Assignment 2: (Innovative Best Practice Healthcare Management)

#2: Case Study #2: Kindred Nursing and Rehabilitation Mountain Valley:

Read and review the materials provided about Kindred Nursing and Rehabilitation Mountain Valley in the modules readings, along with other material from other course readings and your own research. You may have to supplement these with Marketline and/or other financial and/or industry reports. Write a mini-case study paper that focuses on the specific elements described in the Case Studies section above. Be sure to consult the Case Study rubric to understand how the paper will be evaluated.

Your paper should have a title page and a reference page, and be a minimum of 8 double-spaced pages (2,000 words) excluding title and references. The title page should include your name and be titled Assignment #2, MBAH- 6670. Submit your paper in Microsoft Word format via the dropbox by the deadline identified above. The composition should follow conventions of standard American English appropriate for a professional and scholarly audience using APA format (6th Ed.). All work should be in the third person. Submit your paper in Microsoft Word format via dropbox by the deadline identified above.

Each case study should be a mini-case study, in that it will not encompass all of the elements of a full formal case study, but that focuses on these specific elements:

Briefly introduce the issues of the case. Do not spend a lot of space on the history, development, and growth of the organization over time. We have all read the organizations Baldrige material.

Conduct a SWOT analysis:

Identifytheorganization'sinternal strengths and weaknesses;

Identify the opportunities and threats in the external environment surrounding the organization; and

Identify what appears to be the strategy pursued by the organization and assess whether it fits effectively with the organizations SWOT factors.

Analyze the innovation status of the organization, considering all of the following:

Product innovation (introduction of a new or improved good or service in either characteristics or use);

Process innovation (installation of a new or significantly improved method for production or delivery, including techniques, equipment and/or software);

Marketing innovation (utilization of a new marketing method with a significantly different design or packaging, product placement, product promotion or pricing [the 4 Ps]);

Organizational innovation (modification to the organizations business practices, workplace organization or external relations in such a way as to influence competitive advantage); and The barriers to innovation and the strategies the organization used to overcome them and their effectiveness.

Assess the economic consequences of the organizations innovations and overall strategy:

Upon organizational performance; and

For various stakeholders of the organization.

Respond to any issues and questions:

That are germane to concepts we are studying in the course (Cases have been chosen and placed where they are in the course because they illustrate important principles that we are studying); and also

Those that are specific to the specific Case Study Assignment.