[Expert Solution]: The final project for this course is an…

The final project for this course is an analysis of a hospital, state, or federally funded healthcare organization with recommendations that will evaluate the cultural competence of an organization and the ways it provides services from a population health approach framework. It is important for healthcare organizations to use strategies for improving services to a diverse population in order to provide quality care to all patients. A population health approach unifies, integrates, and balances prevention and promotion, health protection, diagnosis, treatment, and care. It acknowledges and reflects evidence that factors outside of the healthcare system can significantly affect health. It considers the entire range of individual and collective factors and conditions—and their interactions—that have been shown to be correlated with health status. Commonly referred to as the “determinants of health,” these factors currently include income and social status, social support networks, education, employment/working conditions, social environments, physical environments, personal health practices and coping skills, healthy child development, biology and genetic endowment, health services, gender, and culture. A population health approach focuses on improving the health status of a population, rather than of individuals. Such a focus necessitates reducing disparities, or inequalities in health status among population groups. The outcomes or benefits of a population health approach, therefore, extend beyond improved population health outcomes to include an integrated health system and increased social cohesion and citizen engagement. The project is divided into three milestones which will be submitted at various points throughout the course to scaffold learning and ensure quality final submissions. These milestones will be submitted in Modules Three, Four, and Six. The final project will be submitted in Module Seven. In this assignment, you will show your ability to complete the following course outcomes: Evaluate health promotion and disease management strategies for their efficacy in addressing factors that determine population health status Evaluate healthcare organizations’ patient engagement activities and communication strategies for the extent to which they demonstrate cultural competence for improving population health outcomes Assess the extent to which healthcare organizations use the population health approach to reduce costs and improve quality of care Propose recommendations that improve healthcare organizations’ effectiveness in advancing the population health approach Prompt Select a hospital, state, or federally funded healthcare organization. Based on what you learned and the course material, you will evaluate the cultural competence of the healthcare organization. Specifically the following critical elements must be addressed: Patient engagement activities and communication strategies Critique the organization’s translation and interpretation services. Be sure to provide evidence to support your claims. Does the organization provide such services for non-English speaking patients? How many different languages are supported? How might the organization communicate with a speaker of a language that is not supported? Analyze the extent to which educational resources and materials are available in languages other than English. Be sure to provide specific examples. Assess organizational staff training for its potential to foster cultural competence. Be sure to provide evidence to support your claims. Examine training programs for patient engagement and communication. Identify gaps or deficiencies. Provide evidence to support your claims. If you feel there are none, be sure to explain your reasoning. Examine gaps in areas that may exist in the organization’s patient engagement and communications strategies. Health promotion and disease prevention and management strategies Assess the organization’s health promotion efforts. Be sure to provide evidence to support your claims. Examine programs such as fitness classes, blood pressure clinics, first aid training, nutrition education, etc., that it may offer to patients. Evaluate the efficacy of disease prevention and management programs and services in addressing population health determinants. Be sure to provide evidence to support your claims. Examine programs and services such as discharge planning, home health services, vaccination services, etc. Analyze non-programmatic services for their impact on factors that determine population health status. Examine programs such as transportation, onsite childcare, etc. Identify gaps or deficiencies. Provide evidence to support your claims. If you feel there are none, be sure to explain your reasoning. Examine common areas where gaps may exist in the organization’s health promotion and disease prevention and management efforts.