Instructions
NCF
This final project assignment is associated with the NCF (non-completion failure) grade.
Failure to complete this assignment will result in the issuance of a grade of NCF if the
course average would result in a failing grade in the course. Students should contact their
Academic Counselor or Program Director if they have any questions regarding the NCF
grade and its implications.
Supporting Lectures:
Review the following lecture:
Evidence-Based Management
Before beginning work on this assignment, please review the expanded grading rubric for
specific instructions relating to content and formatting.
Clinicians are practicing EB when they use data from research that shows desirable
outcomes and then make decisions on how to treat patients. Likewise, leaders and
managers use EBMgt to make decisions on how to operate, improve, or add new services to
a healthcare organization.
You are the chief executive officer (CEO) of an acute-care hospital. The governing board has
expressed interest in adding a new service line, a twenty-bed geriatric psychiatric unit. This
unit would be constructed in an existing vacant space within the hospital.
Create a preliminary market analysis for a geriatric psychiatric unit. Your primary focus for
this project is to research credible sources for data that should be used in creating an
evidence-based analysis. This analysis will then be used to determine the need and
potential success or failure of the new service line.
Assume the unit will maintain a census of twenty patients per day. The market analysis must
include the following data:
Population of the service area that will be required to support the new service line
Satisfaction of geriatric psychiatric patients in other similar organizations
Profits in other similar service lines