Overview: For Milestone Three, you will address the critical elements in the Evaluation of Policy section of your final project and write a letter to the
stakeholders involved to describe and defend your proposed policy. Stakeholders could include policy makers, healthcare providers, insurers, and healthcare
consumers.
Your letter should include background on the key health issue and your assumption of the positive and negative impacts inferred by existing policies (e.g.,
unintended consequences or public reaction). The document should not be based solely on emotion, though it should not be divorced of sentiment, as it needs
to rouse the proper energy to effect change. The goal of the document is to convince the reader that your proposed policy will improve the U.S. healthcare
system in terms of quality, costs, and accessibility.
Submit your analysis in a letter format that you may use to develop speaker’s notes for your final presentation.
Prompt: Write a letter to a stakeholder to describe and defend your proposed policy.
Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed:
I. Evaluation of Policy
A. Discuss the current economic and legal landscape related to your public health issue. To what extent do existing policies (or the lack thereof)
have positive or negative impacts to the American healthcare system?
B. Explain your proposed policy using evidence and examples to illustrate.
1. What are the specific operational strategies that you believe are necessary for addressing your chosen issue and why?
2. What role do the major healthcare organizations play in your proposed policy? To what extent can their position in the marketplace be
harnessed?
C. Defend your proposed policy for addressing the public health issue with specific research and evidence.
1. How will your proposed public policy improve the American healthcare system in terms of healthcare quality, costs, and accessibility?
2. In what ways is your proposed policy informed by the larger socioeconomic factors that can influence public health?
Rubric
Guidelines for Submission: Your paper must be submitted as a 2- to 3-page Microsoft Word document with double spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font,
one-inch margins, and at least three sources cited in APA format.
Critical Elements Proficient (100%) Needs Improvement (75%) Not Evident (0%) Value
Evaluation of Policy:
Current Landscape
Discusses the current economic and
legal landscape related to the public
health issue, including to what extent
existing policies have positive or
negative impacts on the healthcare
system
Discusses the current economic and
legal landscape related to the public
health issue, but fails to fully or
accurately qualify the extent to which
existing policies have positive or
negative impacts on the healthcare
system
Does not discuss the current economic
and legal landscape related to the
public health issue
18
Evaluation of Policy:
Explain: Operational
Strategies
Explains the proposed policy in terms
of the specific operational strategies
and why they are necessary for
addressing the public health issue
Explains the proposed policy, but fails
to detail the specific operational
strategies and why they are necessary
for addressing the public health issue
Does not explain the proposed policy in
terms of the necessary operational
strategies
18
Evaluation of Policy:
Explain: Healthcare
Organizations
Explains the proposed policy in terms
of the role the major healthcare
organizations can play to harness their
market position for addressing the
public health issue
Explains the proposed policy, but fails
to detail the specific ways in which the
major healthcare organizations can
harness their market position to
address the public health issue
Does not explain the proposed policy in
terms of the role of the major
healthcare organizations in addressing
the public health issue
18
Evaluation of Policy:
Defend: Improve
Defends the proposed policy by
explaining how it will improve the
American healthcare system in terms
of healthcare quality, costs, and
accessibility
Defends the proposed policy, but fails
to fully or logically explain how it will
improve the American healthcare
system in terms of healthcare quality,
costs, and accessibility
Does not defend the proposed policy in
terms of how it will improve the
American healthcare system
18
Evaluation of Policy:
Defend: Informed
Defends the proposed policy by
explaining how it is informed by the
larger socioeconomic factors that
influence public health
Defends the proposed policy, but fails
to fully or logically explain how it is
informed by the larger socioeconomic
factors that influence public health
Does not defend the proposed policy in
terms of how it is informed by larger
socioeconomic factors
18
Articulation of Response Submission has no major errors related
to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax,
or organization
Submission has major errors related to
citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or
organization that negatively impact
readability and articulation of main
ideas
Submission has critical errors related to
citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or
organization that prevent
understanding of ideas
10
Total 100%
Running Head:
SWOT
2
SWOT 2
SWOT
Student’s name
Institution
Date
The main services that are promoted by the PACE organization which is located in the greater New Orleans area include in-home care, rehabilitation programs, senior nutritional counseling, pastoral care, nursing care as well as free transportation to and from their areas of residence plus so much more. The organization gives each participant the opportunity to form connections as well as have all their healthcare needs met in a single location with a holistic care plan that is especially designed for them.
As to how the services that are provided by this organization can be grouped, one can observe that as per the SWOT analysis which analyzes a person’s or organizations, Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats, the PACE organization also falls in the category of organizations whose services can be analyzed and categorized using this system.
First of all, the Strengths of the PACE organization include transportation to and from their centers, whereby the organization has sufficient transports resources such as buses and company vehicles to ferry its participants. Another strength of the organization is the quality of medical staff, that is, the physicians as well as the nursing staff who are all well qualified for their jobs and finally there is the pastoral care who assist their participants when it comes to all matters that are spiritual in one way or the other (Pace GNO, 2021).
When it comes to the weaknesses of the organization, first, there is a slight shortage of personnel since the organization has had a good reputation which has made it acquire a huge increase in the number of participants hence the participant to personnel ratio is a bit off, there has also been a weakness in the hospitalization and nursing home care department and lastly there has been a weakness in the continence management area.
As to the opportunities that the organization face, there are angel investors who have been looking into the organization and how it has been running its operations and they would like to donate to the organizations cause. Secondly, the organization is able to bring together a proper caregiving community within the organization to take proper care of the elderly. The jobs that are given to the caregivers, physicians and other personnel members are really a good opportunity for the organization to give back to the community.
The threats affecting the organization include the certification of the organization’s facility by the state which is often a problem, especially when it is time for renewal, its services are also not accessible for all members but for only those members that are eligible and in conclusion, there is the fact that the organization also engages in other programs that often bring about an overload of activities which serves as a threat to the organization’s operations.
References
Pace GNO. (2021). Home Health Services & Caregiver Support in Greater New Orleans | Adult Day Care Nola. https://pacegno.org/
