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Complete this assignment to demonstrate your understanding of the service categories, service area, and service area profile for Cottage Senior Living as elements of a service area competitor analysis. Read the case study, “Cottage Senior Living.”

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You are completing this assignment to demonstrate your understanding of the service categories, service area, and service area profile for Cottage Senior Living as elements of a service area competitor analysis. Read the case study, “Cottage Senior Living.”

The initial step to a service area competitor analysis is  to review the external analysis with specific attention given to the health organization’s service area. The initial step includes defining the service category, determining service area boundaries, and creating the service area profile. Using the template provided, define the:

  • Service categories:Cottage Senior Living has several service categories Choose one service category (i.e. Assisted Living,Memory Care Units, or Active Adult Units to develop your analysis)
  • Service area boundaries. The service area is considered to be the geographical area surrounding the health organization from which it pulls the majority of its customers/patients. Review Exhibit 4, “The Cottages Portfolio” from the case study and select one service area location. Beyond the geographical area, service area boundaries also include the following:
    • Consumer preferences.
    • Personal values.
    • Social values.
    • Multiple service areas
  • Service area profile. The service area profile includes key competitively related economic, demographic, psychographic (lifestyle), and community health status indicators. (Choose three variables, such as economic, demographic, psychological, health status indicators, risk indicators, and/or notifiable disease incidence, on which to develop your response).

Summarize the research paper. What is the motivation for the research? What data was used? What is the paper’s economic model? What were the results? What conclusions can we draw from the results? Are there any government policy implications?

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Summarize the research paper. What is the motivation for the research? What data was used? What is the paper’s
economic model? What were the results? What conclusions can we draw from the results? Are there any
government policy implications? Each research paper will begin with an abstract, which is a summary that usually
contains all of the above. Use the abstract to help you write your own summary, but make sure your
summary is your own and goes beyond simply paraphrasing the abstract.
2. Write out the main economic model of the paper. It will nearly always be a mathematical equation with variables.
A research paper will often contain multiple models, but there is typically one “primary” model that is the main
focus of the paper, while the others are intermediate steps. Explain the economic model in your own words. What
is the primary cause-and-effect relationship the model examines? Next, come up with your own model that builds
upon the one in the paper. What new research could an economist conduct that builds upon the research of your
economic paper?

Select a NOSQL database (MongoDB, Cassandra, DynamoDB, BigTable, etc…) and write a paper describing its security features. In particular, you should discuss: access control, encryption, user authentication, protection against injections, support for auditing and testing

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Select a NOSQL database (MongoDB, Cassandra, DynamoDB, BigTable, etc…) and write a paper describing its security features. In particular, you should discuss:

  • access control (which model is implemented, granularity of the access control…)
  • encryption (What is encrypted (data-at-rest, in memory, in transit), key management, …)
  • user authentication
  • protection against injections
  • support for auditing and testing

Some NoSQL research papers are provided in NoSQL Research Papers section in Canvas which you can refer for the content and how to write a research paper.

Make sure that the work is original and not copy and paste from any source (I will use Turnitin to check for plagiarism). Wherever you are using a reference put the reference number or author right in the parenthesis after the prose and add the reference to the reference section. Look for research papers for reference.

Write a multi-paragraph essay providing (defining) your personal criteria for happiness and exploring whether or not you have achieved happiness based on these criteria. For this writing assignment, your response should be persuasive, thoughtful, and detailed

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Write a multi-paragraph essay providing (defining) your personal criteria for happiness and exploring whether or not you have achieved happiness based on these criteria. For this writing assignment, your response should be persuasive, thoughtful, and detailed, showing various points that support both the criteria you have chosen to define happiness and your discussion of how closely you currently “match” this definition. Logical evidence that backs up your opinion should be used throughout.

