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In an industry as complex as health care, organizational and market structures must be carefully considered. To participate in accountable care organizations (ACOs) and other value-based care initiatives, for example, hospitals need to have a coordinated care organization model across ambulatory care, acute care, and other settings. Developing these coordinated relationships may require vertical integration to ensure efficient utilization. Although there are many advantages to this integration of organizational and market structures, there are some disadvantages for both the hospital and the providers. For this Discussion, examine the following scenario and recommend strategies for the organizational integration of the hospital and practice.Scenario: You are the chief financial officer (CFO) of a hospital located in a highly competitive, urban market split with two competing hospitals. The hospital is considering purchasing or affiliating with a large physicians’ practice. Your hospital has 30% market share, but does not currently have any owned/employed physicians. Private insurers and Medicare are aggressively pushing value-based reimbursement under ACO contracts, and the one competing hospital has already acquired a large physicians’ practice.To prepare for this Discussion:Analyze the provided scenario. What are the advantages and disadvantages of the vertical integration of the hospital and physicians’ practice? What economic factors should be considered?Consider strategies for the organizational integration of the hospital and physicians’ practice. Be sure to address the economic factors you identified.Note: This Discussion will be graded using this rubric: Document: Discussion Rubric (Word document)Post by Day 3 a cohesive response to the following:Compare advantages and disadvantages of the vertical integration of the hospital and physicians’ practice, including economic factors that should be considered. Then, recommend strategies for the organizational integration of the hospital and practice. Defend or argue your recommendations using economic principles.

Conflict Essay on The Hobbit By JRR Tolkien
The conflict has to be Man vs Self and specifically Bilbo Baggins vs. himself
Here is an outline:
1. Establishing the main conflict
A. Thesis statement with the book title, author and main conflict type
B. Background information
C. Basis of Conflict
D. Early examples of the conflict

II. Rising Action
A. Specific example
B. Specific example
C. Specific example

III. Climax and resolution
A. Climax
1. When
2. Where
3. How
4. Winner
B. Resolution

Educational goals include gaining 3 college degrees (bachelor, master, PhD) giving back to community by becoming a mentor,teacher, administrator and superintendent or working for the US dept of education.

For Essay 3, you must write an ARGUMENTATIVE RESEARCH PAPER.
That is, the paper must argue for or against something, present a solution to a problem, or defend a position: it may not just present information on a subject.
(The lessons in Unit 3 will walk you through how to write this essay. Carefuly review all the content.)
(Our assigned essay, Marc Prenskys Colleges Should Mandate That All Textbooks Be Digitized is an example of anargument – refer to our Unit 3 discussion and content as needed.)
For your own research paper:
1. Write a research paper that tries to convince the reader of a position. In other words, to repeat, your paper should not just inform your reader about a topic, but instead it must convince your reader of something. Think of an argumentative paper as writing FOR or AGAINST something.
You may choose your own topic, but to promote writing across the curriculum, choose from the following:
a topic that is directly related to your major/field of study or a job you currently hold or want to hold. For example, a student interested in business may choose to write an argumentative paper about the Affordable Care Act and small businesses. Dont be afraid to think outside the box. An art student, for instance, may not be sure at first what argumentative topic to tackle, but perhaps he or she could write an argument about the use of sex in advertisement, etc. Ultimately, choose a topic that will be of real interest of you. Consider perhaps a problem you face at your current job or areas of disagreement in your professions of interest.
a topic that relates to an issue related to school. Consider your past school experiences as well as your current one. Think of a problem or issue you faced then or are facing now, a policy with which you disagree, etc.
Before writing the full paper, you will first work through the process of creating a research proposal and an annotated bibliography. Keep in mind that, first and foremost, your topic will need to approved by your instructor.
For the purposes of academic discourse, please avoid choosing controversial topics that will require, in great part, relying on religious/moral arguments. Although you are each, of course, entitled to your own personal beliefs, it will best for this course to depend on academic sources that are independent of personal faith. For example, avoid writing papers about abortion, the death penalty, etc.
Unit 3 will cover, in detail, how to write an argumentative research paper — and its precededing components.
Your final research paper must be between 1500-1800 words and adhere to MLA formatting.
Source guidelines:
The paper must incorporate formal research.
A minimum of three (3) sources must be used – a maximum of five (5) sources can be used.
Only ONE (1) source may come from a direct website; this does not mean that you cannot conduct all of your research online — you can, but your other sources must be academic ones (books, newspaper articles, journal articles, etc.). It IS possible to access these sources remotely via the library portal (from your home or work computer) without having to physically visit the library, if you would prefer not to or are unable to do so. The unit content will explain how this is possible.
Within the paper itself, you must cite each source from which you paraphrase, summarize, or quote. All in-text citations must adhere to MLA formatting. Although this is a reseach paper assignment, the bulk of the paper should still come from your own original ideas, interpretations, evaluations, and suggestions. Roughly, no more than 30% of the paper should come from source material.
An accompanying Works Cited page is required: papers submitted without one will automatically earn a zero (0).
Accompanying multi-media materials can be incorporated — and are encouraged! — but should be in addition to, not in place of, other formal source material and own content.

