Assignment Prompt & Instructions
**ECOS Profile:**
**Name:** DeMario Stackhouse
**Title:** Executive Director/Administrator
**Healthcare Setting:** Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF)
**Organization’s Name:** Beyond Blessed Skilled Nursing Home
**Location:** Bowie, Maryland (Suburban – Population ~25,000)
**Primary Project –** Business Investment Project (BIP): Integrated Behavioral Health
**BIP Sub-Industry & Specifications:** Digital Health Solutions Building Block 1: Department Operations
**Project Artifact 2. Eco-Map Brief. Overview**: You will conduct an analysis of your healthcare ecosystem design, applying your personalized healthcare scenario to the key ecosystem entities that will be presented on your ecosystem map. Eco-Map Design represents the selected ecosystem entities’ relationships and connections. Your analysis will be provided in a briefing format using a Word document adhering to the directions provided below by the ECOS Health System Executive Team.
– **Create a brief** using a **Word** document to analyze your healthcare ecosystem design and key entities for your ecosystem map.
– **Address each topic** for **Briefing Points 1, 2, 3, and 4**.
– **Length**: Minimum **two** (2) **pages** (excluding title page and reference page).
– **Formatting**: APA 7th Edition Style for title page, reference page, references, and citations.
– **References**: Minimum **three** (3) **credible** and/or **scholarly sources** from the last five year, unless seminal works.
– **Validate** the details of your analysis **with evidence** (in-text citations), supporting the information presented.
– **Care Population Definition** **for Briefing Point 1:** The care population refers to the group or community of individuals who receive care, including patients, residents, clients, or any other relevant term used in your personalized healthcare scenario.
**Briefing Point 1. Ecosystem Entities:** Construct the ecosystem relationship framework by identifying the key ecosystem entities that you will present on your map, focusing on the interconnections of each one.
– **Topic 1a. Your Ecosystem Profile – Personalized Healthcare Scenario:**
– Provide an overview of your ecosystem profile, including your selected healthcare title, primary healthcare setting, primary project (BIP/BIP Sub-Industry), and updated healthcare setting's goal and value proposition statement.
– **Topic 1b. External Three (3) Healthcare Entities and One (1) External Business Partner:**
– Determine **three** (3) **external healthcare entities** relevant to your personalized healthcare scenario. **Analyze each entity** by providing a **concise description** and **explain their significance** in terms of your ecosystem design.
– Assess potential business relationships within your local healthcare setting. **Select one** (1) **external business partner** relevant to your personalized healthcare scenario. **Analyze the business partner** by providing a **concise description** and **explain their significance** in terms of your ecosystem design.
**Briefing Point 2: Your Ecosystem Profile – Care Population:** Assemble the persona of one (1) care population that is served by your primary healthcare setting, your primary project, and is relevant to the external entities within this analysis.
– **Topic 2a. Population Characteristics: Four (4) Demographic and Two (2) Psychographic**
– Demographic characteristics can include but are not limited to the average age, gender, ethnicity, education, income, employment, living status, marital status, and/or family structures.
– Psychographic characteristics can include but are not limited to lifestyles, interests, beliefs, values, habits, and/or activities.
– **Topic 2b. Health Status: Two (2) Health Status Variables**
– Health status variables can include but are not limited to diseases, chronic health conditions, disabilities, mental health issues, and/or overall physical health concerns of this care population.
– **Topic 2c. Minimum Two (2) Healthcare Needs and their Significance**.
– Explain **two (2) healthcare needs and/or services and their significance** to this care population that is relevant to the ecosystem entities presented in this analysis.
**Briefing Point 3: Essential Services to Care Population**: This part of the analysis should present **one (1) essential service** of **each ecosystem entity for the selected care population**, the **significance** of the **service**, and **types of interactions** when providing these services to the care populations.
– **Topic 3a. Personalized Healthcare Scenario Essential Services to Care Population**
– **Your Healthcare Setting**: Assess 1 (one) essential service, service significance, and ecosystem entity interactions for service delivery to the care population.
– **Your Primary Project** (BIP/BIP-Sub-Industry): Assess 1 (one) essential service, service significance, and ecosystem entity interactions for service delivery to the care population.
– **Topic 3b. Select of the External Three (3) Healthcare Entities and One (1) External Business Partner:**
– **External Healthcare Entity:** Assess 1 (one) essential service, service significance, and ecosystem entity interactions for service delivery to the care population **.**
– **External Business Partner:** Assess 1 (one) essential service, service significance, and ecosystem entity interactions for service delivery to the care population.
