Scanning The Health Sector As An Industry

Assignment Content Select a health care facility or service (e.g., hospital, physician practice, long-term care facility, ambulance service, pharmacy, or skilled nursing facility). Identify and read one recently proposed or enacted state or federal legislation that has an impact on your selected health care facility or service. Recent is defined as legislation that has been proposed or enacted within the past 5 years. Please do not use the Affordable Care Act (ACA) for this assignment as it was enacted in 2010. You may use related legislation that has been enacted or proposed more recently. Write a 700- to 1,050-word policy brief on the effects the legislation will have on your selected facility or service and on the state’s population. Use the following structure when putting together your policy brief: Title page Executive Summary (175 to 260 words) including recommendations [one page] Begin next page with: Introduction Body Overview of problem Review of relevant research Application of research results Policy Implications Recommendation(s