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Heath Care Management Case Essay 2

Two pages, your own town, and two lists that are not the same list. Some disparity strategies cost money, and saying which is which is the analysis.

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Last reviewed · August 25, 2026

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Maren Caldwell

MSN, RN, CNE

Medical-surgical nursing, pharmacology and NCLEX preparation

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Dr. Tessa Redmond

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Disparity strategies and cost savings are two different lists

The brief asks for two lists and students usually write one. Strategies to improve health care and reduce disparities generally cost money in the short term: extended clinic hours, interpreter services, community health workers, transport assistance and outreach screening all consume resource before they return anything. Cost saving policies pull the other way, and some of the easiest savings, closing a low-volume service, consolidating sites, reducing hours, would widen exactly the disparities the first list is meant to close. Writing both lists and then saying where they conflict is the whole analysis, and it is what separates a two-page answer from a two-page list. Consolidation looks like prudent management on a spreadsheet and like a closed clinic to the people who used it. Naming that as a trade-off rather than a coincidence is what the second half of the assignment is really testing, and it is the sentence most drafts never write.

The local scope is a constraint worth honouring rather than a formality. Your community, city or town means naming the actual gaps where you live, which usually requires a county health assessment, a state health department dataset or a local hospital's community health needs assessment, and those documents exist for almost everywhere in the United States. Using one turns a generic essay into a specific one at very little cost. The Affordable Care Act framing then matters for a particular reason: coverage policy is set nationally, so if coverage narrows, the pressure lands on local safety-net capacity, uncompensated care and emergency department use. Strategies that reduce avoidable utilisation, such as chronic disease management, medication access and follow-up after discharge, are the ones that appear on both lists at once, and they are worth identifying explicitly as the overlap. Those overlapping strategies are the ones worth leading with, because they survive whichever way the coverage question is settled.

Likely learning objectives

Recognise disparity reduction and cost saving as distinct and sometimes opposed lists.
Use local assessment data to make a general assignment specific.
Trace national coverage policy to local safety-net consequences.
Identify strategies that appear on both lists as the strongest recommendations.

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With the strong possibility of changes to the Affordable Care Act, list strategies to improve healthcare and reduce disparities within your community, city or town. What are some cost saving policies you could implement. Type 2 pages, double space using your text and any other references to support your answers text book name introduction to health care management third edition You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes. Heath Care Management Case Essay 2 Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages. Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor. The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.

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ADDITIONAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE CLASS Discussion Questions (DQ) Initial responses to the DQ should address all components of the questions asked, include a minimum of one scholarly source, and be at least 250 words. Successful responses are substantive (i.e., add something new to the discussion, engage others in the discussion, well-developed idea) and include at least one scholarly source. One or two sentence responses, simple statements of agreement or “good post,” and responses that are off-topic will not count as substantive. Substantive responses should be at least 150 words. I encourage you to incorporate the readings from the week (as applicable) into your responses. Weekly Participation Your initial responses to the mandatory DQ do not count toward participation and are graded separately. In addition to the DQ responses, you must post at least one reply to peers (or me) on three separate days, for a total of three replies. Participation posts do not require a scholarly source/citation (unless you cite someone else’s work). Part of your weekly participation includes viewing the weekly announcement and attesting to watching it in the comments. These announcements are made to ensure you understand everything that is due during the week. APA Format and Writing Quality Familiarize yourself with APA format and practice using it correctly. It is used for most writing assignments for your degree. Visit the Writing Center in the Student Success Center, under the Resources tab in LoudCloud for APA paper templates, citation examples, tips, etc. Points will be deducted for poor use of APA format or absence of APA format (if required). Cite all sources of information! When in doubt, cite the source. Paraphrasing also requires a citation. I highly recommend using the APA Publication Manual, 6th edition. Use of Direct Quotes I discourage overutilization of direct quotes in DQs and assignments at the Masters’ level and deduct points accordingly. As Masters’ level students, it is important that you be able to critically analyze and interpret information from journal articles and other resources. Simply restating someone else’s words does not demonstrate an understanding of the content or critical analysis of the content. It is best to paraphrase content and cite your source. LopesWrite Policy For assignments that need to be submitted to LopesWrite, please be sure you have received your report and Similarity Index (SI) percentage BEFORE you do a “final submit” to me. Once you have received your report, please review it. This report will show you grammatical, punctuation, and spelling errors that can easily be fixed. Take the extra few minutes to review instead of getting counted off for these mistakes. Review your similarities. Did you forget to cite something? Did you not paraphrase well enough? Is your paper made up of someone else’s thoughts more than your own? Visit the Writing Center in the Student Success Center, under the Resources tab in LoudCloud for tips on improving your paper and SI score. Late Policy The university’s policy on late assignments is 10% penalty PER DAY LATE. This also applies to late DQ replies. Please communicate with me if you anticipate having to submit an assignment late. I am happy to be flexible, with advance notice. We may be able to work out an extension based on extenuating circumstances. If you do not communicate with me before submitting an assignment late, the GCU late policy will be in effect. I do not accept assignments that are two or more weeks late unless we have worked out an extension. As per policy, no assignments are accepted after the last day of class. Any assignment submitted after midnight on the last day of class will not be accepted for grading. Communication Communication is so very important. There are multiple ways to communicate with me: Questions to Instructor Forum: This is a great place to ask course content or assignment questions. If you have a question, there is a good chance one of your peers does as well. This is a public forum for the class. Individual Forum: This is a private forum to ask me questions or send me messages. This will be checked at least once every 24 hours. Heath Care Management Case Essay 2

What this case essay requires

01A 2-page double-spaced paper.
02Strategies to improve healthcare and reduce disparities within your community, city or town.
03Cost saving policies you could implement.
04Engagement with the possibility of changes to the Affordable Care Act.
05Support from the course text and other references.