**Briefing Point 4: Impact on the Care Population**: **Select one** **(1)** **factors** below and **explain its potential impact** on the **care population** in terms of **your personalized healthcare scenario and selected ecosystem entities:**
– **Factor 1: Quality of Care Delivery and Ecosystem Care Collaboration:**
– **Formulate a strategy for ecosystem care collaboration** between **your primary healthcare scenario**, **ecosystem entities**, and **selected care population**.
– Include **two** (2) **regulatory quality of care measures**, their **definitions**, the **importance** of each, and a **specific example of the strategy**.
– **Factor 2: Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) and Ecosystem Outcomes:**
– **Formulate a strategy for ecosystem care collaboration** between **your primary healthcare scenario**, **ecosystem entities**, and **selected care population**.
– Include **two** (2) **specific approaches** for **supporting** the **SDoH Objectives: Healthcare Access and Quality**, their **descriptions**, **how the approaches** can be **conducted between entities**, and a **specific example of the strategy**.
**Project Artifact Deliverable 2**. **Eco-Map Design Directions**
– **Create an illustrative representatio** **n of the e** **cosystem relationships and connections, applying your analysis from the Eco-Map Brief**. (Healthcare Ecosystem Mapping)
– **Adhere to Map Requirements****1, 2, and 3** listed below.
– Choose a **simple design** that allows for clear identification of each map requirement.
– **Submit** your **map** as a **PDF** with the three project deliverables for the healthcare ecosystem mapping bundle.
– Use a **free software too** **l.** Any software you must be able to convert the map to a PDF.
– Your professor cannot assist students with any software tool issues, learning how to use any software tools, or support with any troubleshooting issues.
– Students will need to know how to use the software tool they selected or be able to independently learn how to use the selected tool on their own.
– **Essential Learning Tool** (Downloads as a PDF): [**Ecosystem Mapping Resource**](https://learn.umgc.edu/content/enforced/1291424-027837-01-2255-GO1-9040/Resources%20for%20Ecosystem%20Mapping.pdf)
**Map Requirement 1. Ecosystem Entities – Present the Ecosystem Entities from your Eco-Map Brief:**
– **Your Personalized Healthcare Scenario**:
– Your Primary Healthcare Setting
– Your Primary Project (BIP/BIP Sub-Industry)
– **External Healthcare Providers and Healthcare Organizations**:
– Minimum of **three** (3) **external healthcare providers and/or healthcare organizations**
– **External Business Partner:**
– Minimum **one** (1) **external business partner**
**Map Requirement 2.** **Map Markers Requirements**:
**2.** **Map Markers** **:** Use map markers to identify the organizations, the connections between the different healthcare providers, healthcare services, and external business partner, and to show any potential relationships to one another. Map markers can include but are not limited to shapes, colors, lines, errors, images, letters, and/or similar visualizations to identify, define, and describe the information presented.
– **The following map markers must be included**:
– **2a.** **Shapes**: Use shapes to **identify all organizations** by **by name, type, and/or description** on the map
– **2b****. Lines and/or Arrows**: Include lines or arrows to illustrate the **linkages, connections, and/or relationships** to the organizations and any other images presented on the map.
– **2c.** **Colors**: Apply **colors or a color-coding to the shapes, lines, arrows**, and/or **details presented** on the map.
– **2d.** **Optional Map Markers**: You may elect to use additional map markers on your map. Examples of other map markers can include icons, symbols, patterns, sizing, numerical codes, alphanumeric codes, bubbles, and/or similar visuals.
**Map Requirement 3**. **Legend Criteria Requirements** **:**
**3.** **Legend Criteria**: A map legend must be included that adheres to the Legend Criteria provided below.
– **Legend Criteria A.** **Shape Explanations**. Shapes can serve several purposes and convey important information. **Each shape must** be **explained**. Each organizational **shapemust**clearly **identify each organization with text** that provides the **name**, **type**, and/or **description**.
– **Legend Criteria B.** **Color Explanations** **.** Colors can serve multiple purposes in an ecosystem mapping project. **Each color**, or **color-coding system**, **must** be **explained**. Use colors purposefully and consistently throughout the ecosystem mapping project to ensure clarity and readability.
– **Legend Criteria C.** **Lines and/or Arrows Explanations**. The lines and/or arrows on the map should represent the **relationships** to **one another**.**Each type** of **line and/or arrow**must be **explained**. Using different types of lines and/or arrows could represent some type of meaning various types relationships, interactions, or other influencing factors.
– **Legend Criteria D.** **Additional Markers** (if applicable): If you elected to include **additional map markers, be sure to explain those markings** in the legend.