Recommendations for Robust Population Health Initiatives for the Hospital

Instructions
Case Scenario Analysis: you have been hired in the CAO's newly created position (Chief Administrative Officer) for a regional medical center. The responsibilities have been broken away from the COO (Chief Operational Officer) to focus primarily on all business and revenue generation activities.
You are a member of the hospital's executive management team (Chief Executive Officer, Chief Operational Officer, Chief of the Clinical Staff (medical and nursing), Chief Information Officer, Chief Compliance Officer, and Chief Quality and Risk Management Officer, and legal counsel.
The hospital is a nonprofit. The services provided within the hospital include cardiac rehabilitation, emergency department, radiology, pediatrics, same-day surgery, a retail pharmacy, ophthalmology and optical, oncology, limited physical rehabilitation, and physical therapy, patient education, substance abuse, renal dialysis, and obstetrics. The Joint Commission accredits the hospital with recertification in 2 years.
TASK(S): In meeting with the CEO, she asks for specific guidance, in memorandum format, on how to move forward with more robust population health initiatives for the hospital. She wants them to be aligned with current specific identified regulatory and reform requirements and be evidence-based. They must also be aligned with decreasing costs, increased access, and those initiatives and outcomes that bring value to the hospital and the regional populations served.
Please research your local region for socioeconomic demographics to use as the foundation of your recommendations, such as data, age, insured vs. uninsured, race, ethnicity, etc. Include this in your memorandum as foundational data and information to base your recommendations back to the CEO.
While a memorandum can be in any professional format, it is expected that content is original, founded in best practices, and scopes of care with all external authors had APA citation to the sources in the body and on the last page with an APA reference list.
Grading Criteria
Student writing should be at the academic level, unbiased language in the third person, and proper healthcare and legal vernacular.
Assigned papers will require APA formatting (most current edition), including the title and reference pages. If you are unsure how to format using APA style, please see the Writing Center or Syracuse Library Citation Guide: APA .
Excluding the APA title and reference pages, the papers should be between 1,000 - 1500 words in the body. The word count requires the substance to be concise, robust, logical, and demonstrate complete knowledge of the weekly content. Although not in proper APA formatting, please include the word count for the paper's body at the very bottom of the title page. For assistance with determining the word count, please see the following Microsoft Word resource.
The body of the paper should include first level APA headings for all content or topics when required. Having the required content as first-level headings will support students in meeting the content requirements and the paper's focus on the required subjects. Students are welcome to add subheadings at the second or third levels, but the first level is required. The APA Style Headings can assist with formatting headings.
All sources used within the paper's body (directly and paraphrased) must be cited in the body of the paper and on the required reference page per APA requirements and should not exceed 20%. Content from other sources that exceed 20% could indicate a lack of originality or possibly plagiarism and will be addressed following the Academic Integrity Policy noted below.
Third-party plagiarism software, such as Turnitin, may be used to assess the originality of a student's work in any assignment, papers, and quizzes, or exams to rule out plagiarism.