Final Project: Population Health Assessment & Management Strategy for a Healthcare Organization

Your healthcare system, SummitCare Health Network, serves a county of 360,000 residents through two hospitals and five outpatient clinics. SummitCare participates in several value-based care programs and is preparing a new Population Health Strategic Plan based solely on the areas you have studied in Weeks 1–8.

Your task is to design a population health assessment and management strategy that integrates:

Foundations of public and population health
Epidemiology fundamentals
Measures of disease
Screening, chronic disease epidemiology, and infectious disease epidemiology
Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) and community assessment
Population health approaches
Population Health Management (PHM) frameworks
Data and metrics used for PHM
This project should show the progression of your knowledge from Weeks 1–8 and demonstrate your ability to integrate these concepts into a unified real-world strategy.