You were recently hired as Vice-President of Strategy at the California Sun healthcare system with revenues in excess of $2 billion dollars. Your organization is an 8 hospital system in a geographically clustered urban Southern California county and includes 3 primary care centers, 2 ambulatory surgical centers, 1 post-acute long-term care center, and 2 nursing homes. Increasing pressure for quality, as well as revenue, are the origins for your role (to lead strategy and marketing) as the organization seeks to diversify and manage risk for patients. Your CEO and Board Chair heard about the Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH) model through the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) and the Accountable Care Organization (ACO) mode, a Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) initiative. Your task as the new VP of Strategy is to research the efficacy of these models, prepare an Executive Summary for your selected model recommendation.
The Executive Summary is a formal written document from you, the VP of Strategy, to the CEO and Board Chair giving background, overview of your analysis, and recommendations based on their request.
The executive summary should be a concisely written formal narrative indicating the background, overview of your analysis, and recommendation for the selected model.