The essay should clearly explain what you think it means to be happy and whether or not you currently fit or match the definition you present. The first paragraph will offer an interesting introduction that pulls the reader into your views on how happiness should be defined using specific criteria. The following two paragraphs need to include main points that prove how and why your criteria define happiness (one criterion per paragraph), evidence supporting these criteria, and analysis explaining how the evidence supports each point. The next paragraph (#4) needs to discuss whether or not your situation matches the criteria you used to define happiness and answers the question, “Based on your definition, are you currently happy?” It’s okay for the answer to this question to be “no,” but you should have some idea of what you might need to do to be happier, if that is one of your goals. You may be content as is, which is great. For the purpose of this assignment, just be honest about your current state and your thoughts on why you feel that way. You will need to provide evidence and reasoning to support the match. Your final paragraph should conclude your thoughts on this topic in an interesting, thoughtful way that goes beyond summary and gives your reader something to consider.

As a reminder, each paragraph should have a topic sentence that clearly states your point and details to support/prove this point. You should have transitions between paragraphs that show why each point appears in this order. The grading rubric will help you develop your paper

Read the case study Cottage Senior Living. Then conduct a service area structural analysis using your selected service category and service area from Assignment 2.1 and Porter’s Five Forces Competitive Framework. For each force, identify one threat. Provide the rationale for the threat and then assess the threat as high, low, or medium.

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You are completing this assignment to demonstrate your understanding of how to conduct a service area structure analysis using Michael Porter’s Five Forces Framework (See Exhibit 3-5).

Word Count: 500 words or less

  • Rationale for threat: 50 words each
  • Analysis suggestion: 250 words or less

Read the case study Cottage Senior Living. Then conduct a service area structural analysis using your selected service category and service area from Assignment 2.1 and Porter’s Five Forces Competitive Framework. For each force, identify one threat. Provide the rationale for the threat and then assess the threat as high, low, or medium.

Finally, describe what the analysis suggests for Cottage Senior Living within the long-term care industry. This assignment requires you to consult and cite at least one outside source. If necessary, see the MHA program definition of outside and peer-reviewed sources in MHA Information and Resources. Using the MHA adaptation of APA citation, your reference page will contain only your outside sources.

Provide researched rationale for the nature and substance of your 4 selected, distinct policies. Address the reasoning and/or rationale for the inclusion of the selected policy elements in a policy manual. Support your rationale with 10 scholarly sources used in your annotated bibliography in addition to the textbook and the Bible.

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Provide researched rationale for the nature and substance of your 4 selected, distinct policies.

Address the reasoning and/or rationale for the inclusion of the selected policy elements in a policy manual.

Support your rationale with 10 scholarly sources used in your annotated bibliography in addition to the textbook and the Bible. Remember, government websites and previous/current court cases are useful but will not be included in the scholarly reference requirement

* Must correctly address employment legislation pertinent to the stated size of a company (15–25 employees). In elaborating on the rationale, you may want to consider the following questions:

  • Why should these elements be in a policy manual?
  • What laws or principles mandate an organization follow these guidelines?
  • What cases have established precedent for this issue to be addressed clearly in an organization’s employee policy manual?

 

Summarise and write a commentary on two peer-reviewed leadership journal articles. Demonstrate advanced understanding of leadership theories, concepts and practice, including both traditional and contemporary forms of leadership; Critically evaluate various modes of leadership with consideration of ethical and socially responsible practice

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Summarize and write a commentary on two peer-reviewed leadership journal articles.

  • Demonstrate advanced understanding of leadership theories, concepts and practice, including both traditional and contemporary forms of leadership (LO#1);
  • Critically evaluate various modes of leadership with consideration of ethical and socially responsible practice (LO#2);
  • Effectively communicate and apply relevant leadership principles to address the diverse needs of various stakeholders (LO#3).

Your task is twofold:

  1. Review and summarize the two articles (400-word summary per article). Your summaries should focus on the key theories and findings of each article. You must write in third person for this section.
  2. Write a commentary on each article (600-word commentary per article), taking account of your wider reading and examples from your own professional experience and workplace. You can write in first person in this section.

