Analyze your organization’s internal and external characteristics, leadership, culture, and financial health in the context of whether this facilitates sustainability for a proposed quality improvement project.

Analyze your organization’s internal and external characteristics, leadership, culture, and financial health in the context of whether this facilitates sustainability for a proposed quality improvement project in a formal, academic paper written in APA Professional Paper format. Your paper should be 5–7 pages in length, not including your title and reference pages.

Address the following criteria of the clinical facility in which you plan to complete your scholarly project:
The facility being addressed is Kaiser Permanente

Internal and External Characteristics
Describe the external environment: describe the city/town in which your setting in terms of population, the health care competitors, the overall business climate (unemployment rates, for example), and median income.
Describe your organization: what are the mission, vision, and values of your organization? Provide the written statements if they exist. Is there a difference between the perceptions of the top management and the employees? How are the mission, vision and values demonstrated in the community?
Financial Health
Trends and Challenges: What trends and challenges in health care costs have occurred in the past 2–5 years within your specific health care organization?
Differences in Payment Methods: Describe the differences in payments for services depending upon who pays the bill (the individual receiving the services (private pay), Medicare or Medicaid, or private insurance)? Is there a dominate payor within your organization?
How do each of these factors play a role in the overall financial health of the organization? How does this affect cost of care to the patient? Could this affect this affect the sustainability of your potential DNP project? Why or why not?
Leadership
Describe the leadership and organizational structures within your organization. Include an organizational chart. Who provides overall direction for the organization? Who are the role models? Describe their style of leadership.

Culture
Describe the organizational culture of your setting. Include overt and covert rules, values, customs, and principles that guide organizational behavior.
Describe the work unit climate—include such things as the degree of collegiality and teamwork.
What are the systems for rewards and performance appraisal? Briefly describe the role of the human resources department. How visible is it to employees?
How are the individual needs and values of employees recognized? Describe the morale and motivation of staff.
Conclusion and Sustainability
Write a one paragraph conclusion based on this assessment and relate it to the likelihood that the change you propose on the basis of the results of your project will be accepted and sustained.

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