Week 8 – Signature Assignment: Create a Population Health Management Proposal
You are the newly hired project manager of a federally qualified community health center (FQCHC). Your position is grant-funded for a year but can be extended an additional year if you are successful in securing new resources for a proposal designed to address the most pressing health problem of the community served by this FQCHC. Thus, the most important task before you now is the preparation of a proposal to fund the grant.
You have been given two months to prepare the proposal for presentation to the FQCHC Board of Directors. The CEO of the leading healthcare delivery system serving the FQCHC is also a board member and is committed to providing the funding for continued employment if the proposal is approved. The CEO has also offered the services of the budget office to work with you in developing the costs associated with the proposal. It is obvious that the CEO would like to have you as a member of the team and has hinted that, beyond grant funding, a permanent position may be created. This CEO is impressed with your work to date and wants you to succeed. Don’t disappoint!
Hint: You might want to begin by using one of the government databases to learn more about FQCHCs, the populations they serve, and their most pressing health problems. This type of research can provide you with the foundation for creating the fictional FQCHC and lay the basis for the proposal you need to write. Don’t forget to give the FQCHC a name!
This assignment should include:
Introduce the presentation with an executive summary where you include:
· Why you are presenting this proposal
· The population you’ve selected
· The process
· Cost
· Overarching conclusion
Append a five- or six-slide PowerPoint or other graphic presentation in which you show the process used to develop the proposal. For example, you might have accessed one or more national databases and then conducted a local focus group.
· This process is customarily included in the graphic or PowerPoint presentation and you will also discuss it within the proposal paper.
· Consider using the following steps to develop your PowerPoint or graphic
· The reason for the proposal
· How you selected the most pressing health problem (survey’s focus groups)
· The intervention or interventions you are recommending
· Expected outcomes and estimated timeframe to achieve expected outcome or outcomes
· Expected cost (because you are not working with finance in this course, you will want to simply state within budget).
· Questions
Slides or graphics should be supported by narratives that should be included in the ten pages of the proposal paper.
Length: Minimum of 10-page proposal paper, not including the title page, contents table, reference page, graphics, or Powerpoint slides in the ten pages.
References: 8 resources with at least 4 scholarly; the remaining can be government websites.
