Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP) 

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All groups will be required to turn in a position brief. For the position brief, please answer the seven questions listed below. Please  include the questions with the brief. For the questions requiring  external research, please ensure to cite all referenced information

1: Please provide a detailed background and summary of the case. In the summary, please ensure to discuss the context of the case from the following perspectives:

  • The Johnson Family
  • Ms. Katherine Ross, RN
  • Ms. Megan Smith, RN
  • Ms. Maria Montez, BSW

Please ensure to discuss the important points and use subtitles (or labels) to organize your response .

2:  Please discuss the changes in the reimbursement system as they relate  to the change from volume based reimbursements to value based  reimbursements. With this response, please also ensure to explain the  following:

  • Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP)
  • The Hospital Consumer Assessment of Health Plans Survey (HCAPS).

How do these areas related to the circumstances at Methodist Hospital?  (External  research from respectable sources is required to answer this question.  Please use subtitles (or labels) to organize your response) .

3:  Please discuss the issue of the nurse shortage and nurse burnout. How  can this occurrence affect Methodist Hospitals and other similar  facilities? Please identify at least five strategies to deal with this  issue. (External research from respectable sources is required to  answer this question. Please use subtitles (or labels) to organize your  response).

4:  Please define and explain the concept of patient navigation. Please  identify at least four ways this type of personnel could be used to  provide a benefit to Methodist Hospital and the CICU. (External  research from respectable sources is required to answer this question.  Please use subtitles (or labels) to organize your response).

5:  Please perform a SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and  threats) analysis on Methodist Health System with a focus on CICU.  Provide and explain at least four points for each category. (Please  ensure to use information provided in the case to support your answer.  Please use subtitles (or labels) to organize your response).

6: Please illustrate and discuss all of the steps in the Evidence Based Management (EBM) model to analyze three overall issues faced by Ms. Ross and to arrive at three specific evidence based solutions.  Please  analyze the solutions separately and use a table/chart to  organize/explain the points in the model and also ensure to use  information provided in the case to support your answer 

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