Assignment Leadership in Healthcare

Running head: LEADERSHIP IN HEART DISEASES AD STROKE PREVENTION
Leadership in Heart Diseases and Stroke Prevention
Name of the Student:
Name of the University:
Author Note:

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Executive Summary:
Cardiac diseases and strokes have devastating effect on the society. Even today, hundreds of
people lose their lives due to cardiovascular diseases. The disease results in huge
expenditures and leave families of the suffering and dead patients devastated. This fatal
impact of cardiac diseases have made government departments initiate health programmes to
raise awareness on the topic among masses. The study is conducted against the background
of Healthy People 2020 under the leadership of Lake Troubled Shallows Health Department.

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Table of Contents
Executive Summary:..................................................................................................................1
Introduction:...............................................................................................................................2
Strategic Plan:............................................................................................................................2
SWOT Analysis Tool:................................................................................................................2
Connection between threats, weaknesses and opportunities of the SWOT analysis:............4
Strategies to maintain enhance or leverage potential strengths:............................................7
Strategies to minimize weaknesses:.......................................................................................7
Options for leveraging or taking advantage of opportunities:...............................................8
Potential threats and ways to address them:...........................................................................9
Potential strategic issues Lake Troubled Shallows Health Department need to address:......9
Programme intervention:..........................................................................................................10
Evidence of programme intervention:..................................................................................10
A hypothetical health programme:.......................................................................................10
SMART analysis of the programme:...................................................................................13
SMART Analysis:............................................................................................................14
Leadership challenges:.............................................................................................................15
Leadership approach:...........................................................................................................15
Ethical implications:.................................................................................................................16
Engaging Communities and Building Constituencies:............................................................16
Funding issues:.....................................................................................................................17

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Budget:.................................................................................................................................17
Recommendations of potential funding sources:.................................................................18
Performance Management & Health Informatics:...................................................................19
Measuring these objectives:.................................................................................................19
References:...............................................................................................................................21
Appendices:..............................................................................................................................25

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Introduction:
The aim of the paper is to prepare leadership and strategy plan on a component of
Healthy People 2020 under the leadership of the executive director, Lake Troubled Shallows
Health Department. The chosen component for the study is heart disease and stroke
prevention. The rationale behind selecting heart diseases and stroke prevention are the
increasing prevalence of the diseases and the devastating impact on the community. The
American Health Rankings show that though the rate of deaths due to cardiovascular diseases
in the US has fallen. However, that percentage is more than a hundred and fifty in a lakh
people (americashealthrankings.org, 2017). The figure is still very alarming and needs
prompt attention from the government. It is this alarming rate of cardiovascular diseases in
the US, which makes initiating a health to raise awareness about cardiac health and strokes.
Strategic Plan:
SWOT Analysis Tool:
State the idea/issue you are assessing: Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of
Healthy People 2020 by Lake Troubled Shallows Health Department. Chosen component:
heart diseases and stroke prevention.
Identify Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats (SWOT) for your CoP. The
presence of weaknesses and threats are gaps to be addressed in planning, while the absence of
strengths or opportunities clarifies the need for further planning or development before action
is taken.

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Factors to maintain Factors to address
Internal:
Potential criteria:
 Collective capabilities
 Morale, commitment,
leadership
 Governance,
participation norms,
and defined roles
 Resources, funding,
assets, people
 Experience, knowledge,
data
 Innovative aspects
 Collaboration tools
 Accreditations,
certification,
requirements, mandates
 Processes, systems, IT,
and communications
 Cultural, attitudinal,
behavioural norms
Strengths:
1.The health programme is
conducted by the government
which earns it public trust
(Jha et al., 2017).
2. The programme due to
government support is stable.
3. The health programme is
financially strong due to
continuous government
support.
4. The support of the
government attracts
collaboration from the
important stakeholders like
body corporate, hospitals,
medical practitioners and
public in general (Fertman &
Allensworth, 2016).
5. This collaboration of
multiple stakeholders leads to
innovation (Wuest et al.,
2015).
Weaknesses:
1. The active participation of
the government places these
health programmes under
bureaucracy and politics,
which impedes smooth
decision-making.
2. The government officials
often interfere into the
decisions if the other
stakeholders like corporate
houses which leads to
conflict between them.
3. The changing of the ruling
party after an election often
results in suspension or
termination of these health
programmes.