Define protected health information and when it can be disclosed. Differentiate between the Privacy Rule and the Security Rule as they apply to actual use in the laboratory. Differentiate between identifiable and unidentified information and their uses.

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You have been invited to do a presentation to the laboratory department regarding Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) compliance and electronic health records. Discuss the salient points of your presentation and why you feel it is important to include this information in your presentation.
Include the following information:
1. Define protected health information and when it can be disclosed.
2. Differentiate between the Privacy Rule and the Security Rule as they apply to actual use in the laboratory.
3. Differentiate between identifiable and unidentified information and their uses.

There are many factors and measures that may impact organizational health. Among these is civility. While an organization can institute policies designed to promote such things as civility, how can it be sure these are managed effectively?Examine the use of tools in measuring workplace civility.

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How healthy is your workplace?You may think your current organization operates seamlessly, or you may feel it has many issues. You may experience or even observe things that give you pause. Yet, much as you wouldn’t try to determine the health of a patient through mere observation, you should not attempt to gauge the health of your work environment based on observation and opinion. Often, there are issues you perceive as problems that others do not; similarly, issues may run much deeper than leadership recognizes.

There are many factors and measures that may impact organizational health. Among these is civility. While an organization can institute policies designed to promote such things as civility, how can it be sure these are managed effectively?Examine the use of tools in measuring workplace civility.

  • Review the Resources and examine the Clark Healthy Workplace Inventory
  • Review and complete the Work Environment Assessment Template in the Resources.

Review the Levy Family video Episodes 1 through 5. In a 2- to 3-page paper, address the following:After watching Episode 1, describe: What is Mr. Levy’s perception of the problem? What is Mrs. Levy’s perception of the problem? What can be some of the implications of the problem on the family as a whole?

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Addictive disorders can be particularly challenging for clients. Not only do these disorders typically interfere with a client’s ability to function in daily life, but they also often manifest as negative and sometimes criminal behaviors. Sometime clients with addictive disorders also suffer from other mental health issues, creating even greater struggles for them to overcome. In your role, you have the opportunity to help clients address their addictions and improve outcomes for both the clients and their families. For this Assignment, as you examine the Levy Family video in this week’s Learning Resources, consider how you might assess and treat clients presenting with addiction.

Assess clients presenting with addictive disorders. Analyze therapeutic approaches for treating clients with addictive disorders. Evaluate outcomes for clients with addictive disorders. Review this week’s Learning Resources and consider the insights they provide. Review the Levy Family video Episodes 1 through 5.

In a 2- to 3-page paper, address the following:After watching Episode 1, describe:

    • What is Mr. Levy’s perception of the problem?
    • What is Mrs. Levy’s perception of the problem?
    • What can be some of the implications of the problem on the family as a whole?
  • After watching Episode 2, describe:
    • What did you think of Mr. Levy’s social worker’s ideas?
    • What were your thoughts of her supervisor’s questions about her suggested therapies and his advice to Mr. Levy’s supervisor?
  • After watching Episode 3, discuss the following:
    • What were your thoughts about the way Mr. Levy’s therapist responded to what Mr. Levy had to say?
    • What were your impressions of how the therapist worked with Mr. Levy? What did you think about the therapy session as a whole?
    • Informed by your knowledge of pathophysiology, explain the physiology of deep breathing (a common technique that we use in helping clients to manage anxiety). Explain how changing breathing mechanics can alter blood chemistry.
    • Describe the therapeutic approach his therapist selected. Would you use exposure therapy with Mr. Levy? Why or why not? What evidence exists to support the use of exposure therapy (or the therapeutic approach you would consider if you disagree with exposure therapy)?
  • In Episode 4, Mr. Levy tells a very difficult story about Kurt, his platoon officer.
    • Discuss how you would have responded to this revelation.
    • Describe how this information would inform your therapeutic approach. What would you say/do next?
  • In Episode 5, Mr. Levy’s therapist is having issues with his story.
    • Imagine that you were providing supervision to this therapist, how would you respond to her concerns?