2.2 Healthcare Trends

Purpose

This assignment is intended to help you learn to do the following:

• Interpret healthcare data and trends.
• Evaluate the management- and leadership-related aspects of project management topics, including strategic formulation and implementation.
• Evaluate healthcare system- and healthcare management-related topics, including governance structure and roles, operations assessment and improvement, and quality assessment for patient care improvement.

Action Items

1. Complete the Module 2 readings prior to working on this assignment. Document your thoughts as you read.
2. Download the following report from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC):
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• Review the data in the report about mortality and morbidity.
• Document your thoughts as you review the data.
• Specifically state what the data shows and what the data trends are.
• Based on your review, comment on the following:
• Based on the mortality and morbidity data, identify changes that seem to be occurring. You must discuss more than one change.
• What might these changes be attributed to, and what do they mean for the future of healthcare delivery?
• Respond to what you have observed from your analysis of the CDC report: When is the use of regulation appropriate in the delivery of healthcare services?
• How would you evaluate the effectiveness of regulatory efforts aimed at hospitals and at physicians?
• What additional recommendations would you make to current healthcare leaders in order to address patient care improvement?

1. Conduct additional research for the issues above. Use the resources to obtain at least 3 relevant, scholarly sources.
2. Write a 3 page paper in which you address the items that you researched in the CDC Report.

• You must incorporate research into your paper from at least 3 relevant, scholarly resources.
• Follow all applicable APA guidelines
• regarding in-text citations, list of cited references, and document formatting for this paper. Failure to properly cite and reference sources constitutes plagiarism.
• The title page and reference list are not included in the page count for this paper.

1. Submit the completed first draft of your assignment. Your work will automatically be checked by Turnitin.

Reading & Preparation

Required resources for this module:

• Chapters 3 and 4 in Shi (2026)