Background:
Over the past few weeks, we have discussed communication, cultural competency, health literacy, and teamwork. This week the class focused on special populations with information on vulnerable populations to various types of healthcare settings that you may encounter during your career. As a healthcare administrator, understanding the different populations will be essential. You may have to provide information to your team, as well as, your community on the types of individuals that are cared for within your organization and discuss the types of healthcare needs that are present within your community. Additionally, you may have to work with external parties to form partnership to deliver the care needed within your community. Creating community partnerships are beneficial for the organization, as effective and meaningful partnerships that offer community-based solutions can improve health equity, patient outcomes, and foster a multi-sector collaboration. These partnerships can also improve an organization’s image, increase visibility, and allow your healthcare services to be viewed as a valuable member of the community.
Assignment Scenario:
You are a healthcare administrator for your nonprofit healthcare system. You oversee one of your system’s facilities and one of your requirements, as a nonprofit, is to demonstrate that your organization meets nonprofit status, which requires different types of activities to occur. One type of activity that a nonprofit healthcare organization may conduct relates to establishing community partnerships. You have been asked to oversee the community partnership program. You will need to create a taskforce for this program and will need to create an interdisciplinary leadership team that will support the various activities of the community partnership program. Your taskforce leaders will be from your healthcare system. You will present your taskforce team information to your organization’s executive leadership team, providing them with insight on the reason for the role selection, information about a special population or several populations, and provide examples about the community partnership program, using the Community Partnership Program: Taskforce Information Template. Click this Link to Access the Template: Community Partnership Program: Taskforce Information Template
Complete the Community Partnership Program Template
Identify three to five leaders to participate on your community partnerships taskforce. This interdisciplinary team should be diverse, represents multiple departments, and should be in a
director-level or higher leadership role within the organization. Supporting external evidence will need to be presented using APA 7th Edition formatting. Provide at least 4 references with correlating in-text citations. Your references should be from the last five years, collected from the weekly course content, and you may include a maximum of two additional resources outside of the weekly content from your own personal research. Include a coverage page and a reference page with your Community Partnership Program: Taskforce Information Document.
You will need to include the following information for your taskforce assignment:
- Identify the location of your healthcare system. You will base your taskforce on this specific location, which must be within the United States, to create your taskforce.
- State the leadership role for each member of your taskforce. (Each leader will be from your organization.) Examples: Chief Nursing Officer, Director of Case Management, Business Development Director, or similar roles.
- Explain why each role will be important for the taskforce.
- Provide an example of how each role can positively contribute to the community partnership taskforce for a special health population with your community partner.