Final Project Paper + Preps

Providing Health Services in a Rural Community: A Report on Project Feasibility

Providing healthcare services to residents in rural areas has presented increased challenges that include access and cost. For your Capstone Project, you will be using a case study that focuses on Pocahontas Memorial Hospital located in Pocahontas County, West Virginia. Pocahontas Memorial Hospital (PMH) would like to offer a comprehensive satellite health clinic within Pocahontas County. You have been contracted to prepare a report for the PMH Board of Directors to guide them in determining the feasibility of opening a satellite clinic as part of a strategic initiative for their annual strategic management planning process.

Your report should be organized according to the following structure and contain the elements described:

· Introduction: This is where you introduce your audience to what this report will cover:

· Description of PMH and potential project

· Discussion of whether the organization’s mission, vision, and goals support the project.

· Assessment: This is your evaluation of various factors that affect the feasibility and development of the project:

· Internal and external stakeholders involved and their buy-in for this project

· Internal and external environmental challenges (e.g., access for consumers, medical equipment, technology, community involvement required)

· A market analysis

· A SWOT analysis.

· Recommendations and Implementation: This is where you detail your recommendations and strategies for implementation. Your recommendations should be based directly on what you outlined in your assessment:

· Strategies for attracting healthcare professionals and staff

· Feasibility for development of a satellite clinic

· Value-adding support and resources (e.g., equipment, technology)

· Develop strategic initiatives

· Short- and long-terms plans for implementation of strategic initiatives

· Brief discussion of how you will evaluate and benchmark this project.

· Conclusion: This brief summary should pull together your assessment and recommendations and leave the audience with a clear sense of what can be done.

Your well-written report should meet the following requirements:

· Be 12–15 pages in length, not including the cover or reference pages or appendices.

· Include the strategic thinking maps and content you created for the earlier module assignments. They may be added in addition to/or as a part of the 11-15 slides of content or moved to the Appendix section.

· Be formatted according to the CSU-Global Guide to Writing and APA (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site..

· Provide support for your statements with full APA in-text citations from a minimum of ten (10) scholarly references—five of these references must be from outside sources and five may be from course readings, lectures, and textbooks. The CSU-Global Library is a good place to find these references.

· Include full market analysis and SWOT analysis diagrams in the Appendix, but present your narrative discussion of each in the Assessment section of your report.