal year to present to the board of directors.

For this assignment, in a 1-2 text page Word or Excel document, develop a department budget for the open imaging center. You are able to use any figures that you would like and you may be as creative as you like, however, be sure that the calculations are accurate. At minimum, your budget must include the following points:

• Number of procedures completed in a year.
• A fixed cost for each procedure.
• A variable cost for each procedure.
• A fixed expense that the center would include in the expense budget.
• The total annual expenses for the center which results from the above listed items.
• Next develop an income budget for the open imaging center.
• Finally, calculate an annual operating budget for the center which includes both expenses and income from above.

Develop a social media campaign to bring awareness to hazardous alcohol consumption and/or alcohol abuse among a determined target population.

• Define the problem among the target population
• Research and gather data and statistics on alcohol use among the target population
• Identify evidence-based practices used for the target population http://adai.washington.edu/ebp/matrix.pdf
• Identify a social media platform for the campaign (ex. Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Instagram, etc) and describe the rationale for the platform
• Develop health promotional strategies targeted for the population
• Describe how you plan to monitor the success of your campaign.

References:

• Start with the learning resources in the classroom.
• Locate 7-10 journal articles or book chapters related to your special population.
• Use only scholarly, objective sources for your project. Peer-reviewed articles found in the UMUC Library databases are generally good sources. Web-based information such as Wikipedia and About.com and popular news outlets such as Time or Newsweek are NOT acceptable sources for this project.
• If you are unclear as to whether a source is acceptable, contact the instructor or visit the UMUC Library’s page on locating and evaluating scholarly articles:

The Assignment

In a matrix, analyze evidence-based services/initiatives that the ACO you selected is using for each of the following:

• Quality of care
• IT
• Marketing
• Financial outcomes
• Population health programs
• Vertical versus horizontal integration
• Operational excellence

Include whether the ACO is using approaches that CMS recognizes for reimbursements and how these initiatives/services increase health care consumerism.

Synthesize the information you have gathered from your analysis so that each bullet point clearly represents the most significant considerations within each category. While this is a 1-page document that might appear to be simple, each point must be the result of deep and critical thinking.

Scenario

Government officials are taking action to address a chronic population health concern in your area. As a member of this community, you have a good understanding of the local demographics and population health issues, including the potential implications for policy making, health care systems, service utilization, clinical practice, education, and the workforce. In your role as a doctoral graduate and health care practitioner, you have been asked to evaluate key aspects of the situation and lead an interprofessional team of your choosing (a coalition of community members and organizations, clinical providers, health care organizations, and civic and governmental agencies), to achieve the stated goal. This leadership position requires the ability to promote prevention efforts, quality improvement, service utilization and the reduction of health care costs.

Prepare

For this assignment, you will use what you have learned about population health; interprofessional collaboration and communication; the principles of ethics, diversity, and inclusion in health care; and the ways in which scholar-practitioners lead the implementation of best practices in health care. You will apply these leadership competencies to plan the formation of a collaborative, interprofessional coalition to address a population-based health concern from a nursing, public health, or health administration perspective.

In your assignment preparation you chose one case scenario as the chronic population health concern that you and your assembled coalition will address:

• Reducing Obesity in Emerald City.

Identify four or five credible sources, published within the past five years (from peer-reviewed journals, other scholarly resources, professional industry publications, or assigned readings) to support your case assessments and recommendations. (You may use additional sources, if you wish.)

Write Your Paper

To complete this assignment, you need to:

• Analyze the impact of factors that contribute to this chronic population health concern.
  • Examine the situation from a population health perspective.
  • Provide context surrounding this concern.
  • Identify the affected groups, and the environmental, social, and financial factors.
• Form a collaborative, interprofessional coalition to address this chronic population health concern.
  • Consider, among others, key community members and organizations, clinical providers, and local and state agencies when making your selections.
  • Select 5–10 members.
    • Who must be included?
    • Why?