Please help with this assignment. Please strictly follow the attached rubric and address each topic. Thank you.
HCM 415 Milestone Four Guidelines and Rubric
Continue analyzing the situation your case study’s healthcare organization faces. In this milestone, you will evaluate the impact of policies and policy changes on the healthcare organization’s strategic plan. You will also consider the role the healthcare manager and other organizational stakeholders have in strategic planning.
You will develop a 2–3-page short paper addressing the policies of the healthcare organization. Be sure to address the following:
Provide a brief summary of the organization’s current policies with regard to the issue it is facing.
To what extent do you feel current organizational policies address the influence of the identified environmental or external factors? Be sure to justify your rationale.
What internal policy changes or new policies do you feel will need to be implemented to more effectively address the issue? Be sure to justify your response.
What role should the healthcare manager assume in terms of guiding strategic planning processes around policy revision or development? Why?
To what extent do the identified key stakeholders influence the strategic planning process in terms of policy change or development?
Guidelines for Submission: This short paper should be between 2 and 3 pages, not including cover page and references. This paper should be in APA format.
| Critical Element | Exemplary (100%) | Proficient (90%) | Needs Improvement (75%) | Not Evident (0%) | Value |
| Summary | Meets “Proficient” criteria and expertly balances brevity with required detail | Provides a brief summary of the organization’s current policies with regard to the issue it is facing | Provides a brief summary of the organization’s current policies with regard to the issue it is facing, but response is verbose or has gaps in required detail | Does not provide a brief summary of the organization’s current policies with regard to the issue it is facing | 5 |
| Analysis: Current Policies | Meets “Proficient” criteria and demonstrates exceptional insight into the relationship between organizational policies and environmental or external factors | Logically assesses the extent to which current organizational policies address the influence of identified environmental or external factors, justifying rationale | Assesses the extent to which current organizational policies address the influence of identified environmental or external factors, justifying rationale, but response has gaps in logic, detail, or justification | Does not assess the extent to which current organizational policies address the influence of identified environmental or external factors | 20 |
| Analysis: Changes | Meets “Proficient” criteria and demonstrates sophisticated insight into the need to revise or implement policies | Logically determines internal policy changes or new policies that will need to be implemented to more effectively address the issue, justifying response | Determines internal policy changes or new policies that will need to be implemented to more effectively address the issue, justifying response, but with gaps in logic, detail, or justification | Does not determine internal policy changes or new policies that will need to be implemented to more effectively address the issue | 20 | ||
| Analysis: Strategic Planning | Meets “Proficient” criteria and demonstrates exceptional insight into the role of healthcare managers in strategic planning | Determines an appropriate role for the healthcare manager to play in guiding strategic planning processes around policy revision or development, justifying determination | Determines a role for the healthcare manager to play in guiding strategic planning processes around policy revision or development, justifying determination, but role is inappropriate for the purpose or response has gaps in detail or justification | Does not determine a role for the healthcare manager to play in guiding strategic planning processes around policy revision or development | 25 | ||
| Analysis: Influence | Meets “Proficient” criteria and demonstrates exceptional insight into the role of organizational stakeholders in strategic planning | Provides a logical explanation of how identified key stakeholders might influence strategic planning process in terms of policy change or development | Provides an explanation of how identified key stakeholders might influence strategic planning process in terms of policy change or development, but with gaps in detail or logic | Does not provide an explanation of how identified key stakeholders might influence strategic planning process in terms of policy change or development | 25 | ||
| Articulation of Response | Submission is free of errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, and organization and is presented in a professional and easy-to-read format | 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 | 5 | ||
| | | | Total | 100% | |||
