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Week 8: Program Evaluation and Development
Week 8: Program Evaluation and Development
Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.
—Peter Drucker, The Effective Executive
As a health care administrator, it is your responsibility to make sure that your health care facility is not just operating efficiently but also effectively. What is the difference between managing your facility efficiently versus effectively? One important step in having an effective facility will require regular evaluation of what your community needs. Throughout the remaining weeks, you explore community needs in order to submit your Final Project, a Community Needs Assessment. This week, you propose a pilot study to address your community needs.
Learning Objectives
Students will:
- Design program evaluations to address community needs
Learning Resources
Note: Most journal articles for this course are available online through the Walden Library databases, unless linked directly in the classroom. The Course Readings List contains all of the required Walden Library resources for this course. Please click on the following link to access the applicable list for this course: http://academicguides.waldenu.edu/mmha6200
Required Readings
Nash, D. B., Skoufalos, A., Fabius, R. J. & Oglesby, W. H. (2021). Population health: Creating a culture of wellness (3rd ed). Burlington, MA: Jones & Bartlett Learning.
- Chapter 9, “Consumer Engagement and Technology”
- Chapter 10, “Accountability for Outcomes”
CDC. (2015). About Population Health. Retrieved from http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dph/
Discussion: Open Forum: Program Evaluation
This is an optional area for peer reviews of the program evaluation you complete in this week’s Assignment. The Forum is not graded. You may submit your program evaluation and ask for feedback from your peers or provide constructive feedback to program evaluations posted by one of your peers.
Submission
Post by Day 7
To participate in this Discussion:
Week 8 Discussion
Project: Final Project Program Evaluation
Your Final Project Program Evaluation must be written in standard edited English. Be sure to support your work with specific citations from this week’s Learning Resources and additional scholarly sources as appropriate. See the rubric for additional requirements related to research and scholarly writing.
Throughout the past few weeks, you have been working on the many components of your Community Needs Assessment. You identified the top health problems in your community to propose a local health initiative. Then, you conducted a detailed SWOT analysis for your initiative. This week, you propose a pilot program to evaluate your initiative.
The Assignment
For this Assignment, in 4-6 pages design a pilot program and evaluation to address community needs for your Final Project initiative proposal. In your Assignment, be sure to include the following items:
- Description of your proposed program that you developed in Weeks 3 and 6
- Description of your proposed pilot program
- Describe a small scale program that will help to determine the feasibility of your final project
- Describe how many participants, staff, volunteers, and organizations will be involved
- Description of your proposed evaluation of the pilot program including a tool (Six Sigma, TQM, etc…) to improve the proposed piloted processes
- You may also develop a survey, use focus groups, or interviews for the evaluation process
- Description of what other health care organizations and/or nongovernmental organizations have done to address your initiative
By Day 7
Submit your Assignment.
Submission and Grading Information
To submit your completed Assignment for review and grading, do the following:
- Please save your Assignment using the naming convention “WK8Pj+last name+firstinitial.(extension)” as the name.
- Click the Week 8 Project Rubric to review the Grading Criteria for the Assignment.
- Click the Week 8 Project link. You will also be able to “View Rubric” for grading criteria from this area.
- Next, from the Attach File area, click on the Browse My Computer button. Find the document you saved as “WK8Pj+last name+firstinitial.(extension)” and click Open.
- If applicable: From the Plagiarism Tools area, click the checkbox for I agree to submit my paper(s) to the Global Reference Database.
- Click on the Submit button to complete your submission.
Grading Criteria
To access your rubric:
Week 8 Project Rubric
Check Your Assignment Draft for Authenticity
To check your Assignment draft for authenticity:
Submit your Week 8 Assignment draft and review the originality report.
Submit Your Assignment by Day 7
To submit your Assignment:
Week 8 Project
Week in Review
This week you continued your Final Project by designing a pilot program and program evaluation for your population health initiative.
Next week you will develop a partnership proposal with a nongovernmental organization to address your community’s needs. You also will analyze potential barriers that may occur during the partnership.
