Healthcare organizations today are faced with a multitude of strategic opportunities.

Background Information

Healthcare organizations today are faced with a multitude of strategic opportunities. Sometimes these opportunities come about through changes in technology, other times through demands placed on the healthcare system from the community. Middleboro Community Mental Health Center is faced with two such strategic opportunities. Your job is to guide the organization in making the appropriate strategic decisions.

Instructions

1. Review the rubric to make sure you understand the criteria for earning your grade.
2. Read "Case 4: Middleboro Community Mental Health Center" in the textbook.
3. Address the following questions and provide appropriate quantitative justification to support your conclusions and recommendations (this should be one to two pages in length and adhere to proper APA form).
   1. Using innovative technologies to provide services has been demonstrated elsewhere. Describe how telebehavioral health has been used, and assess it as a potential addition to the services of our agency.
   2. What are its costs and benefits?
   3. Should our agency potentially adopt this approach?
4. Develop a three to five page draft of a white paper proposing programs and services to begin to address the opiate crisis in Hillsboro County.
   1. The draft should include an assessment of need, as well as the elements of an integrated approach to addressing the problem.
   2. The programmatic approach should be realistic and achievable, be financially sustainable, have measurable outcomes, and (hopefully) involve the best collaborative efforts of the many community stakeholders (e.g., MCMHC, schools, healthcare providers, social service organizations).
   3. The proposal should demonstrate a commitment to Christ-like character by the organization.