HCM 320 Milestone Three Guidelines and

Overview: For Milestone Three, you will address the critical elements in the Evaluation of Policy section of your final project and write a letter to the
stakeholders involved to describe and defend your proposed policy. Stakeholders could include policy makers, healthcare providers, insurers, and healthcare
consumers.

Your letter should include background on the key health issue and your assumption of the positive and negative impacts inferred by existing policies (e.g.,
unintended consequences or public reaction). The document should not be based solely on emotion, though it should not be divorced of sentiment, as it needs
to rouse the proper energy to effect change. The goal of the document is to convince the reader that your proposed policy will improve the U.S. healthcare
system in terms of quality, costs, and accessibility.

Submit your analysis in a letter format that you may use to develop speaker’s notes for your final presentation.

Prompt: Write a letter to a stakeholder to describe and defend your proposed policy.

Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed:

I. Evaluation of Policy
A. Discuss the current economic and legal landscape related to your public health issue. To what extent do existing policies (or the lack thereof)

have positive or negative impacts to the American healthcare system?
B. Explain your proposed policy using evidence and examples to illustrate.

1. What are the specific operational strategies that you believe are necessary for addressing your chosen issue and why?
2. What role do the major healthcare organizations play in your proposed policy? To what extent can their position in the marketplace be

harnessed?
C. Defend your proposed policy for addressing the public health issue with specific research and evidence.

1. How will your proposed public policy improve the American healthcare system in terms of healthcare quality, costs, and accessibility?
2. In what ways is your proposed policy informed by the larger socioeconomic factors that can influence public health?

Rubric
Guidelines for Submission: Your paper must be submitted as a 2- to 3-page Microsoft Word document with double spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font,
one-inch margins, and at least three sources cited in APA format.

Critical Elements Proficient (100%) Needs Improvement (75%) Not Evident (0%) Value
Evaluation of Policy: Current

Landscape
Discusses the current economic and
legal landscape related to the public
health issue, including to what extent
existing policies have positive or
negative impacts on the healthcare
system

Discusses the current economic and
legal landscape related to the public
health issue, but fails to fully or
accurately qualify the extent to which
existing policies have positive or
negative impacts on the healthcare
system

Does not discuss the current economic
and legal landscape related to the
public health issue

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Evaluation of Policy: Explain:
Operational Strategies

Explains the proposed policy in terms of
the specific operational strategies and
why they are necessary for addressing
the public health issue

Explains the proposed policy, but fails to
detail the specific operational strategies
and why they are necessary for
addressing the public health issue

Does not explain the proposed policy in
terms of the necessary operational
strategies

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Evaluation of Policy: Explain:
Healthcare Organizations

Explains the proposed policy in terms of
the role the major healthcare
organizations can play to harness their
market position for addressing the
public health issue

Explains the proposed policy, but fails to
detail the specific ways in which the
major healthcare organizations can
harness their market position to
address the public health issue

Does not explain the proposed policy in
terms of the role of the major
healthcare organizations in addressing
the public health issue

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Evaluation of Policy:
Defend: Improve

Defends the proposed policy by
explaining how it will improve the
American healthcare system in terms of
healthcare quality, costs, and
accessibility

Defends the proposed policy, but fails
to fully or logically explain how it will
improve the American healthcare
system in terms of healthcare quality,
costs, and accessibility

Does not defend the proposed policy in
terms of how it will improve the
American healthcare system

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Evaluation of Policy:
Defend: Informed

Defends the proposed policy by
explaining how it is informed by the
larger socioeconomic factors that
influence public health

Defends the proposed policy, but fails
to fully or logically explain how it is
informed by the larger socioeconomic
factors that influence public health

Does not defend the proposed policy in
terms of how it is informed by larger
socioeconomic factors

18

Articulation of Response Submission has no major errors related
to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax,
or organization

Submission has major errors related to
citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or
organization that negatively impact
readability and articulation of main
ideas

Submission has critical errors related to
citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or
organization that prevent
understanding of ideas

10

Total 100%

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