Final Paper

Paper instructions:
Your final assignment pulls together all of the various concepts related to planning and preparedness that we have examined this semester. You are to write a critical analysis of the factors that must be considered when developing a comprehensive emergency plan.

Your final assignment is a critical analysis of the factors that must be considered when developing a comprehensive emergency plan. No two emergency plans are identical. Your paper should address how a community’s composition, land use, critical infrastructure, risks, vulnerabilities, and resiliency influence the emergency plan. In order to fully address these issues, you will need to briefly explain what they are, why they are important, and how they influence the contents of a plan.

Text book used in this course:

Ferrier, N. (2009). Fundamentals of emergency management. Toronto: Emond Montgomery Publications.

The Final Paper must have depth of scholarship, originality, theoretical and conceptual framework, clarity and logic in its presentation and adhere to grammar guidelines. You select either one of the emerging managed healthcare delivery models, APatient-Centered Medical Homes, for your Final Paper. The page paper (excluding title and reference pages) must follow APA style contain at least 10 scholarly, peer-reviewed, and/or other credible sources in addition to the course text.
Your paper must address the following bolded topics, which should be titled appropriately in your paper:
• Include an Abstract which is a synopsis of the overall paper.
• Managed Health Care Quality – Address what the selected emerging managed healthcare delivery model has done to improve quality of care.
• Cost Containment – Describe how the selected model has striven to contain the costs.
• Provider Contracting and Payments – Identify healthcare providers’ contracts and payment methods in the selected model.
• Effects on Medicare and Medicaid – Summarize the impacts of the selected model on both Medicare and Medicaid.
• The Emerging Role of Government Regulations – Examine the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) policies in relation to the selected model.
• Recommendations – Include three suggestions for improvement in relation to quality and cost.
The final assignment for this course is a Final Paper. The purpose of the Final Paper is for you to culminate the learning achieved in the course by developing a research paper to address the selected emerging managed healthcare delivery model.

Text
• Kongstvedt, P. R. (2012). Essentials of managed health care (6th ed.). Sudbury, MA: Jones and Bartlett Publishers.