This task is to make a 10-15 mins presentation. Presentation will be in the form of a briefing on a criminal organization my tutor provided (American Mafia, Gambino Family, John Gotti). So dear writer, what you need to do, is doing some academic research and making a briefing to include each of the following gists: What led to the formation of the organization; Where and when the organization operated; Who or what determines membership of the organization; The social and political context; The criminal activity/ies of the organization; The social and/or political harm caused by the organization; What other criminal organizations (e.g. Five Families in NYC) has the organization worked with; The state response to the organization; A reference list of scholars or other authors who have written about the organization.And I have already done some research and those links have been attached in the presentation guideline document. I hope it would be helpful.One more thing, please write speech drafts and notes for each slides of PPT as well, because if I only get the PPT slides, but I don’t know what I am going to say, that I can’t present it. Please write the speech drafts as detailed as possible, and try to do not use difficult academic words, using personal language that will be easy for understanding, because I am a EFL student, it will be hard for me to speak difficult academic words. I hope you could understand. If you have any future requirements, please let me know.

PROVIDE 1-PAGE DRAFT TILL THE DRAFT DEADLINEMODULE 4: READING: The Law of Healthcare Administration by J. Stuart Showalter. Health Administration Press, 7th edition. Please read chapters 3 and 8 for Module 4.A). PART ONE 🙁 1 FULL PAGES): please Discuss the following questions and case.1. What you determine to be the major theme of module four: Health Reform, Access to Care, Admission and Discharge, and Medical Staff Privileges and Peer Review.2. What lessons you learned from this section.3. How you would apply these lessons to your work.B). Please review the case of Hill v. Ohio County on page 96/184 to share your thoughts. Include specifically what ‘legal principle’ is referenced#######################################################Module 5: READING: The Law of Healthcare Administration by J. Stuart Showalter. Health Administration Press, 7th edition. Please read chapters 10 and 11 for Module 5.A). PART 2( 1 full page) please discuss the following questions and case.1. What you determine to be the major theme of module Five: Emergency Care, Consent for Treatment, and Withholding Consent?2. What lessons you learned from this section?3. How you would apply these lessons to your work?B). please review the case of Cobbs v. Grant on page 286 and share your thoughts. Include specifically what ‘legal principle’ is referenced.##########################################################Module 6: READING: The Law of Healthcare Administration by J. Stuart Showalter. Health Administration Press, 7th edition. Please read chapters 12 and 13 for Module 6.A). PART 3(1 full page) please discuss the following questions and case1.What you determine to be the major theme of module Six: Taxation of Healthcare Institutions and Competition-Antitrust Law?2.What lessons you learned from this section?3.How you would apply these lessons to your work?B). Please review the case of ‘Provena Covenant Medical Center v. Department of Revenue\’ on page 380 to share your thoughts. Include specifically what ‘legal principle’ is referenced.############################################################################Module 7: READING: The Law of Healthcare Administration by J. Stuart Showalter. Health Administration Press, 7th edition. Please read chapters 15 and 9 for Module 7.A). PART 2( 1 full page) please discuss the following questions and case.1. What you determine to be the major theme of module Seven: Fraud Laws, Corporate Compliance and Health Information Management?2.What lessons you learned from this section?3.How you would apply these lessons to your work?B). Please review the case of United States v. Greber on page 380 to share your thoughts. Include specifically what ‘legal principle’ is referenced..

Grove, Gray and Burns (2014) highlight the importance of consistency in data collection.Initial post: Thinking about your proposed study, what actions could you take to help ensure data collection consistency?Replies: Review the posts of everyone and provide feedback to two peers. As the reader, does the proposed data collection process seem to align with the design? Why or why not?ReferenceGrove, S. K., Gray, J. R. & Burns, N. (2014). Understanding nursing research: Building an evidence-based practice (6th ed.).St. Louis, MO: Elsevier.

This is part 2 of a project, Part 1 is attached to give you background information into the topic.Part 2:Root Cause of the problem:Root causes are the basic reasons behind a problem or issue you are seeing in the community. Trying to figure out why the problem has developed is an essential part of the problem-solving process.Question: Why is it a problem?Who/what is causing it and who is affected by it?When did the problem first occur or when did it become significant?How much or to what extent is this problem occurring?Look at YPLL, DALY, and HALE.References MUST BE 5 years OR LESS in publication date.ONLY ONE INTERNET REFERENCE MAY BE USED.

The purpose of this project is to assess whether the students have understood the concepts of innovation and adding value, whether by optimizing costs or adding value for an identified target market. They will show this by identifying these points in the case study and explaining which processes and tools the selected company or individuals utilized to attain their results. Using what they have learned in class, the groups will recommend possible value adding actions and/or innovations for the company’s future.Overall aim: The overall aim of the project is to gain a better understanding of the VE process by analyzing it step by step using the case study while using the same tools to make recommendations for the future.Learning outcomes (from the CRS):- Critically evaluate the creation and delivery of “value”.- Contrast and compare the different concepts, tools and frameworks that lead to and support value engineering.Organization & methodology:The groups should work together to produce a written document which will be handed in on week 13 that includes the following content:¥ Brief history of the case.¥ Who is/are the target market and what do they value?¥ Analyze what does the product/service need to do?¥ Using the value analysis models, depict, how does it provide value to the target market?¥ Where has value been engineered and efficiencies identified?¥ How has value been added without increasing cost?¥ Old and new methods and/or technologies utilized.¥ How has or might this disrupt the industry?¥ Conclusion and recommendations moving forward?The document shall comprise 2000 words +/- 10% excluding cover page, authorship statement and appendices (see below):The document shall include in depth and referenced research including facts and figures, an analysis and explanation of these findings as well as recommendations for the future of the company based on VE tools and relevant developments and observations.

Define the concept of \”the self\” in the social world.
Apply the concepts of \”the self\” to your own life, including self-concept, self-esteem, and self-efficacy. Also relate these concepts back to the research from the book and peer reviewed sources.
Describe at least two social experiences or events that have impacted your own personal development.
Describe how you respond to situations requiring conformity and obedience give examples from your life.