Reference no: EM133739518

Question: Create a target patient population profile that describes a patient population other than Tupelo and TCMC. Your profile should be based on data obtained from the "County Health Rankings and Roadmaps" web link, "U.S. Census Data" web link, and other reliable resources and should include the following aspects:

demographic profile
priority population
social determinants of health
barriers to accessing healthcare
disease frequency
available health services
resource availability
health behaviors and beliefs
health expectations
1. Describe, based on the target patient population profile, the critical healthcare risks for the target patient population.

2. Describe key opportunities for improving the health outcomes of this patient population.

3. Identify an organization that serves the target population and could assist in your population health initiative.

B. Describe, using information from the target patient population profile, possible strategies for how the identified organization can motivate the target population to transition from an illness-based model to a wellness-based model.

C. Describe the fiscal management tools, principles, and strategies that you would use to manage healthcare organizational sustainability and productivity by doing the following:

1. Describe the tools (e.g., software applications, financial documents) and process (i.e., the steps or an outline of the steps) you would use to calculate the cost of moving from an illness-based model to a wellness-based model.

2. Analyze, using a financial perspective, the difference in types of costs that affect the organization's operating budget resulting from a decision to deliver care to the target population using a population health, wellness-based model as opposed to the current illness-based model.

D. Apply Wagner's Chronic Care Model to your population health initiative by doing the following:

1. Describe two care strategies for each of the six elements of the Chronic Care Model that can be customized to improve patient care for your target population.

a. Analyze the anticipated impact the strategies from part D1 will have on both the healthcare outcomes and the overall health of the target population.

2. Explain how care coordination would specifically address one critical healthcare risk described in part A1 for your target population.

3. Discuss the benefits of care coordination in supporting health outcomes for any one of the critical healthcare risks described in part A1.

E. Create a sustainability strategy by doing the following:

1. Describe your incentive plan for the successful participation of internal and external stakeholders in the implementation of the population health model.

2. Discuss how financial risk mitigation strategies may influence stakeholder participation in the incentive plan.

3. Discuss the potential positive and negative impacts of your population health model, using the attached "Miller's Impact Assessment Framework."

4. Evaluate your identified organization's ability to support the strategies in your population health initiative based on your responses in this task.

F. Explain how your population health initiative aligns with the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) Triple Aim model of healthcare.

G. Acknowledge sources, using in-text citations and references, for content that is quoted, paraphrased, or summarized.