HA 454 - Strategic Planning in Health Care Organizations

Interactivity: Discussion Board

Final Assessment: None

Course Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, you should be able to do the following:

• Recognize and explain the value of strategic planning in health care organizations.
• Apply a basic strategic planning process to the case study.
• Identify organizational factors that could impact the strategic planning process and outcomes.
• Explain the roles and responsibilities of various stakeholders in the strategic planning process.
• Perform a basic environmental assessment considering both internal and external factors.
• Apply the elements of effective mission and vision statements.
• Construct applicable goals, objectives, and implementation plans.
• Describe an ongoing planning process including: regular progress reports, annual updates, and when a significant plan redraft is indicated.
• Identify challenges for health care organizations over the next one to five years.