WRITE AN ANALYSIS OF A PERTINENT HEALTHCARE ISSUE The Quadruple Aim provides broad categories of goals to pursue to maintain and improve healthcare. Within each goal are many issues that, if addressed successfully, may have a positive impact on outcomes. For example, healthcare leaders are being tasked to shift from an emphasis on disease management often provided in an acute care setting to health promotion and disease prevention delivered in primary care settings. Efforts in this area can have significant positive impacts by reducing the need for primary healthcare and by reducing the stress on the healthcare system. Changes in the industry only serve to stress what has always been true; namely, that the healthcare field has always faced significant challenges, and that goals to improve healthcare will always involve multiple stakeholders. This should not seem surprising given the circumstances. Indeed, when a growing population needs care, there are factors involved such as the demands of providing that care and the rising costs associated with healthcare. Generally, it is not surprising that the field of healthcare is an industry facing multifaceted issues that evolve over time. To Prepare: Review the national healthcare issues of physician shortage Identify and review two additional scholarly resources (not included in the Resources for this module) that focus on change strategies implemented by healthcare organizations to address your selected national healthcare issue/stressor. Analysis of a Pertinent Healthcare Issue Develop a paper, written to your organization’s leadership team, addressing physician shortage and how it is impacting your work setting. Be sure to address the following: Describe physician shortage you selected and its impact on your hospital. Use organizational data to quantify the impact (if necessary, seek assistance from leadership or appropriate stakeholders in your organization). Provide a brief summary of the two articles you reviewed from outside resources on physician shortage. Explain how physician shortage is being addressed in other organizations. Summarize the strategies used to address the organizational impact of physician shortage presented in the scholarly resources you selected. Explain how they may impact your hospital both positively and negatively.
