After reading scenario:

Your group is responsible for ensuring that the acquisition of the Primary Care Provider Clinic is successful. Changes must be initiated that enhance employee productivity and support the clinic in showing a positive financial gain. As part of your responsibilities, you are charged with coming up with a plan of action to initiate change, help employees transition, and ensure that the effects of the change become long lasting.

1. What is change management in healthcare? Provide an example

2. How would your intervention force the development of the organization? Provide strategic plans

3. What are the critical components in the change process?

4. Include detailed steps for planning, change implementation

5. Use Lewin's change model to develop a plan to successfully maintain and enhance staff productivity.

Care in this type of setting is delivered by physicians, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, and advanced practice professionals. This area of health care is the most widely used, and it is a major focus of the Affordable Care Act of 2010 , focusing on primary care providers and decreasing the focus on the utilization of specialty providers. Scenario A physicians' group is negotiating the acquisition of a primary care provider's clinic. The primary care provider's clinic, which has incurred financial loss over the last 6 years, is being sold for the second time within the 6-year period. In a meeting to discuss the acquisition, the team responsible for ensuring the success of the acquisition is told that the shareholders of the clinic are very apprehensive and distrustful of becoming a sister company. When the last company bought the clinic, the leaders of the parent organization prepared the employees of the clinic for a great deal of change. These leaders promised that the proposed changes would improve the stressful conditions and financial losses the clinic was currently operating within. The shareholders worked diligently to prepare for the changes. Unfortunately, most of the changes never took place, and the small changes that were initiated did not last. As a result, the initial announcement of the acquisition was met with great apprehension and distrust