Scenario:
A city-based community hospital is looking at adding an urgent care facility in a rural area. Urgent care is the delivery of ambulatory care in a facility dedicated to the delivery of unscheduled walk-in care outside of a hospital emergency department. Development of the Rural Urgent Care (RUC) facility will facilitate access to care providers through extended service hours within closer geographic proximity to patients families and caregivers. RUC will act to alleviate demand for emergency department services by shifting lower acute patients to a less resource-intensive environment.
This project is in response to the shift from volume- to value-based health care. Payers and purchasers are interested in improving economic efficiency by shifting utilization from emergency department to lower cost settings such as RUC. Several competing hospitals have hired emergency department physicians as part of their integration strategy to participate in accountable care organizations (ACO) contracts. The hospital needs to respond to the competitive situation by making a sound investment in the RUC facility that addresses both financial and economic situations. The facility will be staffed with physicians and will include a radiology suite laboratory suite and other health-related ventures to help the hospital grow. You must help the board develop a business plan for this urgent care unit.
sing theWeek 11 Project Business Plan Template create a business plan (810 pages) that includes the following:
Note:You must support your business plan with financial documents in an Excel spreadsheet. The 8- to 10-page paper requirement submitted as a Word document does not include the title Excel spreadsheet or reference pages. Your Assignment must be written in standard edited English. Be sure to support your work with specific citations from this modules Learning Resources and additional scholarly sources as appropriate. Refer to theEssential Guide to APA Style for Walden Studentsto ensure that your in-text citations and reference list are correct. See the rubric for additional requirements related to research and scholarly writing.