Syllabus for HCM-500
21ST CENTURY HEALTHCARE SYSTEMS: A CONTINUUM OF CARE
This course presents the principles and dynamics of healthcare management, the healthcare system, and basic concepts and skills in administration. The institutional, social, and political forces in the field of healthcare are analyzed, and topics include fundamentals of management in modern healthcare. This course is an overview of the healthcare stakeholders in a variety of settings as well as key health and medical terms. Students will examine the historical development of the U.S. healthcare system and current trends in modern healthcare delivery.
After completing this course, you should be able to:
CO 1 Analyze the role that U.S. healthcare systems play in an individual’s health status.
CO 2 Evaluate the key components of the U.S. healthcare delivery system.
CO 3 Distinguish between funding sources and their relative contributions to health expenditures.
CO 4 Critique recent trends in U.S. healthcare financing and delivery.
CO 5 Differentiate between stakeholders and their roles in the U.S. healthcare system.
CO 6 Examine the essential elements of healthcare reform and document the ways in which it has changed and will change the U.S. healthcare system.
You will need the following materials to do the work of the course. The required textbook is available from the University’s textbook supplier, MBS Direct.
ISBN: 978-1284124491
Students must set up an account and purchase the following case study at $8.95 from Harvard Business School/HBR-org. See Directions for Obtaining Case Studies.
Throughout the course and for the Final Project, contemporary articles are required to assist in transitioning the theory and concepts. These resources can be accessed through the New Jersey State Library, which you can find through the myEdison portal under the Educational tab in the My Resources block (see also the Research Resources tab in Moodle).
You will need a library card to access the NJ State Library, which is free for TESU students. Be sure to apply early in the semester, as it may take several weeks to receive your card.
TESU Student Borrower Registration Form
You may also find that the journal Health Affairs and the Harvard Business School are helpful resources for finding position papers related to your topic. Keep in mind, there may be a fee related to any articles accessed through the Harvard Business School.
21st Century Healthcare Systems: A Continuum of Care is a three-credit, online course consisting of three modules, including four discussion forums, three written assignments, one presentation outline, one presentation, and a final paper. Modules include an overview, topics, learning objectives, study materials, and activities. Module titles are listed below.
For your formal work in the course, you are required to participate in online discussion forums, complete written assignments, participate in a synchronous event, and complete a final project. See below for details.
Consult the Course Calendar for due dates.
One or more of your course activities may utilize a tool designed to promote original work and evaluate your submissions for plagiarism. More information about this tool is available in About SafeAssign.
This course requires you to participate in four graded discussion forums. There is also one ungraded but required Introductions Forum in Module 1.
You should follow the guidelines for discussion forums below.
You are required to complete three written assignments. The written assignments are on a variety of topics associated with the course modules.
You are required to participate in a synchronous event during Week 8 of the semester in which you will conduct a team presentation on the challenges faced by each set of unique stakeholders in the healthcare value chain. The synchronous event will be held in Edison Live! our virtual meeting space. To access the event, click the Collaboration Space link in the Edison Live! section of the course site a few minutes before the designated time. Use the following link for directions and helpful videos about how to use the Edison Live! tool in Moodle. Please review the whole document, but pay particular attention to the section “Transferring Presenter Tools Between Users,” as you will need to use this feature for your team presentation. Your mentor will work with the class to propose a time that works best and accommodates the majority. See the Module 3 area of the course website for further details.
Prior to your group presentation, you will submit a group presentation outline. The group presentation outline is not graded but required.
For the Final Project, you will explore the relationship between healthcare reform and the iron triangle and write a 2,500 to 4,500 word paper (10 to 15 pages) addressing how current healthcare reform initiatives will decrease cost, increase quality, and increase access. You will examine anticipated challenges in achieving these goals and how these changes will affect an individual patient.
Your grade in the course will be determined as follows:
All activities will receive a numerical grade of 0–100. You will receive a score of 0 for any work not submitted. Your final grade in the course will be a letter grade. Letter grade equivalents for numerical grades are as follows:
A | = | 93–100 | B | = | 83–87 | |
A– | = | 90–92 | C | = | 73–82 | |
B+ | = | 88–89 | F | = | Below 73 |
To receive credit for the course, you must earn a letter grade of C or higher on the weighted average of all assigned course work (e.g., assignments, discussion postings, projects, etc.). Graduate students must maintain a B average overall to remain in good academic standing.
The University's late assignment policy states that written assignments should be submitted no later than the due date unless prior arrangements are made with the mentor and a new due date is established. If you submit an assignment after the due date without having made arrangements with the mentor, a minimum of 5 points (based on an assignment grading scale of 100 points) or 5 percent of the total points will be deducted for each week, or part thereof, that the assignment is late. To receive credit for discussion forum assignments, you must actively participate during the assigned discussion period. Also, unless you have registered for an extension, assignments submitted after the semester ends (or after the extension date expires) will be returned to you ungraded.
Active duty military students in receipt of Temporary Additional Duty orders (TDY) may be exempted from point deductions if their orders prescribe a return-to-class date that allows for sufficient time to complete the remaining course requirements, which is generally defined as allowing the student to miss no more than 1/3 of the total semester.
Military students with TDY orders shall follow the procedures, found on the OMVE website to establish new due dates without penalty for written assignments and discussion boards.
To succeed in this course, take the following first steps:
Consider the following study tips for success:
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If you copy phrases, sentences, paragraphs, or whole documents word-for-word—or if you paraphrase by changing a word here and there—without identifying the author, or without identifying it as a direct quote, then you are plagiarizing. Please keep in mind that this type of identification applies to Internet sources as well as to print-based sources. Copying and pasting from the Internet, without using quotation marks and without acknowledging sources, constitutes plagiarism. (For information about how to cite Internet sources, see Online Student Handbook > Academic Standards > “Citing Sources.”)
Accidentally copying the words and ideas of another writer does not excuse the charge of plagiarism. It is easy to jot down notes and ideas from many sources and then write your own paper without knowing which words are your own and which are someone else’s. It is more difficult to keep track of each and every source. However, the conscientious writer who wishes to avoid plagiarizing never fails to keep careful track of sources.
Always be aware that if you write without acknowledging the sources of your ideas, you run the risk of being charged with plagiarism.
Clearly, plagiarism, no matter the degree of intent to deceive, defeats the purpose of education. If you plagiarize deliberately, you are not educating yourself, and you are wasting your time on courses meant to improve your skills. If you plagiarize through carelessness, you are deceiving yourself.
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Examples of Unintentional Plagiarism
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If an incident of plagiarism is an isolated minor oversight or an obvious result of ignorance of proper citation requirements, the mentor may handle the matter as a learning exercise. Appropriate consequences may include the completion of tutorials, assignment rewrites, or any other reasonable learning tool in addition to a lower grade for the assignment or course. The mentor will notify the student and appropriate dean of the consequence by e-mail.
If the plagiarism appears intentional and/or is more than an isolated incident, the mentor will refer the matter to the appropriate dean, who will gather information about the violation(s) from the mentor and student, as necessary. The dean will review the matter and notify the student in writing of the specifics of the charge and the sanction to be imposed.
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